President Donald Trump’s war on every successful action of former President Barack Obama continues to this day. It appears to me that Trump is bitter that a Black man was so successful and is still admired by millions of Americans.
It all started before Trump decided to run for president. In 2011 Trump joined the groups of people who questioned Barack Obama’s place of birth. It was called birtherism.
Trump began pushing the issue in television interviews as he was considering whether to run for president in 2012.
“I have some real doubts,” Trump told the “Today” show. He claimed to have sent his own investigators to Hawaii, where Obama was born. “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding.”
Trump raised another falsehood in an interview with “Good Morning America,” suggesting Obama was trying to conceal his religion by withholding his birth certificate. “Maybe it says he’s a Muslim,” he said. Obama is Christian.
His latest is the claim that Osama bin Laden wasn’t killed and is still alive, and that the man killed in the Obama-directed raid lead by Seal Team 6 was actually a body double.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was Trump’s first target. He has claimed the law is too expensive and denies everyone the right to choose their own plan. Trump is correct in saying that some plans are not included but that is because the coverage is very inadequate.
The Iran Nuclear deal in which Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 – the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany. It came after years of tension over Iran’s alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.
However, in May 2018, US President Donald Trump abandoned the landmark deal and in November that year, he reinstated sanctions targeting both Iran and states that trade with it. He claimed it was the worst agreement ever made by the United States.
The Paris Climate Accord Agreement was a commitment that was made by the Obama administration: a pledge to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025. On June 1, 2017 Trump announced the United States’ withdrawal from the agreement.
Trump has directed the Labor Department to reverse Obama-era rules imposing restrictions on major banks and investment advisers, and the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has also rolled back multiple regulations aimed at fostering worker protections. These include the delay of a rule requiring employers report worker injury and illness records electronically so they can be posted online, and the cancellation of a directive allowing a union official to accompany an OSHA inspector as an employee representative into a non-union shop.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was an Obama effort to protect children brought to the United States illegally but have grown up believing they are Americans. When congress refused to resolve the issue Obama issued an executive order to stop deportation of those people. As recently as June of this year his administration said will again try to end legal protections for young migrants at risk of deportation a day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his first attempt.
At the September 29 presidential debate Trump once again accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign — a claim that Trump has made on numerous occasions and which remains false.
So let’s be clear. Donald Trump cannot stand for the idea of someone else can be more successful than him.
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