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u/jackparadise1 1d ago
Negotiate a deal with Iran to make sure they didn’t build a bomb.
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u/WhatDatDonut 1d ago
The current admin thinks diplomacy is for pussies. America is currently finding out how much the alternative costs.
The art of the deal.
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u/TorkBombs 1d ago
He was also better at not pulling out of deals that were already in place to make sure Iran didn't build a bomb.
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u/SuperSatanOverdrive 16h ago
- Enacted a comprehensive expansion of health insurance.
- Expanded Medicaid eligibility for low-income adults in participating states.
- Created subsidies for individual health-insurance premiums.
- Created cost-sharing assistance for eligible lower-income patients.
- Established marketplaces where people could compare insurance plans.
- Allowed young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26.
- Prohibited insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
- Prohibited higher insurance premiums based on health status.
- Prohibited sex-based pricing in ACA individual-market coverage.
- Banned lifetime dollar limits on essential health benefits.
- Banned annual dollar limits on essential health benefits.
- Required individual and small-group plans to cover essential health benefits.
- Included maternity care among those essential benefits.
- Included mental-health treatment among those essential benefits.
- Included substance-use treatment among those essential benefits.
- Required many preventive services without patient cost-sharing.
- Limited annual out-of-pocket spending in covered health plans.
- Required insurers to spend minimum shares of premiums on care and quality improvement.
- Required rebates when insurers failed those spending requirements.
- Left office with substantially fewer uninsured Americans than when he entered.
- Signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
- Established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Supported a more assertive federal consumer-finance watchdog.
- Subjected more large banks to enhanced supervision.
- Required broader stress testing of major financial institutions.
- Required major financial firms to prepare plans for orderly resolution.
- Established an alternative process for resolving failing financial giants.
- Restricted certain speculative bank activities through the Volcker Rule.
- Expanded oversight of previously opaque derivatives markets.
- Established a council to monitor risks across the financial system.
- Signed the CARD Act restricting abusive credit-card practices.
- Limited certain retroactive credit-card interest-rate increases.
- Strengthened disclosure of credit-card repayment costs.
- Pursued a retirement-adviser fiduciary rule requiring advisers to put clients’ interests first.
- Supported development of payday-loan affordability safeguards, finalized after his presidency under his appointed CFPB director, that Trump’s CFPB subsequently removed.
- Helped negotiate and joined the Paris climate agreement.
- Treated climate change as a problem requiring international cooperation.
- Established the Clean Power Plan, although courts prevented its implementation.
- Established greenhouse-gas standards for passenger vehicles.
- Established greenhouse-gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
- Strengthened vehicle fuel-economy standards.
- Set methane-emission standards for new and modified oil-and-gas facilities.
- Supported using the social cost of carbon in federal decisions.
- Required greater consideration of climate impacts in environmental reviews.
- Established flood-risk standards for federally supported construction.
- Made substantial clean-energy investments through the Recovery Act.
- Funded home weatherization to reduce household energy costs.
- Supported advanced battery manufacturing.
- Supported electric-vehicle technology and infrastructure.
- Funded research into emerging clean-energy technologies.
- Adopted broader federal protections for streams and wetlands.
- Issued the Stream Protection Rule for coal mining.
- Established mercury and air-toxic standards for power plants.
- Created Bears Ears National Monument.
- Maintained Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s protected boundaries, which Trump subsequently sharply reduced.
- Ended “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
- Opened military service to transgender people, which Trump subsequently restricted.
- Supported marriage equality while president.
- Directed his administration to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act’s restrictive marriage definition.
- Added sexual-orientation and gender-identity protections for federal-contractor employees.
- Issued guidance protecting transgender students.
- Established stronger protections for transgender people in federally funded shelters.
- Adopted more individualized protections for transgender prisoners.
- Supported LGBTQ nondiscrimination in healthcare.
- Promoted LGBTQ rights through foreign policy.
- Created DACA protections for eligible immigrants brought to America as children.
- Did not implement Trump’s systematic “zero-tolerance” family-separation policy.
- Adopted the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.
- Supported enforcement against unjustified discriminatory effects in housing.
- Used federal investigations and consent decrees more actively to address unconstitutional policing.
- Increased the maximum Pell Grant.
- Expanded the number of students receiving Pell Grants.
- Created the American Opportunity Tax Credit.
- Made the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent.
- Ended federal subsidies to banks for originating federally guaranteed student loans.
