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Donald John Trump | |
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| Born | 14 June 1946 Queens, New York City, State of New York, United States of America |
| Nationality | Statesian |
| Political orientation | Imperialism Conservatism Right-wing populism |
| Political party | Republican Party |
Donald John Trump (born 14 June 1946) is a Statesian property tycoon, billionaire, media personality, Republican Party politician, and serial rapist who is currently serving as President-elect of the United States after winning the 2024 United States presidential election. He previously served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Apart from Grover Cleveland, Trump is the only President in Statesian history who has been elected to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Trump claims to be a pro-worker politician despite cutting taxes on billionaires and corporations.[1] Trump is a member of the America First movement, which believes the USA should be able to act unilaterally without limits from international law and treaties. It is not isolationist.[2]
Pre-presidency[edit | edit source]
In November 2015, Donald Trump mocked Serge Kovaleski's disability, arthrogryposis, in response to Serge stating that they never claimed many Muslims support the September 11 attacks.[3]
First presidential term[edit | edit source]
In 2017, Donald Trump passed a tax cut that decreased corporate taxes to only 11.3% of profits. He also made a $45 billion cut in food stamp benefits.[4]
The first Trump administration's nationalist and populist rhetoric bore "no relation to its actual policies."[5] In 2018, Trump attended the World Economic Forum in Davos and declared "America is open for business" before an audience of global elites, in stark contrast to his nominal protectionist, anti-"globalist" rhetoric.[5]
In 2020, the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.[6]
Under Trump's presidency, civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military increased greatly.[7]
Trump also vastly expanded concentration camps at the US-Mexico border, where asylum-seeking immigrants are kept in inhumane conditions.[8][9] During his presidential term, nearly half a million children were separated from their families and kept in cages for extended periods of time.[10]
Involvement in the Capitol insurrection[edit | edit source]
See main article: 2021 United States Capitol insurrection
On 6 January 2021, near the end of his presidential term, Trump rallied his supporters to storm the United States Capitol in an attempt to reconsolidate his power. The attack ultimately failed and Trump's term came to a close.[11]
According to an analysis on Medium, the Capitol insurrection was a coup attempt by Trump. They argue that "6 January was an attempted coup, in the sense it was designed to trigger martial law and the suspension of the transition."[12]
Post-presidency[edit | edit source]
On 8 August 2022, the FBI raided Trump's home in the State of Florida.[13] In November 2022, Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024.[1]
During a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service members just moments after. Having been grazed at his ear by one of the bullets, Trump bumped his fist in the air while being rushed off the stage as the crowd chanted U.S.A.[14] One attendee of the rally died and two others were critically injured because of this attempted assassination.[15] President Joe Biden denounced the attack during an address to the nation on the following day.[14]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PSL Statement – Workers shouldn’t be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich" (2022-11-15). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2022-11-18. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ↑ Bill Fletcher Jr. (2020-07-01). "Race Is About More Than Discrimination" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2023-03-23.
- ↑ "Donald Trump Criticized After He Appears to Mock Reporter Serge Kovaleski".
- ↑ Robert Reich (2019-12-22). "How Trump has betrayed the working class" The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2022-04-16. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 “In the regard, the ideology of 21st-century fascism rests on irrationality — a promise to deliver security and restore stability that is emotive, not rational. It is a project that does not and need not distinguish between the truth and the lie. The Trump regime’s public discourse of populism and nationalism, for example, bears no relation to its actual policies. In its first year, Trumponomics involved deregulation — the virtual smashing of the regulatory state — slashing social spending, dismantling what remained of the welfare state, privatizations, tax breaks to corporations and the rich, and an expansion of state subsidies to capital — in short, neoliberalism on steroids.
This is a distinction lost on many commentators. German monopoly capitalists turned to the Nazis to crush the powerful trade unions, socialist and communist movements. But they also turned to the Nazi state to open up vast new opportunities for accumulation and to compete, including through territorial expansion, against capitalist groups from other countries. In sharp distinction to this fusion of German national capital with the fascist state, Trumpism has sought to open up vast new opportunities for profit-making inside the United States (and around the world) for transnational capital. The Trump White House has called for transnational investors from around the world to invest in the United States, enticed by a regressive tax reform, unprecedented deregulation, and some limited tariff walls that would benefit groups from anywhere in the world that establish operations behind them. “America is open for business,” Trump declared at the 2018 meeting of the global elite gathered for the 2018 annual conclave of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs and your investments to the United States” (Bierman, 2018, A3).”
William I. Robinson (2019). Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype. Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183. doi: 10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155 [HUB] - ↑ Tyler Clevenger, Dan Lashof (2021-01-19). "7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks" World Resources Institute. Archived from the original on 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ Murtaza Hussain (2019-10-02). "Civilian Deaths in U.S. Wars Are Skyrocketing Under Trump. It May Not Be Impeachable, but It’s a Crime." The Intercept. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
- ↑ Andi Zeisler (2019-06-19). "AOC was right to compare Trump's border internment camps to concentration camps" NBC. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
- ↑ Ben Norton (2022-04-08). "Weaponization of immigration policy: Ukrainians welcomed, refugees of US wars abused" Geopolitical Economy Report. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
- ↑ Anna Flagg and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón (2020-10-30). "500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention" The Marshall Project. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
- ↑ Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations
- ↑ The Trump Insurrection: a Marxist analysis
- ↑ FBI raids Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "FBI Seeks Motive in Trump Assassination Attempt; President Biden Calls for “Cooling Down” Rhetoric" (2024-07-15). Democracy Now!. Retrieved 15.07.2024.
- ↑ "Long Legacy of U.S. Political Violence: RNC Begins in Milwaukee in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt" (2024-07-15). Democracy Now!. Retrieved July 15, 2024.