Success?

Trump has been successful in the past by churning & muddying waters to make people question what’s true and not. That doesn’t work in a pandemic when people are desperate for truth about something that could kill them & their families https://t.co/IPdg0iWLkZ

— amy walter (@amyewalter) July 14, 2020

I have to admit I don't understand comments like this.  Trump has been "successful"?  How, exactly?  By not being forcibly removed from office, something that has never happened in the history of the republic to any President?  By keeping the GOP Senate in line, when all they've done is approve his judicial appointments, and precious little else?  (Paul Ryan got his tax cut and promptly skipped town.  Was that a Trump success?  Did he even know what he signed?  Does Trump even understand the difference between a bill and an EO?  Signs point to "No.")

Success?  His approval rating as been underwater since a month after he took his hand off the Bible.  His disapproval rate has only been below 50% for a few days this April, undoubtedly thanks to the coronavirus (it was 56.1% on June 30, 2020; it has dropped back down to 55%.  Polls are all a matter of who you ask and when you ask them.).  And even his approval numbers have never been that strong:

It was always wrong, because the 40 or so percent of people who say they “approve” of @realDonaldTrump has always included people who “somewhat” approve (15-20%), in addition to those who “strongly approve” (20-25%). At least the “somewhat” folks can be picked off. https://t.co/zbSXc9whCA

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 29, 2020

He lost the House in 2018, and almost lost the Senate, too.  He's driven the country to the brink of disaster, and survived in office only because the Senate wouldn't even try his impeachment case (if they had no doubt one Senator would have voted to acquit, one enough to keep him from being removed from office, a la Andrew Johnson).  He's still in office only because of the Constitution, na his "success" is only his own claims of what he has accomplished.

At what point has he ever been "successful"?  At anything?