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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, politician, television personality, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Trump is the Chairman and President of The Trump Organization, and the founder of the gaming and hotel enterprise, Trump Entertainment Resorts, now owned by Carl Icahn.

Trump is from Queens in New York City, and is a son of real estate developer, Fred Trump. While attending college, Trump worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son. Upon graduating from college in 1968, Trump joined the company, and in 1971 was given control, renaming the company "The Trump Organization". Since then, Trump has built casinos, golf courses, hotels, and other properties, many of which bear his name.

Trump and his businesses, as well as his three marriages, have received prominent media exposure. He hosted a popular NBC reality show, The Apprentice, from 2004 to 2015.

Trump first campaigned for the U.S. presidency in 2000, winning two Reform Party primaries. On June 16, 2015, Trump again announced his candidacy for president, this time as a Republican. Trump became known for his opposition to illegal immigration and free trade agreements, as well as his frequently non-interventionist views on foreign policy,[4][5] and quickly emerged as the Republican nomination front-runner.[6] As of March 23, 2016, Trump has won 21 contests in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.

Trump is hated and loved by Americans but America needs Trump now than Trump needs America

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Donald Trump has been condemned by many on the left and some on the right as being beyond the pale, a toxic virus that exists on the fringes of the political mainstream. But where do his policy views actually fit when compared to his fellow presidential candidates - and past Republican commanders-in-chief?
The New Yorker has definitely set a new mark when it comes to acceptable policy prescriptions on the topic of immigration, but in other areas he is moderate and occasionally to the left of his contemporaries.
Here's a look at where Mr Trump falls on the political spectrum - along with his top competitors and past Republican presidents. It reveals a Donald Trump who isn't quite so extreme after all - and a party that has moved decidedly to the right in recent decades.
How radical is Bernie Sanders?
Taxes
Taxes are going down, down, down

Tax-cutting has been a much-loved tune in the Republican hymnal for decades, and this year's crop of candidates are humming along. John Kasich, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio all promise various combinations of capital gains tax cuts, income bracket simplification and lower marginal rates. Mr Rubio's proposal also includes a significant boost to the tax credit given to those with children.
Ted Cruz's plan is the outlier in the group. He's the only Republican candidate left who is pitching a major change to the existing tax structure, including a 10% flat tax for individuals and a 16% tax on corporations that replaces the existing corporate income and payroll taxes.
Ronald Reagan, the godfather of Republican tax-cut plans, passed sweeping income bracket reductions in his first term but worked with Congress to roll back some of his measures when government budget deficits boomed. His successor, George HW Bush, had to go back on his "no new taxes" campaign pledge to further address the growing national debt - a move that many conservatives viewed as an unforgivable betrayal.
National security
To spend or not to spend?

Now that Rand Paul is out of the race, the Republican field is generally in favour of expanding defence spending, although several of the candidates have staked out more budget-conscious positions.
Like Mr Paul, Ted Cruz voted against a defence spending bill that he viewed as too expensive. He also backed curtailing National Security Agency surveillance powers. As a congressional leader in the 1990s, John Kasich made a name for himself as a budget hawk - even on military issues.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump touts increased spending on national defence as a key part of his "make America great again" programme and generally supports broad government surveillance powers. Marco Rubio does as well, and stakes out the far-right position, promising to boost military spending by $1tn (£710bn) over 10 years.
Mr Rubio's position harkens back to the days of Ronald Reagan, with his massive Cold War-era increases in military programmes. George HW Bush is at the other end of the conservative spectrum, as he oversaw significant military cuts after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Immigration
Trump redefines Republican policy

