After all, what did Trump accomplish in the last four years?

He certainly did not fulfill his campaign promise to end America's forever wars. With his upcoming ignominious departure from the White House, he has to acknowledge the obvious: The Pentagon's and CIA's forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue, along with their forever wars in Yemen, Syria, Somalia, and elsewhere.

Trump could have ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from those countries the day he took office four years ago. He didn't. Instead, he fell captive to the power of the Pentagon, surrounding himself with generals and other advocates of empire and foreign interventionism.

Moreover, Trump did his best to expand America's forever wars, with his never-ceasing attempt to provoke Iran into initiating a war with the United States.

He also fell victim to the CIA's demand not to release its long-secret records relating to the Kennedy assassination, embracing the CIA's ludicrous view that "national security" would be jeopardized if Americans were to see those records.

While Trump has pardoned or granted clemency to a few victims of the federal war on drugs, he could have ordered a list of all non-violent drug offenders in the federal system on the day he took office. He could then have spent the last four years pardoning all of them. He didn't.