• About us
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
TFI Official Merchandise
TFI हिन्दी
TFI Global
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Tfipost.com
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

    Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    Child Marriage Assam

    Himanta Biswa Sarma Launches Crackdown on Child Marriage in Assam

    Rana Ayyub

    Tom-Foolery Exposed: The Savage Science of Victimology

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    Budget 2023’s Delicate Dance: Balancing Fiscal, Populism and the Public Interest

    Budget 2023’s Delicate Dance: Balancing Fiscal, Populism and the Public Interest

    Artificial Intelligence India

    Unlocking Artificial Intelligence Potential: India’s 2023 Budget and the Future

    new tax regime

    Budget 2023: Income Tax breakthrough for India’s middle class

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    Defence budget

    Given the enemies at our door, India’s defence budget is awfully low

    Defence budget India

    Modernization of Indian defence: Right trajectory but low velocity

    AK-203 rifles

    Amethi has started producing the dreaded AK 203 for India and the world

    HELINA and VSHROD

    Amidst build up on China and Pakistan border India gets HELINA and VSHROD

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    Arindam Bagchi IWT

    India takes charge on Indus Water Treaty

    In the Presidential year of G20, they have waged an info war against India

    In the Presidential year of G20, they have waged an info war against India

    Macron-Modi-Biden: France gives India an edge in dealing with the USA

    Macron-Modi-Biden: France gives India an edge in dealing with the USA

    Ajit Doval Jake Sullivan

    The Quiet Revolution: India’s Diplomatic Success in Bringing Tech Transfer

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    Mahabharat

    The silent war to cancel Mahabharat and why Sanatanis need to speak against it

    Ram V. Sutar

    The legacy of Ram V. Sutar: A gift from Bhagwan Vishwakarma

    Dilip Kumar Indira Gandhi

    When Dilip Kumar silenced Indira Gandhi

    Bhagwan Vishnu Bhavishya Badri

    Is Bhagwan Vishnu leaving Badrinath and shifting to Bhavishya Badri?

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Lifestyle
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    Light Pollution

    Light pollution: What is it and how to stop it?

    S Balbir

    S Balbir: The Voice That Suddenly Went Silent

    Sharad Kelkar: An underrated gem of Indian Cinema

    Sharad Kelkar: An underrated gem of Indian Cinema

    Sayaji Shinde

    Unrecognized in Bollywood, but Celebrated Everywhere Else: The Tale of Sayaji Shinde

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
No Result
View All Result
Tfipost.com
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

    Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    Child Marriage Assam

    Himanta Biswa Sarma Launches Crackdown on Child Marriage in Assam

    Rana Ayyub

    Tom-Foolery Exposed: The Savage Science of Victimology

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    The disintegration of BYJU’s has just begun

    Budget 2023’s Delicate Dance: Balancing Fiscal, Populism and the Public Interest

    Budget 2023’s Delicate Dance: Balancing Fiscal, Populism and the Public Interest

    Artificial Intelligence India

    Unlocking Artificial Intelligence Potential: India’s 2023 Budget and the Future

    new tax regime

    Budget 2023: Income Tax breakthrough for India’s middle class

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    Defence budget

    Given the enemies at our door, India’s defence budget is awfully low

    Defence budget India

    Modernization of Indian defence: Right trajectory but low velocity

    AK-203 rifles

    Amethi has started producing the dreaded AK 203 for India and the world

    HELINA and VSHROD

    Amidst build up on China and Pakistan border India gets HELINA and VSHROD

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    Arindam Bagchi IWT

    India takes charge on Indus Water Treaty

    In the Presidential year of G20, they have waged an info war against India

    In the Presidential year of G20, they have waged an info war against India

    Macron-Modi-Biden: France gives India an edge in dealing with the USA

    Macron-Modi-Biden: France gives India an edge in dealing with the USA

    Ajit Doval Jake Sullivan

    The Quiet Revolution: India’s Diplomatic Success in Bringing Tech Transfer

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    Mahabharat

    The silent war to cancel Mahabharat and why Sanatanis need to speak against it

    Ram V. Sutar

    The legacy of Ram V. Sutar: A gift from Bhagwan Vishwakarma

    Dilip Kumar Indira Gandhi

    When Dilip Kumar silenced Indira Gandhi

    Bhagwan Vishnu Bhavishya Badri

    Is Bhagwan Vishnu leaving Badrinath and shifting to Bhavishya Badri?

