Written by Michael Thervil

Photo by Trump Vance Transition Team handout/epa
There’s a lot of things that you can say about American President Donald Trump, both good and bad, but the one thing that you won't be able to say is that he's the same as before. What some are calling “Trump 2.0”, it seems as if President Trump is not only keeping his word when it comes to campaign promises such as securing the American border and the deportation of illegal migrants which some people are calling an “migrant invasion”, but he seems to be sticking to one of his previous campaign promises of draining what's known in American politics as “The Swamp”. President Trump has also been able to extract at least a trillion dollars in revenue for America from various world and industry leaders.
The fact that he was able to extract almost half of the Saudi Arabia royal family’s income from Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud speaks volumes. Sure, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is a weak leader leading a weak country, but that’s Saudi Arabia’s problem, not America’s. On the opposite end of the spectrum, it's only “balanced” to say that President Trump failed on his campaign promise of stopping both the Ukrainian war against Russia and the Israeli war on Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah (Houthis), and of course on the people of Palestine within the promised “24 hours” of his presidency. But no one can have everything - can they?
When you look at President Trump's hawkish stance on China, and tough demeanor on Russia, Americans are seeing two things. First when it comes to China, most Americans think that not only is it too late to apply tariffs on Chinese goods and products, but most Americans believe that placing tariffs on Chinese goods and products will only hurt America in terms of being able to compete in the world market. There are two reasons for this, and the 1st reason is that China is too big for tariffs and the 2nd reason for this is because America doesn’t really “make” anything, and when it does, the goods and products are often inferior to that of China in terms of quality, price, and manufacturing capability.
Instead of applying draconian trade tariffs, most Americans believe that the American government should “step its game up” manufacturing wise instead of attempting to “punish” China for having a better manufacturing base than America. In short, the best solution to stop and boost the manufacturing capabilities of America is to take a page out of the Chinese playbook – and that is to subsidize the hell out of American manufacturing companies.
When it comes to President Trump's position on Russia, the best advice Americans are recommending is that America should simply leave Russia alone and let them deal with Ukraine the way they know best – and that’s by America stopping itself from interfering in the business of other countries, especially when there is nothing to strategically gain from them. Like it or not, Russia has already won the war Ukraine provoked and that’s never going to change; let it go.
In terms of Israel waging war in West Asia (Middle East), the average American on the street doesn’t like Israel and what it's doing right now. In fact, the average American on the street wishes the American government would stop backing Israel and reallocate the money that the American government is giving to Israel back to them.
Outside of those issues mentioned above, Americans in general like President Trump’s stance that there should only be two sexes and genders. Most Americans find the idea of gender identity pronouns to not only be offensive, but stupid and they give less than a “George Bush fuck” about the notion of transexuals. In general Americans take issue with migrants abusing the concept of birthright citizenship. Most Americans don’t care for DEI. These are all the things that President Trump has gotten right so far.
As far as draining “the swamp” in American politics, many people are amazed at the fact that President Trump revoked Dr. Fauci’s ability to have a security protection detail. That says a lot and the American people are most definitely looking forward to listening to what other action’s President Trump will implement in the near future.
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