>>511287269>Started to bring back manufacturing through a combination of tariffs and investments from foreign countries (Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc)>Used tariffs to pressure Colombia into accepting immigrants back>Worked with Bukele to ship more immigrants into El Salvador prisons >Death blow to DEI>Made nationalism more mainstream>Made people expect mass deportations>Helped normalize referring to immigrants as invaders>Renamed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America>Put the ideas of annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal into the public conscience>Released JFK files>Golden dome idea>Hemispheric defense>No tax on tipsHis 2nd term had a very strong start. If he used this momentum to bring back more jobs, deport more immigrants, end the Ukraine and Israel wars, made everything more affordable, and released some Epstein files, his approval rating would be high
Instead what we got was more aid to Ukraine and Israel, bombing Houthis and Iran, more Chinese students, more H1B visa, barely any deportations for immigrants but more deportations for antisemitism, a Palantir surveillance state, and no Epstein files