The Amazing Accomplishments of A President

• Trump passes the Veterans Choice Act

• Trump completed a brand new wall at the border that Mexico funded

• Trump completely eliminated  the ISIS Caliphate in 30 days

• Trump secured an Insulin Price Cap for all Americans

• Trump saved Tic Tok from being banned

• Trump completely eliminated the Social Security tax for seniors

• Trump brought American manufacturing back to America and reshored all the jobs

• Trump created the stronger economy in the history of the world

• Trump forced NATO allies to pay billions to the US

• Trump replaced Obamacare with a cheaper, better healthcare system

• Trump got rid of taxes on tips

• Trump stopped businesses from taxing overtime

• Trump cut taxes for the middle class

• Trump increased the federal minimum wage

• Trump created $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for all American babies

Trump is a mastermind! And this list is just about a few things he has done.

Whether the problem is taxes, poorly designed trade deals, or creating jobs for Americans and making things affordable, Trump certainly makes the headlines!

It’s hard to think anyone could possibly do everything he has…

Except he hasn’t done any of these things. Trump takes credit for the good things others have done and blames others for the things he has done that somehow always has the opposite result he was trying to get. 

People are sometimes astonished at how he can possibly get away with such blatant lies. Trump’s trick is that he thinks his supporters are stupid. He depends on his supporters lacking the knowledge, education, capacity and resources to check what he says. He also floods the media with so many things at once, it is impossible for anyone to fact check everything and when something does get fact checked, there are a hundred new things to address and everyone forgets about the lie he told the day before.

The list above is the common things MAGA supporters list when asked what Trump has done. Let’s look at them.

• Trump passes the Veterans Choice Act

This act allows veterans to see private doctors, something Trump claims nobody but him could have gotten it done for decades. The date on the actual legislation was in 2014, and the signature on the bill is Obama’s.

Trump did, however, sign the VA Mission Act which made some changes to it, but he only added to what was already there. 

• Trump completed a brand new wall at the border that Mexico funded

Trump added about 50 miles of new wall to the existing 400 miles, and replaced some areas of the existing wall. Mexico never said they would pay for it and never did, billions of tax payer’s money was diverted from the US military budget to pay for it. 

• Trump completely eliminated the ISIS Caliphate in 30 days

The mission ended during Trump’s term, however the military strategy was launched under Obama as Operation Inherent Resolve, our military had already been deep into the mission for years before Trump took office . The only part Trump had in the operation was allowing it to continue after he was elected. 

• Trump secured an Insulin Price Cap for all Americans

In 2020, Trump introduced a voluntary model that capped the cost of insulin for a specific subset of Medicare beneficiaries, who choose a very specific plan.

In August 2022, Biden signed the ‘Inflation Reduction Act that included a mandatory provision that ALL Medicare plans are legally required to cap the out-of-pocket cost of all covered insulin products at no more than $35 per month. This immediately applied to all 6,000+ Medicare Part D and Part B plans across the country, providing predictable, low-cost insulin to over 3.3 million seniors.

In fact, Republicans and Trump voted against the provision, claiming it was “socialist price-fixing” and tried everything they could to stop the bill and when they realized they couldn’t stop the bill, they tried to have the provision removed from the bill.

• Trump saved Tic Tok from being banned

First of all, it needs to be clarified that Trump was initially the one who tried to ban TikTok through executive orders during his first term. Then a bill was passed enforcing the parent company to sell TIKTOK to an American company or face a ban. When Trump saw Democrats joined onto the bill making it bipartisan, Trump started talking about saving TikTok. The company’s restructuring moved through a system driven by law and corporate maneuvers, completely unrelated to Trump.  Trump took no protective action except publicly offering support for reconstruction.

• Trump completely eliminated the Social Security tax for seniors

Trump made a tiny change to the tax code, temporarily granting an income deduction that expires at the end of 2028. The tiny change only affected a small group of low income individuals. It did not get rid of taxes on social security and only gave a deduction.

• Trump brought American manufacturing back to America and reshored all the jobs

Total manufacturing job growth during Trump’s first term was nearly identical to the trajectory of Obama’s second term. Major industrial sectors actually entered a technical recession in 2019 due to the fallout from Trump's own trade wars. Prominent factories he promised to protect—like GM plants in Ohio or the heavily hyped Foxconn facility in Wisconsin—either closed or failed to produce the thousands of jobs he promised. 

• Trump created the stronger economy in the history of the world

GDP growth under Trump peaked at around 3% in 2018. While good, this didn't even rank in the top 10 of post-WWII American economic booms. Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Johnson, and Kennedy all presided over eras with significantly higher sustained GDP growth (often matching 4% to 5% or higher). Trump inherited a steadily growing economy and maintained it, but it was historically average. 

