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In reply to the discussion: "He's a despicable human being, but he's done great things for the country. I [View all]Caliman73
(11,738 posts)In my experience reporters rarely follow up with that question. The answer is almost always some gibberish about "made America great" or something stupid and vague. No follow up like what John Fugelsang does on his show... "Give me a policy that Trump has pushed through that shows he is doing well..." or something to that effect. The callers almost always respond with, "that's a gotcha question". Seriously though, it is just a question to see what specifically he has done. If you ask me what President Obama did that made things better, I would have said at least one thing was when he changed the rules for financial advisers to specifically have to work for the benefit of the investor and not their own interests. That was maybe a small change, but it made it so that the financial industry could not so easily try to trick people out of their money. Of course the ACA was a major policy though not perfect, it provided access to healthcare to people who could not afford it. It also made it so people with pre-existing conditions could not be priced out of healthcare.
Again, reporters often fail at basic follow up.