Will Donald Trump make America great?
Asif
Haroon Raja
Donald
J Trumpsurprise victory has divided the American society. He took over the
reins of power from outgoing President Barack Obama as the 45th President of
USA on January 20, 2017. His swearing-in ceremony was largely attended, but 95%
of them were Whites. Noisy protests by the under privileged took place in
Washington during the ceremony and many died in clashes with the police. The
Women March staged by 4-5 million protestorsin various cities of the US and
Europe on January 21 was unprecedented and became the largest single-day
protest in American history.
The
other event that captured headlines was Trump’s censure of media during his
visit to CIA HQ, complaining that it had wrongly portrayed that the audience on
Obama’s inauguration ceremony in 2009 was much larger than Trump’s in 2017.
Trump boasted that 31 million people watched his ceremony but forgot that 38
million people had viewed Obama’s inauguration. His White House Press Secretary
Spicer further berated the media on this account and vowed to fight hostile
media tooth and nail.
Unlike
his predecessors who had a smooth start, he is already drenched in
controversies and faced with resistance from multiple quarters. Hacking of
election results by Russia will haunt him till such time it has been cleared by
a high powered inquest commission. On January 23, Trump faced a lawsuit from
former White House ethics lawyers, accusing him of violating the US
Constitution by accepting payments to his businesses from foreign governments.
Social media poked fun when he slow danced with his wife Melania at Liberty Ball,
saying it was the most awkward ever.
Taking
a cue from his belligerent demeanor and profile of his team members, it is a
clear cut indication that the new administration will not digest dissent and
criticism and media as well as the ones in opposition would be up for difficult
times ahead and so will be the freedom of speech and fundamental rights that
are of high value in USA for the last 200 years. Use of bullying tactics to
stifle dissent and to tame the detractors cannot be ruled out.
Trump has set for himself
ambitious goals. The first executive order issued by Trump after taking his
oath at the Capitol Hill was to slash the much-trumped up Obama’s Healthcare
Plan. He ordered scaling back Affordable Care Act.It has evoked a huge backlash
by the millions of have-nots in America who had benefitted from this scheme.
In his bid to return Israel’s
favor of helping him in winning the election and to earn its goodwill,he has
expressed his resolve to shift the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and
thus validate Israeli claim of making the holy city as its capital. This will
be in violation of the US brokered Oslo Accord in 1992 in which the two-state
policy in return for peace envisaged Palestinian State comprising of Gaza Strip
and West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital. Encouraged by Trump’s
assurance that Israel need not worry once he came to power, and that things
will be done as per its wishes, Israel has given a go-ahead signal to build hundreds
of more settlement homes in East Jerusalem.There is bound to be a severe
backlash in the Muslim world, EU and the UN if this transfer takes place. Trump
is determined to go an extra mile to please Israel by further debilitating
Muslim States under the garb of Islamic radicalism that are still coming in the
way of establishment of Greater Israel.
His
unabashed aversion towards immigrants and the Muslims as well as Mexico and Cuba
will run counter to Obama’s policy of reconciliation.11.4 million illegal immigrants residing in 50 States of USA and
Chinese exporters are worried over Trump’s protectionist trade policy. Japan
must also be concerned after Trump’s assertion that it should pay for its
defence needs.
George
W. Bush and Obama have already antagonized the Muslim world by confining
terrorism to Muslim world only, destroying several Muslim countries and killing
over 4 million Muslims. Trump’s slogan of eradicating Islamic radicalism from
the face of the earth and ordering continuation of war in Afghanistan gives an
insight to his prejudiced mindset and shows his acute hatred against Islam and
the Muslims. These utterances seem to be a prelude to the launching of
Crusade-2, which once exercised, will add fuel to fire and will not only
heighten radicalism and terrorism but also further exacerbate the relations
between Muslim States and the US and may give practical shape to Huntington’s
idea of clash between Islam and Christianity. It will lead to frightening
consequences particularly when so many countries are laced with nuclear and
chemical weapons and there is mushroom growth of ideologically motivated
extremist groups and there are multiple flashpoints.
