What Is Obama's Failure

As the 44th president of the United States Barack Obama had a multitude of successes such as economic stabilization and Obamacare, but he also had failures such as dealing with ISIS. First, early on in Obama’s presidency helped stabilize the economy passed on from the Bush administration. After Bush had finished his term the economy was in free fall so Obama’s campaign relied heavily on fixing this problem. Once Obama was sworn into office he took an approach similar to that of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in which he chose to use government spending to fix the economy and keep it stable. He spent $831 billion during his presidency on programs to help balance the economy.(Gonzales 1) This was a success for the Obama Administration because

it showed the people that Obama went through with the promises he made and this helped the population live in peace without the constant burden of the free fall economy. Another success achieved by Obama was Obamacare. Obamacare prevented the government from refusing health insurance to those who needed it due to pre existing conditions. Those who were homeless or had almost no money were covered for free while those who are low income had most of their insurance covered by the government. (Netter 2) This was successful because it prevented citizens from struggling to simply stay healthy, something that should be granted to all people. It also eventually helped by decreasing the frequency of certain diseases and conditions. Obama also failed by appeasing ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Another major change Obama made as president was the termination of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama ended the wars and removed troops from both areas, but after he did nothing. He left Iraq in an unstable manner causing ISIS to rise and tantalize the people and cause mass killings in Iraq and Syria that eventually led to its spread across the world. This was a failure for Obama because he appeased a situation rather than performing collective security and the situation worsened and resulted in the loss of many innocent lives across the nation. To conclude, Obama’s economic save and national improvement of health care has showed his success, but his weakness of appeasement displays his failure.

As our current 45th president of the United States of America Donald Trump has created an uproar in the media with his actions and although he has some failures that are hyperbolized such as the opposition towards “dreamers”, or undocumented immigrants who came without control over their situation, he is also successful in a number of ways such as boosting the economy even more and taking action against ISIS.

Primarily, Trump’s background as a businessman called for economic prosper in the US. Obama had already help improve the economy after its 2008 crash, but he could only increase the GDP growth rate to around two percent off from the ideal three percent, but when Trump took over he raised the growth back up to three percent.(Merline 1) This was successful because Trump lived up to his expectations as a businessman to improve the economy even more than it was already improved. Also, Trump’s utilization of collective security on ISIS was a success. During Obama’s term he appeased ISIS, but during Trump’s campaign he vowed to change the situation with ISIS no matter the circumstances. Once in office, Trump began to bomb the area in order to stop ISIS from continuing their massacres in the Middle East and around the world. This was also successful for Trump because he used collective security in order to save lives and helped boost nationalism in America which it lacked before. Lastly, Trump’s refusal to accept “dreamers” is one failure of his current reign. President Trump is pushing to and has deported several undocumented immigrants who were brought to America illegally at a young age.(McHugh 1) This is unjust because, Trump cannot deny these people their right to live here when most of them have already been here for most of their lives and had no control over their breaking of the law. To conclude Trump has had many strategic successes for the US, but morally Trump is viewed as a failure due to his controversial perspectives on many

situations.