Awaiting unpredicatable Trump's action !

The swearing-in ceremony of the 45th US President

R. Dua.

Demonstrators at work Just a few hours before the hugely controversial Republican Party nominee Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on January 20 in Washington District of Columbia, DC, the national capital, local police were seen using water cannons and lumps of pepper spraying on fleeing protesters demonstrating outside the venue, shouting 'impeach the predatory president,' 'Not my president,''Putin's puppet;' and many in the crowds were fiercely chanting, 'Nazi Scum'.
On the eve of Trump's inauguration, and even after the ceremony, demonstrations were witnessed among umpteen protests planned by many Trump-adversary groups, big and small, including women's, to make their opposition known to the new president whose approval rating was said to be the lowest ever-- less than 40% -- of any former presidents, whom the outgoing President Obama had termed as 'temperamentally unfit' for America's highest office, and commander-in-chief of the US army.
As the whole world waited with baited breath to listen to President Donald Trump's inaugural address spell out how he planned to fulfill the litany of promises with which he had lured millions to vote for him, to become the newest occupant of the White House, the most powerful office in the world. Prime among Trump's innumerable promises included: immigration reform, and building a wall on the border with Mexico and ousting those staying illegally in the US ; 'extreme vetting' of Muslims; fixing globalization; dismantling NATO; and cutting corporate taxes, etc.
Addressing his inauguration as 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, ace business tycoon, and a top showman having zero government work experience, minced no words: "From this day, it's going to be America first; we'll follow two simple rules; buy American, hire American."

Donald Trump with his predecessor Obama After taking a 35- word oath, Trump added without a blink of eye: "Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our job."
Some 60 Congressmen and Congresswomen boycotted the ceremony. Most of the top-notch Republican Party leaders were present; Trump ignored them all.
At the heat of the moment sounding a patriotic president, and mindlessly forgetting how profusely, in fact perilously, was the US dependent on so many other countries' nationals who had contributed to creation of wealth, and tremendous prosperity of this nation. But, arrogant Trump merrily overlooked their sterling roles, perhaps deliberately.
Take association of over 2.5 million India's top information technologists and engineers, research scientists, professors and innovators in almost all areas of American life -- medicine, academics, business administration, and even politics. Five Indians were elected to Congress in last year's polls. America's Silicon Valley owes to Indian experts a great debt to making it what it's today. The 70-year-old Trump will learn about the Valley's Indians' herculean role as he conducts his business on the technical and IT gadgets innovated by the likes of Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai, to mention just two. America's U S representative in the UN has b e e n a p p o i n t e d— Nikki Haley ( N i m a r t a R a n d h a w a ) , t w o - t e r m governor of South Carolina, Dr. Seema Verma, named as head of the Medicaid and M e d i c a r e services. Piyush Bobbly Jindal, a 2016 presidential contestant, was a two-term governor of Louisiana. In fact, their number is legion.

"Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our job." Some 60 Congressmen and Congresswomen boycotted the ceremony. Most of the top-notch Republican Party leaders were present; Trump ignored them all.

Besides, Trump also lost sight of nearly nine-fold jump in US-India trade,from $19 billion to $ 100 billion, and the US's $15 billion defence pact, as also galloping multi-levels Indo- US bilateral strategic defence equipment and security ties.

While there are problems in matters of granting H1B and L1 visas to Indian IT workers. But, it's hoped that the Trump administration will successfully ride over these issues. There are over 500 US companies in India that employ nearly one million Indians who pay taxes amounting millions of dollars to the federal coffers, without deriving benefits therefrom. Moreover, Trump's nightmare of other countries' stealing American jobs and luring factories will not stand the test of his fears or warnings to India in any manner. Moreover, he has also happily averred that he loves Hindus, and has expressed eagerness to meet Prime

Minister Narendra Modi in the very near future. Trump also invited a Hindu priest on his swearing-in ceremony.

Also, in a rather thoughtless but populist manner, Trump expressed his determination to eradicate Islamic terrorism,many an eyebrows were raised when Trump said: "We'll seek friendship and goodwill with nations of the world, but we do so with understanding that it's the right of all nations to put their own interests first … we will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will exterminate from the face of earth."

Such a statement will put the US in direct clash whole of Middle East and even Russia that intimately involved in Syrian war.

President Obama had studiously avoided any clash with Russia. In fact, after the Obama administration imposed strict financial and commercial sanctions after Russia seized Crimea in 2014, a new brand of Cold War came into being. The stern Russian boss Vladimir Putin openly skewed Obama at several global fora. And that prolonged unabated until the 2016 presidential election in which Russia was alleged to have intervened to enable Donald Trump win the White House, though Trump had lost all hopes of treading to Oval Office.This fact was borne out by a recent agency classified report.

Moreover, Trump's vow 'to eradicate' terrorism is something by the US alone, seems to be a far-fetched dream.

Besides,Trump also missed out on the Chinese foraysthat are causing and creating silent, albeit serious hackles in countries in the South China Sea region: Japan, Vietnam, even India are immensely worried as Beijing is building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in areas that form part of India-claimed Pak-occupied Kashmir.

President Trump has started with his avowed promise of repealing and replacing the Obama signature healthcare law, the Affordable Healthcare Act by signing an Executive Order.

Though the Chinese economy is in huge decline—its growth is believed to have plunged 26-year low of 6.1 per cent in 2016, but China's territorial ambitions seem to be surging unbridled. While the United State has also made its presence felt by sending its marines, but China aggressively keeps its nefarious games astir. This the Trump White House can ill-afford to overlook.

The Trump administration has already set into action in tackling the country's burning issues: President Trump has started with his avowed promise of repealing and replacing the Obama signature healthcare law, the Affordable Healthcare Act by signing an Executive Order. In addition, some 200 executive order are being readied for the president's signature. Also, many cabinet members are awaiting confirmation of Congress. There are nearly 600 other appointments in the pipeline. It'll be a few more weeks before the Trump administration is complete in its full strength.

It'll be around Spring time in Washington that the Trump administration will be fully operational. However, Trump will have nearly 48 months to prove whether he'll be able to transfer power from Washington DC to the people, as he pledged in his inaugural oration. Also on test will be whether his regime would be able to celebrate for the struggling families across the United States of America. The world will be watching intently his word and action !

Since Trump sanctified his swearing-in day as President on January 20 as the 'people's moment', will he make America great again? Will he? Can he, with millions of women and men protesting against him across the country? Only time will tell us.