Trump’s first year in office was deplorable: Journalist

US President Donald Trump’s first year in the White House was "deplorable," according to Stephen Lendman, a journalist, writer and political analyst based in Chicago.

Lendman made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday, when Trump is celebrating his one year in office.

Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017, following his astonishing election victory against the Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in the November 8, 2016 election.

“He broke every major promise he made for ordinary Americans. In his inaugural address a year ago today he pledged that he would be the president of all Americans, not just some of them,” Lendman said.

“But he has just done the opposite of that. He has been the president exclusively for America’s privileged class, for Wall Street, for war mongers, for big oil. This is what he has done in his first year in office, showing what he will continue to be doing for the rest of his term would be more of the same,” he added.  

“’The government in Washington is now going back to the people,’ that’s what he said he year ago. Oh, the people he meant were the privileged class in Washington, not everybody else. Ordinary people are left out. And that’s exactly the way he has governed. Horribly. Along with inheriting Obama’s wars and escalating them, he’s waging multiple wars of aggression,” the analyst stated.

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“He promised all sorts of things and negotiations with Russia. He’s reneged on them, which has got Russia very, very angry,” Lendman said.

“He wants to renege on the Iran nuclear deal, [which has] the whole world’s support except for neocons in his administration. This goes on and on, with one policy after another,” he said.

“His tax cuts. He calls it a middle class miracle. I call it accurately a middle class nightmare, and the lower class nightmare.  Nightmare for everybody in America except for corporate predators and the nation’s super rich,” the commentator said.

“Trump’s first year in office was deplorable. He has managed to do the impossible. He’s exceeded the worst of all of his predecessors. Throughout the history of America, none has been worst than Trump so far. And I don’t him to improve in the years ahead,” Lendman concluded.