The Trump Effect: How Donald Trump Affects Children

The new Republican candidate Trump has opened the door for many people to show discrimination against groups of minorities. Sullivan states, “The racial aspect of this is also unmissable. When the enemy within is Mexican or Muslim, and your ranks are extremely white, you set up a rubric for a racial conflict. And what’s truly terrifying about Trump is that he does not seem to shrink from such a prospect; he relishes it.” (Sullivan 10) In other words, Sullivan believes that Donald Trump is not promoting equality. Rather than being the people’s voice he is actually advocating racial discrimination against targeted minority groups. He even seems to finds enjoyment towards the race bashing of the targeted individuals. As an individual of the target group I feel as if this is a prime example of how weak our democracy is. We are raised to feel that we are all equal due to the Constitution, which was formed by our founding

Trump’s public racism dates back to long before the start of his presidential campaign. As a real estate developer, a TV star, and now as a politician, he has insulted African Americans, the Japanese, Native

With the inauguration of Donald Trump rapidly approaching, there has been a much needed resurgence of interest in the progressive movement around the country, as well as an awakening to the need of an actual revolution by more moderate liberals. The Republican sweep of all levels of government indicates an all too familiar conservative backlash against the social progress that has been steadily building over the last eight years. Historically, this has ultimately led to the empowerment of emboldened racists and bigots of all ilks, which we are presently seeing.

November 2016 gave America its biggest political upset in decades, perhaps in the history of the nation. Donald Trump became the fifth President to lose the popular vote but somehow manage to win the presidential election. A billionaire businessman who spent most of his campaign bashing his opponents, facing allegations of sexual assault, insulting people with physical and mental handicaps, disputing allegations he was working with Russians to win the election, knocking prisoners of war because they disagreed with him, yelling about his opponent, Hillary Clinton and her alleged emails, supporting openly racist newspapers, news outlets and other organizations, and basically complaining, all of the time, no matter what was happening. He really managed to win. 2016 quite possibly held the ugliest and most upsetting presidential race in history, and will go down as such. Most of Trump’s voters were white and working class, uneducated, white men, (Thrush, White, Hughes, Ratner, Strauss, & Zeitz, 2016). His unraveled tweets, his perpetual television presence and mass rallies made him a hero to his class of voters. Now, 11 months into his Presidency, even those who voted for him avoid the news due to the continual, anxiety driven updates about which world leader our President has most recently upset. It is clear as glass Trump is affecting the moral of the entire country, Americans are more stressed in todays political climate than ever (Sifferlin, 2017) but who is really being affected by him, his administration, and his polices?

Trump as the president-elect has divided the country more than it has brought it’s people together. ‘There has always been hate and divisions,’ some would say. While this is true, this kind of prevalence has not been at the forefront of the political, personal, social, etc. sphere in a long while. Headlines are becoming more trigger inducing and there has been an uproar of hate crimes across the nation. While both sides have contributed to the hatefulness, the way that the hate is manifested is more rampant among supporters of Trump. This is seen through the way that the hate crime rate has gone up since November 8th. In more ways than one Trump’s election into office has given these people that have hate in them a pass, of sorts, to act on that hate and victimize others.

The election of Donald Trump has emboldened the forces of hate and bigotry in America. White nationalists, Vladimir Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear – especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, LBGT Americans and Asian Americans. Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like

Ever since the election in 2016 in which Donald Trump won presidency in the United States, certain individuals have been very comfortable in letting their opinionated stereotypes come out into the world, in some places where they are not wanted. These stereotypes and prejudices exist against all minority races: that they are lazy, not hard working, cannot speak our language, amongst other things. It is now a common occurrence to come across a video on the internet of racists yelling at these minority people for being in this country and other senseless reasons. These stereotypes, however, have existed long before the time of Donald Trump being sworn into office, and people have been fighting them the entire time. Latina professor and author Carmen R