Donald Trump likes to boast that he put the topic of immigration on the map in the Republican campaign. While that may be a bit of an exaggeration, he has certainly owned the issue, with his condemnation of undocumented Mexican migrants and calls to build a wall on the US-Mexican border and temporarily prevent all Muslims from entering the US.
The New York billionaire has pulled the entire Republican field to the right, but Ted Cruz has come the closest to matching Trump's rhetoric, echoing his call to deport all undocumented aliens currently living in the US.
Marco Rubio was once the face of Republican immigration reform efforts, including providing a pathway to permanent residence for undocumented workers. He's since backed away from legislation he sponsored and says the US must address border security first. John Kasich also talks up border security but says citizenship has to be part of the conversation when an immigration reform deal is reached.
The farther back in time one moves, the more pro-immigration the Republican Party appears. George W Bush was an enthusiastic supporter of ill-fated congressional efforts at bipartisan reform in 2007. Back in 1986 Congress passed - and President Ronald Reagan signed - an immigration reform bill that granted amnesty to undocumented aliens who entered the US prior to 1982. Such a move would be politically radioactive in today's Republican Party.
Foreign policy
Tough talk - but differences over US involvement

Foreign policy once dominated the debate among the Republican candidates, but it has taken a back seat to Donald Trump's economic message of late.
The billionaire front-runner's views are largely nationalistic, but they tend toward restraint. He's had kind words for Russia's Vladimir Putin and seems content to allow him to lead the way in Syria. John Kasich has also taken a more moderate position, cautioning that the global state of affairs is not as dire as it seems. The two part ways on President Barack Obama's Iran agreement, however, with Trump calling for renegotiating it, while Kasich is more circumspect.
Ted Cruz assumes a much more aggressive posture on Iran, saying he'd "tear up" the deal on the first day of his presidency. Although he promises to wage a "carpet bombing" campaign against the so-called Islamic State, he has expressed reluctance to get too involved in the Syrian civil war. Marco Rubio has no such qualms and has called for more US intervention in the region, along with greater confrontation with Russia and renewed sanctions on Cuba.
Ronald Reagan would fit neatly in the middle of this pack. Although he backed US military support in Cold War battles, he shied away from direct US military action in all but the most limited instances. George W Bush, by contrast, engaged US forces in major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks and pledged to use US power to support global democracy.
Abortion
(Almost) no love for Planned Parenthood

Last July the women's health provider Planned Parenthood became the target of conservative condemnation after an activist group released tapes of organisation officials talking bluntly about paying for foetus tissue donations. Most candidates lined up against the organisation, with Ted Cruz promising that as president he would launch an investigation into what he said was likely criminal activity. The Texan also promises to push for a total ban on abortions, without an exception for pregnancies caused by incest or rape.
Marco Rubio has been more vague about whether he supports such exceptions, but has been nearly as aggressive in terms of his attitude toward Planned Parenthood. John Kasich, on the other hand, is in favour of permitting abortions in such cases, or when doctors determine that the life of the mother is at risk.
In what can only be considered a significant break with Republican orthodoxy, Donald Trump has repeatedly defended Planned Parenthood, saying that the organisation performs important medical services (although he agrees with his competitors that they shouldn't get US government funding). He says he's now anti-abortion, although he backed legalisation for many years.
Trump points to Ronald Reagan as an example of another Republican that had a late conversion to the anti-abortion cause. Reagan condemned the procedure as president, and moved to cut off government funding to abortion providers both in the US and abroad, but he was criticised by some on the right as not being aggressive enough in his actions.
And then there's Richard Nixon, who was president when the Supreme Court decision legalising abortion across the US, Roe vs Wade, was handed down. He largely kept silent on the subsequent controversy, but recently released tapes recorded the day after the court announcement show the president saying that abortion was sometimes "necessary" - such as in the case of mixed-race children. There may not be a place on the scale for that particular view.
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Im throwing my weight behind Trump not because some Media coys that are pro establishment are painting him as a racist to decieve the gullible but because his foreign policy thrust will change the balance of power in the world

Donald Trump: 22 things the Republican believes
9 December 2015
From Magazine
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Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican race to be the presidential nominee for next year's election. What are his policies and beliefs?

1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11. Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September, 2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.

