Talk:Donald Trump achievements: 2016 election and transition

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Meeting with Alex Jones

December 2015 - Trump met with Alex Jones, becoming, after his election, the first President-elect to have met with Alex Jones.[14] --Unsigned comment, most likely by User:1nuggets

What an honor that must've been, meeting with Alex Jones.
It's stiil unclear wheather the meeting took place in Dec 2015 or Nov 2016, or if the two have ever met in person at all. RobS#NeverHillary 22:15, 5 January 2017 (EST)
no they did meet. that's what Alex Jones article says. --Unsigned comment, most likely by User:1nuggets
Yah, but in Transition like the subheading says or pre-election in Dec 2015? RobS#NeverHillary 09:31, 6 January 2017 (EST)

Article I Sec.5

Article I Sec 5 of the Constitution states. Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, traditionally voted upon at the start of each new Congress. Trump interfered with proceedings of the House after a majority voted on ethics reform. I would not refer to this as being "right". Substantively, the ethics rule change was to stop accepting anonymous claims by House members to open an investigation, which members of both parties approve of (under House rules only House members can bring charges against other members). IMO, Trump most definitely was not "right" for playing into the hands of the liberal media and partisan Democrats to criticize House Republicans and Leadership. You can leave it in as an accomplishment, but interfering in Congressional business mandated by Constitutional law, thwarting badly needed ethics reform, and pandering to the liberal media, I wouldn't call "right". RobSMake Exxon Great Again 10:05, 29 January 2017 (EST)

I fixed it because I've seen conservatives present different views on this issue. --1990'sguy (talk) 16:45, 29 January 2017 (EST)

End of Fox News "monopoly" on conservative media

This seems like a significant achievement. However, I would like to add this only when I get more sources, rather than just these two left-of-center MSM sources. --1990'sguy (talk) 00:37, 27 July 2017 (EDT)

Also, even Obama admitted that Breitbart played a big role in the election with shifting the media narrative.[1][2] --1990'sguy (talk) 23:06, 3 November 2017 (EDT)

Michael Anton

I added the appointment of Micheal Anton to the article because he seemed like a strong conservative. However, in this article I read after it was announced he would resign, it is reported he just aligned with whoever was the NSC, despite his pro-Trump advocacy before the election. He took conservative positions when Flynn was NSA, but he shifted leftward when McMaster became NSA. Maybe he shouldn't be included here as a conservative Trump appointment (though this does not change the fact that he was conservative when first hired)? Either way, I did realize that he did not hold a very high position in the administration. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:20, 8 April 2018 (EDT)

Here's another article that also argues (per Sebastian Gorka) that Anton turned against the MAGA agenda for his own personal gain: [3] Anton doesn't seem like someone we should hold up as an example of conservatism, nor does he seem to have been a force for conservative policies. But at the same time, when he was first hired, he seemed like a strong conservative, and he had written what seems like a pretty strong defense of Trump's policies. --1990'sguy (talk) 11:21, 9 April 2018 (EDT)
Here's yet another article on this: [4] I will remove the mention of Anton, since I think it's clear that he wasn't as conservative as thought. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:27, 9 April 2018 (EDT)
I removed it. Here's the diff, for future reference: [5] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:29, 9 April 2018 (EDT)
Out of fairness, here is an interview Anton did very recently where he appears to still support many conservative views: [6] --1990'sguy (talk) 11:11, 16 April 2018 (EDT)
This article is obviously from a source that doesn't hold conservative views highly (an understatement), but it's still interesting to read about Anton: [7] --1990'sguy (talk) 20:15, 1 June 2018 (EDT)
These articles show that Anton is still very conservative: [8][9] I'll probably keep him out of the article, but there's actually a decent case for re-adding him. --1990'sguy (talk) 20:13, 8 July 2018 (EDT)
Another great article by Anton: [10] I'm still undecided on whether to re-add his name or not, since these articles are separate from his time at the White House. --1990'sguy (talk) 23:01, 27 July 2018 (EDT)
After seeing a good Epoch Times article on Anton (which I added), I re-added Anton's mention to the article. --1990'sguy (talk) 10:37, 25 March 2019 (EDT)

Potential good images

These images might be good to use on this page (or any other page), though I cannot find any room for them:

--1990'sguy (talk) 23:54, 19 May 2018 (EDT)

Here's another potentially good image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_(29347022846).jpg --1990'sguy (talk) 12:19, 16 October 2019 (EDT)

Interesting sources

This book, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump, (as the title shows) seems overly obsessed with race, though it seems like a somewhat interesting book on this general topic: [11] --1990'sguy (talk) 00:27, 21 April 2019 (EDT)

Somewhat interesting article on Trump's 2016 GOP national convention speech: [12] This might just be relatively minor, but it might be worth briefly mentioning the speech. --1990'sguy (talk) 00:19, 29 July 2019 (EDT)

Wealthy/blue-collar voter shift

Here are some potentially useful articles related to a shift in voting patterns among wealthy voters: 1,2,3,4 Also, I remember seeing a good article shortly after the 2016 election, possibly from NBC or CNBC, but possibly from another source, directly discussing how wealthy voters shifted significantly toward Clinton and vice versa for Trump -- but I can't find it anymore. If anyone can find it, that would be very helpful. --1990'sguy (talk) 17:05, 2 October 2019 (EDT)

This article has a similar graph showing the shift in wealthy voters toward Democrats, except that it ends at 2012 (the one I was looking for showed a large shift just between 2012 and 2016). This article, about fundraising between Trump and Clinton among billionaires, might be useful. --1990'sguy (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2019 (EDT)
This source is obviously long after 2016 (after 2018, looking toward 2020), but it notes how doctors are moving strongly toward the Democrat Party (obviously not great for the GOP, but consistent with the shift toward the GOP being a blue-collar party and the Dems being the party of the wealthy: [13] --1990'sguy (talk) 22:12, 6 October 2019 (EDT)
This article also focuses on 2018, but it says Democrats are now the party of the rich: [14] --1990'sguy (talk) 19:51, 24 November 2019 (EST)
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