2,470 tweets and 0 major legislative achievements: A year of Trump in numbers - Polidicks

[QUOTE]It has been 365 days since [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DonaldTrump"]Donald Trump[/URL] was elected in a shocking upset against [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/HillaryClinton"]Hillary Clinton[/URL], and for some of Mr Trump's critics the year may have seemed like an eternity. For his supporters, many have seen what they voted for - Mr Trump acting a number of campaign promises. However, not all of his major pledges have come to pass yet. A lot has happened, and a lot has changed. So, in light of the unprecedented past year, we have put together a list to put the events of the past year. [B]Opioid deaths [/B]Mr Trump inherited a startling and deadly epidemic that has been decades in the making. Opioid abuse led to between 59,000 and 65,000 deaths in 2016, and the number is expected to rise this year. Mr Trump, in an attempt to combat those deaths, brought together a task force after inauguration day to consider the problem, and announced recently that his administration would move on some of its suggestions. [B]Legislative failures[/B] So far, Mr Trump has been unable to capitalise on the legislative majorities his party hold in both chambers of Congress, and the first nine months of his presidency have been marred with legislative defeats. Most notably, Mr Trump and Republicans have failed on at least four attempts to pass repeal and replacement plans for Obamacare. The push now is for tax reform, which is also proving difficult. [B]Nominations made[/B] Mr Trump has so far made 459 nominations during his presidency. That is compared to 550 made by former President Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency, and the 663 made by former President George Bush. [B] Appointments confirmed [/B]Mr Trump has so far has had just 207 of those nominations confirmed. That’s compared to 387 Mr Obama had, and the 428 Mr Bush had. A number of potential nominees have withdrawn their nomination during that year before being confirmed - with the latest being Mr Trump's pick for chief scientists at the Department of Agriculture, [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-investigation-nominee-agriculture-risk-losing-science-pick-a8033781.html"]Sam Clovis[/URL]. Mr Clovis, a former member of Mr Trump's campaign team, withdrew his nomination in the wake of his name appearing in documents relating to the Robert Mueller Russia investigation. [B]White House staffer resignations[/B] Mr Trump’s presidency so far has been particularly volatile, and there may be no greater representation of that than the sheer number of high-level resignations that the Trump administration has seen. So far, the Trump administration has seen nine high-profile resignations and firings from key government posts. That includes Mr Trump’s former chief strategist Steven Bannon, his first Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, his first Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Mr Trump has also fired or seen resignations from his first two communications directors, including Anthony Scaramucci, who had a 10-day run in the post. [B]Foreign trips[/B] Mr Trump has left on four foreign trips during his presidency, including one that began this past week end. During that time he has visited 13 countries (counting Vatican City as a country). He is scheduled to visit two more countries during his current trip, his first to Asia as president. [B]Campaign-style rallies[/B] Soon after the election, Mr Trump embarked on a thank you tour in December that included nine rallies. Since then, the President has held at least nine more rallies, bringing the total to 18 in the past year. [B]Solo press conferences[/B] While Mr Trump often answers questions from the press as he passes, or alongside heads of state, the number of solo press conferences he’s conducted is quite low. According to a tally by the American Presidency Project, Mr Trump has conducted just one solo press conference as president. [B]Bills signed into law[/B] Mr Trump has signed into law 82 bills since becoming president, and Congress has passed 321 resolutions during that same time, according to GovTrack. [B]Landmark legislation passed[/B] An analysis conducted by CNN of the bills Mr Trump has signed since coming into office has found that as little as two have actually created new policy. One of those bills imposed new sanctions on Russia, while another limited the President’s ability to ease or alter sanctions without Congressional approval. As far as major, landmark legislation with major impacts for US policy: Zero. [B]Executive orders[/B] Mr Trump has signed 50 executive orders so far in his presidency, according to the American Presidency Project. The orders have tackled a range of policy issues, and many have been aimed at repealing orders signed by his predecessor on things like the environment and immigration. [B] International agreements left[/B] Mr Trump has led the US out of at least three significant international agreements. Soon after assuming office he announced that America’s involvement in the Trans Pacific Partnership was over. He followed that up with announcements that the US would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord (the US is now the only country who isn’t on-board), and withdrew America from UNESCO. He’s also reversed many aspects of America’s opening toward Cuba. The Trump administration has also refused to rectify the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some agreements he promised to target have remain intact, though. That includes Nato, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (which he says the US is negotiating). [B] Tweets[/B] Including retweets, Mr Trump has tweeted 2,470 times since election day 2016. [/QUOTE] [URL]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-year-tweets-laws-numbers-stats-latest-a8044941.html[/URL] The article has a few more categories as well

Fuck, it's been a year now? Think we'll live through another 3?