2. There should be surveillance on US mosques. Trump believes Muslims should be tracked by law enforcement as a counterterrorism initiative. He has walked back some comments about keeping a database on all American Muslims, but says he doesn't care if watching mosques is seen as "politically incorrect".
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Demonstrators protest surveillance at New York mosques in 2013

3. The US should use waterboarding and other methods of "strong interrogation" in its fight against the Islamic State. The candidate said that these methods are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings.
4. Trump would "bomb the hell" out of IS. He claims that no other candidate would be tougher on the Islamic State and he would weaken the militants by cutting off their access to oil.
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5. Create a simpler tax code. Trump wants anyone who earns less than $25,000 (£16,524) to pay no income tax. They would submit nothing more than a single page tax form that reads "I win". He would lower the business tax to 15%. He would also allow multinational companies keeping money overseas to repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate.

6. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder" under the current US tax code. Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the ultra-wealthy do not pay enough taxes. However, after the campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle class.

He wants to build a "great, great wall" between the US and Mexico. In some of his earliest campaign comments, Trump suggested that Mexicans coming to the US are largely criminals. "They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and they're rapists," he said. A wall on the border, he claims, will not only keep out undocumented immigrants but Syrian migrants as well. He also believes that Mexico should have to pay for the wall, which a BBC analysis estimates could cost between $2.2bn and $13bn.

8. A mass deportation of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the US should go into effect. Despite criticism that this idea is both xenophobic and prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates $114bn - Trump says his deportation plan is as achievable as it will be humane. In addition, his immigration reforms would end "birthright citizenship", the policy that grants the children of illegal immigrants citizenship so long as they are born on American soil. He does not support creating a new path to citizenship for undocumented workers.

9. He and Vladmir Putin would "get along very well". In an interview with CNN, Trump said that Putin and Obama dislike one another too much to negotiate, but that "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right now".
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Trump addresses supporters in Norfolk, Virginia

10. In order to end mass shootings, the US should invest in mental health treatment. However, Trump does not believe that more gun control is the answer. In a position paper on gun rights, Trump revealed he has a concealed carry permit and that when it comes to gun and magazine bans, "the government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own". He would also oppose an expansion of background checks.

11. China should be taken to task on a number of issues in order to make trade with the US more equitable. If elected he says he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual property and hacking.

. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble". Trump mocks Democratic candidates like Martin O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest movement against police brutality and casts himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I think they're looking for trouble," he once said of the activist group. He also tweeted a controversial graphic purporting to show that African Americans kill whites and blacks at a far higher rates than whites or police officers. However, the graphic cites a fictitious "Crime Statistics Bureau" for its numbers, and has been widely debunked using real FBI data.

13. Current unemployment statistics are wrong. Trump has said repeatedly that unemployment in the US is at 20% - once commenting it may be as high as 42% - despite the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs the number at 5.1%. Trump says he doesn't believe that figure is real.
14. His net worth is $10bn. Based on Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg calculated that the real estate mogul is worth about $2.9bn and Forbes put Trump's worth at $4bn. In response, Trump insisted in a press release that he is worth "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS". He is self-funding his campaign and describes his start in the business world as a "small loan of a million dollars" from his father.

15. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul. Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of Veterans Affairs, saying that wait times for doctor visits have only increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number of female veterans.
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Trump registers for the New Hampshire primary
16. Obamacare is a "disaster". Trump says he favours repealing the president's Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman for Trump told Forbes that he will propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and operate under free market principles".

17. Climate change is just "weather". While Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean water" is important, he dismissed climate change science as a "hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses makes them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to work."

18. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddhafi were still in power. Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the two deceased dictators. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he did a better job combating terrorists.

19. He would send back Syrian migrants seeking asylum in the US. He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have already been placed here.

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. Kim Davis should get another job. The Kentucky clerk became a conservative cause when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples because of her Christian faith. But Trump said: "I'm a very, very strong believer in Christianity and religion, but I will say that this was not the right job for her."

21. Muslims should not be admitted to the US. In a press release published in the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Trump wrote that he is "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". The release created a huge backlash, including a petition submitted to British Parliament demanding that Trump not be allowed into the country.

22. He is a "really nice guy". In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice guy" throughout the book, and Trump repeated that self-assessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and in an interview with the Washington Post.

