What's this “making America great again”, anyhow?

Donald Trump's campaign slogan is “Make America great again”. This suggests that there are enough things going wrong with the US that it isn't great. Indeed, by spreading myriad lies about the state of the union Trump tries to depict the US as a failure, with the democrats — and President Obama in particular — to blame. And of course Trump presents himself as a kind of messiah who will make everything OK again, or rather: great again. This message catches on by a part of the population, namely the less educated, less informed, and more gullible.

But are things really as gloomy as Trump would like them to be? It appears that they are not. US Census data  show the following:

• Real median incomes in 2015 for family households ($72,165) and nonfamily households ($33,805) increased 5.3 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively, from their 2014 medians. This is the first annual increase in median household income for family households since 2007.
• The 2015 real median earnings of men and women who worked full time, year-round between 2014 and 2015 increased 1.5 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively. This is the first significant annual increase in median earnings for men and women since 2009.
• The poverty rate for families and the number of families in poverty were 10.4 percent and 8.6 million in 2015, a decrease from 11.6 percent and 9.5 million families in 2014.
• The Current Population Survey shows that the percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2015 was 90.9 percent, higher than the rate in 2014 (89.6 percent).
• The uninsured rate decreased between 2014 and 2015 by 1.3 percentage points. In 2015, the percentage of people without health insurance coverage for the entire calendar year was 9.1 percent, or 29.0 million, lower than the rate and number of uninsured in 2014 (10.4 percent or 33.0 million).

In summary, more Americans are working under Obama. Incomes are rising under Obama. Poverty is declining under Obama. Uninsured rates are falling under Obama. The Obama administration is a huge success, not the failure Trump wants it to be. That explains that approval rates for Obama are nearing 60%.

So when the Trump campaign depicts a Hillary Clinton administration as a third Obama administration, it's not really a threat, but more like an endorsement.

What does Trump have to offer?

Trump talks about “Make America great again” all the time, but he doesn't say how he's gonna do this concretely. And that makes sense: America seems to be great already. Trump never addressed social issues like poverty or health insurance, because he's not interested in those. Trump is only interested in one thing: make Trump great again. Trump is arguably the most greedy person in the US. He claims to have donated more than $100 million to charity over the last five years, but when journalists at the Washington Post called 326 charities  with connections to Trump, asking if they had received a gift of the nominee's own money, between 2008 and May 2016 they found just one gift, worth less than $10,000.

In January 2016 Trump held a fundraiser for veterans, which he claimed raised $6 million, and he would add $1 million of his own money. They didn't raise $6 million, as Trump claimed, and he didn't make the personal contribution either.

The thing is, Trump is so greedy, and self-obsessed that he would never give away a single dollar, and always try to get more money for himself. You can't expect any social feelings from the psychopath and narcissist that Trump is, and that makes him unfit for the job of POTUS. (There are myriad other arguments.)

Trump is a phony and a fraud.