Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation.

I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign policy direction for our country – o­ne that replaces randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace.

It is time to shake the rust off of America’s foreign policy. It's time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold.

The direction I will outline today will also return us to a timeless principle. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people, and American security, above all else. That will be the foundation of every decision that I will make.

America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.

But to chart our path forward, we must first briefly look back.

We have a lot to be proud of. In the 1940s we saved the world. The Greatest Generation beat back the Nazis and the Japanese Imperialists.

Then we saved the world again, this time from totalitarian Communism. The Cold War lasted for decades, but we won.

Democrats and Republicans working together got Mr. Gorbachev to heed the words of President Reagan when he said: “tear down this wall.”

History will not forget what we did.

Unfortunately, after the Cold War, our foreign policy veered badly off course. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went o­n, our foreign policy began to make less and less sense.

Logic was replaced with foolishness and arrogance, and this led to o­ne foreign policy disaster after another.

We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos, and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper.

It all began with the dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy.

We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Civil war, religious fanaticism; thousands of American lives, and many trillions of dollars, were lost as a result. The vacuum was created that ISIS would fill. Iran, too, would rush in and fill the void, much to their unjust enrichment.

Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster.

No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy.

Today, I want to identify five main weaknessesin our foreign policy.

First, Our Resources Are Overextended

President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy. He’s crippled us with wasteful spending, massive debt, low growth, a huge trade deficit and open borders.

Our manufacturing trade deficit with the world is now approaching $1 trillion a year. We’re rebuilding other countries while weakening our own.

Ending the theft of American jobs will give us the resources we need to rebuild our military and regain our financial independence and strength.

I am the o­nly person running for the Presidency who understands this problem and knows how to fix it.

Secondly, our allies are not paying their fair share.

Our allies must contribute toward the financial, political and human costs of our tremendous security burden. But many of them are simply not doing so. They look at the United States as weak and forgiving and feel no obligation to honor their agreements with us.

In NATO, for instance, o­nly 4 of 28 other member countries, besides America, are spending the minimum required 2% of GDP o­n defense.

We have spent trillions of dollars over time – o­n planes, missiles, ships, equipment – building up our military to provide a strong defense for Europe and Asia. The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense – and, if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves.

The whole world will be safer if our allies do their part to support our common defense and security. A Trump Administration will lead a free world that is properly armed and funded.

Thirdly, our friends are beginning to think they can’t depend o­n us.

We’ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies.

He negotiated a disastrous deal with Iran, and then we watched them ignore its terms, even before the ink was dry.

Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and, under a Trump Administration, will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

All of this without even mentioning the humiliation of the United States with Iran’s treatment of our ten captured sailors.

In negotiation, you must be willing to walk. The Iran deal, like so many of our worst agreements, is the result of not being willing to leave the table. When the other side knows you’re not going to walk, it becomes absolutely impossible to win.

At the same time, your friends need to know that you will stick by the agreements that you have with them.

President Obama gutted our missile defense program, then abandoned our missile defense plans with Poland and the Czech Republic.

He supported the ouster of a friendly regime in Egypt that had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel – and then helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in its place.

Israel, our great friend and the o­ne true Democracy in the Middle East, has been snubbed and criticized by an Administration that lacks moral clarity. Just a few days ago, Vice President Biden again criticized Israel – a force for justice and peace – for acting as an impediment to peace in the region.

President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power in the Middle East – all at the expense of Israel, our other allies in the region and, critically, the United States.

We’ve picked fights with our oldest friends, and now they’re starting to look elsewhere for help.

Fourth, our rivals no longer respect us.

In fact, they are just as confused as our allies, but an even bigger problem is that they don’t take us seriously any more.

When President Obama landed in Cuba o­n Air Force o­ne, no leader was there to meet or greet him – perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force o­ne.

Then, amazingly, the same thing happened in Saudi Arabia -- it's called no respect.

Do you remember when the President made a long and expensive trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to get the Olympics for our country, and, after this unprecedented effort, it was announced that the United States came in fourth place?

He should have known the result before making such an embarrassing commitment.

The list of humiliations goes o­n and o­n.

President Obama watches helplessly as North Korea increases its aggression and expands even further with its nuclear reach.

Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault o­n American jobs and wealth, refusing to enforce trade rules – or apply the leverage o­n China necessary to rein in North Korea.

He has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engage in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies.

We’ve let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything.

If President Obama’s goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job.

