IMO it's like his promise to make Mexico pay for the wall. He didn't, but he still built the wall and made Mexico hold the migrants moving on it.
He's Donald Trump. He talks a big game, doesn't deliver literally what he said, but he does deliver in the spirit of what he said he would do.
Did he make America great again or drain the swamp? Fuck no, that'll take decades. But he did what he could given 4 years hindered by enemies within and without, and put up a valiant effort to boot.
He never said Mexico is going to write a direct check for the wall.
It was proposed to either do a remittance tax, trade deal, or other methods.
He accomplished the USMCA and got a better deal than NAFTA which frees up funds to pay for the wall.
Replacing NAFTA is a huge fucking thing that I feel is an underrated accomplishment.
Honestly I don't care if Mexico paid for it at all. The cost of illegal immigrants on social services far outweighs the cost of a wall. I'm just glad he actually built the damn thing, even Reagan couldn't do that, he would have finished if he wasn't cheated out of the rest of his term.
IMO it's like his promise to make Mexico pay for the wall. He didn't, but he still built the wall and made Mexico hold the migrants moving on it.
He's Donald Trump. He talks a big game, doesn't deliver literally what he said, but he does deliver in the spirit of what he said he would do.
Did he make America great again or drain the swamp? Fuck no, that'll take decades. But he did what he could given 4 years hindered by enemies within and without, and put up a valiant effort to boot.
He never said Mexico is going to write a direct check for the wall.
It was proposed to either do a remittance tax, trade deal, or other methods.
He accomplished the USMCA and got a better deal than NAFTA which frees up funds to pay for the wall.
Replacing NAFTA is a huge fucking thing that I feel is an underrated accomplishment.
Honestly I don't care if Mexico paid for it at all. The cost of illegal immigrants on social services far outweighs the cost of a wall. I'm just glad he actually built the damn thing, even Reagan couldn't do that, he would have finished if he wasn't cheated out of the rest of his term.
I have no problem with setting goals and not making them. If you made all of them, you aimed too low.
But people claiming he accomplished his goal by changing the meaning is BS goalpost moving.