Trump Fulfilling Campaign Promise to ‘Make America Great Again,’ Says Shapiro

The “path to greatness is long, but we're heading in the right direction” under President Donald Trump, concluded CTA President Gary Shapiro in an Aug. 7 Investor’s Business Daily commentary piece. Shapiro hears the anti-Trump “misgivings” of his tech industry colleagues, but “by objective measures, Trump is fulfilling his famous campaign promise to ‘Make America Great Again,’" he said. Shapiro cited eight metrics as evidence “that we are on the right track” under Trump, including his observation that “the stock market continues to break records.” The “record-high” Nasdaq is up 18 percent this year, the S&P 500's tech sector index “hit a record high not seen since its bubble in 2000" and the Dow Jones industrial average “continues to enjoy new highs,” Shapiro said. The article was published a day before Trump’s “fire and fury” remarks on North Korea caused the markets to tumble. Trump’s “newsworthy tweets” and his other daily controversies “may be too much fodder for the media to resist,” he said. “But get past the bravado, the drama and the trivialities -- the fact is that under President Trump, Americans are safer and more prosperous than at any time in the past decade.” Shapiro, an early supporter of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for the Republican presidential nomination (see 1512230039), once declared candidate Trump “unfit” to be president (see 1606170031) and ultimately endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton three weeks before the November election (see 1610150001).