From the India Today archives (2024) | The world according to Trump
India Today · Raj Chengappa ·
Democrats winning back both the US House of Representatives and Senate in US midterm elections is a big message for president Donald Trump
Democrats winning back both the US House of Representatives and Senate in US midterm elections is a big message for president Donald Trump
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated November 18, 2024)
If genius is the ability to make the complex simple, then Donald Trump’s historic comeback as the 47th President of the United States can only serve as the best example of that. At his victory speech in Florida, Trump outlined his agenda quite plainly, but effectively. “The core is common sense,” he said. “We wanna have borders. We wanna have security. We wanna have things to be good and safe. We want a great education. We want a strong and powerful military and, ideally, we don’t want to have to use it. I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars. We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful and free again.” At the end of his speech, he declared, “We make promises. We keep promises.” Few political leaders have such a straightforward and uncomplicated world view, which seems to have struck a chord with the US electorate. They have voted him back with a handsome majority, ignoring the many felonies, including sexual abuse, various federal courts have charged him with.
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