Six months in

Highlights of Trump's six months since inauguration: Trump's tariffs continue to increase prices for Americans (gas still $3 plus/gal. and groceries costing much more), loss of trading partners (especially China) who have changed their import sources for soybeans and pork (hurting American farmers drastically hard), promised 200 trade deals through his excessive tariffs but has only 3 deals made and none of those are impactful, has cut American aid to struggling countries (USAID) creating extreme hardship for those effected and loss of American good-will, enlisted Elon Musk to chainsaw through federal agencies and recklessly dismiss important workers resulting in short-staffing across the country (and now lists Musk as his enemy), has allowed U.S. military to engage American citizens, has risked war by bombing Iran nuclear sites with no proof of success, has enlisted his Dept. of Justice to act as his personal safeguard against opposition instead of an impartial administration of justice, has been used by Putin as a stooge as the Ukraine war worsens, has created utter chaos in the stock market with Americans' savings at continual risk, and has weakened drastically certain sectors of American business by mass deportation of long-term workers (produce farms, hospitality workers, restaurant workers, etc.) At his inauguration Trump said, "From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world." A Pew Research Center survey says the opposite. Based on more than 28,000 adults outside the U.S., 62% polled have no confidence of Trump in world affairs. In 19 of the 24 countries surveyed, little or no trust in Trump was recorded. Almost 80% called him arrogant and dangerous, dis-honest and not qualified for the job. So much for making America Great Again. Dennis A. Stout Bellevue