What have been Trump's successful policies/reforms? [duplicate]

Question

Honestly, I'm not personally inclined to support Trump because his rhetoric and misinformation tactics rub me the wrong the way, but I make a point to consume centered media as often as I can and I genuinely don't tend to hear much about any "good" Trump has done for the country while in office. Trump supporters that I talk to say this is because "the media is against/attacking Trump," and while and I can concede that maybe NPR isn't as centered as I thought, I think it may also be because he makes a good headline.

I think if I knew more about his policy, I might have a more nuanced/less emotionally charged view of him, which is very valuable to me. I honestly don't know how else to attempt to inform myself about this unbiasedly because of how politically/emotionally charged it can get.

1. Is the media underreporting Trump's success? or I am just listening to/reading left leaning media without knowing (NPR, Bloomberg, BBC Global)?

2. I would appreciate some bullet points about his economic policy, social reform, and foreign policy, but add anything you think is important. I intent to use this as a jumpstart for further research.

Answer 1

We can go straight to the horse's mouth (as it were) and look at the Trump administration's claims of accomplishment on whitehouse.gov. The page itself is amateurish — a set of bullet points with no structure, a lot of redundancy, and the occasional lapse into a carnival barker's tone ("SEE the great accomplishments!!!") — but seems like an accurate (if loose) reflection of the administration's achievements.

If I were to impose structure on it, I would break the list down into the following sections:

• Economic
  • Employment benchmarks for various minority groups
  • Increases in the manufacturing and retail sectors, and in exports, particularly in coal and gas
  • Tax cuts
• Immigration
  • Various travel bans, restrictions, and the beginnings of The Wall
• Foreign policy
  • Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord, Iran Deal, NAFTA (though reaching a new deal with Mexico in the last case)
  • Various tariffs on various governments for various reasons
• Domestic
  • Removal of various regulations (including and specifically the Clean Power Plan)
  • Securing an increased military budget
  • Appointment of numerous judges

All told, much of his term has been spent undoing the efforts of previous administrations (particularly the Obama administration), and advancing isolationist policy. Many of the things Trump claims as positive achievements were passive achievements — things that happened without any overt action or messaging on Trump's part, such as the economic benchmarks and increases — making it unclear whether they relate to Trump's administration or are ongoing reflections of Obama's recovery program from the 2008 economic collapse. In any case, most of these passive achievements have been gutted by Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, though naturally that isn't reflected on a partisan page of this sort.

Answer 2

Since @yannis removed my comments and wants me to post it as an answer, here it is:

1. Trump moved the United States Israeli embassy to Jerusalem and facilitated the first Israel-Arab peace deal in 26 years. He also replaced NAFTA - that is in the foreign policy. There are also deals with N. Korea and China but this is in progress. Same is with respect to Iran. ISIS is basically dead, which is also a success.

2. Trump signed a Criminal Justice Reform act - that is social policy.

3. Trump administration enabled a large Tax cut - that is economics policy. There are other things too: regulations, stock market growth, etc.