Vernon Johnson

Vernon Johnson is a lifelong Delawarean who had a 30-year career with Prudential's Smyrna-Clayton agency.

Let’s look at some of the magnificent accomplishments and possible future accomplishments of Trump’s first year and a half.

The economy: President Obama is the only president in American history to never have one year of 3 percent of GDP growth — and he was there eight years! In his last year, the GDP was a sick 1.6 percent.

He famously said “This economy is the new normal. What is Trump going to do to bring these manufacturing jobs back, wave a magic wand?”

No, Mr. President, just pass the largest tax cut and reform in American history and rescind your odious regulations on business and get out of the way.

Obama lost nearly 200,000 thousand manufacturing jobs, President Trump has created 480,000 new manufacturing jobs in just one and a half years in office. The last quarter's GDP grew at 4.2 percent.

During his campaign, Trump said he would create 3 percent GDP growth. The economists called him crazy, unhinged, irresponsible, said it can not be done.

Unemployment among black and Hispanic Americans is the lowest in American history and now also the lowest among women since 1969. We are at full employment — there are more jobs available than unemployed to fill them.

Trump’s economy has added over 4 million new jobs in just his first year and a half.

We are now the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, and I lost track of the thousands of new coal jobs in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Trump has already convinced the European Union to reduce our annual trade deficit. The EU is reducing their tariffs on American goods by $52 billion a year, already with more to come.

He just completed a new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, the new USMCA trade agreement, getting us out from under the disastrous NAFTA that was a such a huge disadvantage to the United States. This will lead to thousands of new jobs and billions annually coming back to the United States.

We have a $375 billion dollar annual trade deficit with China which the President says “will not stand.” If he is successful in further reducing unfair trade practices with the world against us, he will have done what no other president has even tried and will bring about years of prosperity and growth. America will succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

If you hate the man whose policies did all this, then I submit you also hate America. Because everything I just said is good for America and Americans, and none of it would have happened with Clinton continuing four more years of the disastrous Obama policies.

Judges: both Supreme Court judges and all his federal judge appointments have been judges who will interpret the law as written in the Constitution. They will not write law from the bench — no more using the court to make laws you cannot get through Congress.

President Trump has made more federal judge appointments in his first year and a half that any president in history.

President Trump ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal which, by the way, guaranteed a nuke in 10 years — and Iran never signed it!

President Trump got us out of the Paris climate accord, whose stated goal was to reduce the earth’s temperature by one half of one degree by the year 2100. That is 82 years from now. Are you kidding me?

The agreement was much tougher on the United States than it was on China and India, which are the two largest polluting countries in the world.

President Trump got three Americans released from North Korean prisons. We are now getting back our fallen Korean War heroes after 70 years — no other American president was able to do that, either.

He is attempting to get North Korea to give up their nuclear ambition through negotiation. If he is successful in that endeavor, he will be recognized as one of America’s greatest presidents.

Won’t that drive the left crazy?

One thing I can guarantee, President Trump will never allow North Korea to have the capacity to deliver a nuke on an American city. He will do whatever it takes to prevent that.

Our veterans can now be seen at a private hospital, no more waiting six months to be seen at a veteran’s hospital and maybe dying first. No other president was able to get that done either, but Trump did.

The man gets things done!

He has fulfilled or tried to fulfill every campaign promise. Despite all of the early successes of this president, the left still hates him, results be dammed.

There is no way the left loves America when they hate the man whose policies have brought about all these wonderful results. He actually is making America great again!



