Trump Arsonist/Firefighter: Fixing Problems he Created

Trump creates a problem, withdraws from that problem, then claims he solved a problem. Manufacture a crisis, promote tentative adjustments as a major victory, bemoan media coverage, rinse and repeat.


Fiction: “I alone can fix this.” Trump, 2016 campaign. Fact: he breaks it, restores it to where it was before he broke it, then claims victory for fixing it.


Examples:

• 1-8-20. Firefighter: declares victory against Iran and opts not to retaliate with further military action. "He prevented a massive war.” (Sean Hannity). Arsonist: directed assassination of top Iranian military person, creating upheaval in Mideast.
• October 2019. withdrew abruptly from northern Syria. Turkey invasion started immediately. Now pressuring via sanctions. If successful, will claim solved problem that he created.
• 6-24-19. Firefighter: saves lives of 150 Iranians potentially by calling off air strike minutes before planned time. Arsonist: directs air strike on Iran.
• 6-9-19. Firefighter: rescinds threat to impose increasing tariffs on Mexican goods. Arsonist: randomly stated would impose tariffs unless Mexico fixed their border issues, says he reached deal with Mexico, no more tariffs. 
• 4-9-19. Firefighter: Said Obama is the one with child separation policy at border, but “I’m the one that stopped it.” Arsonist: Obama rarely did child separation and only in specific instances; Trump implemented zero tolerance policy to separate in all instances. That was fixed by the courts by overturning the Trump policy. 
• 3-28-19. Firefighter: Claimed in Michigan rally that he is going to secure $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Arsonist: $300 million annual funding has been available since Obama administration until Trump removed it. 
• 3-28-19. Firefighter: Trump restored $18 million of annual funding for the Special Olympics after public outcry. Arsonist: Trump’s Secretary of Education removed the funding in the current budget.
• July 2018. Firefighter: Trump approved a $12 billion aid package to help U.S. farmers. Arsonist: farmers lost $11 billion from Trump’s tariffs.
• July 2018. Firefighter: Government reunites 1,200 migrant children immigrant families at the border. Arsonist: these children were separated by Trump’s zero tolerance policy, which was overturned with a court order to reunite the families. This is only a third of the children who were separated.