Immigration, abortion, diplomacy… Speculation is rife about what a new Trump presidency would look like.
Here is the Republican candidate’s plan for the United States and the world, in four emblematic measures.
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Mass expulsions of migrants
The Republican candidate for the White House has promised to launch “the largest expulsion operation” of migrants on his first day in office.
“We will send them back as quickly as possible,” he said, accusing the migrants of “poisoning the blood of the country.”
The septuagenarian, known for his famous project for a wall on the border with Mexico, does not rule out “using the army” and opening new detention camps to carry out these expulsions.
He also plans to repeal automatic birthright citizenship “for children born to irregular migrants” and “reinstate” his controversial migration decree targeting Muslim countries.
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Oil, oil, oil
Donald Trump had slammed the door on the Paris Climate Agreement during his first term.
If he were re-elected? “I will quickly put an end to the great green scam,” promised the former leader, in reference to the hundreds of billions of dollars committed by the Biden administration to the climate.
“We’re going to drill (for oil) like crazy!” he also promised his supporters.
This will, he said, “really quickly bring down” energy prices. “In many cases, we will cut your energy costs in half,” the Republican billionaire assured.
Musk in control, cryptos galore
On the economy, the Republican billionaire is considering tariffs of “more than 10%” on all imports.
With these revenues, he intends to finance a “large tax cut for the middle class, the upper class, the lower class, the business class.”
Donald Trump also pledged to make the United States “the bitcoin and cryptocurrency capital of the world” and to put billionaire Elon Musk in charge of a broad audit of the American administration.
The former president, who waged a fierce trade war with China during his first term, also plans to revoke the “most favored nation” clause granted to Beijing to expand bilateral trade.
Very ambiguous on abortion The Republican does not miss an opportunity to recall that he is the architect of the cancellation of the federal right to abortion, decided in June 2022 by the Supreme Court. But he is much more ambiguous when it comes to talking about the future of voluntary terminations of pregnancy in the country.
The candidate is not campaigning on a deeply unpopular promise to ban abortion nationwide through federal law, as the religious right would like.
“You have to follow your conscience on this issue, but don’t forget that you also have to win elections,” he said.
And he promised: “My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”
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The war in Ukraine was settled in “24 hours”
Donald Trump keeps saying that he would resolve the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” if elected — without ever explaining how.
“I have a very specific plan to stop Ukraine and Russia. And I have a certain idea – maybe not a plan, but an idea – for China,” he said in an interview.
The former president, however, declined to elaborate on the details of these hypothetical plans. “If I give them to you, I won’t be able to use them,” he said, insisting on the need to maintain an element of “surprise.”
Donald Trump posed as an unconditional defender of Israel when it went to war with Hamas. But he has since been vague about the unconditionality of that support, saying he is not “exactly sure I love the way” Israel is conducting its offensive in Gaza.
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