President Trump received non-stop criticism in the press. I agree that criticism is necessary when a president makes mistakes, but where were the voices expressing appreciation for the good things Trump had done? It’s unfair always to criticize and never to recognize any of the good things a president has done.
It might be a refreshing change to recall some of the remarkable, nation-changing good things that Trump has accomplished for America. Here is my personal list. Because of space limitations, I have not given extensive arguments explaining why I think these actions are good for the United States.
Trump appointed 226 judges including three Supreme Court justices. All of them are committed to interpreting the Constitution and laws according to the original meaning of the words, rather than according to what a modern liberal judge thinks the law should have said.
The Trump tax cuts of 2017 and Trump’s extensive canceling of excessive government regulations on businesses gave a tremendous boost to the American economy and a record high stock market.
President Trump increased military spending and steadily rebuilt U.S. military readiness and most importantly gave us 4 years without a war.
Numerous executive orders have increasingly restricted government funding for abortions. Trump was the first president ever to personally attend the pro-life March for Life in Washington, DC on January 24, 2020.
President Trump has reaffirmed our commitment to support and defend Israel. He decisively moved the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and negotiated a historic peace agreement (the Abraham Accords) between Israel and Arab states.
President Trump’s administration has repeatedly and continually worked to defend religious freedom, and his Justice Department has defended religious freedom in numerous court cases.
President Trump wisely and decisively removed United States from the Paris climate accord, a radical environmentalist program that would have cost America more than 206,000 jobs by 2040.
Trump energy policies have resulted in lower energy prices (which benefits everyone) and also U.S. energy independence so that we have become the leading exporter rather than a net importer of energy.
President Trump gave our military forces the freedom to defeat ISIS and drive them out of large sections of Iraq and Syria, which they did.
President Trump has insisted that NATO countries start to pay their fair share of defense costs, and some NATO countries have responded by increasing their defense budgets.
President Trump issued an executive order giving more specific protections to freedom of speech on college campuses.
President Trump has negotiated new trade agreements with Mexico, Canada, and China, and all of them give more favorable treatment to the United States than the previous treaties did.
President Trump has been the first president to decisively denounce China’s blatant practice of industrial espionage and bullying, stealing of intellectual property, and violating international copyright protections.
President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action, which would have allowed Iran to build a nuclear bomb within the next few years.
President Trump reformed the Department of Veterans Affairs to make it much more effective in treating our much deserving veterans.
President Trump signed four executive orders aimed at reducing prescription drug prices.
President Trump appointed a remarkably large number of evangelicals to high government offices. In addition, he has frequently welcomed evangelical pastors and other leaders to the White House, for both public and private conversations.
President Trump refused to waiver in the face of the most biased reporting in American history: These good actions (and many more) were accomplished in spite of a remarkably hostile national media. For every time that viewers heard a negative evaluation of Biden in the main stream media, they heard 158 negative evaluations of Trump. For every positive statement they heard about Trump, they heard 18 negative statements. This is not balanced reporting, nor is it responsible journalism. Few human beings would have the courage and strength of character to persist in the face of such overwhelmingly hostile mainstream news coverage.
In addition, he has done all this while enduring 4 years of “resistance” by a massive special counsel investigation (that came to nothing), impeachment by the House (that came to nothing), and numerous nationwide injunctions against his executive orders issued by individual U.S. District Court judges. In this context, Trump’s resolute pursuit of the policies on which he campaigned seems to me to be commendable.
There are many negative things that also happened in Trump’s time in office, especially in his last month in office and you will probably be able to relive those instances in the months to come if you watch or read most media sources.
But here is a question for my fellow Christians: If you believe (as I do) that God is sovereign over the affairs of nations, do you think that Donald Trump’s presidency has been an evidence of divine blessing or divine judgment? I admit that perceiving divine purposes in human events is a task that cannot be proved with certainty one way or another, but when I look over this list of actions, it appears to me to be far more characteristic of divine blessing than of divine judgment. If others disagree, I respect your right to have a different opinion, but that is my view.