Why are Americans so angry?
By Vanessa Barford
BBC News, Washington DC
4 February 2016
From Magazine
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Americans are generally known for having a positive outlook on life, but with the countdown for November's presidential election now well under way, polls show voters are angry. This may explain the success of non-mainstream candidates such as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders. But what is fuelling the frustration?

A CNN/ORC poll carried out in December 2015 suggests 69% of Americans are either "very angry" or "somewhat angry" about "the way things are going" in the US.
And the same proportion - 69% - are angry because the political system "seems to only be working for the insiders with money and power, like those on Wall Street or in Washington," according to a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll from November.

Many people are not only angry, they are angrier than they were a year ago, according to an NBC/Esquire survey last month - particularly Republicans (61%) and white people (54%) but also 42% of Democrats, 43% of Latinos and 33% of African Americans.

Candidates have sensed the mood and are adopting the rhetoric. Donald Trump, who has arguably tapped into voters' frustration better than any other candidate, says he is "very, very angry" and will "gladly accept the mantle of anger" while rival Republican Ben Carson says he has encountered "many Americans who are discouraged and angry as they watch the American dream slipping away".
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The failure of the economy to deliver real progress to middle-class and working-class Americans over the past 15 years is the most fundamental source of public anger and disaffection in the US," says William Galston, an expert in governance studies at the Brookings Institution think tank.

Although the country may have recovered from the recession - economic output has rebounded and unemployment rates have fallen from 10% in 2009 to 5% in 2015 - Americans are still feeling the pinch in their wallets. Household incomes have, generally speaking, been stagnant for 15 years. In 2014, the median household income was $53,657, according to the US Census Bureau - compared with $57,357 in 2007 and $57,843 in 1999 (adjusted for inflation).

There is also a sense that many jobs are of lower quality and opportunity is dwindling, says Galston. "The search for explanations can very quickly degenerate into the identification of villains in American politics. On the left it is the billionaires, the banks, and Wall Street. On the right it is immigrants, other countries taking advantage of us and the international economy - they are two sides of the same political coin."
2. Immigration

America's demographics are changing - nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the US since 1965, not all of whom entered the country legally. Forty years ago, 84% of the American population was made up of non-Hispanic white people - by last year the figure was 62%, according to Pew Research. It projects this trend will continue, and by 2055 non-Hispanic white people will make up less than half the population. Pew expects them to account for only 46% of the population by 2065. By 2055, more Asians than any other ethnic group are expected to move to US.
"It's been an era of huge demographic, racial, cultural, religious and generational change," says Paul Taylor, author of The Next America. "While some celebrate these changes, others deplore them. Some older, whiter voters do not recognise the country they grew up in. There is a sense of alien tribes," he says.
The US currently has 11.3 million illegal immigrants. Migrants often become a target of anger, says Roberto Suro, an immigration expert at the University of Southern California. "There is a displacement of anxiety and they become the face of larger sources of tensions, such as terrorism, jobs and dissatisfaction. We saw that very clearly when Donald Trump switched from [complaining about] Mexicans to Muslims without skipping a beat after San Bernardino," he says, referring to the shooting in California in December that left 14 people dead.