- Expanded income-driven student-loan repayment.
- Introduced the Pay As You Earn repayment plan.
- Introduced Revised Pay As You Earn.
- Established gainful-employment standards for career-training programs.
- Strengthened borrower-defense rules for students defrauded by colleges.
- Negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement rather than abandoning it.
- Secured negotiated limits on Iranian uranium enrichment.
- Secured a major reduction in Iran’s enriched-uranium stockpile.
- Secured restrictions on Iran’s centrifuges.
- Secured expanded international nuclear monitoring in Iran.
- Restored diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- Expanded opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba.
- Expanded engagement between American and Cuban communities.
- Earned substantially greater international confidence in his leadership.
- Left America with a more favorable international image than it had during Trump’s early presidency.
- Accepted his party’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election.
- Facilitated an orderly transition to his political opponent.
- Attended his successor’s inauguration.
- Did not pressure state officials to overturn the presidential election result.
- Did not pressure the vice president to reject certified electoral votes.
- Did not organize an alternative-elector effort to remain in power.
- Did not pressure the Justice Department to validate fabricated election-fraud claims.
- Voluntarily released his tax returns.
- Published substantial White House visitor logs, with exceptions.
- Avoided the extensive presidential business conflicts created by retaining ownership of a global commercial empire.
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u/Anon_1917 15h ago
Yeah. But apart from all that what has Obama done for us?
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u/ranbites 14h ago
Yeah, sure, he did those things, but the question is, did he do them better than Trump? Checkmate.
Also, I kinda like the aqueducts.
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u/Many_Fly_8165 10h ago
Civility. Something lost over the last 10 years. And the 90’s.
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u/Scottish-Gent 13h ago
Obama was not perfect. He did many things I disagreed with at the time. In hindsight though, they were good decisions. Even though I disagreed with him at the time, I considered him an honorable man because he loves this country because of the values it stands for and works to achieve; and he sought to unify us as a nation. Trump, on the other hand is not a man of honor. He loves himself and no one else, not the country or it's citizens. Trump cannot be trusted. Bottom line, I would never buy a used car from Trump nor would I let him date my daughter.
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u/Ok_Response_9255 14h ago
And, there are things I didn't like about Obama. But, he did some great things.
Trump has not done a single thing I agree with.
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u/One-Astronomer4572 14h ago
Ummm, the question was name 1. That looks waaaay more than 1. C'mon follow directions here.
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u/puppy-nub-56 1d ago
Yes - can anyone name one good thing trump did better than Obama?
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u/Shawnaldo7575 1d ago
Trump was better at sexualizing his daughter(s) than Obama
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u/jimmygee2 20h ago
Also much better at rape and fraud.
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u/Maud_Dweeb18 19h ago
He is the best at fraud!
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u/Zont_darran 16h ago
“No body does fraud better than me” said in Trump voice.
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u/RRRedRRRocket 18h ago
Victims would say "Sir, you're the best fraud and rapist!" while tearing up. And Trump is spelled d-u-m-b. With a b. Not many people know this.
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u/JicamaIcy7621 21h ago
and i think he was better at raping and molesting women
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u/Au-Tz-Tek 1d ago
Funneling taxpayer dollars to himself, his sons, and his billionaire friends.
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u/Signal_Estimate_23 1d ago
If Obama’s so smart, how come he couldn’t make an extra couple of Billion dollars while he was in office?
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u/Big-Barber9723 1d ago
Because he didn't screw over the American people that voted him in
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u/Dashriprock01 21h ago
The Emoluments Clause. Part of our Constitution that every president has followed. Except one.
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u/Middle-Parsnip-3537 23h ago
Smart and corrupt are two different things. Obama wasn’t corrupt.
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u/Silver_Elk_7953 1d ago
Ran up the debt, ran out of missiles, and got the FiFa peace prize!
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u/cmonkey2099 1d ago
Seriously tho we spent billions in the military howbthe hell we ran out of missiles?
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u/_yetisis 1d ago
Depending on the options, some of our Tomahawks run $2-4mil per missile. That’s why using them against $20k drones has been such a terrible game of financial chicken with Iran.
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u/The_Onyx_Ogre 1d ago
Trump got impeached twice and got convicted 34 times AND still became president. No one is coming close to that record
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u/anitabelle 1d ago
Maybe shitting his diaper? No one shits their diaper better than Trump.
