Trump is ignorant that his second term is a huge failure.

15 May 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On April 29th, NBC gave the most extensive reporting on 13 of his campaign promises for what he would achieve in his first 100 days if elected to a second term, and headlined it “Here's what Trump has done on 14 [it’s actually on 13] of his major campaign promises”.

Here were Trump’s hits and misses out of the 13 (listed here in NBC’s order):

Promise: End war in Ukraine on or before Day 1

Status: Failed

Promise: End the war in Gaza

Status: Failed

Promise: Close the border

Status: Kept

Promise: Carry out the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history

Status: Jury's still out

Promise: End birthright citizenship

Status: Jury's still out

Promise: Impose tariffs and improve the economy

Status: Mixed

Promise: End inflation and lower prices

Status: Mixed

Promise: Make government more efficient

Status: Failed

Promise: Ban transgender athletes in women's sports

Status: Kept

Promise: Eliminate the Education Department

Status: Failed

Promise: Cover IVF [In Vitro Fertilization]

Status: Jury's still out

Promise: Pardon Jan. 6 rioters

Status: Kept

Promise: End DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] in government

Status: Kept

He expected Russia to violate its own clearly stated red lines on what it would not allow in any ending of the war by the U.S. (and its colonies) against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine, such as that it would not allow ANY ending of this war that would not PERMANENTLY prevent Ukraine from becoming a NATO member (and thus for the U.S. to become able to place a nuclear missile within a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile-flying-time from blitz-annihilating Russia’s Government —The Kremlin); and so Trump’s demands upon Russia were stupid, callous, insulting, and doomed to fail — and so they DID fail.

He expected Arab and other majority-Muslim countries to accept the existence of an Israel that is ethnically cleansing if not exterminating the 2.2 million residents in Gaza; and so his demands upon those countries were stupid, callous, insulting, and doomed to fail — and so they DID fail.

Some of his promises that he has kept (or maybe will keep) are bad for the country.

THE BOTTOM LINE: He is a stupid, callous, insulting, and doomed to fail, U.S. President — totally unqualified to serve in that post.

As to whether he is even worse than George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, all of whom were likewise also atrocious and lied their ways into the White House, it’s too early to tell.

On May 15th, Vanessa Beeley, the great news-reporter about the Middle-Eastern strategy of the U.S.-UK-Israel empire, headlined “Trump sells-out Syria to Al Qaeda, resilient Yemen, the carving-up of a Syrian sovereign state”, and reported that in order for Trump to avoid further material losses to the Houthis in Yemen beyond the approximately $1 billion of the past few weeks, so as to be able to build up America’s invasion forces against China (which is his real target), he has agreed to end the anti-Assad sanctions since 1979, and the al-Qaeda leader in Syria who finally succeeded at overthrowing Assad, al-Jalani (now a.k.a. al-Sharaa), who met with Trump on May 14th, agreed to become another U.S. colony (such as John Perkins detailed about in his 2004 masterpiece Confessions of an Economic Hitman), which will further increase the wealth of America’s billionaires. Furthermore, MBS, the Saud leader, bought yet another $142 billion of U.S. weapons, and America will increase sanctions against Iran.

Perhaps the reason why Trump is ignorant that his second term is a huge failure is that for Trump and his friends, it’s a huge success.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.