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JohnStark - My attempt at refuting some of your points. Always open for discussion and debate. I am always learning.

record low unemployment -

Yes, unemployment is at the lowest rate since December 2000. At that time, wages were rising at +4.3% year over year, compared to just +2.6% year over year today. Wages are barely increasing while the cost of living is going up by 2-2.5% per year. The reason why people are picking up side jobs is because while they do have a job, it doesn’t pay enough to meet a standard living wage. Down side to the low unemployment.

a vast reduction in food stamps –

A high percentage of food stamp recipients were already employed. Programs like SNAP already had a stringent work requirement. Now, if someone works 5 hours over they stand to lose their benefit entirely. Why were they on assistance? Because they have a wage gap with no cost of living adjustments.

wage growth –

From all the sources I checked, wage growth is slow in 2018 despite a lower unemployment rate. Low and middle haven’t really budged. Today’s real average wage has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. What wage gains there have been are going to the highest earners. The sluggish and uneven wage growth has been pointed to as a key factor to the income inequality seen recently in the US.

fewer regulations –

What Trump has done is stalled the regulatory system. It isn’t helping government run smoother, it is causing it to flow as a trickle. There aren’t new regulations being put up in place and the old ones have been rolled back so what do you have? A free for all? Who is running the show? The old guys with the money who don’t care about you and me? A society without rules and regulations is bound to fail. Do we really want to roll back to the 1960’s? Scary.

lower taxes on those who pay taxes –

According to a study that came out 10/17/18, one of the authors, Carl Davis, stated: “The 50-state analysis by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the lower one's income, the higher the effective overall state and local tax rate. The study includes sales taxes, excise taxes, user fees and income taxes. In fact, states which boast low income taxes are often the most likely to have systems that end up shifting the fiscal burden to lower-income residents.”

Nationally, the people in the bottom 20 percent of earners face a state and local tax rate that is 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households, the study said. That does not mean lower-income people pay more in absolute dollars, only that their effective tax rates are higher. The national average effective state and local tax rate is 11.4 percent for the bottom quintile of taxpayers, compared to 7.4 percent for the top 1 percent of income earners, the study said.

a stock market that is still 26% higher than when the president was elected -

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 26% from Trump’s first day in office through yesterday’s close. That is short of the 38% increase seen over a comparable period in the Obama presidency.

stability on the Korean peninsula –

If this works in the long run and doesn’t backfire, Kudos to the Administration. Please forgive me if I chose not to put all my eggs into crazy Kim Jong Il’s basket.

I can't find it in me to support Trump or his administration. I do not find him to be someone admirable, honest, ethical or even intelligent. I cannot respect someone who says and does the things he does on a daily basis. I don't think his policies are going to benefit any of us in the long run. Maybe I will have a different opinion when 2020 rolls around but as of right now, I am embarrassed by the POTUS.