[QUOTE=Daemon White;52870758]Fuck, it's been a year now? Think we'll live through another 3?[/QUOTE] I sincerely hope we don't have to see three more.

In 365 days, he's taken 73 days of golf. He's tweeted roughly 7 times a day. He's been through more staff changes than any president previously.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52870768]In 365 days, he's taken 73 days of golf. He's tweeted roughly 7 times a day. He's been through more staff changes than any president previously.[/QUOTE] I can't get over the fact that the only two major pieces of legislation he has signed off on were sanctions on Russia, and a bill that makes it more difficult for the president to lift sanctions :v:

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52870776]I can't get over the fact that the only two major pieces of legislation he has signed off on were sanctions on Russia, and a bill that makes it more difficult for the president to lift sanctions :v:[/QUOTE] The system is working. It occurs to me that a friend argued that the markets and the job-availability in the US hasn't crashed, (he doesn't like Trump, but doesn't see too much wrong with the America First outlook he has) and by looking at this, I will confidently state that the only reason for that is that Trump has managed to do jack shit. Still surprised at how his followers swallow the "Nobody's done more in 9 months/a year!!1" bullshit though.

[QUOTE=torres;52870809]The system is working. It occurs to me that a friend argued that the markets and the job-availability in the US hasn't crashed, (he doesn't like Trump, but doesn't see too much wrong with the America First outlook he has) and by looking at this, I will confidently state that the only reason for that is that Trump has managed to do jack shit. Still surprised at how his followers swallow the "Nobody's done more in 9 months/a year!!1" bullshit though.[/QUOTE] A shitload of executive orders and a cabinet chosen on their ability to demolish their postings rather than using them to govern. Credit to Trump, where his agenda has failed legislatively it's been quite productive for him under the executive.

Y'all might say 2500 tweets is a lot but some losers on this site have over 10,000 posts so think of it like that. Then again 2500 posts in a year would be a lot...

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52870832]Y'all might say 2500 tweets is a lot but some losers on this site have over 10,000 posts so think of it like that. Then again 2500 posts in a year would be a lot...[/QUOTE] And we're not the President of the USA, don't forget that bit.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52870832]Y'all might say 2500 tweets is a lot but some losers on this site have over 10,000 posts so think of it like that. Then again 2500 posts in a year would be a lot...[/QUOTE] It's almost 7 tweets a day.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52870881]It's almost 7 tweets a day.[/QUOTE] Eh, I average more than that here.

[QUOTE=Levelog;52870890]Eh, I average more than that here.[/QUOTE] Same but neither of us have countries to run [editline]8th November 2017[/editline] And I find it hard enough to post when I have to look after a province worth of stores so how the fuck is he doing it

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52870832]Y'all might say 2500 tweets is a lot but some losers on this site have over 10,000 posts so think of it like that. Then again 2500 posts in a year would be a lot...[/QUOTE] only h*ckin loosers have that many posts

At this rate he won't really accomplish anything and we just have to hope he wont abuse his executive powers in his last year in a fit of babyrage.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52870881]It's almost 7 tweets a day.[/QUOTE] Not all of them are written by him.

[QUOTE=Kecske;52870998]Not all of them are written by him.[/QUOTE] That's not really changing things much Is he even less effective than this story makes out? You're making it seem that way lol

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52870776]I can't get over the fact that the only two major pieces of legislation he has signed off on were sanctions on Russia, and a bill that makes it more difficult for the president to lift sanctions :v:[/QUOTE] As far as I am aware he still hasn't actually enacted the sanctions. All he did was sign them and did jack shit

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52871009]That's not really changing things much Is he even less effective than this story makes out? You're making it seem that way lol[/QUOTE] Since people were starting to compare their posting habits to his, I figured it should be mentioned (wouldn't expect many FPers to have assistants commenting for them :v: ). He certainly writes less by himself than what the article states. If the tweet has anything more complex than a @symbol, typo free, and/or threaded (which he apparently still hasn't figured out) chances are it was written by one of his staff.

[QUOTE=WhichStrider;52870850]And we're not the President of the USA, don't forget that bit.[/QUOTE] You don't know my life

took this man a year to accumulate 2500 posts, took me like 5 years to accumulate 80 posts. damn.

