Week 2 [10.10 - 16.10.2016] Donald Trump - a controversial candidate for the President of the United States of America
Donald Trump - a controversial candidate for the President of the United
States of America
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| Source: http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/08/20/10-quotes-that-show-exactly-what-donald-trump-thinks-about-women/ |
As we all know, Donald John
Trump has been nominated by the Republican Party for the President of the US in
the 2016 election. To make the issue more contentious, privately he is one of
the best known and most controversial American businessmen - a billionaire and
real estate mogul (The Trump Organization). He can be definitely described as
the very definition of the American success dream.
I will present some facts which
serve to confirm this really controversial position of his.
Let's look back at the year 1980,
when the Trump Tower was constructed. It had to be built very fast, so his
company hired about 200 illegal Polish workers paying them 5$ per hour for
backbreaking work — $5 per hour! 'Employees' were working without any hard hats
and were sleeping at the site. To make this case even more unbelievable,
Trump's company was paying them with a delay. When workers complained, they
were intimidated by using the threat of displacing them back to Poland.
When it comes to lobbying, in
2000 Donald Trump broke the New York state law. He tried to prevent the opening
of an Indian casino in Catskills City because he was afraid of an emerging
competition for his casinos in Atlanta City. In result of lobbying, the court
has imposed a penalty of $250 000 on him.
Moreover, Trump has spent
$55,000 from his campaign budget to advertise and sell his book. The fact that
the money was donated to him makes the case even more shady, especially that he
took the money from the dividend back to his to his own account.
Shockingly, connections
between him and mafias have been drawn hundreds of times. For a businessman
with such an impact like Trump it seems to be imminent. In order to invest in
and develop the casino sector, his company had to stay in let’s say “good
relations” with many people - even with mafia members.
Can he do even better as far
as controversy is concerned? Of course! Despite the fact that the law of the
United States of America prohibits the American commercial investment in Cuba,
there is some evidence which proves that Trump's company has been making deals
there for 20 years.
At the end, I would like to present the most
disgraceful quotes, according to me, of Trump’s speeches:
1. “I think the only difference between
me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more
beautiful.”
2. “My fingers are long and beautiful, as,
it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.”
3. “The beauty of me is that I’m very
rich.”
4.
“You
know, it really doesn’t matter what the media writes as long as you’ve got a
young, and beautiful, piece of ass.” ”
5. “My IQ is one of the highest — and
you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.”
6. “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my
daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
7.
“Robert
Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog
& will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!”
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However, I have to admit that he has a nice voice, for a politician at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBm3ioC6Uqk
Trump isn't really trying to get the votes from the same regions as Clinton. Instead, he turned to the parts of USA that politicians try to ignore and forget about - the countrysides, places where most people haven't even seen a big city.
In their eyes a politicial like Clinton is just a foreign being, ruling over things they cannot comprehend. Trump, on the other hand, manages to deliver a simple message with each of his speeches, something people can understand and relate to. He certainly is rich, but in a good ("American") way, and his controversial/ignorant remarks are perceived as funny things people tend to say to each other in a bar. You could even say that being an asshole is a part of his charm, making him the Tony Stark of politics. In their eyes, Trump is a friend they know, while Clinton is an alien. That's his tactic, and it might get him to presidency.
Although one might say that Trump seems more concentrated on winning the campaign than actually displaying his ideas of ruling the country. I wouldn't be suprised if his only motivation of running in this race is just the fact that being a president is one of the only things he hasn't done yet.
It's not only about being the head of the US, but of the entire world. That's why everybody afraids of his winning. I agree with people who says that president (not only of the US) shouldn't behave like this. On the other hand, everybody says about negative side of Trump, what about Clinton? Is she better candidate? I'm not sure and fortunatelly it's not my decision.
I know one thing, regardless of the result, we - I mean Poland - will have to "fight" for our own place in foreign policy of the US, again.
Reading the news on the elections in America, I feel that I read the script soap opera.
I read on the internet that Trump is running for president because of bankruptcy, but I'm not sure of this information. Maybe some of you know more about it.
Having all that said, the US are gonna be fine. Their economy is on a good road to complete recovery, which might change for the worse, but I don't think any of the candidates will ruin this country in the manner some people fear. It's not that easy to achieve, the president of the US has a lot of power, but it's the whole administration that makes the decisions.
I really liked Michał Wroński's take on Trump. It does seem that Donald might win just because of his more striking personality.
Like someone said earlier US have big problem; similar like in Poland; they have to choose lesser evil. We will soon see what the future will bring us. Some people say that they will vote for ex. for Clinton only because of Trump and of course the other way also.
I think the elections are all about making fuss and making campaign that his good in marketing way.
It is all about convincing people that you are the best person for them to vote on (so like trying to sell product to people).
Unfortunately, scandals about Trumb covers informations about Clinton, for people who are not into politics, so I don't know much about her and I can't tell if she is better candidate than Trump. I only know that he isn't the best one.
I don't know what are his intentions. The same with the other candidates, or the politicians in my country. Elections are always a lottery. However, judging a book by its cover, if I was american, I would not want Donald Trump to be my president. When people choose a person with such a reputation, it's not a very good sign.
At least Trump Is paying for his own campaign. Hillary supports women’s rights (it’s her biggest slogan), gay people and so on, yet she took 100 mln dollars from Saudis where we can all see what type of country it is.
I’d prefer honest goofy person than crooked sly one. I prefer candidate that took advantage over 200 Poles than supports Arab spring, wars and destabilization of many countries in the Middle East.
Donald Trump is very controversial person, which some might love and some might hate. In my opinion, his way of being make it easy for Hillary to attack him and persuade people to vote for her. What's more, i think it is quite dangerous, to give codes to nuclear weapon to person, who is so quick-tempered and have so many controversial statements.
However, Hillary Clinton isn't as brilliant as many people think she is. Her health problems, scandal with leaked emails and many other things may cause people to think twice, whether Hillary will be good president.
In my opinion, for many people in USA, 2016 election will be not to choose the best candidate, but to choose lesser evil.
He claims his advantage is that he is fairly new and fresh on the political stage in contrary to Hillary Clinton. However still, I cannot imagine him making the most influential decisions regarding foreign politics, since most of them require not only tough character, but the ability to look at problems with discipline and cold blood.
You must see it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs
Anyone they will choose, will not be good person for the president of the US.
But this year I changed my point of view on his political and bussiness activities, but I still like his positive side of personality.
What shocked me the most - is the fact about undepayed Polish workers and a dirty way to manipulate them (using a threat of displacing them back to Poland). It’s obvious that he’ll use his bad tricks in future political games. And I don’t think that it’s a good long-term strategy - to trust Donald Trump.
He is a great public speaker, salesman and NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) master. But come on, americans just can’t trust a person who have an idea of building a wall.
Not many know that his family real name is not Trump but Drumpf and that his grandfather was a gold prospector in Alaska.
And yet despite that his believes go far towards anti immigration politics.
Donald Trump is yet another example of world closing with people's believes on nationalist grounds despite the great opportunity they get to travel all around the world and work wherever they like to
As for quotes placed in post: some of them sound to me like a joke. Whether it is appropriate for president candidate to joke like that or not, it's a different thing. I'm just pointing out that if we take seriously sentences that weren't meant to be taken this way some distortion in how the person saying is percieved.
This GIF sums up my feelings about the whole campaign:
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0MYDfnEZQj1fx85y/giphy.gif
I actually had to stop for a second and think wheather or not this is photomontage, that's how silly the real thing is.
The newest season of South Park pokes fun at Trump and Hillary, which at this point doesn't seem that hard.