Trump: Two Outcomes
What a way to start the new year! Some people feel happy about it. Most claim to hate life now because of it. In case you were wondering, I’m talking about the United States’ new president elect, Donald J. Trump.
Trump: Two outcomes
Noah Brown
What a way to start the new year! Some people feel happy about it. Most claim to hate life now because of it. In case you were wondering, I’m talking about the United States’ new president elect, Donald J. Trump. People have been wondering who Trump will discriminate against first. What I am wondering about is the best and worst case scenarios for this new presidency. Could we do well and form better relations with other countries and improve the economy? Could we destroy relations and cause a potential war? Here are predictions that I have thought of regarding the situation.
From what has occurred so far, it is possible to determine a positive outcome. After Hillary made a statement about bombing Russia over cyber hackings, the relationship between the U.S. and Russia has been strained. After Trump was elected, Russia and Syria both declared peace. One thing to remember is that the first woman in U.S. history to successfully run a presidential campaign was HIS manager! Not to mention the fact that his wife is the first immigrant first lady in U.S. history too! He could improve the economy of the country as well. According to CNN, the Dow hit a record high after he was elected. According to a student of SSFS, “He lowers the bar, so it makes any other president look better”. That’s one way of looking at it!
Then there is the worst case scenario. After further analysis of everything he has said over the course of the election, we should expect to see a very weak immigration policy. The reason for this is because he would bounce back and forth between his own thoughts. If congress allows it, he could have a wall built. The odds of that 10 foot wall being built are quite slim. According to The Economist, if Trump were to build a solid wall along the Mexican/American border, it would cost between $15 billion and $25 billion. A Sandy Spring student adds, “His low tempered self could make rash decisions.” He could help our economy in some ways, but he could also destroy it in others.
The future of our country could hold happiness or sheer destruction. Hopefully it does not come to the sheer destruction part. That would be terrible! Either way, the United States is in for a treat. It is time’s job to give this treat a sweet or bitter taste.
Bibliography
-Egan, Matt, “Dow zooms over 1,200 points since Trump victory,” www.cnn.com, December 7, 2016: 2:58 PM ET, http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/07/investing/trump-dow-jones-1000-points-election/ (accessed December 11th, 2016).
-The Economist Limited. “The economics of Donald Trump’s wall.” Economist.com. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/07/daily-chart-16. (Accessed December 11th, 2016)
Hello! My name is Noah Brown. I am a senior at Sandy Spring Friends School and serve as the editor for SSFS Life. I have been on Wildezine since the second...
Jamshed • Mar 13, 2017 at 7:23 pm
There is certainly a change in the government of the United States. It is the first time when the president becomes the person who has no political experience. The president becomes the businessman who was in a huge debt several times. There will of course be some positive outcomes of his election, such as improvement in economy or better relation with Russia. However, it seems like there will be more negative results than the positive ones. Restriction in immigration, hatred toward religious groups, abuse of executive power is what awaits us in future years. Many people think that Donald Trump does not know what he is doing, but he is very smart. Behind that mask, there is an intelligent man who outplayed everyone. He used the notion of an outsider to give people a new hope of better presidency and it worked. He wants to build a wall along the Mexican-American border, but he does not understand that the higher the wall, the higher the ladders will be. Billions of dollars will be wasted to build the wall, which is not going to help prevent illegal immigrants to come to US.
The article gives a thoughtful idea about what to expect in future years to come. Good job!
Ben GG • Mar 1, 2017 at 10:36 am
Trump has no practical suggestions. He purely fires up the hate of his base, and attacks his opponents. None of Donald Trump’s plan are thought out properly. He makes absurd claims, like the border wall, and then claims over and over that Mexico will pay for it. Now, since he’s president, and has the power of executive order (because congress would never pass some of these absurd laws), Mexico has officially stated the will not pay for the wall. Trump says first that Mexico will reimburse us, and when they refuse that, Trump says they will pay through a tariff. This shows that Trump does not actually understand his plans. A tariff would make the American people pay for the wall, because when the price of Mexican goods goes up, WE pay the difference, not Mexico. Trump also cannot be presidential. I miss Obama’s cool, tempered way of handling things. Trump tweets out absurd things about a judge or court that overturns anything of his. We can not have a president this thin skinned. Trump, on the ninth circuit court ruling, tweeted ‘What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?’. Our country came to that when the 39 people signed the constitution. The court system is a check and balance on executive power. To say such a thing is unamerican and frankly idiotic. I also remember when there was the huge scandal about Obama saluting while carrying a cup of coffee. Now, Trump has so normalized absurd racist, sexist, islamophobic, and xenophobic behavior that even saying that he can sexually assault women because he’s famous, place a ban on Muslims purely because they have a different religion, reinstate torture, mock the disabled, claim you can’t be a war hero if you are captured, say that Islam hates us, and call anyone who doesn’t agree with you a nasty woman has no effect whatsoever. People overlook his hatred and idiocracy because it happens so often. And that’s no the characteristics of a man I want representing me.
This is a well written comparison article, very good job on this.