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u/Slimeredit 1d ago
The only things these people would say is one he didn’t wear a tan suit and while they might not say it out loud trump also was white and the current Republican Party was formed by getting the dixiecrats and other racist people using the southern strategy
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u/Significant-Order-92 1d ago
Maybe got other NATO countries to spend more. Of course he did that while damages the alliance in a whole host of ways. Which lessened it's effect as a deterence.
Like their is a lot I don't like about Obama. But it's pretty hard to think of much he did (off the top of my head) that Trump hasn't either done worse or undercut any positive the next minute.
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u/HHoaks 1d ago edited 1d ago
You don’t have to soft pedal it, with saying there’s stuff you don’t like about Obama. Which is likely referring to some policy positions or political actions you didn’t like.
As there is literally NO person in that position that would be 100% liked by everyone in all policies or political acts, simply due to the size and diverse nature of the country, and the need to appeal to many constituencies.
The difference with Trump is, he generally, and in all respects, both in and out of office, lacks honesty, integrity, decency, and respect for the rule of law. He’s clearly a con man, a criminal, lies constantly, is not a good hearted person, and clearly is out for only personal gain, greed and his own ego.
The same can’t be said about Obama. That’s all that needs to be said and known.
As individuals, as humans, in basic intelligence, Obama runs rings around Trump. That’s all that matters.
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u/SoldierofZod 21h ago
This is what I've tried to explain the Trump supporters. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but we used to collectively insist on presidents being competent, qualified, and serious. Those were just the minimum requirements before most people would even consider voting for someone.
So, in that way, Trump is worse than every previous president. And by breaking that unwritten rule, he has ruined the prestige of the presidency and damaged the country immeasurably.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 1d ago
Starting with the fact that Obama can, in fact, actually run 🤣. I think if Donny tried to run he’d get maybe ten steps before having a heart attack
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u/Exotic_Worker_3484 19h ago
He’d still claim he did it and faster than any other president before him
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u/Money_Percentage_630 1d ago
Fun fact, after Trump's actions and threats EU nations are stepping up their defence spending and buying from EU companies which has Trump all pissy.
Why wouldn't you buy from a unreliable company on a different land mass when you can buy local, create jobs and not have full control of supply chain.
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u/kemb0 23h ago
Yep the thing about the US demanding Europe spend more on defence was never about us offering equal power to the US for NATO and all about making Europe buy more US equipment.
But that’s backfired because now we’re investing more in our own home grown military tech, so ultimately we might even end up replacing US overseas sales of military hardware.
So once again Trump’s “success” is actually a failure.
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u/cmonkey2099 1d ago
Na Obama did that in 2014
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u/Significant-Order-92 1d ago
I stand corrected then. I would also guess he managed it without undercutting NATOs ability to act as a deterent.
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u/Usual-Door5141 1d ago edited 15h ago
To my knowledge Obama doesn't have any criminal convictions.
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u/biffbobfred 1d ago
Stayed with one wife.
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u/arensb 1d ago
He's married to Michelle. Why would he want anyone else?
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u/Similar-Date3537 1d ago
I mean, with all due respect, she’s a ten out of ten.
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u/Biscotti_BT 1d ago
So he isn't as good of a philanderer. Come on there has to be something Obama is better at.
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u/max_revs 1d ago
I mean, he did wear a tan suit that one time...
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u/TheTinyMaus 1d ago
He does wear a suit better than Trump.
Seriously, guy is supposed to be a billionaire and yet wears a Jos A Bank suit like a disheveled mess and doesnt seem to understand what length ties are supposed to be?
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u/Ddddydya 1d ago
Gave healthcare to as much of the country as possible, all while being hindered by Republicans who hate Americans with a passion.
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 1d ago
Probably literally everything.
I'm sure there's a bill or two that managed to squeak by under one of Trump's terms that improved SOMETHING because usually that ends up being the case by pure luck but I can't name them off the top of my head. Something to do with capping insulin prices maybe?
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u/StKines 23h ago
During Trumps first term republicans had been blocking an extension of aid we were giving first responders that were harmed by 9/11 (you know, heroes).
John Stewart had a viral moment when he stuck up for the first responders and chewed out congress (the few who showed up to do their own job) and after that pressure Trump signed a deal giving them those benefits for the rest of their lives.
This is the only policy decision I can think of off the top of my head that will have a lasting positive impact.
