 Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher, civile defense and today I want to talk about former president Donald Trump So I've been thinking about this for weeks now and I thought it was time to finally kind of put put some pen to paper here, so I Do not think that Donald Trump was at the end of the day a net positive for America or for Liberty particularly from from a Liberty-minded Perspective and I think that those of us who consider ourselves on the right-hand side of things Need to need to really take a look in the mirror about that full disclosure. I did vote for Trump at the second time around Because I certainly thought he was better than the alternative But as I've thought about it since then I've thought What what did Trump really do for us for you want to make America great again? What did he really do to that end? And and I think the answer is he was a net negative in in that department So I have a list here and I'm gonna walk through with it So the two big positives I could think was that he did do some deregulation and that is in various Industries that honestly I don't participate in and don't know too much about but I do know that he did do some Deregulation here and there so okay, I mean that's that's good You know, that's less government is good. I guess and then expose the bias of the media Which I thought that was that was something he certainly did for me. I would admit that You know, I came into the Trump presidency being like yes, of course the media is biased but you know and by the end I'm like, oh god like they're they're off the deep end insane and I wasn't even really consider myself a huge Trump guy didn't vote for him the first time around and That that was a big thing that he certainly exposed So those were the two net positives out of the Trump presidency that I could that I could think And then I started thinking of what know where the negatives and I had a much longer list First of all, he banned bump stocks Donald Trump passed more gun control or enacted more gun control didn't pass anything Inacted more gun control than Barack Obama He didn't work on controlling Barack Obama. He directed the ATF to reinterpret a law First of all, the ATF doesn't interpret laws that that's not they're part of the executive branch The executive branch doesn't interpret laws. That's part of the judicial branch Okay, so I don't know how you can as an executive direct the executive agency in order to do that He was also very for red flag laws. I don't have that on here But there's multiple clips of Trump talking about confiscating guns first and then going to court All complete another garbage, okay? Violates multiple constitutional amendments, okay? So he enacted more gun control than Barack Obama and somehow still the NRA supports him and we're on his side and all This garbage and I'm like, whoa, wait a second here. Let's just look at the facts. So that that's a big one Debt he came in complaining about Barack Obama's debt Which was ludicrous and then proceeded to just tack on more. I think I all said and done it was another Seven trillion he added on during his time. I could be wrong about that someone can look up the exact number But it was a lot, okay? 90 billion dollars 900 billion dollars stymie. So At the end on his way out the door. He signed this 900 billion dollar pork bill after getting on TV and talking about how How much garbage it was which it was garbage and saying he wasn't gonna sign it because it sends all these millions of dollars to other Countries and that's ridiculous and that's not putting America first and then he folds and signs it One of the most garbage bills that I know of in my adult life and he signs it on his way out the door Snowden Assange on his way out the door. He had another opportunity to pardon Snowden and pardon Assange. Did he know? Why not? Why not? Why didn't he do that? Snowden who's by the way been proven 100% correct guys an American hero Obamacare didn't repeal Obamacare now. I will be honest here. He did try And and there was some effort that was put out there and John McCain may he never rest in peace I ended up voting against it and and I remember how that went So that one's not 100% in Trump's camp, but that was a problem National carry reciprocity or the hearing act, you know when the Republicans first took control back in 2016 They were gonna pass national carry reciprocity and and they were gonna get that hearing act Which would make suppressors take them off the NFA item list and they were gonna they were gonna do those things Did any of that ever happen? No No, it didn't They did nothing in fact for those two years. They talked about lots of stuff They're gonna do but then when it came time for push to shove the Republicans did nothing To advance your individual liberty for those two years. They control Think about that. They didn't do anything to actually make your life better or to advance your liberty tobacco age of 21 not only did President Trump sign a bill that raised the national age of to buy tobacco to 21 but he bragged about it on Twitter because I remember it Imagine imagine being 20 years old and having tens of thousands of dollars of school debt and Working full-time put yourself through college and being in college and being an adult But you can't go down to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes It's the stupidest thing ever so at the end of the day again You got to remember the perspective I'm coming from here is liberty and at the end of the day Donald Trump did not do anything to actually protect or Expand individual liberty. In fact, he did the exact opposite Opposite and he curtailed liberty in this country So it was a net loss when you're measuring it on that scale This isn't a Republican or a Democrat thing for me Personal liberty and large government are incompatible One cannot suffer the other to live Okay, and the larger the government gets the smaller your personal liberty is gonna get and the larger your personal liberty is The smaller the government's gonna have to be and at this point We are on a trajectory where the government will just grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow And it has been that way since the boomers have been in charge Thank you for ruining America. So the big problem is that Because nobody thinks it's a problem that the government is huge and spends trillions of dollars into debt and all these other things No one thinks it's a problem anymore There's a couple John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness voices speaking against the growth of government and God bless them But by and large all of the politicians are okay with or bought into the idea that Government is massive and that's an okay thing to be it's okay to do all this stuff and sign these huge bills that you Don't necessarily read and that are you know 5,000 pages and you have 24 hours and look at it before you vote on it and all this stuff That's totally okay And all the while while that golem of government grows your personal liberty is is what's paying the price and Eventually we're gonna do that to a point where you don't you don't have personal liberty. So At the end of the day, I think Trump was a net loss I certainly wish he was present now over over Biden, but that's a different discussion It's a net loss. It's a net loss because He and and his crew did not value individual liberty and finding a politician who does do that these days Again, it's extremely rare as long as we Keep growing the government We will keep shrinking liberty Show me how those are compatible show me. I would love to see that I love liberty It's the reason I love living in this country and if we have any hope of preserving it We need to stop Growing the government as Ronald Reagan once said another not friend of personal liberty Said that the the nine most scary the sign scariest the nine most dangerous words in the English language Were I'm from the government and I'm here to help Do brave deeds and endure