Finally, America no longer has a clear understanding of our foreign policy goals.

Since the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Soviet Union, we’ve lacked a coherent foreign policy.

One day we’re bombing Libya and getting rid of a dictator to foster democracy for civilians, the next day we are watching the same civilians suffer while that country falls apart.

We're a humanitarian nation. But the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion, and disarray.

We have made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before.

We left Christians subject to intense persecution and even genocide.

Our actions in Iraq, Libya and Syria have helped unleash ISIS.

And we’re in a war against radical Islam, but President Obama won’t even name the enemy!

Hillary Clinton also refuses to say the words “radical Islam,” even as she pushes for a massive increase in refugees.

After Secretary Clinton’s failed intervention in Libya, Islamic terrorists in Benghazi took down our consulate and killed our ambassador and three brave Americans. Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep! Incredible.

Clinton blames it all o­n a video, an excuse that was a total lie. Our Ambassador was murdered and our Secretary of State misled the nation – and by the way, she was not awake to take that call at 3 o'clock in the morning.

And now ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil.

This will change when I am president.

To all our friends and allies, I say America is going to be strong again. America is going to be a reliable friend and ally again.

We’re going to finally have a coherent foreign policy based upon American interests, and the shared interests of our allies.

We are getting out of the nation-building business, and instead focusing o­n creating stability in the world.

Our moments of greatest strength came when politics ended at the water’s edge.

We need a new, rational American foreign policy, informed by the best minds and supported by both parties, as well as by our close allies.

This is how we won the Cold War, and it’s how we will win our new and future struggles.

First, we need a long-term plan to halt the spread and reach of radical Islam.

Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States.

Events may require the use of military force. But it’s also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the Cold War.

In this we’re going to be working very closely with our allies in the Muslim world, all of which are at risk from radical Islamic violence.

We should work together with any nation in the region that is threatened by the rise of radical Islam. But this has to be a two-way street – they must also be good to us and remember us and all we are doing for them.

The struggle against radical Islam also takes place in our homeland. There are scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism. For every case known to the public, there are dozens more.

We must stop importing extremism through senseless immigration policies.

A pause for reassessment will help us to prevent the next San Bernardino or worse -- all you have to do is look at the World Trade Center and September 11^th.

And then there’s ISIS. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered. I won’t tell them where and I won’t tell them how. We must as, a nation, be more unpredictable. But they’re going to be gone. And soon.

Secondly, we have to rebuild our military and our economy.

The Russians and Chinese have rapidly expanded their military capability, but look what’s happened to us!

Our nuclear weapons arsenal – our ultimate deterrent – has been allowed to atrophy and is desperately in need of modernization and renewal.

Our active duty armed forces have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about 1.3 million today.

The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during that time.

The Air Force is about 1/3 smaller than 1991. Pilots are flying B-52s in combat missions today which are older than most people in this room.

And what are we doing about this? President Obama has proposed a 2017 defense budget that, in real dollars, cuts nearly 25% from what we were spending in 2011.

Our military is depleted, and we’re asking our generals and military leaders to worry about global warming.

We will spend what we need to rebuild our military. It is the cheapest investment we can make. We will develop, build and purchase the best equipment known to mankind. Our military dominance must be unquestioned.

But we will look for savings and spend our money wisely. In this time of mounting debt, not o­ne dollar can be wasted.

We are also going to have to change our trade, immigration and economic policies to make our economy strong again – and to put Americans first again. This will ensure that our own workers, right here in America, get the jobs and higher pay that will grow our tax revenue and increase our economic might as a nation.

We need to think smarter about areas where our technological superiority gives us an edge. This includes 3-D printing, artificial intelligence and cyberwarfare.

A great country also takes care of its warriors. Our commitment to them is absolute. A Trump Administration will give our service men and women the best equipment and support in the world when they serve, and the best care in the world when they return as veterans to civilian life.

Finally, we must develop a foreign policy based o­n American interests.

Businesses do not succeed when they lose sight of their core interests and neither do countries.

Look at what happened in the 1990s. Our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were attacked and seventeen brave sailors were killed o­n the USS Cole. And what did we do? It seemed we put more effort into adding China to the World Trade Organization – which has been a disaster for the United States – than into stopping Al Qaeda.

We even had an opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden, and didn’t do it. And then, we got hit at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the worst attack o­n our country in its history.

Our foreign policy goals must be based o­n America’s core national security interests, and the following will be my priorities.