3. Washington
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When asked if they trust the government, 89% of Republicans and 72% of Democrats say "only sometimes" or "never", according to Pew Research. Six out of 10 Americans think the government has too much power, a survey by Gallup suggests, while the government has been named as the top problem in the US for two years in a row - above issues such as the economy, jobs and immigration, according to the organisation.
The gridlock on Capitol Hill and the perceived impotence of elected officials has led to resentment among 20 to 30% of voters, says polling expert Karlyn Bowman, from the American Enterprise Institute. "People see politicians fighting and things not getting done - plus the responsibilities of Congress have grown significantly since the 1970s and there is simply more to criticise. People feel more distant from their government and sour on it," she says.
William Galston thinks part of the appeal of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is down to frustration with what some see as a failing system. "So on the right you have someone who is running as a 'strong man', a Berlusconi and Putin, who will get things done, and on the left you have someone who is rejecting incrementalism and calling for a political revolution," he says.
Ted Cruz, who won the Republican caucuses in Iowa, is also running as an anti-establishment candidate. "Tonight is a victory for every American who's watched in dismay as career politicians in Washington in both parties refuse to listen and too often fail to keep their commitments to the people," he said on Monday night.
4. America's place in the world
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America is used to being seen as a superpower but the number of Americans that think the US "stands above all other countries in the world" went from 38% in 2012 to 28% in 2014, Pew Research suggests. Seventy percent of Americans also think the US is losing respect internationally, according to a 2013 poll by the centre.
"For a country that is used to being on top of the world, the last 15 years haven't been great in terms of foreign policy. There's a feeling of having been at war since 9/11 that's never really gone away, a sense America doesn't know what it wants and that things aren't going our way," says Roberto Suro. The rise of China, the failure to defeat the Taliban and the slow progress in the fight against the so-called Islamic State group has contributed to the anxiety.
Americans are also more afraid of the prospect of terrorist attacks than at any time since 9/11, according to a New York Times/CBS poll. The American reaction to the San Bernardino shooting was different to the French reaction to the Paris attacks, says Galston. "Whereas the French rallied around the government, Americans rallied against it. There is an impression that the US government is failing in its most basic obligation to keep country and people safe."

5. Divided nation
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Democrats and Republicans have become more ideologically polarised than ever. The typical (median), Republican is now more conservative in his or her core social, economic and political views than 94% of Democrats, compared with 70% in 1994, according to Pew Research. The median Democrat, meanwhile, is more liberal than 92% of Republicans, up from 64%.
The study also found that the share of Americans with a highly negative view of the opposing party has doubled, and that the animosity is so deep, many would be unhappy if a close relative married someone of a different political persuasion.

This polarisation makes reaching common ground on big issues such as immigration, healthcare and gun control more complicated. The deadlock is, in turn, angering another part of the electorate. "Despite this rise in polarisation in America, a large mass in the middle are pragmatic. They aren't totally disengaged, they don't want to see Washington gridlocked, but they roll their eyes at the nature of this discourse," says Paul Taylor. This group includes a lot of young people and tends to eschew party labels. "If they voted," he says, "they could play an important part of the election."

Trump has been labeled names but the funny thing is that his critics are the one selling his candidacy because everyone wants to know the brash tough talking dude who doesnt give a fu**ck about American political lies

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Trump presidency will cut emigration to the US and it will in turn boost our human resources here. Our best brains are in flight to the US while our leaders do nothing.


The intellectuals will be around to make sure that things work

Republicans are of the old order and want the status quo to remain in a dynamic world where the US is gping downhill with mountain of debts and father xmas on their head.


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Ecoterrorist:
Republicans are of the old order and want the status quo to remain in a dynamic world where the US is gping downhill with mountain of debts and father xmas on their head.


Cc banmee

You must have them confused with the democrats. The Republican party is all about fiscal responsibility. It's the democratic party that spends like drunken sailors. You sure you know what you are talking about?

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You must have them confused with the democrats. The Republic is all about fiscal responsibility. It's the democratic party that spends like drunken sailors. You sure you know what you are talking about?

Trump in his foreign policy thrust outline spending cut for countries like South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia who have always been traditional Republican allies. The Republican establishment sees it as a sword thrust through their heart.

European security and international alliances
"Nato is costing us a fortune, and yes, we're protecting Europe, but we're spending a lot of money."
Perhaps the single biggest headline from Mr Trump's remarks at the Washington Post on Monday came from his views on European security and the role of US alliances. He said Americans are shouldering too much of a burden among Nato nations - particularly when it comes to Ukraine.

"Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in Nato, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they're not doing anything," he said. "And I say, why is it that Germany is not dealing with Nato on Ukraine?"
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Mr Trump told Aipac he would move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
He added that the "concept" of Nato is good, but that it is a product of a different time, when the US was wealthier.

