On the 26th May, Mr Donald Trump held a press conference in Bismarck, North Dakota to celebrate the support of 1239 delegates which guarantees him the Republican candidacy for president. This has not surprised many of us who noticed that he had already grabbed the top two trump suit cards (ace and king) even before the hand was dealt.
Since 9/11, the most prominent thought in the American psyche has been the fear of terrorism. The terrorist attack in California on 2nd December 2015 which killed 14 innocent people, is still raw in the mind of the Americans. Mr Trump grabbed the ace card through his proposed solution for terrorism by temporary halt on Muslims to enter the USA and to strengthen the antiterrorism efforts.
The second most prominent thought in the American minds is job security and greed for wealth. The king card is a solution for job security by a proposal to erect a wall between Mexico and the USA, to deport all illegal migrants and to bring back the manufacturing jobs from China and call centre jobs from Bharat. He has also promised to create more wealth by allowing unlimited coal mining and fracking and to permit TransCanada oil pipeline, irrespective of environmental damage.
It seems that Mr Trump’s proposals resonate nicely with the voters. If he becomes the president and achieves his goals, it will be a win-win situation for all. The USA will be self-sufficient for natural and human resources allowing the rest of the world to benefit from the presently consumed enormous imported resources by the USA. And the whole world will benefit from the end of Islamic terrorism.
Narsibhai Patel
New Malden
