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Joe Biden will not be sworn in as president of the United States for two and a half months, but the 77-year-old is already presiding over his victory speech. “I will work as hard for those who voted for me as for those who did not vote for me,” the Democrat said Saturday night (local time) in his hometown of Wilmington. “We have to stop seeing our opponents as enemies.” Biden shows an empathy that incumbent Donald Trump (74), who spits poison and bile on Twitter, has never shown.
An All-American President?
Trump himself wants to legally defend himself from defeat, so the power struggle for the White House is not over yet. But the fact that even Trump’s home channel “Fox News” is showing the banner “Biden elected 46th president” on the current show Sunday night gives an idea of where the journey is headed.
Biden has been giving a preview of what his term might look like for days. He wanted to be president of all Americans. Trump also promised it once. The difference: with Biden it seems credible. Former Vice President Barack Obama says it is time to “put the brutal rhetoric of the election campaign behind us and lower the temperature.”
24’700 Trump-Tweets
With Trump, the operating temperature in the United States in politics, but also in society, has risen to the red. The storm continues only on Twitter: Trump announces global political decisions through his account @realdonaldtrump. He fires ministers, stirs and moves the markets with his endless tweets.
Trump’s Twitter archive has counted: Given that President Donald Trump has sent more than 24,700 messages through his (private) account so far, in recent months it was an average of 43 per day. He insulted more than 180 people with a tweet: “Could not vote as dog hunter in Tennessee” was one. Several of them wrote more than once.
Trump brings fact-checkers to their knees
Trump can’t just get abusive. It is also no secret that he has a divided relationship with the truth. He was lying to the point that he brought the Washington Post fact-checker to his knees. His team members announced on October 23 that they were eight weeks late with their exam and that they could no longer update their database before the election.
In the 1,316 days from his inauguration to the Republican Congress in August, Trump fact-checkers detected 22,247 false or misleading statements. At the end of the audited period, in the middle of the electoral campaign, there were more than 50 per day.
Biden compared Trump in the election campaign to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. “It’s kind of like Goebbels,” Biden told “MSNBC” channel. “You tell a lie enough, you repeat it, you repeat it, you repeat it, and it is considered general knowledge.”
No respite under Trump
Under Trump, the United States not only did not breathe deeply for almost four years, but the entire world. Just a small excerpt from his radical change in foreign policy: Trump unilaterally dissolved the international nuclear agreement with Iran, recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
He threatened to leave NATO and, considering that German defense spending was too low, announced the withdrawal of about a third of the US soldiers from the Federal Republic. The “rocket man” Kim Jong Un (36) warned Trump that he would provoke “fire and anger” on North Korea. Later, after meeting Kim, he said, “We fell in love.”
There is always one more tweet, one more claim, one more statement from Trump, which again dominates the news and determines the public discussion. The US president set themes you didn’t know could be: for example, when he wanted to buy Greenland from the Danes last year, and then sparked a visit to Copenhagen when the astonished Greenlanders and Danes said their goodbyes. .
End of darkness
In the election campaign, Biden promised to bring America out of the “dark time” after four years of Trump. “We are done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the hatred, the failure, the refusal to take any responsibility,” he said. “Everyone knows who Donald Trump is. Let’s show who we are. “Although everyone now knows who Donald Trump is and what he represents, almost one in two voters voted for him.
The cracks in society
The question of whether you are for or against Trump has divided families and broken friendships, Americans keep telling us. It was not always like this. There were disagreements in the United States before Trump, but it is indisputable that they have deepened during his tenure.
Overcoming this divide is likely to be one of the biggest challenges for Biden. The veteran senator campaigned on this promise: “This is our chance to leave behind the dark and angry politics of the last four years and choose hope over fear, unity over division, science over fiction”.
Obama’s promise
Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama (59), had worked hard on the electoral campaign of his former MP and his vice-candidate Kamala Harris (56). During an appearance in Philadelphia, Obama promised voters a respite after the wild years of Trump. “With Joe and Kamala at the helm, you won’t have to think about the crazy things they said every day and that’s worth a lot.”
The duo “just won’t be that strenuous.” And for Thanksgiving, traditionally celebrated with the family, in just under three weeks, Obama promised his compatriots: “They could possibly have a Thanksgiving dinner without arguing.” (kes / SDA)
Joe Biden came in promising to reverse Donald Trump’s policies in many areas as president of the United States. In addition, he also wants to mark his own accent in areas such as climate policy. An overview:
Coronavirus
In the election campaign, Biden accused the president of failure and inaction in the fight against the pandemic. Starting in January, you will probably have to show that you can do better, presumably from a difficult situation. In the week of the presidential elections, the number of new infections each day reached a record high of more than 120,000. Recently, the Trump administration barely tried to curb the spread of the corona virus. Biden, on the other hand, wants to rely heavily on wearing masks to slow the spread. First of all, he wants to prescribe masks in state institutions and announce strict regulations to state governors. Furthermore, more testing should be done, and scientists like the immunologist Anthony Fauci (79) should have more influence on policy.
economy
Trump claimed to have created “the largest economy in history,” even through lower taxes. Biden, on the other hand, made it clear that he wanted to ask the rich to fund social programs and the expansion of the health system. “Anyone who makes less than $ 400,000 (about 428,000 francs) a year does not pay a penny more,” promises Biden. However, the corporate tax that Trump has lowered will rise from 21 percent to 28 percent. During the election campaign, Biden repeatedly denounced that large corporations did not pay their fair share of taxes. First, however, Biden may have to take countermeasures if the economy suffered the consequences of rampant crown infections again when he took office in January.
Health care
Republicans have been fighting for years to overturn President Barack Obama’s health care reform that brought health insurance to about 20 million Americans, but in some cases it also increased payments. Biden’s name is firmly tied to this reform, in part because he worked to get it passed in the Senate. Meanwhile, Biden announced that he would expand “Obamacare,” especially for low-wage earners. At the same time, it may need a completely new law if the Supreme Court overturns the reform.
racism
Biden, who is popular with African Americans, made it very clear during the election campaign that there is racism in the United States that is anchored in institutions. Among other things, he wanted to counter with a police reform and better economic conditions for blacks.
Environment and energy
Biden announced that he would lead the United States back to the Paris climate accord left by Trump. In the second television match, the Democrat also said that in the long term he wanted to lift the country out of its dependence on fossil fuels and instead focus more on renewables, words that may be expressed in states with a strong oil industry. and gas like Pennsylvania. have cost. Biden also wants to get rid of government subsidies for the industry.
Foreign policy
Trump canceled the nuclear deal with Iran, intensified the confrontation with China, withdrew from UNESCO and the World Health Organization and strained relations with NATO allies. This is the course that Biden would reverse. At the same time, he has to develop his own course for dealing with North Korea and Russia, and how to deal with the policy of his predecessor in the Middle East, who tried to make peace in the region.
immigration
Biden’s plan is, among other things, to re-open the path to citizenship for more people living in the United States without papers. To do this, he will have to reverse many of Trump’s policies over the past four years. Biden must ensure that, as before Trump, especially those immigrants who have entered the country illegally are deported who have committed crimes. And he said he would stop funding the Trump parade project: the high fence on the border with Mexico. (SDA)
