September 26, 2015
By Saeed Qureshi
Donald Trump is a billionaire realty kingpin and one of the Republican candidates
for the highest and the most prestigious office of the president of the United
States of America. He fumes, frets and hops on the Republican Party turf as well the
American soil by hurling funny and rather disparaging remarks, dainty anecdotes
and perplexing tidbits like a versatile conjurer.
He outlines his provocative policy statements from his armory of arguments
against the rival politicians. His level of tolerance with the press and news
channels is meager as can be seen from his distraught behavior and annoyance
with FOX, NBC and Univision news and TV channels.
His style of gesticulating and
making different contours of face is interesting but perhaps he is made that
way. It might turn out to be an asset
for him as he hits his targets with a straight shot and with a tinge of
ridicule or curt rebuke that is certainly a new trend in the political debates
that we have been watching all these years. He is unabashed and undaunted in
hurling his punches and salvos of comments making the rivals defenseless and
fazed for a while.
Occasionally or invariably he lacks decorum and decency or kind of
parliamentarian touch in bludgeoning his Republican contenders by making
demeaning personal remarks. Look at the comments that he hurled at rival
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina by disdainfully pointing towards
her face or looks that might be amusing but distasteful at the same time.
He
remarked "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?" Trump
said to Solotaroff. "Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”
Later he retracted from his previous
stance by feigning that he was talking about her persona and not face.
He might not be interested in Mexican votes. Otherwise how could pronounce
that all the Mexicans were “rapists”. This unwarranted and mindless judgment
might deprive him off some sizable number of votes in case he wins the
Republican debate. Latinos and Mexicans are around 15 per cent of the total
population of the United States.
He says that native children of immigrants were “anchor babies”. It means
that the illegal immigrants can claim legal stay on the basis of the children
born here. This is true but that is what the constitution of the United States
permits.
His immigration plan aims at deporting
country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants and ending birthright citizenship,
a “guarantee in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment that any child born on U.S.
soil is automatically granted U.S. citizenship, including children of
foreign-born parents”.
Now United States is not the only country granting such a right. It is one
of the 33 countries that grant right of soil or the automatic citizenship to
anyone born in a territory or country, including children of undocumented immigrants.Interestingly
Trump’s mother was a Scottish
immigrant to United States. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants.
With Americans Muslims he
is most annoyed although all the immigrants including Muslims are law-abiding
and part of the magnificent American society that guarantees fundamental rights
and liberty within the framework of the constitution.
He still doubts Obama was not an American born citizen. Recently in an
elections rally he supported the question of a person when he asked “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our
current President is one. You know he’s not even an American. When can we get rid of all the Muslims in
America? To that racial question
a smiling Trump responded “We need this question.”
Expressing his intense
dislike for the women she dubs them “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals”. Later talking to CNN's Don Lemon, he lashed out in
retaliation, at Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly with a sleazy rebuke
because of her question as to why he was so disrespectful to the women by
portraying them as pigs and dogs etc. He said to CNN, “You could see there was
blood coming out of her( Kelly) eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”.
But all said and done, it
is fundamentally, the public opinion and popular judgment that is going to be a
decisive factor and to make the difference. There might be a method in Trumps’ recklessness as astonishingly he is leading
other Republican contenders in public opinion polls. Thus far with a 33 %
approval rating he is on top among a list of 15 candidates.
But per say, despite his unusual plans and promises if he is still
appealing to the people and draws large crowds at his public rallies, then it
demonstrates his popularity. His indecency and rather occasional vulgarity
might be a new interesting and piquant dimension for his audience. Otherwise
how could he stay on top with all the provocative and rather weird ranting?
But supposedly if he beats all other Republican presidential candidates
and goes straight on top to face the Democratic rival, then notwithstanding his
visibly outlandish behavior, he would achieve a milestone.
It appears that there is a lobby in the United States that might be happy with
his agenda and manifesto incorporating such plans as withdrawal or denial of citizenship
to the babies of the immigrants born in America. It is rather also mind-boggling
that despite his humiliating and highly indecent comments about fair sex, one
can still see a sizable presence of women of all ages in his election rallies.
Even if all the Mexicans and Latinos (15 % of the total population) don’t
vote from him and even the African American (also 15 %) might be divided on
voting for him, he might still win the elections. It is yet to be seen how the
situation emerges as there a whole year for the presidential election to take
place. It is also to be seen which candidate from the Democratic Party wins the
final round.
With a probability of Hillary Clinton from the Democratic Party and Donald
Trump from the Republican winning their respective top positions, the competition
might get tough, terse and rather overly interesting.
But there could be
another guess that Bel Carson (now second), Carly Fiorina (third position) or
Jeb Bush (fourth position) might win the final round in the debate now apace
within the Republican Party for the final victor to come forward and face the
Democratic rival.
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