President Donald Trump is in Huntington, West Virginia today and he won't say it to the cheering crowd inside Big Sandy Superstore Arena, but he's failing them.

Trump is failing Appalachia. He's failing the Rust Belt. He's failing the forgotten man and the working-class and the voters of Trump's America.

During the campaign Trump promised $1 trillion in infrastructure investments and they are nowhere in sight; not because of Washington obstruction but because a bill hasn't been proposed.

Trump promised legislation to end the offshoring of American labor. The only action has been an empty executive order encouraging companies to buy American.

From building a wall to labeling China a currency manipulator, most of Trump's promises are unfulfilled or they've been broken mostly from lack of effort.

And that more than Russia or "The Mooch" is the tragedy of his presidency. Millions of Americans looked at the ballot last November and they saw no other choice. Donald Trump was their savior. He said, "I alone can fix it," and they believed him.

Trump signed more bills in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman but they renamed VA clinics or undid Obama era Fish & Wildlife regulations. There are no major accomplishments.

There were never going to be. Not because of Senate Democrats or fake news in the Amazon Washington Post; but because of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump wanted to be the president but he never expected to win and he didn't prepare for the job. Hillary Clinton was supposed to go to Michigan and Wisconsin. She wasn't supposed to lose. And when she did Trump got caught up in the scam.

Clinton saw millions of Americans as deplorable and she found them to be unworthy of her time. But Trump did something worse. He saw them as gullible. He took advantage of their anger and anxiety and he played to their fears.

He blamed Mexican children and Syrian refugees for the complexities of globalization and he promised easy victories to those who deserved hard truths.

The old economy was never coming back. The textile towns and coal communities of America needed to compete in the global economy and they needed a safety-net for when they fell. But Trump did something terrible. He told them it was all coming back.

He promised revenge against the establishment, against political dynasties and professional bureaucrats, and that revenge would mean recovery.

He promised it all from the moment he took office. But of the 18 promises Trump made for his first day in office only five were completed (and most of those came on the second day). The rest of his presidency has been a reality TV show of betrayal.

Instead of draining the swamp, Trump surrounded himself with Goldman Sachs and Anthony Scaramucci and he put his son-in-law in charge of the opioid crisis and bringing peace to the Middle East.

Trump's rally today is in Huntington, West Virginia, where authorities last year responded to 26 overdoses in a period of four hours. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50 and West Virginia is at the epicenter of the crisis.

But when the White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis released a report Monday they begged the president to lead.

And that's because he's not leading. Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his presidency playing golf and he'll spend more on travel this year than President Barack Obama did in eight.

"I'm going to be working for you," said Trump during the campaign. "I'm not going to have time to play golf." And he was lying. He was lying to crowds (like the one he's in today) right to their face.

Trump was elected by the citizens of Huntington to fight for them, to be their champion; and he didn't even try. He doesn't put in the work. He spends his mornings live-tweeting Morning Joe.

He doesn't lose sleep worrying about the voters of West Virginia and he doesn't stare out the Oval Office windows thinking of teenagers dying from fentanyl.

He worries only about himself. He always has. And he always will.

Today he'll blame the Democrats. He'll blame Hillary. He'll blame CNN. He'll blame Jeff Sessions and everyone else but him when he's the one in charge.

He'll rile up the crowd about terrorists and immigrants and China and transgendered Americans a thousand miles away but he's the one who's hurting them because he's using them.

Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt, communities like Huntington are on the losing end of social and economic changes because men like Trump took advantage of their earnestness and their vulnerability.

When the factories closed, Trump was making his products overseas and becoming a multi-millionaire selling timeshares and cheap steaks Americans didn't need.

The con ended in the White House. And now Americans do need him.