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US election: What has Donald Trump promised to do as president?

We all know about building the wall but what else has the next president of the United States promised to do?

Here’s just some of what Donald Trump has pledged throughout the campaign:

Immigration

Trade

  • Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and “walk away” from it if the US does not get what it wants
  • Increase tariffs on Chinese imports to 45 per cent

Law and order

Health

  • Scrap the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare
  • Allow the states to take back control of abortion laws. Says public funding of abortion providers is “an insult to people of conscience”
  • Punish doctors who carry out illegal abortions. At one point he also advocated punishing women who have illegal abortions, but he appeared to backtrack on that
  • Fix America’s mental health system, which he says will prevent many mass shootings

Economy and jobs

Defence and national security

  • Try and improve the relationship with Russia: “If Russia and the United States got on well and went after ISIS, that would be good”
  • Submit a new budget to rebuild America’s “depleted military”
  • Make countries that benefit from America’s defence force cover some of the cost
  • Pursue “aggressive joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS
  • Work with other countries to cut off funding to ISIS
  • Initiate cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable ISIS propaganda and recruiting
  • Order an immediate review of all US cyber vulnerabilities

Nuclear weapons

Climate change

Education

  • Scrap the Common Core program, which dictates what students should learn in each grade. He says curriculum decisions and standards should be made at a local level.

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Top Comments

Anonymous 8 years ago

Not one thing that speaks to US obligations to be part of a global community. He may have some impact on the US economy but from a planetary perspective, there will be no progress towards the necessary objective of humans becoming a planet of one people. Short-sightedness is always much easier to achieve.


SuperK 8 years ago

You've forgotten to mention also that its highly likely he'll reverse marriage equality and would allow people to discriminate against LGBT people

Kate B 8 years ago

Where's your evidence for that? Those choices are made on a state level.

squish 8 years ago

I think that's more his VP than him personally. Pence is an awful character.

Zepgirl 8 years ago

I don't know anything about the guy. You seem to have an opinion of him, what's his deal? And, yes, I could Google him, but I can't be bothered, mentally I'm already at the gym with my trainer!

squish 8 years ago

I highly suggest reading his Wikipedia page, specifically his political standings. It's terrifying stuff. He voted to give prison sentences to gay couples who applied for marriage licences, approves of conversion therapy for homosexuals, has said smoking doesn't kill, opposes sex education in schools (and says condoms don't prevent STIs), and doesn't believe in climate change. Surprisingly, he's very into free trade, unlike Trump.

With Pence as VP, I think we'll see a lot of LGBTQI+ and abortion rights removed.