Mr Trump's objection to the burdens of current US international commitments isn't limited to Europe either. He also pointed to South Korea as a nation that needs to do more to compensate the US.
"South Korea is very rich," he said. "Great industrial country. And yet we're not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We're constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games. We're reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing."
When told that South Korea pays roughly half of non-personnel costs, Mr Trump wondered why it wasn't 100%.

According to Mr Trump, the US needs to turn its focus to the problems it has at home.
"I know the outer world exists, and I'll be very cognisant of that, but at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially in the inner cities," he said.

Bottom line: Nation-building-begins-at-home rhetoric is not unfamiliar to US politics, but it's unusual to hear it from someone on the verge of winning the Republican nomination.Trump foreing policy in a Nutshell

Ecoterrorist:
Trump in his foreign policy thrust outline spending cut for countries like South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia who have always been traditional Republican allies. The Republican establishment sees it as a sword thrust through their heart.

You have to remember, Americans are not Nigerians, where you can say anything about what you are going to do and get away with it. Your history will speak for you. He is saying a lot of things that he does not live by. Hillary is going to tear him to pieces during the general debates and elections. Even now, she is leading in general election polls meaning if the election is held tomorrow, Trump would lose.

China and trade
"China feels very invincible... They have drained so much money out of our country that they've rebuilt China."

One clear point of departure between Mr Trump and the bulk of the Republican establishment is on the issue of trade. Over the course of the campaign, Mr Trump has repeatedly condemned what he views as unfair trade deals that have allowed countries like China to benefit at the expense of US jobs. He's said he supports free trade but not "stupid trade".
"I feel that we have had horrible negotiators, horrible trade deals," he said at the most recent Republican debate. "The jobs in this country are disappearing, and especially the good jobs."
Mr Trump offered further riffs on this theme on Monday.
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Donald Trump has talked tough on "unfair" trade deals with China
"I have so many people that deal with China - they can easily sell their product here," he said. "No tax, no nothing, just 'come on, bring it all in, you know, bring in your apples, bring in everything you make', and no taxes whatsoever, right? If you want to deal with China, it's just the opposite."

In November he set out a four-part trade policy with China that included labelling the nation as a currency manipulator, more vigorously enforcing international patent law and ending China's "illegal export subsidies".
He has since threatened the nation with a 45% tax on some imports to gain the upper hand in negotiations.
It's an outlook former Central Intelligence Agency head Michael Hayden recently called "a tremendous danger".

"Look at our numbers globally in terms of what our economy is doing," he told Yahoo News. "We are actually pretty healthy. This is not Weimar America."
Bottom line: Although Mr Trump's immigration positions garner all the press, his trade views may be the key to his working-class support.

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China and trade
"China feels very invincible... They have drained so much money out of our country that they've rebuilt China."

One clear point of departure between Mr Trump and the bulk of the Republican establishment is on the issue of trade. Over the course of the campaign, Mr Trump has repeatedly condemned what he views as unfair trade deals that have allowed countries like China to benefit at the expense of US jobs. He's said he supports free trade but not "stupid trade".
"I feel that we have had horrible negotiators, horrible trade deals," he said at the most recent Republican debate. "The jobs in this country are disappearing, and especially the good jobs."
Mr Trump offered further riffs on this theme on Monday.
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Donald Trump has talked tough on "unfair" trade deals with China
"I have so many people that deal with China - they can easily sell their product here," he said. "No tax, no nothing, just 'come on, bring it all in, you know, bring in your apples, bring in everything you make', and no taxes whatsoever, right? If you want to deal with China, it's just the opposite."

In November he set out a four-part trade policy with China that included labelling the nation as a currency manipulator, more vigorously enforcing international patent law and ending China's "illegal export subsidies".
He has since threatened the nation with a 45% tax on some imports to gain the upper hand in negotiations.
It's an outlook former Central Intelligence Agency head Michael Hayden recently called "a tremendous danger".

"Look at our numbers globally in terms of what our economy is doing," he told Yahoo News. "We are actually pretty healthy. This is not Weimar America."

Bottom line: Although Mr Trump's immigration positions garner all the press, his trade views may be the key to his working-class support.