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Lifestyle
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    Light Pollution

    Light pollution: What is it and how to stop it?

    S Balbir

    S Balbir: The Voice That Suddenly Went Silent

    Sharad Kelkar: An underrated gem of Indian Cinema

    Sharad Kelkar: An underrated gem of Indian Cinema

    Sayaji Shinde

    Unrecognized in Bollywood, but Celebrated Everywhere Else: The Tale of Sayaji Shinde

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
No Result
View All Result
Tfipost.com
No Result
View All Result

HOME » Geopolitics » Trump is doing exactly what he promised

Trump is doing exactly what he promised

Ajit Datta
by Ajit Datta
28 January 2017
in Americas, Geopolitics
1
Trump Muslim
92
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Free When Donald Trump’s candidacy began making waves one and a half years ago, they said he would tone down if he wanted the moderate Republican vote to secure his party’s nomination. When he secured the nomination, they said he would shift towards the centre if he wanted the undecided vote. When he won the presidential election, they said he would become more presidential by the time he walked into the Oval Office. When they heard his speech at the inauguration, they said he would never bring his outlandish and supposedly immoral promises to life. ‘They’ will never learn.

Trump is implementing the outlandish and supposedly immoral promises he made within his first week as the president.

Some perceive Trump through the same lenses they use for other politicians. Whether it is because they are outright stupid or because they hate him and cannot think clearly at the moment, this is an obvious mistake. If Trump’s career is anything to go by- business, television, politics- the only constant is that he understands how to strike a chord. From the time he threw his hat in the ring till now, he knew exactly what the people wanted. And he will give the people what they want. Nothing at all- political correctness, pressure, precedence- nothing will stop him from carrying out their will. One of democracy’s ironies is that both the autocrat and the populist are branded as dictators.

In less than a week, the president of the United States has taken more radical and far-reaching decisions than the eight years that preceded his term. Strong-arming big ticket CEOs, exiting unfavourable agreements and announcing major projects- his job-creation thrust is in full swing. Ramping up border security, starting work on the much-touted wall, withholding funds from sanctuary cities and engaging in a major diplomatic faceoff with Mexico- his agenda for the borders and the immigrants is seeing the light of day. On the day of the inauguration, several surveys declared that he was entering office with the lowest approval ratings in recent memory. In less than a week, his approval ratings have surpassed those of his predecessor.

Perhaps the most controversial of Trump’s proposals, a proposal which many perceived as a travesty, is also materialising. During the election cycle, Trump had announced a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the United States. This was touted as bigoted, xenophobic and racist. Many believed it was a cheap campaign ploy. Some of Trump’s supporters too believed that he would desist from pursuing this line after he got elected. But it did not stop when he was the president-elect, it did not stop during his inauguration when he singled out radical Islam and vowed to eradicate it from the face of the earth, and it hasn’t stopped now that he’s settled into the Oval Office. It’s high time we understood this new brand of politics. Trump will stop at nothing, he WILL give the people what they want. He will do his level best to uphold every promise he made.

In the case of the ban in question though, Trump stated in an interview that it wasn’t as much a Muslim ban as it was a ban on people from countries with tremendous terror.

According to the executive order he passed, refugees from war-torn Syria have been banned indefinitely. The United States’ refugee admission program will be suspended for a hundred and twenty days while visa applications from countries considered to harbour terrorism- Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen- will be halted for thirty days.

The refugee issue has always been a double-edged sword. There is the argument that these are men, women and children fleeing from war and barbarity, and require help. Several experts believe though that a large portion of those passing off as refugees aren’t refugees at all. It is unlikely that people are escaping from the clutches of Islamic State and Boko Haram by the thousands on a daily basis. One can go on about how the vetting processes requires enhancement, but in most cases there is zero scope of vetting anyway. Moreover, Europe is undergoing a catastrophe after it opened its doors. It is one thing for people without skills and opportunity to indulge in crime every now and then to make ends meet, and quite another to export medieval ideas along with themselves, with the intention of imposing them on those who have been nice enough to take them in.

A visa ban on some of the citizens of certain countries that harbour terror, is for several reasons an unintelligent way of dealing with the situation. To begin with, the list of countries seems flawed. Pakistan for instance is as big on terrorism as any other country in the world, but does not find a mention. The mention of Iran on the list warrants unnecessary conflict that the United States could well have done without at the moment. The fundamental problems that many have with the creation of such a list are the following: that not everybody belonging to these countries is a terrorist or a radical, and that if terrorists want to attack the United States they would find a way around the ban in any case.