Remember 2012 when Mitt Romney ran for president? We all thought that it was the end of the world and that Romney would be the final downfall of America. Now it’s 2016 and there’s a new “Mitt Romney,” but this time it’s totally different. Donald Trump is someone who people either glorify or are terrified at the thought of this man “making America great again.” Most people think that Donald Trump is “brutally honest” or is extremely humourous. The people who think that Trump is funny are not looking at what he could do. The people who agree with Trump’s views are not looking at how it could affect so many people looking up to America which is perceived as a chance for change and hope. Maybe I’m being bias because I am the child of an Mexican

On November 15th, 2016, in the opinion-editorial, I’m not in the Mood for ‘Unity.’ At The End of the Day, Trump’s Still a Bigot, Leonard Pitt, Jr, an acclaimed Black American liberal columnist for the Miami Herald, asserts that Donald Trump’s presidency is irreconcilable with American democratic values and that there is no unity with bigotry. Pitt challenges the conceptions Americans must “heal” and “come together” to concede to Trump’s victory in the presidential election; he establishes Trump as “fundamentally unsound, unserious, and unfit” and refuses to “cooperate in normalizing a man who stands for everything American should not.” Pitt argues that Americans must mobilize together through protest and support of activist organizations in

It is important for a country to have good race relations. Within ten days of Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded 900 biased related incidents against minorities. This is nearly 100 per day, which is an alarming rate and a huge spike in hate crimes.

Throughout American history, one thing remains constant: United States citizens discriminating against each other. In the 1930s, the rich California landowners acted as though they were racially superior to the incoming migrant workers, or as they were called, “Okies”. Today, we see the same type of behavior coming from our police officers. Shootings of black citizens by white police officers has become a major issue in our nation, and it has gone so far that NFL players kneel for the national anthem before games to draw attention to the issue and that violence has broken out in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia. President Trump has been forced to comment on the issue, which has only lead to more controversy, as he stated that he believes

President Trump had the ability to capture the votes of whites not only because of his enthusiasm and charisma but also because of his Hitler-related ideals and beliefs about minorities. He constantly demeaned minorities and spoke of them as if they are inferior. His promise to “Make America Great” captured many demographics because it meant to relive what they imagine was a better time. Trump degraded many races, ethnicities, and religions in order to gain political power. For these reasons, it is safe to say that some of Trump’s election was influenced by his tendency to speak using racial

The last hundred years have brought the world many valuable things; computers, better sanitation conditions, understandings of diseases, vaccines, surgery, education, and so much more. But there are so many social constructs that have made little progress such as racism, sexism, and homophobia. In reality vaccines and sexism are manmade, a vaccine is a manmade invention and sexism is a manmade idea. Neither would exist without human beings backing the idea that they are necessary. Racism is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior (Oxford Dictionary).” Racism over the last hundred years has been directed towards Blacks, Hispanics, and Asian’s. Looking at the past in relation to racism in the United States, reveals that racism is still alive and well in 2015 just as it was in 1915.

This past election has shaken the nation as a whole, it has caused the the feelings of hate we all thought were buried with our ancestors to resurface and become acceptable once again. Donald Trump becoming our next presidential elect, has impacted us all, and there is no doubt that this election has by far been the most influential on our nation’s mental health.

Well, whether it was intentional or not, Trump opened many people’s eyes to large-scale issues in American society that we have all ignored for a while such as our divisiveness despite not being too different (Red vs. Blue america) and the complicated nature of the US election process that allows politicians and the media to play ordinary citizens as pawns in their big plan. Through his winning the presidency by the electoral college vote and not the popular vote, it has lead many to question the effectiveness of this system. Through his winning so many supporters despite his obviously racist remarks, we are now lead to recognize that racism has not been completely eradicated, like many of us have assumed until now. Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump has opened up the general public’s eyes about politics and the way the government is organized. Take me for example. Before this election, I always said that I was not interested in politics because I thought they were stupid and did not directly affect me. The shock of the events of this election pushed me to take this class and learn more about politics, as I feel every other American that is able to should do. Whether it was intentional or not, Donald Trump winning the Presidency has taught us all a few very important lessons: to look outside of our own sphere