Israel, Iran and the Middle East
"I would knock the hell out of Isis in some form. I would rather not do it with our troops, you understand that."
During his Washington Post interview, Mr Trump was pressed on whether he would match his bellicose rhetoric directed against the so-called Islamic State (IS or Isis)) with a commitment of US ground troops.
"I would put tremendous pressure on other countries that are over there to use their troops, and I'd give them tremendous air support, because we have to get rid of Isis," he said.
Although he wasn't asked about Russian involvement in the Syrian civil war, in the past he's expressed at least modest support.
"You know, Russia wants to get Isis, right? We want to get Isis. Russia is in Syria - maybe we should let them do it," he said during a debate in September.
At his Aipac speech, Mr Trump recited a litany of what can only be considered mainstream Republican views on the Mid-East, however.
He said he wants to "dismantle" what he termed a disastrous nuclear weapons deal with Iran.
"I've studied this issue in greater detail than almost anybody," he said to some sniggers among the pro-Israel crowd in Washington, DC.
"The biggest concern with the deal is not necessarily that Iran is going to violate it, although it already has, the bigger problem is that they can keep the terms and still get to the bomb by simply running out the clock, and, of course, they keep the billions."
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Russia recently announced the withdrawal of most of its forces from Syria
He also denounced the United Nations and asserted that the US would continue its policy of vetoing any resolutions condemning Israel.

"The United Nations is not a friend of democracy," he said. "It's not a friend to freedom. It's not a friend even to the United States of America, where as we all know, it has its home. And it surely isn't a friend to Israel."

Finally, Mr Trump pledged to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - a move that is endorsed by many Republicans but would anger US Arab allies.
Mr Trump's remarks stood in marked contrast to his prior assertions that he would set out to be a "neutral" broker between Israelis and Palestinians. It was a position for which he has been criticised by his fellow Republican candidates - and by Democrat Hillary Clinton on Monday morning.

"America can't ever be neutral when it comes to Israel security or survival," Mrs Clinton said at a speech before the same Aipac audience.

Ecoterrorist:
why are Nigeria muslims scared of Trump?

Scared

Why would i or any muslim be scared of that lunatic?

Hehehe you are funny

banmee:


You have to remember, Americans are not Nigerians, where you can say anything about what you are going to do and get away with it. Your history will speak for you. He is saying a lot of things that he does not live by. Hillary is going to tear him to pieces during the general debates and elections. Even now, she is leading in general election polls meaning if the election is held tomorrow, Trump would lose.

once upon a time Ben Carson had a lead in the polls and Trump was struggling, Obama promised to close down gitmo but the reverse is the case today. Trump has a focal point of bettering the US economy and reorganization of US foreign policy.

He talks tough about NATO which has been a drainon US purse with no commiserate benefit and the Evil today is no longer Communism rather ISLAMIC EXTREMISM with their sponsors Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey funding militant extremist

carinmom:


Scared

Why would i or any muslim be scared of that lunatic?

Hehehe you are funny

Trump is not your everyday politician that some miscreant king in the Gulf will use Oil to intimidate. Trump said and i quote *I would knock the hell out of ISIS* for the recotd a large percentage of muslims are sympathetic to ISIS ideology

Ecoterrorist:
Trump is hated and loved by Americans but America needs Trump now than Trump needs America

Why do you chose to stand with a racist? change your stance for your own good.

Pidggin:


Why do you chose to stand with a racist? change your stance for your own good.

The establishments painted him a racist so that he will lose support with the populace. Do i tell you that Ronald Reagan is still one of the greatest leader in US history with his overt support for apartheid SOuth Africa.


Playing the race card wont work again because there is a global threat from Islamic extremism and a toughie in the mould of Trump should nip it in the bud

Ecoterrorist:
The establishments painted him a racist so that he will lose support with the populace. Do i tell you that Ronald Reagan is still one of the greatest leader in US history with his overt support for apartheid SOuth Africa.


Playing the race card wont work again because there is a global threat from Islamic extremism and a toughie in the mould of Trump should nip it in the bud

So you think Donald Trump will be the next president of America?

What do you stand to gain assuming he wins?