5 things that could happen if Donald Trump wins tonight
When you’re a star you can do anything, but this is what to expect under President Trump
If you believe everything you read, later tonight we could be welcoming in a catastrophic Trump era. Although Clinton is ahead in the polls, Brexit shows just how wrong pollsters can get elections and by this time tomorrow the American Alan Sugar could be the most powerful politician on the planet. Many think that it’s a bad idea to give the nuclear codes to a man who believes that the world would be a better place if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddhafi were still in power. He has talked about mass deporting 11 million illegal immigrants, banning all muslims from entering the country, and even arresting his opponent, Hillary Clinton. But these are a few of the things you can actually expect on the Dawn of the Donald.
Yes, four of his companies have been forced to file for bankruptcy. But how much damage can he cause by cutting tax revenues by $6.2 trillion over the next decade? After all, it’s only twice as much as the cuts Reagan and Bush made respectively in the 1980s and 2000s – both of which corrected for inflation. Under Trump, if you earn less than $75,000, you might want to get ready to pay just 12% income tax. He could also repeal the death tax and give low income houses an effective 0% rate of tax.
The US states of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington have all made medicinal and recreational marijuana use legal with many more set to follow. In October, Trump took a much more softened approach to his initially anti-drug campaign platform admitting he would let states decide whether to legalise or not. This is quite a leap from the last celebrity president, Ronald Reagan, who fans of the Netflix series will know, first started the US “War on Drugs.”
This one is still hypothetical, but a lot of the ways he wants to ‘make America great again’ will put him at odds politically and economically with his biggest and most powerful economic rival. He has openly said that he will be imposing 45% tariff on Chinese exports, which won’t make him very popular with businesses the other side of the Pacific. Whether he will be ‘forcing China to uphold intellectual property laws’ or declaring they are ‘currency manipulators’, Donald looks like he is preparing for a what might become an extreme relationship with Beijing – for better or worse.
During the campaign the macho Russian supremo President, Vladimir Putin, flattered the Republican nominee referring to him as a ‘very flamboyant, very talented’ man. He also said that he welcomed the fact that Trump claimed to have ‘always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace.’ One thing you can count on after the election is that this bromance is just beginning.
Last, but by no means least, if Trump is elected as President, expect to see work begin on the single biggest, and most controversial construction project since slaves built the pyramids. His plan to build an ‘impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall’ was reiterated even during the last stages of the campaign. So, get ready Trump laying the first brick, followed soon after by a new Banksy.
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