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December 2016 Edition of Power Politics is updated.  Happy Diwali to all our subscribers and Distributors       December 2016 Edition of Power Politics is updated.   Happy Diwali to all our subscribers and Distributors       
Issue:December' 2016

AMERICAN DIARY

Monitoring Trump !

M. R. Dua

Donald Trump and Barack Obama Eighteen months of gruelling, frenzied, damning, traumatic race for America's forty-fifth presidency ended on November 8 in enthroning a billionaire, businessman, real estate mogul, and political-novice president, Republican nominee, Donald John Trump. Seventy-year-old flaxenhaired Donald Trump will succeed the current Democratic Party's two-term President, Barack H. Obama, on January 20, 2017.
Almost all media and private independent polls had been incessantly forecasting, during the hey days of the electoral campaign, that the Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton enjoyed unprecedented public support. But paradoxically, it turned out to be essentially the support of the lower and the middle class white voters who placed the Republican Party underdog, Donald Trump, in the winning trajectory. The Trump victory has made electoral history of sorts in the nation's modern political progression.
Be that as it may, now that manipulator Trump is President Donald Trump of the United States, what do the American people think of Donald Trump as the newly elected president of the world's richest and most powerful nation, and what do they expect of the Trump presidency?

Ironically, exactly one day after Trump was declared elected as US president, thousands of young men and women, expressing their profound grief and anxiety and prodigious unhappiness, organized massive protest marches in more than a dozen big American towns, such as Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Boston.

Many among these protesters were young Hispanics, Muslims, African-Americans, and middle class immigrant workers who were severely abused and demonized by Trump's racially charged rhetoricagainst men and women during 18-month-long Trump campaign rallies all over the country.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Slogans, posters and playcards, such as 'Trump Not My President', 'No Trump, No KKK', 'Love Trump's Hate', 'He, ho, Trump Got to Go,' 'Wolves are Coming, You're the Hunted' were displayed all over the nation's main streets at various academic, business, political and social centers.
Meanwhile,President Trump got down to business of governance two days after the result. President Obama invited Trump and his wife, the would-be first lady Melania Trump to the White House with a view to formalizing with governance logistics and political complexities in which the US is intimately involved.
Though both, Obama and Trump, didn't enjoy a pleasant and healthy relationship in the past, they were seen in Rose Garden of the White House, quite comfortable with one another. Television camera kept a constant watch over the late morning presidential affairs in the Oval Office on Capitol Hill.

Coming to grips with his publicly pledged programmes, policies and schemes, Trump's first and foremost priority would be to urgently glance through the promises he made to the American people during his umpteen electoral campaign rallies.
Trump had vowed to transform domestic and foreign policies, and uplift America's denting image and diminishing participation in the affairs of the global community, ranging from threat to America's war on terrorism and assuring security to the people;recovering cost of NATO forces from use countries; build a 'great wall on our southern borders, and make Mexico pay for it';reject or replace various trade agreements, such as NAFTA, TPP, WTO, TIPP,etc.;amend and re-fashion the gun control rights; simplify individual tax laws; reform and reformulatecorporate tax slabs; comprehensive laws to check mounting immigration; find amiable solutions for the eleven million illegal immigrants currently spread all over the US; strict framework to tackle Islamic state menace, and destroy it;lessening effectiveness in the chaotic Middle-East security environment; regulate Wall Street's working; and, stem MNCs' expanding injurious influence on American economy and politics.
Perhaps the most prominent commitment that Trump had made to the American, as also the leaders of the GOP itself expects

Ironically, exactly one day after Trump was declared elected as US president, thousands of young men and women, expressing their profound grief and anxiety and prodigious unhappiness, organized massive protest marches in more than a dozen big American towns, such as Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Boston.

from the new president is to immediately reverse,disengage and replace policies,laws, and the executive orders issued by President Obama during his eightyear rule,that incidentally the Republican leaders abhor most, particularly the Obama Affordable Healthcare law. In addition, the other GOP's commitment is to hold a decisive inquiry into Hillary Clinton's private emails server that caused untold commotion and remained the greatest critical talking point during the entire electoral campaign, till the last day of polls; how Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey's flipflop statements issued in July, October and November that creating profound embarrassment to both contestants; how much and from where the Bill-Hillary-Chelsea Clinton Foundation received contributions from time to time; effects of the WikiLeaks exposes and Russia's alleged cyber warfare; racial turmoil and policing problems, especially in the African-American population dominated areas

Finally,the American people will expect Donald Trump to tell them as to how and what solid immediate measures he intends for accomplishing his oftrepeated slogan: Make America Great Again. This was his most solemn promise touted umpteen times during his 18-month-long electoral campaign to tread into the four walls of his most cherished dwelling, the US White House—the heart and soul of the American presidency, and its untold globally accepted powers. The whole world will start keenly monitoring President Trump right from January 20, 2017, the day he enters the portals of the Oval Office.