And during his second term, due to his misunderstanding of tariffs and clouded idea that the country should be ran like a business, has left the US economy in shambles, with high inflation, gas prices, higher prices due to businesses passing high tariff costs onto customers, and all around mismanagement of the economy. 

Trump is responsible for adding more to the debt than any other single president in the history of the country and continues increasing it with vanity projects and unnecessary spending. Since Trump took office in 2025, the country has been teetering on the verge of recession with some economists warning of a probable depression.

• Trump forced NATO allies to pay billions to the US

Trump frequently tells audiences that he walked into NATO meetings, told allies they were delinquent, and forced them to cut giant checks directly to the United States to pay for their defense. 

That is not how NATO fundamentally works. Member nations do not pay dues to the United States or to a central NATO bank account. Instead, they pledge to spend a minimum of 2% of their own GDP on their own national defense. While European nations did increase their internal defense budgets over the last decade, it was a continuation of a target set at the 2014 NATO Summit under Obama, and none of that money goes into the U.S. Treasury. 

Trump misunderstands that NATO is a defense alliance not a military contract committing allies to join forces in any action a country decides to take. NATO does NOT apply to any offensive actions taken by a NATO member.  NATO is an agreement between the countries that if an adversary attacks one of the NATO countries, ALL NATO countries will DEFEND the NATO country that was attacked. 

• Trump replaced Obamacare with a cheaper, better healthcare system

Trump has never provided a plan to replace Obamacare, despite doing everything he can to dismantle the healthcare it is still available. During his second term, he made changes to funding and subsidies that resulted in millions of people losing access to the health plan. Many Republican voters supported the end to Obamacare before they realized Obamacare and the ‘affordable care act’ was the same program.

• Trump increased the federal minimum wage

Trump actually was against raising the minimum wage. Some states decided on their own to raise the minimum during Trump’s first term, but Trump did NOT have anything to do with the raise. 

• Trump created $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for all American babies

The federal government provides a one-time $1,000 deposit, but the money is heavily restricted. It cannot be touched until the child turns 18, it must be invested exclusively in specific stock-market index funds, and the program is only funded through 2028. It essentially uses taxpayer money to inject billions into the stock market under the guise of a populist handout, with his own name literally branded onto the account. 

See my complete explanation for this in another blog about affordability here: https://wycduncommonsense.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-f-f-o-r-d-b-i-l-t-y-or-not.html

• Trump got rid of taxes on tips

• Trump stopped businesses from taxing overtime

• Trump cut taxes for the middle class

When you stop to think about the type of things he lies about, you see a distinct pattern. They revolve around existing laws that are too complex for most people to understand without actually reading the policies and they are difficult to read. He realizes that he doesn’t have to replace knowledge with his lies, the average person doesn’t have any real knowledge of these things and generally people accept information as fact, and in good faith,  if they are not experts on the topic. This is why it is so important to do your own research and unfortunately many people do not know how to determine whether a source is credible or not. 

Here are some things to consider when doing your own research. 

If you can only find one article on the topic, you should be skeptical about that article. Reporters are constantly competing to be the first to break a story. After it breaks, more articles on the same topic are released. It is unlikely that a true story will only have a single article written about it. 

Make sure that the information you consume is not based on opinion only. The author should provide links to where they obtained evidence from. While it is not bad to read onion pieces, it is important you know the information is just one opinion and needs evidence to support the opinion. 

While exact amounts are not necessarily needed, you want to pay attention that they are reasonable amounts, and there are usually several places to verify them.

Pay attention to dates. People who lie, know that they are more believable when they give specific dates. Trump does this all the time, for example Trump blames Biden for appointing Jerome Powell as the chair of the federal reserve; but Trump appointed him in 2017.

Trump says Biden shut down the Country during COVID, but the shutdown happened in March of 2020, while Trump was president.

While these tips can’t guarantee you have all the facts, you can be confident you are not completely in the dark about what is really going on. The most important information is from how your life is affected by policies. Ask yourself if you are doing better than you were. Just because the president tells you the economy is good, doesn’t change the reality of how your pocket book feels.

Check out my blog post from before Trump started his second term. I include important data to compare with how we are doing now. https://wycduncommonsense.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-u.html

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Trump's Victory In the War With Iran

 Obama’s ‘Peacetime Accord” was an agreement made when the nations involved were not actively shooting at each other. In 2015, the US and Iran were rivals, but were not at war. Because there was no military emergency, diplomats had time to negotiate and spent 20 months debating and smoothing out details of the proactive measure designed to prevent future conflicts. The multilateral agreement was agreed to by the US, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Russia. They all sat at the table and signed the exact same document, and the document carried the weight of international law and was officially backed by the United Nations. 

