Étiqueté : Trump

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Trudeau’s silence manner complicity in the age of Trump

You have to watch closely to catch the moment. It’s an instant of recognition or perhaps understanding that, given the public forum, had to remain private, hidden behind a blank stare as an accusatory finger was pointed squarely at the guilty. This was the scene as Senator Cory Booker launched into an impassioned eight-minute soliloquy…

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Girls people’s March protests: Thousands rally against Trump

Thousands have taken part in women’s marches across the US on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, in a bid to generate more female candidates running for office as well as to protest against the US president’s policies. Under the name Power to the Polls, the rallies on Saturday were hailed as the beginning of a…

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Oprah vs Trump in 2020?

Oprah, Democrats have turned their lonely eyes to you. Still smarting from somehow forfeiting the White House to a popular TV celebrity, bruised and bemused Democrats are longing, it seems, for another popular TV celebrity to win it back soon. So, the chatter about President Oprah has begun in earnest and could, in time, gather…

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Palestinian refugees live in awe of Trump again cuts

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Palestinians living in refugee camps have expressed deep alarm over US threats to potentially cut funding for a relief agency tasked with providing aid and services to them. For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has been the lifeline to the more than…

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‘We put our man on top’, Trump mentioned on MBS, book claims

US President Donald Trump took credit for Saudi Arabia’s political shakeup which resulted in the elevation of Mohammed bin Salman to the position of crown prince last year, according to a startling account of his administration’s first year in the White House. The suggested claim is included in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,…

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The tragedy and blessing that is Trump

The real tragedy of US President Donald Trump is that he swept in Republican majorities with him. In his first year in office, the only serious bill he passed was the tax cuts. But Mitch McConnell, majority leader in the Senate, and Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, wanted tax cuts as much or more…

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Hanan Ashrawi to Trump: ‘We would now not be blackmailed’

A senior Palestinian official has responded with defiance to Donald Trump’s threat via Twitter to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority. Hanan Ashrawi’s rebuke followed the US president’s tweet admitting that the Middle East peace process was in difficulty and warning Palestinians that they could lose US aid worth more than $300m a year. « We…

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The 7 issues to glimpse out for from Donald Trump in 2018

Donald Trump’s first year in office was jam-packed. The US president attempted to turn Washington, DC, on its head, governing with the unpredictable, titillating and surreal style of a reality-show celebrity. And there’s no indication 2018 will be any different. Here are some things to watch out for next year: 1. Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation Special…

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Historical past of the enviornment at year 1 after Trump

The world has endured one complete and completely calamitous year of Donald Trump, the president of the United States – « Mr President », as Americans reverentially refer to him.  After a tumultuous and deeply divisive presidential campaign, in a free and fair general election, Americans elected a notoriously racist, consistently misogynistic, white supremacist, xenophobic, real estate…