By Devin Dubon
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the day where all of America watched with bated breath as the election results came in and it became apparent that republican nominee Donald Trump would become the President of the United States. Controversy has followed Trump throughout his presidency, but has he lived up to the promises he made that got him elected? In short, no.
Trump was elected with an already shockingly low 45% approval rating. Now, this has plummeted to 38% according to FiveThirtyEight–the lowest approval rating this early in a a presidency since Gerald Ford in 1974. Many of his supporters have abandoned him after his controversial decisions and broken promises.
He was elected with promises of being tough on China, getting rid of Obamacare, cutting off immigration from “dangerous” countries, prosecuting Hillary Clinton and lots more–but he has failed in all aspects
Congress has twice rejected bills that would have started the process of repealing Obamacare, with republican senators going against party lines and kickstarting an ongoing fight between President Trump and John McCain–Republican senator from Arizona, as well as a war veteran and recently diagnosed with brain cancer; McCain has since become a vocal opponent of Trump.
A federal judge recently blocked Trump’s third attempt at a travel ban to certain Muslim-majority countries. The ban was called unconstitutional and the judge behind the most recent ban wrote that it “plainly discriminates based on nationality.”
He reneged on his promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton and her emails–instead appointing one to investigate his own possible collusion with the Russians in order to get himself elected.
In a way, this is what we should’ve expected when we elected a politically inexperienced businessman as our president. He said whatever he thought could get him elected and then abandoned everything once he actually accomplished.
Nobody knows what could happen next. Trump’s unpredictable nature and lack of experience could lead to a scandal on the same magnitude as Nixon’s Watergate, or Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky. It seems that this could already be in motion after the recent indictments in the Mueller investigation. Trump still has three years to either prove himself or self-destruct. Which one will end up happening is a mystery.
