I’d like to celebrate the accomplishments of President Trump’s first year. He has:

• Opened the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.

• Withdrawn the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

• Withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.

• Eviscerated ISIS.

• Reversed Barack Obama’s Cuba policy.

• Renegotiated with NATO.

• Allowed purchases of health insurance across state lines.

• Banned taxpayer-funded worldwide abortions and backed a 20-week U.S. abortion ban.

• Imposed a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying and a five-year ban on lobbying after leaving office.

• Imposed extreme vetting and a travel ban.

• Repealed the Obamacare mandate.

• Cut taxes on all Americans and businesses.

• Named Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

• Added North Korea as a state sponsor of terror.

• Removed climate change from the national security threat list.

• Rescinded the Dreamer program.

• Deployed the THAAD anti-missile defense system in South Korea to pressure China and threaten North Korea.

• Sanctioned North Korea.

• Fined China and Canada $2 billion for illegal trade practices.

• Imposed new sanctions on Iran and Venezuela.

• Signed a $250 billion trade deal with China.

• Reached a cease-fire with Russia in Syria.

• Decertified the Iran deal.

• Created 1.7 million jobs.

• Boosted business and consumer confidence: The stock market is at record highs; food stamp rolls are at seven-year lows, and unemployment is the lowest it’s been since 2000.

• Averted a Veterans Affairs health crisis.

• Appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

• Opposed the Obamacare provision forcing Christians to provide coverage for abortions.

• Boosted border security.

• Withdrawn the U.S. from the Global Compact on Migration and UNESCO.

He’s also fixing relationships with our allies, which Obama destroyed; renegotiating NAFTA and Obama’s disastrous trade agreement with South Korea; rebuilding the military; deporting illegal aliens; ending chain migration and the visa lottery; destroying MS-13 through arrests and deportations, and stacking federal courts with conservatives.

Crystal Martell

Sanford