After jamming with a pair of racist and antisemitic DJs at the official Republican National Convention after party last night, participants are heading to night two of the GOP’s transparent attempt at rewriting the Trump administration’s abysmal failures during his first term in office.
Despite his racist and xenophobic bluster about the southern border and undocumented immigrants, Trump didn’t make America any safer during his four years in office.
Trump spent years on the campaign trail promising, if elected, he’d build a wall at the southern border and make Mexico pay for its construction. Trump didn’t make Mexico pay for the wall and Mexico didn’t send 28,000 people to the border in exchange as Trump claims either. After a lengthy government shutdown triggered by his temper tantrum to force Congress to allocate over $5 billion to fund his pet project, Trump ultimately took almost $7 billion from military spending and the Treasury Department to build his wall.
By February of 2020, Trump had diverted a total of $3.8 billion from the Department of Defense to build his border wall. According to a Customs and Border Protection report less than 100 miles of newly constructed wall was built as of December 2021.
Trump touts his unnecessarily cruel and inhumane approach to the border as keeping America safe, but on Main Street, regular Americans battled violence, disease, and the proliferation of guns in their neighborhoods.
Learn more about Trump’s failure to keep Americans safe:
- Violent crime increased during the Donald Trump administration.
- The national murder rate hit a 25-year high in 2020.
- There was a 30% increase in the number of murders in the U.S. in 2020 compared to 2019, the highest recorded number since the FBI began data collection in the 1960s. The previous high was due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
- Violent crime on the whole increased 5% in 2020 compared to 2019.
- Aggravated assaults increased 12% in 2020 since 2019.
- Hundreds of thousands of people died of COVID during the Donald Trump administration.
- Donald Trump’s administration hindered gun violence prevention.
- Trump signed a law rolling back an Obama-era regulation requiring the Social Security Administration to report those who have a mental health condition to the FBI’s national instant background check database.
- Trump’s Justice Department issued a memo narrowing the definition of a “fugitive from justice,” only blocking gun sales to people who have fled the state where their arrest warrant was issued.
- Donald Trump wanted to defund the police.
- Trump’s budgets proposed cutting hundreds of millions of dollars for local law enforcement agencies.
- Trump’s budgets proposed slashing the COPS hiring program by nearly 50% in 2018 and 58% in 2020.
- Trump called for defunding the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Published: Jul 16, 2024 | Last Modified: Jul 17, 2024