What Does Trump's Emphatic Victory Mean for a Stunned World?: Financial Times US Editor Explains

What does Trump's emphatic victory mean for a stunned world?: Financial Times US Editor explains

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The day after Donald Trump’s emphatic triumph in the US presidential election stunned the world, the Financial Times US National Editor and Chief Commentator explains what this means for America and for the rest of the world. Edward Luce talks about how powerful Donald Trump will be as President the second time round. With the Republican Party winning back control of the Senate and projected to possibly retain the House, what does this clean sweep mean? There will be few, if any, checks and balances on Trump’s power, so is he now free to transform America as he’s often threatened to do?



Edward Luce talks about some of the threats Trump made during the campaign to prosecute people who he claims cheated in 2020 and pardon those who stormed Capitol Hill in January 2021. Will he carry out his threatened mass deportation of possibly 11 million people considered illegal aliens? And how committed will he be to Project 25 ideas which include replacing Washington’s top bureaucracy with Trump loyalists and dismantling the Departments of Justice and Education, the FBI and the Federal Reserve?



Speaking about the world, is Trump committed to withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Agreement? Will he seriously weaken NATO by undermining the Article 5 guarantee? Will he impose a 20% tariff on all Imports and perhaps 60% on Chinese exports to America, thus triggering a trade war?



And what about the Russia-Ukraine war? And Israel-Gaza-Hezbollah-Iran?



Finally, what is likely to happen to the cases he faces, four of which are criminal cases, and his conviction, for which sentencing is due later this month?



One more issue: America is considered the world’s model of democracy, but now if a man with alleged fascist tendencies and accused of racist and sexist behaviour becomes President for a second time what will be the impact on liberal democracies worldwide?



These are the issues Edward Luce tackles in the interview.

[roopmukherjee]

STUNNED WORLD? WHAT NONSENSE. It was obvious to a layman.

[kgindia]

Inflation has been Tamed!!? Things are baclk to pre-pandemic level!!? What nonsense. Luce earns probably $1M per year so it does not matter to him. As for me, my Grocery Bills are up 30-40%, Gas is very high @ $5 / Gallon, everything is 25-40% more expensive..and I am a management professional! People who are in the bottom 50% are having a real tough time.. that is why Trump Won

[rthompson]

Stunned! Only those not living in the real World maybe.

[ambarishupadhyay]

Kamala ben wasn’t the brightest tool in the shed, it seems!

[gjk-pyxj]

Not surprising to see two people from the same “ecosystem” together here.

[hguf]

Excellent interview. Thanks for keeping it general vs focusing on India which will be discussed in a separate interview. Unpredictable times for India too.

[krishnanukala]

Things are no more what is right and what is wrong. Now Things are either acceptable or unacceptable.

[pallasenahariharan]

Trump's victory is not a surprise becausevg the world is so corrupted. There is no room for truth. It reminds me of Winston Churchill's quote "Truth is so precious that she is always guarded by body guards of lies."

[nagarajudharani]

When both of you are sober listen to yourselves, you will be embarrassed

[dd]

A slight correction on your take on Trump. When he campaigns it’s all about him. When he governs, IF it sounds like it’s all about him, it’s about the thing he wants to do. As he says, SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS. The more successful he appears, even if by his own words, the more successful the Country will be.

[sanjayapradhan]

Why so hue and cry about Trump, he was best in his earlier 4yrs and now he will shine more in this term.

[easwaransanthakumar]

Trump and Modiji are made for each other.

[shekharsanjay]

Both of them are literally crying. Bo ho ho...

[pankajjoshi]

We are surprised that Thapar is so openly and shamelessly admitting to being stunned - which means he was living in some liberal echo chamber..

[sujoymukherjee]

Stunned world.? It was always a close race with Trump being the favorite

[wandellpassah]

Terrifying Indeed thanks for the interview Both

[giridhark]

Happy to see the American election results..😊👍

[venkataraghotham]

Why cant Ed Luce accept the Trump victory graceciously

[govindsinghrajasansi]

Now Americans will know, what Democracy was.

[kenlau]

The world was not stunned. It was praying for it.