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Impact Of Donald Trump On The Us Economy

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Donald Trump V.S. United States Economy
President-Elect Donald Trump will enter office January 20, 2017. He has many great plans and ideas on how to improve the United States economy drastically. Many economists have argued on how Trump’s plan will improve the United States, but can do some damage to the U.S. Currently, the United States is in twenty trillion dollars in debt. The main question is: Is Trump the right man for the job? Today, the focus would be on how Donald J. Trump’s plan can revamp the United States economy and what effect will it do overall. Donald Trump’s plan focal point is on cutting taxes and how that will result in many benefits towards the economy. “The president-elect has said he can get the economy to grow nearly …show more content…

First, he wants to “appoint the toughest and smallest trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.(Fernandez 1). Mr. Trump wants to understand and see where the American workers’ jobs are going. Furthermore, he wants to note why millions of Americans don’t have jobs and who are taking them away. To do that he has to first renegotiate NAFTA or get rid of it (Fernandez 2).What is NAFTA and what mess it is creating? Basically, a trade agreement between the USA, Mexico and Canada formed by Bill Clinton, and it has let many Americans without jobs because most of them have gone to Mexico. That is the main reason Donald J. Trump hates this agreement and how it has destroyed the United States economy to bits and pieces. Additionally, what makes Trump fierce is that China has been stealing American trade secrets for many years. He clearly stated, “If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its theft of American trade secrets, I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs consistent with Section 201 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962” (Fernandez 3). Clearly, this shows that Trump is serious about his job and doesn’t care if he is dealing with China. China has been stealing all our trade secrets and Barack Obama didn’t do anything about it. In brief, this clearly shows that our future President has the characteristics and personality of a true leader that is ready for this great battle.
Our economy has gone down hill since Barack Obama stepped into office in the year of 2008. Our newly elected president, Donald J. Trump, has shown through his economic plan that he will bring back jobs and cut taxes drastically for everyone. In all, these major changes towards our economy will make America great

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