In the Middle East, our goals must be to defeat terrorists and promote regional stability, not radical change. We need to be clear-sighted about the groups that will never be anything other than enemies.

And we must o­nly be generous to those that prove they are our friends.

We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes. But we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based o­n shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism.

I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia – from a position of strength – is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.

Fixing our relations with China is another important step towards a prosperous century. China respects strength, and by letting them take advantage of us economically, we have lost all of their respect. We have a massive trade deficit with China, a deficit we must find a way, quickly, to balance.

A strong and smart America is an America that will find a better friend in China. We can both benefit or we can both go our separate ways.

After I am elected President, I will also call for a summit with our NATO allies, and a separate summit with our Asian allies. In these summits, we will not o­nly discuss a rebalancing of financial commitments, but take a fresh look at how we can adopt new strategies for tackling our common challenges.

For instance, we will discuss how we can upgrade NATO’s outdated mission and structure – grown out of the Cold War – to confront our shared challenges, including migration and Islamic terrorism.

I will not hesitate to deploy military force when there is no alternative. But if America fights, it must fight to win. I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary – and will o­nly do so if we have a plan for victory.

Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction.

The best way to achieve those goals is through a disciplined, deliberate and consistent foreign policy.

With President Obama and Secretary Clinton we’ve had the exact opposite: a reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy – o­ne that has blazed a path of destruction in its wake.

After losing thousands of lives and spending trillions of dollars, we are in far worse shape now in the Middle East than ever before.

I challenge anyone to explain the strategic foreign policy vision of Obama-Clinton – it has been a complete and total disaster.

I will also be prepared to deploy America’s economic resources. Financial leverage and sanctions can be very persuasive – but we need to use them selectively and with determination. Our power will be used if others do not play by the rules.

Our friends and enemies must know that if I draw a line in the sand, I will enforce it.

However, unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct. You cannot have a foreign policy without diplomacy. A superpower understands that caution and restraint are signs of strength.

Although not in government service, I was totally against the War in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East. Sadly, I was correct, and the biggest beneficiary was Iran, who is systematically taking over Iraq and gaining access to their rich oil reserves – something it has wanted to do for decades. And now, to top it all off, we have ISIS.

My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations.

That is why I will also look for talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war.

Finally, I will work with our allies to reinvigorate Western values and institutions. Instead of trying to spread “universal values” that not everyone shares, we should understand that strengthening and promoting Western civilization and its accomplishments will do more to inspire positive reforms around the world than military interventions.

These are my goals, as president.

I will seek a foreign policy that all Americans, whatever their party, can support, and which our friends and allies will respect and welcome.

The world must know that we do not go abroad in search of enemies, that we are always happy when old enemies become friends, and when old friends become allies.

To achieve these goals, Americans must have confidence in their country and its leadership again.

Many Americans must wonder why our politicians seem more interested in defending the borders of foreign countries than their own.

Americans must know that we are putting the American people first again. o­n trade, o­n immigration, o­n foreign policy – the jobs, incomes and security of the American worker will always be my first priority.

No country has ever prospered that failed to put its own interests first. Both our friends and enemies put their countries above ours and we, while being fair to them, must do the same.

We will no longer surrender this country, or its people, to the false song of globalism.

The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down, and will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs.

NAFTA, as an example, has been a total disaster for the U.S. and has emptied our states of our manufacturing and our jobs. Never again. o­nly the reverse will happen. We will keep our jobs and bring in new o­nes. Their will be consequences for companies that leave the U.S. o­nly to exploit it later.

Under a Trump Administration, no American citizen will ever again feel that their needs come second to the citizens of foreign countries.

I will view the world through the clear lens of American interests.

I will be America’s greatest defender and most loyal champion. We will not apologize for becoming successful again, but will instead embrace the unique heritage that makes us who we are.

The world is most peaceful, and most prosperous, when America is strongest.

America will continually play the role of peacemaker.

We will always help to save lives and, indeed, humanity itself. But to play that role, we must make America strong again.

We must make America respected again. And we must make America great again.

If we do that, perhaps this century can be the most peaceful and prosperousthe world has ever known.Thank you.

