Promise the Moon? Easy for Trump. But Now Comes the Reckoning.
- 7 years ago
Promise the Moon? Easy for Trump. But Now Comes the Reckoning.
The health care program enacted by President Barack Obama is “outrageous”
and “absolutely destroying everything in its wake.” The nuclear deal with Iran is “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”
Yet as much as he has set his sights on them, Mr. Trump after nearly nine months in office has not actually gotten rid of either.
But I like a two-step process much better.”
Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions were meant to sabotage the health care program and undermine the Iran deal even without full repeal.
His critics said that the partial steps were still destructive, and
that the president was effectively leaving initiatives like health care and the Iran deal wounded on the battlefield without allowing ambulances onto the scene.
“The gap between President Trump’s ambitious promises
and actual policies is large and growing,” said William C. Inboden, a White House aide under President George W. Bush and now executive director of the William P. Clements Jr. Center on History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas.
The health care program enacted by President Barack Obama is “outrageous”
and “absolutely destroying everything in its wake.” The nuclear deal with Iran is “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”
Yet as much as he has set his sights on them, Mr. Trump after nearly nine months in office has not actually gotten rid of either.
But I like a two-step process much better.”
Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions were meant to sabotage the health care program and undermine the Iran deal even without full repeal.
His critics said that the partial steps were still destructive, and
that the president was effectively leaving initiatives like health care and the Iran deal wounded on the battlefield without allowing ambulances onto the scene.
“The gap between President Trump’s ambitious promises
and actual policies is large and growing,” said William C. Inboden, a White House aide under President George W. Bush and now executive director of the William P. Clements Jr. Center on History, Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas.