Analysis 4: President Trump “Making America Great Again” First Week in Office

In his first week in office, U.S. President Trump gets to work immediately on his campaign promises to “Make America Great Again” – creating jobs, cancelling anti-business and trade regulations, building up the military, and tightening immigration laws.

Success or fail, new U.S. President Donald J. Trump proceeds to fulfill his campaign promises. He cancelled and signed pro-business, pro-growth, pro-military, and pro-American patriotic laws by “executive order” in his first full week in the White House.

To “Make America Great Again” Mr. Trump continues to dismantle many of former President Barack Obama’s  “social justice” policies. Many of which Mr. Obama signed executive orders during his eight years in office instead of the U.S. Congress. Likewise, Pres. Trump could cancel them a stroke of a pen.

Hit hardest are anti-business regulations dealing with energy-producing projects such as two large Oil Pipeline projects, and factory jobs exported to Mexico. Much to the excitement of the business community, cross-border trades such as NAFTA and TPP fell victims to Mr. Trump’s pen. NAFTA is America, Canada, and Mexico trade agreement signed by former President Bill Clinton. President Trump wants NAFTA renegotiated.

Trans Pacific Partnership Trade; U.S. Pullout, China Salivating…

Pres. Trump cancelled America’s participation in the TPP trade consortium. Proving that one man’s trash is someone else’s treasure, China stands to benefit from the opportunity. TPP was formed to include the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

But the American business community opposed the mass exodus of companies overseas taking jobs away from the U.S. Pres. Trump campaigned on bringing jobs back to America during his campaign. His official cancellation of the U.S. membership in TPP was hailed a positive decision by labor unions, and ordinary citizens.

TPP was an important feature of former President Obama’s government. American influences in the Pacific region was felt by the other TPP members to counter China’s increasing influence. Now that America is no longer a member, China looks to be the logical replacement.

Members must ratify their membership by 2018. So far, the only country that has done so is Japan. But do the other strong members such as Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore entertain having China a member? TPP stood to represent 40% of the world’s economic output.

(Author Sione A. Mokofisi is a LoopTonga contributor who lives in Tonga. He’s is published author and editor of “Niuvākai-Tongan Investigator” and Director of English, Journalism & Business Management at Tonga International Academy, Nuku‘alofa. He holds a MBA and a doctoral candidate at the University of Phoenix-Arizona; a BS at BYU-Hawai‘i; a AA at Mesa College-Arizona.) 

 

 

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Sione Mokofisi