New United States President Donald Trump is due to begin his second consecutive term as the country’s forty-seventh president from yesterday. Sadly, the new incumbent has a giant ego that has been severely dented by a number of insecurities. Chief among these insecurities is the loss of Trump’s 2020 bid for a second term against then Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden. Such has been the insecurities surrounding Trump that he has been concerned about his hair, his weight and his general appearance overall. It is said President Trump still hasn’t been able to get over the fact that he had to relinquish the power of the White House to now Predecessor former president Joe Biden for the interregnum of four years. Now that Trump is back in the Oval Office, his insecurities are on full display. The divisive politician is proving himself incapable of concealing it.
According to Donald Trump, the only fair election is the one he wins. During his 2024 campaign for the U.S. presidency, the outspoken candidate repeatedly claimed that, if Vice President Kamala Harris won, it would only be because the Democrats rigged the election in her favor. “We have to vote and we have to make sure that we stop them from cheating, because they cheat like dogs,” Trump warned the gathered crowd during a speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center in Atlanta (via YouTube). He doubled down on these claims in another speech in North Carolina while addressing the Fraternal Order of Police, professing, “Watch for the voter fraud. Because we win. Without voter fraud, we win so easily,” (via YouTube).
It is highly unlikely that the Democrats would be able to rig the election in Vice President Kamala Harris’ favour. Trump is possibly the first US Presidential candidate in over two hundred years to make such a dangerous claim. The President doesn’t care about the facts if they are not the results he desired. Although this time Trump won the election by a landslide majority it is due to the fact that Harris and her Commander in Chief Biden proved themselves largely out of touch with the demands of their constituencies. Biden and Harris were more in tune to the interests of certain “minorities”. This isolated them from the mainstream of the American people. Trump tends to be more ambiguous in his outlook. But he was more straightforward about offering solutions however imperfect to the problems faced by the constituents who voted for him.
It is also interesting that Trump delivered a speech to the Fraternal Order of Police in North Carolina given this is a widespread Masonic Organization.
Trump will take the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT). It was originally due to take place in front of the U.S. Capitol but will now take place inside the congressional complex because of bitter cold. Trump will then deliver his inaugural address. In interviews, he has said he intends it to be uplifting and unifying. That would mark a departure from his first Inauguration Day speech in 2017, which detailed a broken country he described as “American Carnage.” The outgoing president, Democrat Joe Biden, has said he plans to attend the ceremony and witness the transfer of power, a courtesy Trump, a Republican, did not afford him four years earlier.
The Inauguration Day Speech will clearly set a new tone for Trump’s second presidency. Trump is looking to unite the American people behind him. This will set a sharp contrast to his earlier divisive presidency from 2016 to 2020. It is ironic that although the Democrats are gracious in defeat Trump did not afford them the same courtesy in 2020. This time around Trump is taking a more reconciliatory approach in his inaugural address from inside the US Capitol Building. This benign behaviour can be attributed to the fact that he is now incumbent again. For how long though it is hard to say. The toll on his health in his first four years in office was already beginning to show. Now with his second term in office it remains to be seen if Trump will pursue a second successive term.
Trump is not going to leave no stone unturned when it comes to his immigration policy in relation to Mexico and Latin America. Reconstruction of the Wall on the Mexican border will resume. It is now up to the coming years to tell how Trump acts in relation to the powers invested in him. As president of the world’s dominant super power.
Article written by:
Yacoob Cassim
Journalist at Radio Al Ansaar
