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Thursday, 21 January 2016

American Democracy: Triumph for Trump?

Really?
Donald Trump, or "the Donald", business magnate, investor, author, television personality, and the man running for president of the great United States of America. Trump known for his frequently made bold and heavily controversial statements on issues that appeal to disenfranchised working class voters with negative opinions of immigrants.

For starters, the ban on Muslims .

Trump proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on." He also cited President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's World War II use of Sedition Acts to issue  presidential proclamations to apprehend,  restrain, and deport Japanese, German, and Italian alien immigrants, he then proceeded to argued that the proclamations were good because Roosevelt is highly respected and even has highways named after him, and later clarified that Muslims who were United States citizens or serving in the U.S. military would be let back into the United States.

Trump’s rhetoric about Muslims is responsible, to some degree, for the massive spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes we have seen in the last few weeks. In recent years, there has been an average of 12.6 hate crimes against Muslims in America per month, according to FBI data. However, since the Paris terrorist attack on Nov. 13 there have been 38 anti-Islamic attacks.

The proposal to ban Muslims drew wide criticism from sources both within the U.S. and abroad, and from unusual sources, such as leaders of Trump's own party holding party positions that do not normally get involved in its own party's presidential primary. "When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are sending people that have lots of problems. They are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and they are bringing crime and their rapists, and some are good people, and I speak to border guards and they tell us what we are getting."Is what he had to say about "foreigners "in the USA

Trump has called for aggressive bombing of the Mideast terrorist group ISIS, has supported surveillance on mosques in the United States. Eventually , during the  Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton declared that Trump is “becoming ISIS’s best recruiter"Behind the scenes, the Clinton campaign rose a wide network of female supporters to denounce  Trump as “sexist,” as a practitioner of “pathetic, frat-boy politics,” and as more suited to running for “president of the fourth-grade football team.”

It is unusual that a country, which boasts of its cultural acceptance an diversity, would actually be swayed by his speeches ,and lead his party to have a higher stand in the polls. Polls show that his party has seen a significant growth in supporters since Trump took on. In 2011, Trump actually questioned President Barack Obama's proof of citizenship,alleging that "his grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya, and she was there and witnessed the birth". His claim derived from a discredited transcript of a telephone interview with Obama's grandmother, produced by a Pennsylvania pastor opposed to Obama's election

Trump sued comedian Bill Maher for $5 million in 2013, based on comments Maher made on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in which Maher offered $5 million payable to a charity if Trump produced his birth certificate to prove his mother had not mated with an orangutan.
It is ironic that Trump had previously did the same thing to Obama .Bill did take his dig on Trump, and had a good laugh it off moment when Trump withdrew his lawsuit.

Trump launched his campaign declaring the official slogan to be, "We are going to make our country great again". One side there's Donald trump ,and on the other citizens and celebrities threatening to move  to Jupiter (yes,the planet) if he takes over as president.

God Save America.

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