Almost a year later, Trump has:
* Renegotiated trade deals with Mexico, Canada, South Korea and Japan
* Successfully pressured European nations to pay their contracted obligations for their own defense in the NATO organization.
* Utterly destroyed the last remnants of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. An hat was islamic khalifate that was still thrriving on Barack Obama's last daay, and is now completely annihilated as a state.
* Putting pressure on North Korea, and while yielding some unprecedented concessions such as release of prisoners, has not resulted in a peace deal yet to eliminate Kim Jong Un's missiles. But the sanctions are still tightening, and actually being enforced for probably the first time.
* Trump's pressure on China to loosen its tariffs, or suffer reciprocal tariffs from the United States. Nothing outrageous, just subjecting China to the same tariffs they have (deterring) U.S. imports into China. And for the first time in 30 years making clear China has to play by the rules like every other nation. They've enjoyed tade deficits of 400-plus billion a year for 30 years, and in addition steal up to 600 billion a year through cyber-theft of intellectual property. Either Gordon Chang or Michael Pillsbury have pointed out that China's t echnological advances over the last 30 years are completely due to intellectual theft, and that China spends zero on technological research.
* In the last few days, short of war, Trump is sending a naval fleet within striking distance of Iran, to deter them from whatever aggression they were recently planning.
The demonstration of strength (as opposed to Obama's 8 years of displaying timidity and weakness that encouraged aggression by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and ISIS) will deter wars from occurring, rather than encourage them. Common sense.