Original: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-foreign-policy-speech

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1.Overview of the articles about Trump’s victory

Trump’s shocking victory has spawned a flurry of very different opinions. We, as the peacemakers, above all, interested in the peacemakers views about the US foreign policy during Trump’s presidency. From their plenty, we have chosen the latest issue of the TMS well-known weekly Digest distributed among 10 thousand subscribers worldwide o­n November 14, 2016 [1]. In it were published 20 articles about Trump in different perspectives, approaches and assessments. But o­nly two of these articles were positive for Trump, and the remaining, mostly - negative in a varying degree. Authors o­nly three articles based o­n scientific analysis of the facts, while others operate by media clichés diluting them with the own subjective considerations, evaluations and emotions, ignoring the facts and realities. Of course, among them there are also some interesting observations but o­n objective scientific analysis they do not pull. The most interesting fact is that none of the authors-peacemakers of these articles are not reviewed and does not even noted the Trump’s foreign policy program, which he expounded in his speech o­n April 27, 2016 [2]. In it he defined his system peacefulness, which is the main object of our scientific analysis here.

Most of the negative articles are limited with comments and deciphering media stamps and insinuations about Trump. Gefira (European progressive website) summarized them:

“Donald Trump has won. Against the odds, against the polls, against the massive attacks from the media that have gone to great lengths during the past several months to depict him as a monster, a cannibal, a flaw in the pattern, a Putin-fan, a war-monger, a racist, an abomination, the worst candidate in all of history (+ horrendous agenda, sexist, bigot, hater, clown, egomaniac, xenophobe, Berlusconi, horrid downsides, ignorant, thin-skinned, boorish a nasty person, megalomaniac, liar, ignoramus, proto-fascist and etc. – L.S.). Every article, well, every paragraph in an article contained a disparaging word like ‘populist’ or ‘populism’ in reference to Trump… [They talked] only mentally retarded people could possible vote Donald Trump… We arrived at the conclusion that … the United States had gone the wrong way and needed a political overhaul.”[3].

Linh Dinh develops these generalizations: “Universally, Trump was depicted as an anti-establishment candidate. Washington and Wall Street hated him, and the media were deployed to vilify him endlessly. If they could not discredit Trump enough, surely they would steal the election from him. SomeevensuggestedTrumpwouldbeassassinated.”[4].

An endless stream of lies, fabrication of falsehoods, brainwashing and manipulation of public opinion against Trump for media turned as for sociologists in rigged polls, a complete collapse. AccordingtoRachelOldroyd, theelectioncampaignin 2016 showed «one thing is clear: journalism, just like the pollsters, failed. Stuck in their offices in Washington and New York, American reporters failed to understand what drove Donald Trump’s popularity. Instead, buoyed by his clickable soundbites, the media gave Trump’s shocking misogynistic and racist imperialism a platform, then failed to take his growing support seriously… they did not know and understand the people.»[5]. Therefore, in its view, a consequence of the inadequacy of the media became their downfall: «Death of print journalism…the true “epic fail” of the journalism industry as a whole.» «As for Trump, he holds journalists in contempt; regularly sneering at them throughout his campaign and pointedly describing them as “horrible people.”[5].

Clearly, these findings also apply to peace journalism: if it is in line with the mainstream media, it is also overtaken the true ''epic fail'', which implies the need for its revolutionary update and bring into line with reality. Our article is in the fairway of facts, reality and science and not o­n subjective baseless fictions and psychology, excluding use of the “fake news and fake videos of mainstream media” o­n Michel Chossudovsky’s words [5a].

From the Digest articles the most rigorous and broad scientific analysis belongs to Professor McMurtry, who is considering a confrontation Trump-Hillary as an expression of the deep social and political trends in America based o­n the global facts: «HiIlary Clinton is a perfect enemy of Trump. She has become rich in office, and as Harry Truman said “anyone who gets rich in politics is a crook”. She has dedicated her life to political power at the top while growing ever wealthier from its use.  And she loves foreign wars. She has supported a long line of eco-genocidal attacks and bombings of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine, all of them still in motion and waiting for her to be escalated further. She wants a return to this bombing in Syria as a “free-fly zone” – free for US and NATO bombers – just as she led Libya’s destruction from 2011 o­n. She abuses Russia and slanders Putin at every opportunity and she supported the neo-Nazi coup overthrowing the elected government of Ukraine and the civil war since.  She has done nothing but advocate or agree to endless US-led war crimes without any life gain but o­nly mass murder, social ruin and terror which she ignores. Like her mentor Madeleine Allbright, even the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq by Clinton-led bombing are “worth the price”». [6].

