“I do know nothing about Undertaking 2025,” Trump mentioned in a social media publish earlier this 12 months. “I disagree with among the issues they’re saying and among the issues they’re saying are completely ridiculous and abysmal. Something they do, I want them luck, however I’ve nothing to do with them.”
LGBTQIA+ and racial rights
A second Trump administration has promised to rescind federal insurance policies that prohibit discrimination on the idea of sexual orientation and gender identification. Particularly, their proposed insurance policies would imply transgender individuals would not have entry to gender-affirming medical care, will finish programmes that “promote… gender transition at any age,” and push for a federal legislation stating the federal government doesn’t legally recognise trans individuals.
Trump’s anti-immigration insurance policies are additionally trigger for concern. In October, when vowing to “rescue” the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado from immigrants, Trump declared he would use the Alien Enemies Act, which permits a president to authorise the arrest, relocation, or deportation of any male over the age of 14 who hailed from a “international enemy nation”.
“Kamala has imported a military of unlawful alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the third world,” Trump mentioned, “…from prisons and jails and insane asylums and psychological establishments, and he or she has had them resettled fantastically into your group to prey upon harmless Americans.”
At a marketing campaign rally in Arizona the identical month, Trump mentioned: “After I win on November fifth, the migrant invasion ends and the restoration of our nation begins.” He pledged to rent 10,000 extra border patrol brokers, including that the US is “now recognized all all through the world as an occupied nation.”
In July 2024, Trump additionally questioned Kamala Harris’s racial identification. “I did not know she wa Black till quite a lot of years in the past when she occurred to show black and now she desires to be referred to as Black,” he mentioned on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference in Chicago. “So I do not know, is she Indian? Or is she Black?”
As per CBS, in November 2023 throughout a speech in New Hampshire, Trump ‘used language that echoed Adolf Hitler and fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’ when he pledged to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and radical left thugs that stay like vermin inside the confines of our nation.”
“The risk from exterior forces is much much less sinister, harmful and grave than the risk from inside. Our risk is from inside,” Trump mentioned.
Girls in battle
Trump has pledged to finish the conflict in Ukraine “inside 24 hours” by way of a settlement with Russia “I do know Zelensky very nicely, and I do know Putin very nicely,” he mentioned through the presidential debate. “I feel it is the US greatest curiosity to get this conflict completed and simply get it carried out, negotiate a deal.” Trump gave no particulars on what this deal would come with. The Kremlin has mentioned nothing might be carried out in 24 hours.
There may be additionally concern about how Trump’s presidency might impression girls within the Center East – notably these fleeing battle in Gaza. Help employee Tiara Sahar Ataii says, “The US is concerned in bombing campaigns in Yemen, famously Gaza. And although the Biden-Harris administration hasn’t precisely earned the knight in shining armour on this story, Trump would, I feel, replicate the worst potential final result.”