I know this is old for many but Trump is unironically one of the most powerful presidents right now. He has control of the house, senate and supreme court. Democrats wanna keep mocking him but he is even more powerful than his first term. Deep down people kinda accept he is here to stay.
So it it makes me wonder what the hell is he doing and why with such power he hasn't made much changes? I guess there's the trade war which he is scaling back on.
You are on point that Trump is the most powerful president to have occupied the White House in years, probably since at least FDR, who was re-elected to office three times. Naturally, one would expect Trump to "accomplish" a thing or two in office with all the political capital in his possession, and he has!
However, Trump's "accomplishments"
thus far have principally been
domestic rather than
foreign, which is inevitably less interesting and visible to the largely international audience of this forum.
A significant portion of Trump's domestic agenda concern immigration, in particular deterring and reversing illegal immigration. As a result, the Trump administration has not only visibly and quantifiably intensified deportation efforts, but has even dispatched deportees — who were rejected by their countries of origin — to such
third countries as
,
.
An assortment of criminal aliens, which included deportees originating from Cuba, Laos, Burma and Vietnam, were even recently dispatched to
after a lengthy legal battle.
As you can imagine, these deportations have resulted in a multitude of lawsuits, including Supreme Court challenges, which has expended quite a bit of Trump's political capital. Though to be fair, the situation has also strengthened Trump's hold on the MAGA base.
despite the arrest and potential deportation of his wife to Iran, but he
. Though it's also
plausible that's the guy's real reason for supporting Trump:
The current administration has also effectively
in lieu of supposed mujahideen.
However, unlike enemy combatants, criminal aliens heading to Gitmo are not hooded or otherwise blindfolded during transport:
Under the
immense leadership of President Trump,
, which owes its name to the large carnivorous reptiles reportedly inhabiting the area and by extension guarding the facility's perimeter.
This is on top of a surge in ICE raids across multiple states for collecting would be deportees, at times with active duty and/or activated reserve component DoD elements playing backup:
These deportation efforts have not only yielded protests and riots, but also a visible upswing in Mexican nationalism, if not futile, but nevertheless hilarious expressions of Chicano separatism:
However, even from an international perspective, Trump has accomplished a thing or two: the dismantling of USAID and
have in no way been insignificant. At a minimum, there's been a visible drop in US taxpayer funded propaganda:
Moreover, Trump has been back in office for less than six months, and the effects of certain pieces of legislation, especially at the secondary and tertiary levels, aren't going to be visible until or after October 1 when the new fiscal year begins.
Things are just warming up for the second season of President Trump!