I knew the overreaction to his election was just that. Donald Trump is not what is wrong with America, he is the symptom. So far all he's done is show the world how fucked America is. He hasn't taken away rights or anything else doom and gloom, he's just removed executive orders that are easy to put back in place. Sure, he's holding back things like environmental research in the US, but he's further empowered the rest of the world in theirs in order to defy him.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52870768]In 365 days, he's taken 73 days of golf. He's tweeted roughly 7 times a day. He's been through more staff changes than any president previously.[/QUOTE] That's... he's spent literally 20% of his presidency, or 1/5th of his days, golfing on the Taxpayer dollar. Bill the fucker for every cent once he's impeached.

[QUOTE=archangel125;52871460]That's... he's spent literally 20% of his presidency, or 1/5th of his days, golfing on the Taxpayer dollar. Bill the fucker for every cent once he's impeached.[/QUOTE] I doubt he has the money to pay for it. I stand by the fact that he's fucking broke and it's a ruse.

As far as I'm concerned, that zero legislation accomplished can stay that way for the next 3 years. What would be more scary is if Trump got a plethora of bills signed into law. Also it hasn't been a year. He didn't take office until January. It's only been 10 and a half months he's actually been in office.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52871830]As far as I'm concerned, that zero legislation accomplished can stay that way for the next 3 years. What would be more scary is if Trump got a plethora of bills signed into law. Also it hasn't been a year. He didn't take office until January. It's only been 10 and a half months he's actually been in office.[/QUOTE] It's been a year since the election, not inauguration. However, the President-elect can still get some things done prior to taking office, like assembling nomination lists and vetting nominees. Not only is Trump lagging behind in both nominations and confirmations, his transition team and nominees had way more Russia stink hanging around than anyone, Trump included, should've been comfortable with. He also could've used that time before inauguration to think of how to do health care or really any promised legislation, since he obviously hadn't actually had a plan during the campaign. Instead, we got "nobody knew this would be so hard" and insistence on abusing reconciliation to ram through any bill just so Trump can score a win.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52872375] He also could've used that time before inauguration to think of how to do health care or really any promised legislation, since he obviously hadn't actually had a plan during the campaign. Instead, we got "nobody knew this would be so hard" and insistence on abusing reconciliation to ram through any bill just so Trump can score a win.[/QUOTE] It's clear from the way he has treated his own party that he had no real plan for healthcare or tax reform and expects them to do all the work.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52872405]It's clear from the way he has treated his own party that he had no real plan for healthcare or tax reform and expects them to do all the work.[/QUOTE] It's just like the time where he's like "oh the generals don't know shit I can beat isis in one simple trick" "What's that?" "Ask the generals" I hope he never accomplishes a thing and goes down as the 'nothingburger' president.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52871830]As far as I'm concerned, that zero legislation accomplished can stay that way for the next 3 years. What would be more scary is if Trump got a plethora of bills signed into law. Also it hasn't been a year. He didn't take office until January. It's only been 10 and a half months he's actually been in office.[/QUOTE] The thing is, there is so much shit to do and his lowers are slowly eroding every major legislative that cares for any kind of future oriented living, be it ecology, foreign relations, trade, investments, research...

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52870768]In 365 days, he's taken 73 days of golf. He's tweeted roughly 7 times a day. He's been through more staff changes than any president previously.[/QUOTE] he's trying to beat [URL="https://i.imgur.com/BLA8xY5.jpg"]notch[/URL] at the vacation game

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52870832]Y'all might say 2500 tweets is a lot but some losers on this site have over 10,000 posts so think of it like that. Then again 2500 posts in a year would be a lot...[/QUOTE] hi [img]https://i.imgur.com/zt8vqbY.png[/img] my posting comes from participating in a ton of discussions on things I like, some are small responses but it feels like a lot are decently sized posts compared to your average tweet. Being on FP enough to maintain these numbers eats up a lot of time and while I could spend more time on a post than him, I still don't know how an elderly man in charge of the entire country's future is humanly capable of keeping pace with it, especially given his posting is usually summed up as wanking into a megaphone I can't fathom the idea of posting how trump does even if it were a fulltime job, his fixation on twitter does nothing but attract mockery at best and fucks up damage control for the people around him on the regular, there's no way he isn't also being hounded by all of his people to break his phone in half and rely on a team of PR people to make posts on his behalf. It's a window into the fact that despite being president, he's browsing social media on the regular, watching fox news at all hours of the day, and generally not focusing on learning jack shit about things he's in charge of before boasting about how good he is at everything and how the haters are fake