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Trump Tracker, Part 1: Grading the President's Record On: The Economy

President Trump speaks about the economy while delivering remarks on the South Lawn of the White House on July 27. [Reuters/Carlos Barria]

By    |   Tuesday, 07 August 2018 05:37 PM EDT

The mainstream media tend to fixate on President Trump’s penchant for controversial tweets, but presidential legacies are built on actions rather than words.

President Reagan, for example, is certainly remembered for his appeal to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in Berlin. But Reagan’s actual legacy rests on a series of actions -- a rapid military build-up, arms-control talks, and Star Wars -- that exposed the Soviet system as a sclerotic, dysfunctional empire ready to implode. And implode it did.

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The mainstream media tend to fixate on President Trump's penchant for controversial tweets, but presidential legacies are built on actions rather than words.President Reagan, for example, is certainly remembered for his appeal to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear...
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