“May you live in interesting times; may you find what you are looking for.”
With the presidential inauguration just days away, the second part of this Chinese proverb highlights the most disconcerting part of our recent election. Trump’s win implies that over half of our compatriots were truly looking for this kind of change, and personally I find that quite troubling. Not only because my friends who are illegal immigrants, females who face losing their current reproductive rights, or LGBT face an – to say the least – uncertain future; what is most worrying to me is how Trump found himself waiting to be sworn into the most powerful appointment in the free world. His long road to the oval office began decades ago, with the globalization of our
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The intolerant messages that we have been hearing for the past months did not appear out of thin air, they are merely the realization of years of declining job prospects and macroeconomic shifts in our country. Millions of Americans have seen their jobs slip away, either disappearing overseas or simply evaporating – the product of a shifting economy – and they need someone to blame. Our current economic conditions have made it is as easy to say “let’s bring back the high paying industrial jobs of the last century” as it is to wrongly lay blame on a particular ethnic or racial group for the misfortune of another. However, neither will lead to the return of this oft-romanticized age and the jobs that defined …show more content…
Although Americans may hold differing opinions on what Trump’s America will look like, there is one common element lingering within all of our hopes and fears: uncertainty. Uncertainty regarding whether or not he will carry out his campaign promises, uncertainty relating to possible alterations to current social legislation, but chiefly, uncertainty about whether the America we live in today will even vaguely resemble the country left to us in four years with the conclusion of the Trump
As expected trump won all the solid red states and major swing states like Texas and Ohio. Such support was adequate to swamp Clinton's support among nonwhite voters in states like Florida and North Carolina, and fueled him to his stunning bombshell triumphs in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. In spite of an absence of political experience deep down inside I thought Donald Trump would come out on top in the US presidential decisions do to the fact all the craziness that was going on with Hillary. Obviously regardless of a progression of contentions his message resounded with a colossal number of American voters in key states, and uncovered profound anarchistic outrage and discontent. Donald Trump won Texas on the quality of enormous edges with white and
Being intentionally simple, repetitive, self-promoting, and self-prophesizing worked to get Donald Trump elected President of the United States. To win the respect they long for and deserve as well as open the eyes of the public to the current plight of public education in the United States, it would be wise for public school educators to draw on the Trump formula. If teachers and school administrators used the formula relentlessly to get their message across, there is no reason why it shouldn’t work for them as well.
“Republican and Democratic presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have another chance to edge closer to their respective parties' nominations Tuesday as voters go to the polls in the delegate-rich New York primary”.”Pre-primary polls show Trump and Clinton holding comfortable leads, but winning alone is not necessarily enough. Clinton will want a convincing victory to halt rival Bernie Sanders' winning streak and blunt his claims of "momentum" in the Democratic race.”Trump needs to garner more than 50 percent of the statewide vote to have a shot at taking home all 95 of New York’s delegates. Trump has been campaigning heavily in the state with an eye toward that goal, and most recent polls shows him, holding a huge double-digit
Our president strikes again when it comes to importing and exporting goods to/from the United States. In a news article I found they talked about President Trumps and a potential trade war with China and what it may look like. A trade war would mean abandoning an institution that recognizes that countries are stronger when they work together. President Trump action might possible start a trade war with China according to a statement from economist.com when they stated “Mr. Trump might, with some justification, accuse China of boosting its economy with subsidies and flooding some American markets with cheap imports”.
One day, a simple man firmly stood up for his rights, fro freedom; stood up for his community, opened his heart to an entire nation and showed his dream: “I have a dream!"-Dr. Martin Luther King exclaimed down the symbolic shadow of a man whose dream was similar, to achieve one main goal, a united country, a real United States of America. Today, after almost 60 years, this dream is in danger due to a man that wants to create barriers between this great nation and the entire world, the magnate Donald Trump. I’m inclined to believe that the decisions of the Americans this 8th of November will not affect only their country, all humanity. “Imagine the images on the screen flashed around the world as we were dragging parents away from their children,
As you are keenly aware, on November 9th, 2016, Mr. Trump was elected the 45th President-Elect of the United States of America, and on January 20th, 2017 was sworn in for a four year term as the 45th President of the United States. With Republican majorities in both the United States House of Representatives as well as the United States Senate, the President has laid out a strong agenda on everything from immigration and national security to trade and regulatory reform. While this bold plan of action is not perfect, and there may potentially be areas where I disagree with my colleagues and the President, it is a plan that I am enthusiastic to delve into as our unified Republican government gets to work on behalf of the American people.