The JCPOA was focused on nuclear non-proliferation and sought to extend the time Iran needed to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb from a few months to at least a year.

The JCPOA was a highly detailed, ‘front-loaded’ nuclear restriction, that forced Iran to ship 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile out of the country, dismantle two-thirds of its centrifuges, and accepted permanent, intrusive IAEA monitoring in exchange for long-term sanction relief.

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The JCPOA resulted in Iran giving up its immediate path to a nuclear weapon, capping uranium enrichment at 3.67% (which is very low, at a rate that allowed for nuclear power development for energy). The US and P5+1 gave up broad international economic and banking sanctions on Iran, releasing Iran funds that were frozen. 

Iran had earned significant revenue from selling oil to countries like China, India, South Korea, and Japan, however, the US and UN had placed heavy sanctions on Iran’s banking system, forbidding international banks from transferring the money back to Tehran. The JCPOA ‘unlocked the vault’ (so to speak) holding these frozen assets, giving Iran the money that was due to them.

In addition to the release of funds that were frozen, there was a $1.7 billion settlement from the US that understandably caused controversy among groups that did not understand the origin. Prior to 1979, when the Islamic Revolution took place, the secular government of Iran (led by the Shah) was a major US ally. Iran contributed $400 million of their own money into a specialized US Department of Defense trust to buy American fighter jets. After the revolution happened and Iran’s regime changed, the US froze the account, keeping (essentially stealing) the $400 million and never delivered the plane that were part of the agreement. 

Iran sued the US in an international tribunal in The Hague to get their money back. In  2016, right as the nuclear deal was being implemented, the US realized they were going to lose the lawsuit and be forced to pay astronomical damages as a result (remember the US had an agreement, similar to a preorder of goods that it never delivered on). In the same way that a civil case, won in US courts awards damages (usually in a reasonable amount for interest and hardships caused by a company holding funds that would otherwise be used in the course of daily expenses) the US decided to come to a settlement out of court (in the same way US civil courts function when a company is facing a loss in court and offer a settlement which is a lower amount that would be ordered by the court) if they winning side drops the court case. The US settlement offer was for the original $400 million plus the reasonable accumulated interest from the previous 36 years that the US had been holding and earning its own interest on. The total proposed settlement was $1.3 billion, which Iran agreed to. While this settlement was executed at the same time as the JPCOA, this amount was not related to the nuclear agreement,  it had nothing to do with Iran signing the JPCOA and it was an amount that would have been paid with or without the JCPOA. There was no formal mention of the $1.7 billion settlement anywhere in the JCPOA. The only reason it is controversial is that some groups misunderstand the details of these two separate issues and incorrectly pair them together because they happened during the same time frame.

The $1.7 billion would have been given to Iran even if they refused the JPCOA and if the US had not offered the settlement, the international court would have ordered the US to pay a higher amount to Iran because the US took money for goods that they never delivered. It is the situation that would occur if you placed an order from a company, and never received what you purchased. Being an international dispute, the proceedings take a lot longer and are very costly for both sides. Iran was entitled to the money since the US didn’t keep its side of the contract, had the US provided the jets that Iran paid for, refunding Iran would not have been necessary.

So, what did the JCPOA give the parties? 

Iran  had roughly $100-150 billion in assets frozen from oil sales. It’s reported unfreezing the amount would provide Iran with only about $50-55 billion, since Iran had bad debts and the need to back foreign currency reserves. So, even though $100-150 billion was frozen, after bad debts were resolved, Iran only received a fraction of the frozen amount. 

After receiving $50-55 billion, Iran agreed to the following:

• Reducing its stockpile enriched uranium by 98%.

• Limiting their enriched uranium from 10,000 kilograms to only 300 kilograms (Iran was required to blend down or ship out anything that was over 300 kilograms.

• Restriction of enriching uranium past 3.67% (weapons-grade uranium requires 90% enrichment)

• Cut operating centrifuges (fast spinning machines that enrich uranium) by two-thirds (going from 20,000 machines (that included newer, more technically advanced machines) down to 5,060 (of their older, less advanced machines).

• Placing the unused centrifuges in locked international storage.

• Underground enrichment facility at Fordow would be banned from doing any enrichment

• Converting the enrichment facility at Fordow into a physics research center.

• Redesigning a heavy water nuclear reactor in Arak that could produce weapons-grade plutonium so it could only produce peaceful medical isotopes. 

