{"id":83452,"date":"2016-11-28T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=83452"},"modified":"2018-10-13T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:47:07","slug":"the-trump-presidency-x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/11\/the-trump-presidency-x2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Presidency (X2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X2 for a second Extra. Like for Trump, promises can be broken.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trump 4 covered 12 election promises, concluding for many “better forgotten, Trump’s new focus is much better”.\u00a0 Washington Post<\/em> 23 Nov 2016 has a long update “Trump shifts on Clinton, climate”. A review:<\/p>\n

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  1. Putting Clinton in jail<\/em>: “no plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton”, “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons”.<\/li>\n
  2. Building the US-Mexico wall<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  3. Stricter Iran deal<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  4. Withdrawing TPP<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  5. Replacing Affordable Care Act<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  6. Deporting criminal immigrants<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  7. Shrinking the military<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  8. Canceling the climate agreement<\/em>: “keeping an open mind”, “there is ‘some connectivity’ between human activity and rising temperatures”.<\/li>\n
  9. Waterboarding<\/em>: “not a good idea”, “not useful”.<\/li>\n
  10. Banning Muslim refugees<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  11. Shrinking federal government<\/em>: not mentioned.<\/li>\n
  12. Drilling for gas, oil-coal<\/em>: mentioned indirectly in 8 above.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In the article from an interview in NYT<\/em> 4 of 12 promises are canceled. 3 of the 12, nos. 4, 5, 7, in the view of this column, should be kept.\u00a0 That leaves us with 5 to watch, nos. 2, 3, 6, 10, 11.\u00a0 Hypothesis: before 20 January he may have distanced himself from (almost) all 5.<\/p>\n

    As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.<\/p>\n

    If he has changed his product basically once, he may do so again. However, following Trump, this column keeps an “open mind”.\u00a0 So far.<\/p>\n

    _________________________________________<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> and rector of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU<\/a>. Prof. Galtung <\/em>has published 1670\u00a0articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters, over 450 Editorials for <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>, and 167 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, of which 41 have been translated into 35 languages, for a total of 135 book translations<\/em>, including \u2018<\/em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a>,\u2019 published by the <\/em>TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X for Extra. As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tms-peace-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}