I view Trump as a businessman who knows how to build a successful empire, is a great negotiator, and if elected, stands
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday tempered some of his most extreme campaign promises, dropping his vow to jail Hillary Clinton, expressing doubt about the value of torturing terrorism suspects and pledging to have an open mind about climate change.
Prior to the shock outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the general consensus among the American left was that a Trump presidency meant total apocalypse. Yet here we are, just over a year later and we are still alive. The streets aren’t on fire, CNN is still on the air, and the Trail of Tears 2.0: Undocumented Immigrants Edition—is nowhere to be found. So maybe we all got a little carried away. Perhaps we’re in the clear, right?
Donald Trump has made many people confused as to why he said a certain phrase. His latest is claiming that second amendment people could stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president. The second amendment is debated constantly in politics, and many Americans are passionate about the amendment that gives them the right to bear arms. Most democrats including Hillary Clinton are opposed to the amendment, and want to limit the use of guns in the United States. The supreme court has priorly ruled in United States v. Cruikshank that the right belongs to individuals as well as militias. Therefore, the only way to completely overturn this ruling would be with an amendment, which would be extremely difficult to accomplish. Donald Trump
President Trump’s travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries is very controversial among some voters, yet six out of ten voters support this ban. In a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, 60% of the respondents support the State Department’s new guidelines, while 28% the respondents oppose the new guidelines. This poll was conducted with 1,989 registered voters on June 29-30, and the poll has a margin of error of two percent.
Donald Trump’s Inaugural Speech has an upbeat and victorious setting, with a very proud context throughout. All of these things are to be expected, of course, as the man was in the process of becoming the 45th president of the United States after what felt like an election season that would never end. The primary message in President Trump’s speech was that the country was about to change. He claimed that the country was about to go back to the people, rather than stay with the politicians. Donald Trump offers this as an argument, and as we learned in class, we make arguments to inspire change.
The American political system is the base for the control, regulation, and safety of the United States. The government has the power to allow a nation to prosper and grow, but also to suffer and hurt. Throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, American politics has undergone serious changes, evolutionizing into something much more than its original political functions. American politics has begun to modify itself into more of a source of entertainment than a system capable of upholding the rules and protecting our country. The policies and decisions of the Obama administration have created an election focused primarily on the negative outcomes of Obama’s presidencies. Even traveling back to the Bush era, the people want a strong and confident leader, capable of change. The current standstill in congress and the inability for Obama to pass and execute much reform has created more chaos in a quickly weakening system. The American people seem to be ready for change; yet the 2016
President Trump, two words that were once mocked together are now the reality that brings fear and abhorrence to many. As the recent election shows Trump will be our next president. To many this is a blessing, to others it is a curse that January twentieth with be a day of ruination. Despite your stance, America has spoken and life will move forward. America unsure if it will be great again will have to take the punches, good or bad, as they come. Americans known for their brassy personalities will continue to express their doubts about Trump throughout his career and now is no exception. In “Donald Trump’s Sad, Lonely Life” by David Brooks, the use of harsh concrete and picturesque language along with ad hominems and false analogies, lead
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America on November 8th, 2016, and now has been running our country for over a year. As Trump’s first year in office slowly began, his reputation seems to be creating different outside views of our nation and arguments started producing everywhere. After competing with Hillary Clinton for the presidential term in office, Trump defeated her along with her democratic supporters causing one of the most shocking elections in U.S. history. Using public media web pages, we are reviewing both sides of the argument regarding Trump’s election and we are going to decipher why each arguer supports their side, and why each side is reasonable for the benefit of our country.