• Pulling the reactor’s core out of Arak and filling it with concrete so it could never be used again. 

• 24/7 Access to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to monitor Iran’s entire nuclear supply chain - from uranium mines to the centrifuge manufacturing factories. 

• If inspectors suspected secret nuclear work at a military base, Iran had a maximum of 24 days to grant access, and if Iran refused a joint panel could trigger a snapback of global sanction.

The one drawback of the JCPOA was that it wasn’t permanent. The agreement included expiration dates:

After 8 years (2023) restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile testing expired.

After 10 years (2025) restrictions on Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing and the number of older centrifuges it could run began to lift.

After 15 years (2030) the 300 kilogram cap on enriched uranium and the 3.67% enrichment limit would expire.

As with any agreement made in any situation, the JCPOA was not perfect, but an agreement that multiple parties make is never going to be perfect for all parties, it would be unreasonable to expect that and impossible to achieve. 

The JCPOA worked as it was supposed to from the signing in 2016 until Trump terminated it in 2018. As imperfect as the JCPOA was, it was still something, and the decision to rip it up was insane without having something to take its place, which is exactly what Trump did.

Several years before any of the expiration dates were in sight, Trump got rid of it, removing supervision and oversight for Iran’s nuclear program. Then in 2025 was shocked when information revealed Iran was not abiding to the agreement. Well of course they went back to advancing sciences. Why wouldn’t they?

Regardless of sunsetting and expiration dates, it is reasonable to expect any agreement would be reevaluated and renegotiated after a period of time has elapsed. And none of the dates provided for in the JCPOA was unreasonable. Anytime an agreement is signed, there is an unspoken acknowledgement that at some point adjustments will be needed. Circumstances change, events happen, and nothing stays the same forever… Trump complained about the JCPOA having expiration dates, yet he didn’t even wait for the first date to come due. He cut it off several years before it and provided nothing in its place. 

Now, after Trump’s war has cost the lives of many people, he is entering into his own agreement with Iran. 

Trump’s agreement includes the following:

• Iran will not be required to hand over any highly enriched uranium stockpiles upfront. This will be negotiated after 30-60 days from the signing of the agreement.

• Iran will stop active hostilities and restore the shipping lane to prewar transit levels in the strait of Hormuz and the US will unblock the strait of Hormuz.

• The US agrees to unfreeze $25 billion in Iranian assets

In summary, Trump’s recent agreement with Iran seems to focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for about $25 billion in frozen funds and a promise to negotiate a nuclear deal. 

Trump’s war with Iran was costly. In addition to costs that cannot have a price tag put on, like the 15 American service members that lost their lives, the 538 service members have been injured some will never completely recover from their injuries, 156 Iranians (mostly school children) killed in Iran while at school, and the countless lives of Iranian civilians and service members that were taken or will never be the same again, Americans in the US, who had no say in starting this unconstitutional, illegal, war and were helpless to stop Trump suffered too:

• During the first week, the Pentagon reported a $11.3 billion cost for operations ($1.9 billion per day) due to consumption of offensive and defensive precision munitions.

• Direct military costs of $29 billion. 

• Independent fiscal groups estimate the first 60 days costs in excess of $71.1 billion when accounting for destroyed equipment, base repairs, and emergency logistics, which is in addition to the reported $29 billion.

• The US missile and ammunition stockpiles have been depleted by around 70%.

• Domestic gas prices surged by 53% with no reduction in cost in sight until mid 2027

• Massive US military consumption of fuel expected to exceed $1.19 billion in costs

• Increased US deficit in excess of $1.85 trillion

• Interest for the cost of the first 60 days of conflict totaling $2.4 billion, and an additional $2.4 billion over the next decade.

Then there are other costs that cannot be valued, such as loss of positive reputation, being labeled a terrorist state, the loss of allies, and losing the title as the leader of the free world.

At the end of the day, the war with Iran has been costly. While an agreement seems to have been reached this agreement is essentially for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz was not closed at the onset of this war and no one controlled it. Now, the world will be required to ask for permission from Iran to use the strait, which controls the transport of essential energy materials for the entire world.

This war has benefitted one country. While that country suffered serious loss, in the end they gained power and showed the world they are strong enough to punch far above their weight class. Iran managed to do this while establishing justification for the hardships they imposed on other countries in pure defense of their own survival; but also to gain sympathy from many others as the victims of an irrational, weakened US.

Iran is now aware of the power they have in control of the Strait of Hormuz and also a victory over an advisory who was thought to be all powerful. Despite Trump claiming victory, the agreement that was just made, has a very different message. 

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