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u/Rocket-Glide 1d ago
This is rage bait. I can’t think of a single thing Trump did better than Obama
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u/SnickSnitch 1d ago edited 1d ago
Literally nothing except grifting money from taxpayers and pocketing it all. Trump is a master at that.
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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe 1d ago
Man, the bots are really gone, huh? It's been 5 minutes and not a single pro Trump comment.
This is nice.
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u/Odd_Plankton3463 1d ago
Brought us back from a stock market crash instead of causing one
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u/Mysterious-Reward777 1d ago
Transfer power peacefully.
The bar was on the fucking floor, and Trump still brought a shovel.
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u/StrattonPA 1d ago
Obama did everything better than Trump. Trump just lined his pockets and ran us into a huge debt, invade countries illegally yet still demanding a Nobel peace prize.
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u/Cute-Two-422 1d ago
Obama is better than Trump at everything unless being a traitor, a pedophile, a felon, an adjudicated rapist,an insecure compulsive liar, and an all around pathetic loathsome sack of shit are to be considered talents.
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u/Quattro5 1d ago
Meeting the dignity of the office he held.
Seems like such a distant memory.......
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u/Extension_Many4418 1d ago
Represent the presidency with class and respect, including his wife and daughters. Maintain respect and even affection among our allies. Address and stabilize the economy. Address environmental issues. Appoint competent diplomats and White House personnel. Shall I go on?
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u/HiddenPrimate 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just about everything. He didn’t slander the Republicans like a fascist. He didn’t cut funding for only “red” states. He grew the economy. He had a very low interest rate for 8 years. He didn’t divide the country, pitting blue against red. Only division was the racist white Republicans that hated him because he was black.
His global diplomacy was a million times better than Trump’s Axis loving fascism.
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u/RepresentativeHeat13 1d ago
Got a deal in place to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons complete with oversight from multiple countries. Didn’t invade any sovereign nations and steal their oil and gold.
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u/evil_illustrator2 1d ago
Talking to the press. Staying on topic. Answering questions. Not fucking children.
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u/Emergency_Pin3519 1d ago
That is the easiest question ever. Everything, he did everything better than Trump. Turns out all you have to do is not be a traitor.
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u/severinks 21h ago
Tell the truth, stay with his wife, be dignified, get Iran to give him the enriched uranium they had, not alienate all our allies, leave office when his term was up, not get indicted 90 times,not get found liable for sexual assaut.
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u/cmay119 1d ago
Find a solution to Iran not obtaining a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA was a good compromise through diplomacy. Any of its short comings are things that, again, could have been resolved through good diplomacy. No longer is that possible. Our pedophile president started a war with them because his daddy Bibi told him to and thought it would be a good distraction from the Epstein files.
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u/Paraxom 1d ago
being a husband, being a father, being a law abiding citizen, being credible,speaking english...control of his bowels
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u/Major_Mechanic5719 1d ago
Not catering to our enemies.
Not raping children.
Not raping anyone.
Not accepting a 747 bribe from the Arabs.
Not accusing an innocent Olympian of a crime and falsely claiming he had evidence.
Not hiding classified documents in the bathroom.
Diesel prices? Gas prices? Energy prices?
Health insurance.
Grocery prices.
Tariffs.
No false promises of $2,000 checks
No false promises of $5,000 checks to vote republican.
Deportations.
Wasn't obsessed with blowing taxpayer money on vanity projects.
Didn't hand out government contracts to family members, donors, and convicted criminal pals.
Not on the Epstein list.
Didn't commit treason.
Not a pathological liar.
Not a narcissist.
Not a fascist dictator wannabe.
Pretty much did everything better.
Obama was just a better president in every aspect. Some might even call him a great president. That's what makes trump and maga super jealous of Obama.
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u/BoysenberryDry999 1d ago
Obama DIDN’T start a pointless war with Iran. Didn’t hang out with a child trafficker. Didn’t put Russia’s interests over ours.
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u/hillwoodlam 1d ago
In fact he signed a deal with Iran that prevented them from having nuclear weapons and the deal was proven internationally to be working.
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u/Difference-tolerant 1d ago
Established Affordable Health Care law: affordable health care for many Americans. Not perfect but more than Trump’s ever done.
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u/BattleSilent9049 1d ago edited 1d ago
Health care, spending, foreign policy. Oh, they just wanted 1 😁
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u/paranormalresearch1 1d ago
Not be a corrupt, sexual predator, child sex trafficker, and Israeli asset. I guess that’s more than one.
