# 18 months \[regarding Trump's tenure\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406 "2018-08-28T13:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/21 "2018-08-28T19:01:56Z")
Thread relocated from IMHO to MPSIMS, as there does not seem to be a discernible question in the OP. I’ve also edited the title to provide some detail as to the thread topic. **Chip Dundas** , please be more descriptive with your thread titles in the future. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/22 "2018-08-28T21:14:26Z")
You need a question to be a humble opinion? I would have thought simply stating an opinion would be enough. …which he didn’t do. Probably should have ended with a “And this is awesome\*!”, rather than just listing a bunch of flat facts. \*Note: I am not saying that the flat facts stated in the OP are awesome. In fact the fact that his house hasn’t depreciated and his 401k isnt in the tank don’t twinge my interest meters in the slightest. (It’s good his kids aren’t dead yet, though (presuming they still aren’t).) ---
**Author:** ![Chip\_Dundas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5a626/32.png) [@Chip\_Dundas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chip_Dundas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/23 "2018-08-28T22:40:10Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Thread relocated from IMHO to MPSIMS, as there does not seem to be a discernible question in the OP. I’ve also edited the title to provide some detail as to the thread topic. > > **Chip Dundas** , please be more descriptive with your thread titles in the future. Could you be more descriptive? ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/24 "2018-08-28T23:03:54Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Did the OP miss where the pres set up camps for holding children in cages? Seems to have overlooked that. Actually they were set up under Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/25 "2018-08-29T03:34:19Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > You don’t get it. I am making money and my world hasn’t blown up. That’s all that matters. Puerto Rico, Charlottesville, separated children, porn star payoffs, lies, treason, incompetence, security, shithole countries, idiotic tweets, NATO trashing, dictator praise, corruption and on and on… these do not matter. All that matters is that I am making money and my world hasn’t blown up. They didn’t seem to think that making money and the world not blowing up was important when a black democrat was president. But now that a white republican is president, suddenly that is a sign of major success. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/26 "2018-08-29T04:32:18Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Maybe not the majority, but a substantial portion were convinced (and some still are) that we’d just voted in President Windrip. We didn’t? (Yeah, I read “It Can’t Happen Here” in the summer of 2016. Couldn’t do it now.) We don’t have any of the awful things listed in the OP - YET - because the U.S. government is not a dictatorship. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/27 "2018-08-29T05:15:29Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Come on now, we all know deficit spending only matters to Republicans when a Democrat does it. Well sure, but apparently there are those who could use yet another reminder some principles only hold when convenient or when facts can be brazenly ignored. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/28 "2018-09-01T07:00:21Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Uh…tariffs, additional restriction of free trade, kowtowing to brutal dictators (without any tangible economic or geopolitical benefits to the US), massive deficit spending. > > If those are non-twit conservative policy issues, conservatism has drastically changed in the last 18 months. They aren’t conservative policy issues at all. Hence his problem is not his conservative policy issues. He doesn’t really have any. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/29 "2018-09-03T01:15:24Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > They aren’t conservative policy issues at all. Hence his problem is not his conservative policy issues. He doesn’t really have any. That’s a little unfair. He’s pretty committed to both his “make Donald richer” and “golf more than the last guy” policies. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/30 "2018-09-03T11:35:10Z")
> [@Chip\_Dundas](#): > > Could you be more descriptive? Hello, I am Eliza. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/31 "2018-09-03T13:05:07Z")
> [@Chip\_Dundas](#): > > …my house hasn’t depreciated, my 401k isnt in the tank and my kids haven’t been killed in a nuclear holocaust. There are no concentration camps set up and the press hasn’t been rounded up and thrown into jail. If these are the criteria by which you guage satisfaction then you must have simply _loved_ the Obama years. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406/32 "2018-09-03T15:02:43Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If these are the criteria by which you guage satisfaction then you must have simply _loved_ the Obama years. Not to mention (shudder) the Clinton years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/18-months-regarding-trumps-tenure/820406.md?page=1)