But hey! The necessity of such a ban might in fact just be to prove a point. It might be like the wall that Trump wants the Mexicans to pay for at the border. The illegal immigrants can find a way around it, but it will be a symbol of who the king is and what the king can do if things go out of hand. Just like the tariffs imposed on the Mexicans after they refused to pay for the wall and the wall itself when it is built will remind the Mexican administration to keep a check on illegal immigration, a Muslim ban may serve to remind the power centres of the middle-east that the world has had enough of their medieval thinking and is ready to make outcasts of them if necessary. This is probably why the Keystone pipeline is so important in Trump’s scheme of things. Apart from creating thousands of jobs, it would raise America’s energy-independence massively. More energy independence means less tolerance to the antics of the Muslim world.

Will such alienation help, and will it even take place to begin with? At least Donald Trump is thinking out of the box instead of using the same old approaches that sound sophisticated but make matters worse. Will there be adverse repercussions? A reporter asked Trump if he was concerned about the widespread anger such a ban would cause in the Muslim World. Trump responded, “Can there be any more anger?”

Tags: Donald TrumpMuslimsRefugees
ShareTweetSend
Previous Post

Understanding Hollywood’s Frustration with Trump

Next Post

Arvind Kejriwal has lost it, finally

Ajit Datta

Ajit Datta

Editor-in-chief at tfipost.com

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy Policy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • Most Read
  • Comments
  • Latest
Xi Jinping, coronavirus, Shinzo Abe, china, Japan, coornavirus, COVID-19, Wuhan Virus

‘Pack up and get out of there,’ Japan to spend $2.2 billion to get Japanese companies to exit China

9 April 2020
ajay devgn karan johar

The man who bullied the Bully – How Ajay Devgn made Karan Johar’s monopoly a joke and forced him to apologize

22 June 2020
Huawei, China, Trump, USA, Xi Jinping

‘Our survival is at stake now,’ Chinese Telecom giant Huawei crumbles after US ban on Semiconductor exports

19 May 2020
T-Series Sonu Nigam Divya Khosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar

T-Series forced to take down Atif Aslam’s video, Divya Khosla trolled. T-Series has a bad day in office

25 June 2020
Meat Ban

A Jain responds to Meat Ban in Mumbai

Public Sector Bank, Government, Bill

Dear bank employees, continue your stride but PSBs will be privatized

anti-Hindi

Anti-Hindi Forever?- In search of a National Language!

Dear Liberals – your Beef Parties are not protests, they just intend to displease the Majority

Dear Liberals – your Beef Parties are not protests, they just intend to displease the Majority

Defence budget

Given the enemies at our door, India’s defence budget is awfully low

4 February 2023
Mahabharat

The silent war to cancel Mahabharat and why Sanatanis need to speak against it

4 February 2023
Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

Amartya Kumar Sen is a threat to the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore

4 February 2023
WhatsApp Privacy Policy: Supreme Court Smacks Down Attempt to Trample User Choice

WhatsApp Privacy Policy: Supreme Court Smacks Down Attempt to Trample User Choice

4 February 2023

Popular This Week

Preity Zinta
Cinema

Preity Zinta – The woman who stood up to the underworld, but paid a heavy price for it

by Paurush Gupta
30 January 2023
Adani-Hindenburg row: Decoding the hidden agendas
Premium

Adani-Hindenburg row: Decoding the hidden agendas

by Abhishek Kumar Singh
29 January 2023
Govinda congress
Cinema

When Govinda started literally pleading in front of Sonia Gandhi

by TFIPOST News Desk
31 January 2023
The untold story of Swami Pranavananda
History

The untold story of Swami Pranavananda

by Abhishek Kumar Singh
29 January 2023
Reality of Bageshwar Dham
Analysis

The Bageshwar Dham: The Reality of Dhirendra Krishna Shastri

by Tejasvi Malhotra
31 October 2022

©2023 TFI Media Private Limited

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
No Result
View All Result
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
TFI Official Merchandise
TFI हिन्दी
TFI Global
  • About us
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships

©2023 TFI Media Private Limited

Follow us on Twitter

and never miss an insightful take by the TFIPOST team

Follow @tfipost