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One of the democratic strategies in the upcoming election is to claim that Trump will be a dictator and wants to be president for life. As it happens Trump was president before and was not able to keep his job as the voters tossed him out. During Trumps term he signed 220 executive orders and 71 were revoked by the courts. Trump promised to drain the swamp. During his time in office the federal work force grew from 1,879,000 to 1,944,000. Will he have better success this time. It is difficult to shrink the bureaucracy. They claim Trump is racist but during his term he had the lowest unemployment for Blacks, Hispanics and women in history. This is one of those rare instances where a presidential candidate can be evaluated on his record as president and not on what might happen. Trump has said he will deport illegal immigrants. Obama deported more than 2.5 million people through immigration orders, which doesn’t include the number of people who "self-deported" or were turned away and/or returned to their home country at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). According to governmental data, the Obama administration has deported more people than any other president's administration in history. Since over 7 million illegals have entered during Biden's term there will be many more deportations. The labor participation rate represents how many are working based on the number available for work and pre pandemic the rate was 63.3% and today it is 62.7%. During the Covid shut down 23 million people were put out of work and since then all have returned plus 2 million more but this did not keep up with the population growth which is why the labor participation rated did not increase. New jobs created under Biden were 2 million or about 50,000 per month.