Trump nurtures a disposition which
is shorn of forbearance and empathy. He is never shy or short of words while
berating his disparagers and uses foul language to debase them. Trump had
displayed his belligerent, boisterous and wayward tendencies to the fullest
during the presidential campaign and is sticking to those incongruities after
his election. Under the slogan of making America Great again, he is threatening
to clip the wings of unruly media, destroy Obamacare, intimidate his opponents,
expel undocumented immigrants of USA and frame harsh rules for those wanting to
settle down in the US and thus create 25 million jobs for the whites. He has
made up his mind to force American entrepreneurs and industrialists/business
tycoons to wrap up their industrial/business enterprises abroad. To this end,
he has pledged to impose a heavy border tax if they move their factories
outside USA.He has doled out incentives by way of lowering corporate taxes from
35% to 15-20% and slash regulations.
China is the largest trading
partner of USA with $598 billion trade. The US goods trade deficit with China
stood at $536 billion in 2015.While criticizing China’s trade policies, Trump
has threatened to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports. This may set off
a trade war between USA and China. He has offended China by re-inventing
Two-China policy and hobnobbing with Taiwan.However, he is all smiles towards
Putin and has so far given friendly gestures.
He has also expressed his distaste
for Europe and termed NATO as obsolete and a white elephant. He has urged
France and Germany to follow suit of UK and to quit EU. Senior members of EU
and business community are nervous and contemplating a rough ride under Trump. To
counter Trump’s protectionist policy, Germany is thinking of crafting a new
economic policy geared toward China.
Trump is determined to build a
wall between Mexico and USA and has issued a directive to pullout of 12-nation
Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which had been the main economic pillar of
Obama administration’s pivot to Asia-Pacific in the face of fast rising China.
It has set off alarm bells among Japan, Australia and other members of TPP. It
will make the plan to shift the strategic pivot of USA from the Middle East to
Asia-Pacific and to encircle China and curtail its economic growth extremely
difficult. During election campaign, he had threatened to tear off the Iran-US
nuclear deal. If he does so, Iran will hasten to join the Russia-China nexus in
which Pakistan is also figuring out.
The New World Order is a Zionist
plan and war on terror was initiated under fake charges at the behest of
neocons and Zionists to steal the resources of Muslim world. The war on terror
coupled with proxy wars and intervention in other countries didn’t enrich the
US kitty but has sunk the country in a debt of $20 trillion and dented the
prestige of sole super power. The US is trailing behind Europe providing social
security and healthcare. Its economic policy based on capitalism which is
wholly pro-rich has made the 1% Americans filthy rich, and the rest poor. 50,000
industries are closed. 50% of the federal budget is spent on defence. USA has
800 military bases in 150 countries. The gun culture and lax laws take 20,000
lives of Americans annually.
Interventionist policy,
maintenance of military bases all over the globe and detention centres, covert
operations, spy war, psychological operations, cyber war, space war, nuclear
and missile war, research & development programs, and NATO are some of the
white elephants draining the American wealth. The US also funds the UN, IMF,
World Bank, ICJ and some other world bodies. Military industrial complex, avaricious
American corporates, tycoons, security contractorsare wolfing the resources of
the country and the world. The American Jews are controlling Federal Reserve
Bank and all other banks, business enterprises, media houses, think tanks,
educational institutes, as well as the Congress. Israel deprives the US kitty
of $ 5 billion annually, besides giving a bad name to USA. India is another
guzzler with 2.2 million Indian immigrants in USA, most of them occupying high
posts and monopolizing IT industry and doing big business. These are the
entities that have taken the shine and gloss out of USA and put it under colossal
debt. Getting rid of them will make USA great again and not by recalling
industrialists or preventing them from doing business abroad, or kicking out
immigrants.Trump has a pro-rich agenda and besides him all his cabinet
ministers are millionaires who have no idea about the pangs of poverty and
deprivation. He is therefore not likely to touch any of the real destroyers of
the US economic health and élan and as such hope of making America great again
will be illusory.
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