There is no doubt that twitting President Donald Trump has not only kept the Americans but rest of the world on their toes since taking office. No one knew what was coming next. It all depended on his whims and spontaneous responses to the fast moving world events happening around him. He issued executive orders like hot cakes, on repealing and replacing Obama Care and travel ban on 6 Muslim counties, but they were blocked not once but twice by the Judiciary, Congress and Senate. Then he moved on to other controversial issues relating to Syria, North Korea, China and Iran. In the first 100 days he had to sack his National Security adviser General Mike Flint and removed Stephen Bannon for the National Security team.
He antagonised the media by blaming that for spreading ‘fake news’ against him. He did not even attend the Whitehouse Journalists dinner which no other President had failed to attend. He changed his mind on NAFTA, now he is not talking about cancelling it but renegotiating it. Earlier he had said NATO was obsolete, now she says it is not, but insists that the European countries have pay their fair share for running of NATO. He is also talking about cancelling the TPP trade agreement, he says it is unfavourable to United States. He wants to withdraw from the Paris agreement on Environment, which will be a retrograde step. He is definitely anti-globalisation and pro isolationist. He is involved in nepotism by appointing his daughter and son-in-law to White House posts. He has made the US resemble a tin-pot kleptocracy.
Donald Trump has been flip flopping on key issues and his approval rating is the lowest at 40 per cent. He made a lot of promises but have not delivered on none of them. He is a transactional President, he deals on quid pro quo (a favour for a favour) basis. He is not a visionary, more of a pragmatist.
Baldev Sharma
Harrow
