AMERICA FIRST VS. AMERICA LAST: TRUMP VS. BIDEN, TWO YEARS IN
AMERICA FIRST VS. AMERICA LAST: TRUMP VS. BIDEN, TWO YEARS IN
If the 2024 election were contested today between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the disparities in their policies at the two-year mark in their administrations would be unmistakable.
Fear and instability abound in Joe Biden’s America. Eastern Europe is at war, and the United States’ southern border is wide open and tragically vulnerable.
Things were very different only two years ago. America was stronger and safer, and the world regarded the US as the world’s dominant superpower, as it had for decades following World War II.
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Biden’s first two years in office have resulted in America’s economic, diplomatic, and domestic backsliding. The United States is in chaos now, a far cry from the two-year mark of President Trump’s first term, when the country was rocketing skyward on a path to energy domination, military supremacy, and domestic economic triumph.
Gas
America was on the fast track to energy domination under Trump. According to Interactive, Polls, at the two-year mark of President Trump’s first term, a gallon of petrol cost an average of $2.57 per gallon, whereas it now costs an average of $3.50 per gallon. This summer, gas prices in certain parts of the United States topped $7 per gallon.
The average price of a gallon of petrol in February is lower than the astronomically high costs in 2022, but it is still much more than when Trump was president.
Trump reportedly declared in a policy video, according to RSBN, “Biden overturned every measure I did that secured energy independence, and we were shortly going to be energy dominating.”
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America is no longer energy independent under Biden.
Southern border crossings
The Biden administration’s first and most evident failing is its intentional reluctance to protect the southern border. According to CBP data given by Interactive Polls, illegal border crossings were about 977,106 at the two-year point of Trump’s presidency, whereas Joe Biden’s government enabled 4,365,117 illegals to walk onto American land in the same length of time.
President Trump told RSBN’s Brian Glenn that he estimated up to 15 million immigrants have flowed across America’s open borders in the last two years and that the uncontrolled migration was “destroying our nation.”
This increase in unlawful crossings appears to have coincided with a disastrous increase in drug trafficking and people trafficking.
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The economy
Trump was a successful businessman before entering the White House, and he carried his sharp negotiation talents with him. In reality, President Trump’s inflation rate at the two-year point of his term was only 2.3 percent, whereas Biden’s yearly inflation rate is 6.4 percent in 2023.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, pointed out recently that the price for an average gallon of gas was around $2.39. “Joe Biden has RAISED prices by 44%!” he wrote on Twitter.
Biden hasn’t helped Americans reach a better future in two years. Because of crushing inflationary pressures and supply chain issues, he has only prevented Citizens from pursuing their goals.
According to the White House, President Trump produced five million new jobs by his second year in office, and median wages reached a post-recession high in 2017.
Violent crime
Joe Biden’s America is distinguished by out-of-control Antifa riots, unpunished shoplifters, and criminal offenders encouraged by the “Defund the Police” campaign, which has stripped vital law enforcement agencies of authority.
At his State of the Union speech in early February, Biden oddly linked the surge in violence in American communities to the Covid pandemic: “Covid left its wounds, such as an increase in violent crime in 2020 — the first year of the epidemic,” he told The Washington Post.
Unlike Biden, Trump fought hard to combat crime during his presidency.
By his second year, the White House stated that Trump has taken measures to address the outbreak of MS-13 gang members in the United States, arresting around 4,000 of them in 2017. He also revamped the Project Safe Neighborhoods program and approved almost $100 million in grant funds at the request of the Department of Justice to employ hundreds of law enforcement personnel around the country.
America today
In 2019, Trump was a president who prioritized America. Biden is a leader who places America last in 2023. Whether he is authorizing billions of dollars in foreign aid or ignoring the overwhelming invasion at the border, the Biden administration has embarrassed the country on the global stage and deprived the United States of respect.
At the very least, Trump’s government addressed domestic needs of American residents and was putting the country on a fast road to long-term prosperity.