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u/MidnightMiik 1d ago
I’d say flip that question around.
Name one thing Trump has done better than Obama.
I’ve got one:
Trump is a much better traitor than Obama. I mean Obama wasn’t even a little bit of a traitor. Trump has got Obama beat is being a traitor in every way.
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u/Mission_Chard_5190 1d ago
Some would say the best traitor. The highest regarded traitors alive have asked him, they said, "sir, how are you the best traitor? Better than me? I thought i was a good traitor but your the best and you do it so easily".
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u/not_roger_smith 1d ago
Deported more illegal immigrants without terrifying or murdering citizens in the street.
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u/Recent-Fan3027 1d ago
Everything because not 1 thing Trump has done that he's promised and now he's illegally bribing people with a $5000 check that no one will ever get.
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u/realitytvlover2000 1d ago
Speak, be a human being, run the country, create jobs, create an economy, have a better approval rating, not be a criminal, & not shit his pants ….
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u/Bard2dbone 1d ago
Pretty much everything? He spoke in complete sentences. He actually won a Nobel peace Prize. He was respected by our enemies and appreciated by our allies.
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u/ConsiderationWise205 1d ago edited 23h ago
No saying it’s good or bad but Obama diddddd deport more people…
Edit: sheesh chill. I’m not a fkn trump supporter. Just pointing out something Obama had higher stats on for something trump spewed to his base so hard
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 1d ago
Yeah, thats the crazy thing
Obama deported more people WITHOUT all the drama and death trump caused
Either trump is bad at deporting people or he wanted to spread fear and hatred?
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u/Efficient_Seaweed395 1d ago
There is nothing with deporting illegal immigrants. The problem is treating them like animals, slaughtering them and locking them in cages.
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u/Tweedlol 1d ago
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But the republicans have sold their idiotic base on our opposition to treating them as garbage, as “wanting open boarders”
Obama, nor Biden, slept on immigration. Pretty sure crossings were down… but they convinced their base that less crossings meant we were doing less. It’s really quite absurd how dumb they are.
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u/TipRare1321 1d ago
Without killing American citizens and immigrant and without sending immigrants to countries they'd probably never even heard of.
And without putting people in concentration camps.
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u/Madaghmire 1d ago
Well for one thing he managed to find a way to restrict uranium enrichment in Iran and literally no shooting happened. At all. Additionally there was no disruption to the shipping of oil through the straight of hormuz and so energy costs remained down. Theres a long as list of other things, but this one is pretty topically relevant
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u/Blanco1320 1d ago
The list is longer than Santa’s. One thing would be is he has a vocabulary beyond 32 words
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u/Suxit_Ytee 1d ago
Served the whole country, and not just their favorite people that also don't pay taxes
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u/f3ar13 1d ago
For one the world's respect toward United State was better tourism was better our togetherness was better we aren't so divided
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u/Ok_Eggplant_3274 1d ago
Deportations without harming citizens
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u/dimh 1d ago
He actually did harm people in deportations, but owned his shit and corrected it. His ICE facilities changed their policies to correct the mishandling and separation of families at ICE holding facilities.
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u/Slimeredit 1d ago
Also while actually following the law and not treating those people like garbage
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u/LaCharognarde 1d ago
Served the public, with literally all that's implied by that. Oh, wait: that's the entire job. Go away, Sarah.
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u/Rock-Ski-Golf-Repeat 1d ago
Healthcare
Deficit
International politics
Taxes
Respect
Communication
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u/craignumPI 1d ago
Never being made to ever take those kindergarten competency tests over and over again.
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u/orangebix 1d ago
Obama could give a speach vs trump just sounds like a 2yr old tell you about their day
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u/th3chrom3dog 1d ago
How about just speaking eloquently, with respect, and intelligence.
Not to mention making speaches that inspire and unite not just America, but it's allies in other democracies.
Trump...well he spews fear, hate, and is utterly corrupt. He acts and speaks to like a willful child. I don't even want to go on, because it's all just awful and I can't stomach it for long.
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u/Game_Knight_DnD 1d ago
Everything.
Walking, breathing, talking, basic human things.
Then we can get into every single policy decision.
Obama was far from perfect, he made mistake, he did things I wouldn't have done, he didn't do things I would have.
But in every single way Obama is and was a better human not just President than Trump.