{"id":172,"date":"2017-04-28T00:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-04-29T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T16:18:31","slug":"what-do-you-think-of-trumps-first-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/what-do-you-think-of-trumps-first-100-days\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think of Trump&#8217;s first 100 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"173\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/what-do-you-think-of-trumps-first-100-days\/donald-trump-2005343__480\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donald-trump-2005343__480.png?fit=367%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"367,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"donald-trump-2005343__480\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donald-trump-2005343__480.png?fit=367%2C480\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-173\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donald-trump-2005343__480.png?resize=229%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donald-trump-2005343__480.png?resize=229%2C300 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/donald-trump-2005343__480.png?w=367 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>Well, it&#8217;s been 100 days since Trump took office and what a 100 days it has been!<\/p>\n<p>Reading my first sentence you have no idea where I&#8217;m going with this, do you? =)<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who know me know my personal opinions of President Trump. \u00a0While it&#8217;s not too hard to guess that he is not in the running for my all-time favorite president I try hard to keep an open, positive mind and one based on facts, logic and reason with as little pejoratives as possible.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side he is somewhat sticking to some of his campaign promises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deportation<\/li>\n<li>Dakota pipeline<\/li>\n<li>Deregulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying those are the right policies by any means &#8211; only that he has striven to do what he said in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand he has also not kept many other campaign promises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lock her up<\/li>\n<li>Muslim registry<\/li>\n<li>Restore the coal industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Likewise, here, I&#8217;m not saying I thought these were good campaign promises, only that he hasn&#8217;t pursued these.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I failed to mention the promises he made and tried to keep but couldn&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeal and replace<\/li>\n<li>The Wall<\/li>\n<li>Dismiss climate change scientifically (OK, maybe he didn&#8217;t exactly promise this but you get my point)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, he did do one thing I admire which is send a strong message to Syria by launching those Tomahawk cruise missiles in the wake of Dictator Assad&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against his own people (even though his friend Sean Spicer totally dug a hole for himself when he incorrectly compared Assad negatively to Hitler in terms of &#8220;Hitler never used chemical gas against his own people&#8221; (what was Sean thinking? (although he did apologize later).<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, Trump is our elected president for now. \u00a0(I won&#8217;t go into whether he is our duly elected president or not &#8211; we&#8217;ll wait and see on the whole Russia investigation). \u00a0Even though he does many things which cause many of us to roll our eyeballs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claim Obama wire-tapped him with no evidence<\/li>\n<li>Refuses to reveal his income tax returns<\/li>\n<li>Says he stands for the average American yet surrounds himself with billionaire businessmen \/bankers \/ hedge-fund dudes who convince him to NOT push for them to have true fiduciary responsibility to their customers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>let&#8217;s just hope that our system of checks and balances will keep him from doing any further harm than he is capable of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;except to North Korea perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how I&#8217;m not much of a fan, God still asks us to pray for him as our President.<\/p>\n<p>He certainly needs it!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? \u00a0Comment away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been 100 days since Trump took office and what a 100 days it has been! 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