# Trump's first 500 days, a list of accomplishments
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039 "2018-06-13T18:00:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/1 "2018-06-13T18:00:17Z")
I won’t bore anyone with how well the economy is doing…
A summary of what Trump has acted on:
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/2 "2018-06-13T18:11:35Z")
This is some prime White House propaganda. It’s mostly false, but the White House and the GOP thank you for your efforts.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/3 "2018-06-13T18:12:30Z")
Yes, he is an incompetent asshole, but we knew that 2 years ago. We will survive another year or two until he’s gone, but it won’t be pleasant.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/4 "2018-06-13T18:13:41Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> This is some prime White House propaganda. It’s mostly false, but the White House and the GOP thank you for your efforts.
Which if any point is false? The onus is on you to say. Also if you want to debate them, it will be interesting to say the least.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/5 "2018-06-13T18:13:59Z")
Nice Username/Post combo though.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/6 "2018-06-13T18:19:04Z")
You’re a great American.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/7 "2018-06-13T18:21:16Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> This is some prime White House propaganda. It’s mostly false, but the White House and the GOP thank you for your efforts.
Not sure which parts of appointing Gorsuch, increasing defense spending, passing the TCJA, holding a summit with Kim, reviving Keystone XL, etc. etc. etc. are false. You can say there is a heavy positive spin put on it, or that those things are bad, but the fact that they happened is 100% factually true.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/8 "2018-06-13T18:23:11Z")
There’s so much slanted language in the OP that it almost but doesn’t quite rhyme.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/9 "2018-06-13T18:24:47Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> It’s mostly false,
Cites, please.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/10 "2018-06-13T18:26:38Z")
> [@Silver\_lining](#):
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> Initiated historic talks with North Korea to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and achieve peace and global stability.
Historic? Yeah, right. NK is a piss-ant little country which is a mere gadfly.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/11 "2018-06-13T18:26:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#):
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> Not sure which parts of appointing Gorsuch, increasing defense spending, passing the TCJA, holding a summit with Kim, reviving Keystone XL, etc. etc. etc. are false.
The false part is the word “accomplishments”.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/12 "2018-06-13T18:28:33Z")
> [@Velocity](#):
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> Not sure which parts of appointing Gorsuch, increasing defense spending, passing the TCJA, holding a summit with Kim, reviving Keystone XL, etc. etc. etc. are false. You can say there is a heavy positive spin put on it, or that those things are bad, but the fact that they happened is 100% factually true.
Exactly right. I always say the weakest form of a debate is not engaging in one at all and using humor for a quick out.
If someone thinks one of the above states is categorically false, speak up.
They are not. I just wanted to list some other things the President has worked on during his first 500 days.
I have a theory that many people have become products of their primary news source, meaning if something is under-reported or not reported at all, by the media, they are really leaving their audience in the dark. This is why I read or draw from various sources.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/13 "2018-06-13T18:29:57Z")
> [@Silver\_lining](#):
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> I just wanted to list some other things the President has worked on during his first 500 days.
“Worked on”? Are you backing off from “accomplishments” _already_?
It’s just one more step to “vandalism”. Which is mostly what you’ve described.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/14 "2018-06-13T18:31:26Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Historic? Yeah, right. NK is a piss-ant little country which is a mere gadfly.
Would you rather have North Korea firing missiles over other nations or sell their weapons on say the black market for a lot of $$$ to a terrorist type of group?
Its historic Quartz.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/15 "2018-06-13T18:31:42Z")
Lets take this first one -
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> Signed three executive actions reviving action on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipeline construction projects abandoned by former President Obama.
Those weren’t “abandoned” by Obama - [Obama stopped them based on public opposition as well as environmental concerns](https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/06/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline-decision-rejection-kerry/index.html) and [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/us-army-corps-blocks-dakota-access-pipeline-232172](https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/us-army-corps-blocks-dakota-access-pipeline-232172). Trump restarted them and they[immediately had environmental issues](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-pipeline-leak/keystone-pipeline-leak-in-south-dakota-about-double-previous-estimate-paper-idUSKBN1HE0T7) and [DAPL Track Record Highlights Ugly Reality: Pipelines Leak](https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dakota-access-pipeline-leak-energy-transfer-partners/).
So, your list starts off in a bad way and gets worse from there.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/16 "2018-06-13T18:32:12Z")
> [@Velocity](#):
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> Not sure which parts of appointing Gorsuch, increasing defense spending, passing the TCJA, holding a summit with Kim, reviving Keystone XL, etc. etc. etc. are false. You can say there is a heavy positive spin put on it, or that those things are bad, but the fact that they happened is 100% factually true.
introducing bills and signing stuff doesn’t mean anything has happened or that what happens is good. Of course, the WH does not actually introduce bills so that’s false.
The WH had nothing to do with seizing fentanyl.
The Keystone Pipeline promptly sprung a leak. I guess that fits the WH goal of fouling the environment.
“Buy American and hire Americans” Does this mean Trump and Ivanka will be bringing the manufacture of their crap to _this_ country?
Stopping the war games with S. Korea improves the readiness of the military?
Can the WH cite which regulations took away the authority of states and governors?
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/17 "2018-06-13T18:34:10Z")
Just in case anyone didn’t guess, this is not the OP’s own work, it is cut and pasted without attribution from [GOP.com](http://GOP.com).
[https://gop.com/official-first-500-days-approval-survey](https://gop.com/official-first-500-days-approval-survey)
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### Author:  [@Silver\_lining](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_lining)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/18 "2018-06-13T18:36:39Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> “Worked on”? Are you backing off from “accomplishments” _already_?
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> It’s just one more step to “vandalism”. Which is mostly what you’ve described.
I only see using the term " work on " once out of 30 listed items. Yes-- 500 days in, he’s still working on a lot of things.
In the mean time you can " work on " what is false that was listed.
If one mild objection with fairly used language out of 30 listed items is all you have, you sir are 1 for 30 at best.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/19 "2018-06-13T18:38:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Just in case anyone didn’t guess, this is not the OP’s own work, it is cut and pasted without attribution from [GOP.com](http://GOP.com).
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> [https://gop.com/official-first-500-days-approval-survey](https://gop.com/official-first-500-days-approval-survey)
I’d like to see the _results_ of that poll.
I’ll bet the “no opinion” and 'Disapprove" don’t get counted.
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-500-days-a-list-of-accomplishments/816039/20 "2018-06-13T18:46:11Z")
> [@Silver\_lining](#):
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> I won’t bore anyone with how well the economy is doing…
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> A summary of what Trump has acted on:
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If you wish to discuss a particular item or items from the list that was [copied from here](https://gop.com/official-first-500-days-approval-survey), feel free to do so. Please do so in your own words and an OP sufficient to elicit that discussion. I’m closing this thread. Feel free to open another thread that is better fleshed out.
In addition, please link sources if you are going to copy and paste. I’ve noted this twice already [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21007684&postcount=133), and [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21007685&postcount=118). Do not do this again.
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