re: WSJ obtains leaked details of trump-kemp April 2020 reopening phonecall.

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He could have tried to accomplish some of the things that he promised to. Yet it seems he spent his entire term botching about CNN and The View.

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I think you’re just exercising selective memory. Those medias weren’t merely throwing yo momma cracks at Trump. They were actually creating obstructive narratives that, had they gone unaddressed, would have actual negative impacts on everything. Heavy obstruction of the top political leader in our country tends to eventually trickle down and impact many aspects of everyday lives. Now did he also often have personal animosity towards them at the same time? Of course, I’d be skeptical of the man who didn’t possess the humanity to hit boiling points throughout. That would be weird.

As for “accomplishing things,” that’s on you and me and the rest of us to adopt realistic and reasonable expectations **based on the circumstances on the ground at that particular time** as well as avoiding the setting of artificially high expectations purely with intent that they surely can’t be met. For instance “drain the swamp”…….Trump did expose the swamp in ways we’ve never before seen, brought to our attention the true extent and nature of “the swamp” that, although we were all probably aware existed to some degree, however we weren’t exactly aware of the extreme degree, as Trump did expose like never before.

The swamp has been many decades in the making. All those decades to become perfectly situated and settled in with layers on top of layers on top of layers. Was it truly a reasonable expectation that Trump could both expose the previously unknown extensive nature, as well as break it down and dispose of the most egregious elements in just a four year period? And don’t rely upon what you ascribed to Trump’s verbiage at the time, i.e. “well he said he was gonna drain it, didn’t he??” Because again, it’s on us to adopt our own reasonable and realistic expectations.

Praise Jesus hallelujah nb4 tl;dr and someone gripes that I could’ve conveyed the same message in much briefer fashion.