Posted by: xkavrepalanchok June 10, 2022
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It has become fashionable among Nepali popular discourse and mainstream media to refer to Donald Trump as “the worst American president in history”.
Sure, Trump is a sociopath who would happily kill to get his way – but look at his predecessors!
FDR operated concentration camps.
Truman nuked 200,000 civilians.
Johnson sent mentally retarded teenagers to die in Vietnam.
Reagan’s War on Drugs (happily continued by his successors from both parties) incarcerated millions of people and devastated Latin America.
Bush Jr. legalized torture and started a war that killed at least half a million people.
Obama was also responsible for the bombing and deporting of many immigrants ( I don't remember Trump president affected Nepali illegal immigration as much as Barack Obama did )
Compared to those mind-boggling feats of evil, Trump’s “accomplishments” just seem… meh. The most infamous event of his presidency, the storming of the Capitol, was a one-day affair that led to a total of five casualties. It was a terrible crime with major political implications, and Trump is 100% responsible for it. But it pales in comparison to the Vietnam War, which killed 60,000 Americans and traumatized an entire generation (not to mention its effects in Vietnam itself).
Much has been said about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the WHO. It’s flabbergasting to see people’s sudden outrage at this, considering that “fuck everyone else” has been the main theme of US foreign policy forever. The US passed a law permitting themselves to invade the Hague. The US is the only(!) UN member that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The US hasn’t even paid its full dues to the UN in a long time. Trump’s middle finger to the world was business as usual for America.
Trump's ramblings on social media gave the impression that a complete idiot was in charge. He is evil and if you picked a dozen people at random, he would almost certainly be the worst among them.
But American presidents are not random people. They are power-obsessed individuals who have committed some of the most horrible crimes in history, including mass murder. As a US president, Trump was utterly mediocre. At least he didn’t start another war, which in my eyes already puts him above several post-WWII presidents. Obama was better, but Obama was an above-average president. Trump was below average, but calling him the worst of all time when even recent history includes war criminals as Bush reeks of media sensationalism, and is frankly insulting to the hundreds of millions of people around the world whose entire existence has been haunted by what some of Trump’s predecessors have done.
Following Biden's presidency what we are seeing is events like the Taliban overtaking Afghanistan and now the Ukraine war which has already affected our lifestyle not just in the US but all over Nepal. (you can not ignore the fact Biden is an incompetent president of the US)
Sure, Trump is a sociopath who would happily kill to get his way – but look at his predecessors!
FDR operated concentration camps.
Truman nuked 200,000 civilians.
Johnson sent mentally retarded teenagers to die in Vietnam.
Reagan’s War on Drugs (happily continued by his successors from both parties) incarcerated millions of people and devastated Latin America.
Bush Jr. legalized torture and started a war that killed at least half a million people.
Obama was also responsible for the bombing and deporting of many immigrants ( I don't remember Trump president affected Nepali illegal immigration as much as Barack Obama did )
Compared to those mind-boggling feats of evil, Trump’s “accomplishments” just seem… meh. The most infamous event of his presidency, the storming of the Capitol, was a one-day affair that led to a total of five casualties. It was a terrible crime with major political implications, and Trump is 100% responsible for it. But it pales in comparison to the Vietnam War, which killed 60,000 Americans and traumatized an entire generation (not to mention its effects in Vietnam itself).
Much has been said about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the WHO. It’s flabbergasting to see people’s sudden outrage at this, considering that “fuck everyone else” has been the main theme of US foreign policy forever. The US passed a law permitting themselves to invade the Hague. The US is the only(!) UN member that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The US hasn’t even paid its full dues to the UN in a long time. Trump’s middle finger to the world was business as usual for America.
Trump's ramblings on social media gave the impression that a complete idiot was in charge. He is evil and if you picked a dozen people at random, he would almost certainly be the worst among them.
But American presidents are not random people. They are power-obsessed individuals who have committed some of the most horrible crimes in history, including mass murder. As a US president, Trump was utterly mediocre. At least he didn’t start another war, which in my eyes already puts him above several post-WWII presidents. Obama was better, but Obama was an above-average president. Trump was below average, but calling him the worst of all time when even recent history includes war criminals as Bush reeks of media sensationalism, and is frankly insulting to the hundreds of millions of people around the world whose entire existence has been haunted by what some of Trump’s predecessors have done.
Following Biden's presidency what we are seeing is events like the Taliban overtaking Afghanistan and now the Ukraine war which has already affected our lifestyle not just in the US but all over Nepal. (you can not ignore the fact Biden is an incompetent president of the US)
Last edited: 10-Jun-22 11:27 PM