Donald Trump’s plan for the presidency

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Mass expulsions? Political revenge? World peace? A new golden age? As Donald Trump seeks another term in the White House, the United States is buzzing with speculation about what life would be like with the former president back in charge.

In a series of interviews and campaign rallies, the Republican gave some clues.

Here are Trump’s plans for the United States and the world, defined by the candidate himself.

Mass deportations

President Joe Biden’s rival in the November elections has promised to launch the largest illegal migrant deportation operation in US history on his first day in office.

“We will get them out as quickly as we can,” he said, accusing undocumented migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”

The 78-year-old, known for his unfinished border wall project, said he would be happy to “use the military” as part of the effort and would open detention camps to process expulsion targets.

“On the first day of my new term, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that, under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” he said in a video campaign.

He confirmed that he also plans to reinstate entry bans from several Muslim-majority countries as a way of “keeping terrorists out of our country.”

Ukraine, NATO

Trump has been saying for months that he could end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours,” without explaining how.

Critics suggest his plan would involve pressuring Kiev to cede territory illegally occupied by Russia in 2014 and 2022.

“I will have this resolved before I take the White House,” he said recently at a rally in the Midwestern city of Detroit. “As president-elect, I will resolve this.”

The former president strongly criticizes Washington’s arms shipments worth billions of dollars to Kiev and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s requests for financing.

“It never stops,” he told the Michigan crowd.

Asked in a meeting with Fox News whether he would remain committed to NATO during a second term, he replied: “It depends on whether they treat us properly.”

Tariffs versus tax cuts

Trump foresees tariffs of “more than 10%” on all imports.

US companies – and eventually their customers – pay import tariffs, not the companies that export the products.

Trump insists that the revenue raised will finance “a huge tax cut for the middle class, the upper class, the lower class and the business class.”

After waging a fierce trade war with China during his first term, he also plans to revoke the Asian giant’s “most favored nation” status, granted to promote trade.

Trump claims he will “stop inflation by stopping the invasion,” arguing that his crackdown on immigration will reduce housing costs and other expenses.

Ambiguity of abortion

Trump never misses an opportunity to point out that it is in part thanks to him — and his three conservative Supreme Court nominations — that the right to abortion has been considerably weakened in the United States.

But he is more ambiguous about the future of access to reproductive health care.

Insisting that this should be an issue for each state, the Republican refused to promote a national abortion ban, a compromise that would have won him support from the religious right.

“You must follow your heart on this issue, but remember, you must also win the election,” he said in April.

‘Punch, darling, punch!’

Trump slammed the door on the 2015 Paris climate accords during his first term.

If he is re-elected, he said at a rally earlier this month, “he will stop Biden’s unnecessary spending and quickly end the new green scheme” – a reference to his successor’s committed funding for climate change mitigation.

“I’m going to repeal Joe Biden’s insane electric vehicle mandate and we’re going to ‘drill, baby, drill,’” Trump told supporters in Wisconsin, using an old Republican slogan.

“Energy costs will fall very quickly,” he promised. “In many cases, we will cut energy costs in half.”

Going after Biden

Trump, who was convicted in May of corporate fraud and faces three more charges, has baselessly and repeatedly claimed that his various prosecutions are a political witch hunt by Democrats.

The Republican promised to “appoint a true special ‘prosecutor’ to pursue the most corrupt president in US history, Joe Biden.”

No investigation has produced evidence of any wrongdoing on Biden’s part.

He also said he was “absolutely” ready to pardon all Trump supporters convicted of storming the US Capitol in Washington to stop Congress from certifying the Republican’s 2020 presidential election defeat to Biden.

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