Javed Rathore;
“Once again I will make America great”
This was the slogan, which was used by Donald Trump during his first election campaign and he successfully sold this slogan in southern States specially on-urban areas of the country. 4 year ago after becoming a President of the United States of America, Donald Trump once again reiterated his slogan, that he will make America great. His slogan itself was kind of funny, which gives a impression, that America is not great and that’s why he wanted to make America great. Now when he completed four years of his term in residency and this is the time to evaluate his performance and achievements. Lets start with his slogan, that how much he succeeded to make America great. When he took over the office he start blaming his predecessors for entering into a wrong global agreement including NAFTA by President Clinton and Pacific partnership by President Obama.
He also blame President Obama for entering a nuclear non proliferation agreement with Iran. He also condemned globalism and announced to work for Americanism but practically he hurt the Americans by ending the NAFTA and specific partnership and blaming China for manipulation of currency. Because of his actions American economy got hurt further and further his reversal policies from globalism provided an opportunity and access to China to expand her relations and advance the dreams in other countries. China rapidly developed global relations with more than 60 countries and invested trillions of dollars in building infrastructures and massive projects in these countries to gain more political leverage and financial gain through trade expansions with these countries. Because of Trump policies United States is rapidly loosing the political and economical leverage on these countries, which set America on the path of financial and trade decline as well. On a diplomatic front Donald Trump presidency was also a complete failure and disaster. NATO countries has been allies of United States since World war II. United States played a very vital role to rebuild these countries through Marshall Plan and brought these countries closer to United States. Actually marshal plan was the plan which paved a way for United States to become a superpower. These countries fought United States war around the world and supported United States diplomatically and otherwise as needed, but Donald Trump start bullying these countries and take on openly on some of countries including NATO. He did not only spoken against the NATO but he messed up with Germany, France, Sweden and other countries as well. He backed out from Paris environmental protection agreement. Because of his arrogance, prejudice policies driven by his racism antagonized whole world and resultantly he became the first American President who was received by hundreds of thousands of protesters when he visited United kingdom. He was harshly criticized by the mops because of his resist policies in United States and abroad, while previously when President JF Kenady and Ronald Reagan visited these countries they were welcomed by millions. Donald Trump also instead of developing for the relations with Democratic countries he got closer to all dictators of the world, including Kim ul sung of North Korea, Lodenmare Putin of Russia and King Mohmmad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. His foreign policy was also total failure and disaster. He failed to negotiate and reached on any reasonable agreement with N.Korea. He failed to replace the acord with Iran. He messed up his relations with China, Canada and even with Mexico. As the enteral policies are concerned he cancelled the Obama Care, but failed to replace with any alternative plan in 4 years. As management of internal government affairs is concerned, he didn’t did any good on this front either. During the coronavirus pandemic he miserably failed to comprehend the magnanimity of the pandemic from the very beginning and lable it as hokes. South Korea was hit by pandemic before United States but Korea succeeded to control the pandemic like many other countries and only 200 people lost their lives in Korea, but instead in United States more than 240,000 people lost their lives till today and hundreds of thousands are under treatment in hospital, while more than 8 million got infected with coronavirus, just because of confusing statements and irresponsible behavior by the President from very binging of pandemic. United States is the only country on the planet which did worse than any third word country in tackling of coronavirus pandemic. Pakistan is a under develop country with the population of 22 hundreds million people bordering with China succeeded to control the pandemic and lost only 6000 people. The United States is built by the immigrants and immigration is strength of this country and one thing which make this country unique and exceptional then other countries is the diversity which comes from immigration but President Trump put ban entry of the citizens of certain countries on the basis of religion, race and color and declared ban on many Muslim countries. He also uses the coronavirus pandemic as pretext and put a hold on immigrations and deprived the hundreds of thousands people to meet their love ones. There is a one thing which will create everlasting impacts on social and Political fabric of the country and that is very dangerous and poisonous thing and that is the seeds of hate and discrimination which he cultivated in society by his constant hate-mongering remarks and tweets. These seeds created a division among the citizens of the United States. These seeds are so poisonous that it will take decides to dilute these and bring the harmony back. These seeds of hate already created sense of hopelessness and feeling of fragmentation in the society, which is a very dangerous thing for the integrity and prosperity of the country. When someone asked me 4 a year ago what are my comments about Trump elected as President I said “bull enter in a china shop” and I think Donald Trump proved and exactly acting like this. The American people are very vibrant people with the qualities of ingenuity and hard work. The gone through thick and thins of economical crises, but always stood up, but these seeds of hate and divisiveness will not be overturned in years or dacades. American reached this height of inclusion and dignity after the journey of centuries and one mad man turned everything back because of his ego and stubbornness. This is the crucial time in the history of America when after the clear defeat he refused to accept the results and didn’t conceded to Joe Biden, but instead of that he start calling election results frauds without any proofs. This frivolous act of Donald Trump is further destroying the credibility of American democratic system and diminishing the integrity of America around the globe. I am confident that American system is strong and finally prevail, but wounds will there for a long time. One thing we learned from this elections that, if one person with extra ego and short-sightedness become a in charge of the helm of affairs of the country can hurt the whole system and ruined the reputation of the country.
-The writer is a freelance columnist, based in Chicago USA.