A word promise Donald Trump not very valuable. However, the brazenness with which he abandoned some of his key campaign pledges is nonetheless notable.
Over the past week, Trump — who was elected largely on the premise that he would rescue everyday Americans from economic ruin. Joe Biden supposedly tempered — admitted all that he was terrible. First, him speak Meet the press last Sunday that he “cannot guarantee” his tariff plan would not increase costs for consumers, even though he has repeatedly said it would not. Then in an interview with Time after being named Person of the Year—a distinction he appear to enjoy almost as much as being elected president — he admitted that it would be “very difficult” to actually lower grocery prices, despite vowing during his campaign to “quickly reduce prices and make America is affordable again.”
Trump: “It’s hard to take things down once they’ve surfaced” speak Time this week.
Yes, no kidding! In short, that’s what Biden and Kamala Harris are arguing. Trump, by contrast, is essentially telling his supporters that the cost of living could start falling on his first day in office: “You just watch,” he said. speak at a protest in North Carolina. “They will go down soon.” Now, approaching his second term with more of the “concepts of a plan” he offered in his September debate with Harris, he is much less decisive: “ I want to take them down,” he said. “I think they will.”
Of course, Trump doesn’t just make big economic promises. He also spent his campaign trying to draw a contrast between his perceived dovish foreign policy stance and the Biden administration navigating polarizing international conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza: “I will not start a war,” Trump said in his victory speech. “I will end the war.” But, when Time asked him about “the possibility of war with Iran during his next term”, he replied: “Anything can happen. It’s a very volatile situation.”
The situation was become more volatileIt should be noted, by his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 Barack Obama occurred during his second term. Iran does encouraged to strengthen enrichment programs since Trump tore up the deal. Now, as he prepares to take office again, Trump and his team are considering air strikes on Iran to halt its nuclear program. Wall Street Journal reported Friday. He may be brandishing the knife in an effort to force Tehran to the negotiating table, as he tried to do with North Korea. But a member of Trump’s transition team implied that magazine that force may be needed against Iran because of the regime’s plot to assassinate Trump, outlined in the Justice Department fee last month. “It certainly affects what people think when it comes to outside relationships,” the transition member said.
Trump is full of blatant and empty assurances—“We don’t touch” Social Security or Medicare, he confirmDespite Republican proposals to do so — there are at least two agenda items he still intends to take up: tax cuts for the rich And immigration repression. The former probably won’t help working-class Americans who helped him win back the White House based on his economic promises. However, as Trump sees it, his supporters will be satisfied if he delivers on the following: “What is the bigger factor? [than the economy]I believe that is the border,” he said Time.
And to ensure that, Trump said, he would “go as far as is allowed, under the laws of our country” — including deploying the military and building more detention camps. “Do anything to get them out,” Trump said of undocumented immigrants. “I don’t care.”