In other articles we find not o­nly the analysis but even a mention of such factsthat indicates a certain tendentiousness, excluding scientific and any objectivity. Relying o­n strong facts allowed McMurtry to make an accurate universal conclusion: «He … promises hundreds of billions more to the military – but he still opposes foreign wars. … But this is most major issue of the election has been completely ignored by the media and opposing politicians alike. It is the historic core of his bid for the presidency.» [6] (Underscores are our anywhere - authors). A similar conclusion was reached in o­ne of our predictive articles before Trump victory. [7]

Another important conclusion McMurtry is about Trump’s revolution of thinking:«Trump is unique in calling out the major mass media as continuous purveyors of lies and propaganda – Trump is a first. Never before has anyone been able to denounce the mass media framing, half-truths and fabrications ...He has been slandered and demonized more than Russia’s Putin,...Yet passionate voter support of Trump has still grown in the face of all this denunciation by the political establishment. An underlying revolution in thinking has occurred.» [6].

As professor McMurtry demonstrated, o­nly knowledge of key facts eliminates the errors, in which media and journalism are mired. The knowledge provides the right conclusions, estimates and projections that make sense instead of subjectivity, psychology and following arbitrary constructible media clichés.

Another attempt of theoretical analysis was made by Howard Richards, who defines himself:«“realist.”I cannot make up my mind whether to call it a “realist social theory” or a “realist philosophy” or a “realist viewpoint.”I will call it a theory/philosophy/viewpoint (TPV)…. Realists focus more o­n the social structures that pre-exist people. Without pre-existing structures people, could not be who they are, think what they think, or do what they do…. From a scientific point of view, we have a better grasp of reality when we study the underlying structures (also called generative mechanisms) that tend to produce the phenomena observed. …. Step o­ne is to craft a definition of “structure” or rather “social structure.” … We must redefine the problem. The problem is not how to attract investment.The problem is how to transform social structure so that our lives no longer physically depend o­n attracting investment.»[8]. However, these remarkable theoretical hypotheses have not found the application of the author and are not turned into a deep analysis of the social structure, which ultimately secured victory of Trump. We will touch o­n this structure in our article, in the context of Trump’s peace program generated by the fundamental social structure and designed for it. o­nly ignoring the social structures or ignorance in them can answer thesacramental question: why«commentators and experts of every kind have desperately attempted to understand [and cannot understand –L.S.] how their analysis proved to be so fundamentally inadequate to the reality of the situation» [9].

At the same time, some authors explicitly recognized: «I do not think there was any objective basis for predicting a Trump victory. Clinton had all criteria in her favor: president’s wife with influence, secretary of state, senator etc. Trump: not even office. But Clinton’s criteria were elitist and status quo, Trump’s smacked of populism and basic change.» [10]. Although this did not prevent them to make important private conclusion: «any demonstrator who voted for Clinton voted for war; preferring a possible nuclear war with Russia to controversial Trump.» [11]. But it was not allowed to enter any demonstrators or their researchers outside of subjective psychology and rise to the level of scientific understanding of the deep social structure, which alone opens the way to truth.

2. The methodology of scientific analysis

The USA peace/militarism problem has become a major, if not the key unofficial subject of the presidential election campaign in 2016. This is natural, because the quality of geopolitics of any country, the quality of its relations with the planetary world, with all its states, ultimately determines the quality of country's internal position as a whole determines the part. This is particularly important at the global, closely interconnected world, where the wealth and prosperity of each country depends o­n the quality of the integrity of this world. The national interests of each country are limited and defined by the global wholeness defining the main parameters of its foreign policy within hard current trends of its deep spheral social (macro)structure. It is expressed the social genome (SOCIONOME) and its nucleus - SPHERONS, four harmonious spheral classes of the population employed in four spheres of social production at all its levels, from local, national to regional and global. Its discovery and statistical empirical substantiation in the most expanded form is presented in two chapters of Global Peace Science:[12, Chapter 1 and 2]. Its graphic illustration is drawing "Spherons’ Harmony", which is included in the book synopsis [13] and below together with the shortest o­n three pages sociological proof of SPHERONS.

The methodology of deep social structure, which is harmonious and peaceful by nature, a hypothesis which was articulated still Immanuel Kant more than two centuries ago, has become in Global Peace Science the common denominator to explain a variety in history of civilizations the amazing facts of lasting peace: 43 peace years of militant Roman people at Numa Pompilius reign; ten years of peaceful reign of Ashoka Great in India; 300 years of peaceful life American Indian tribes before the arrival of whites; many examples of peaceful life of African tribes: peacefulness of the Russian civilization, etc. These historical facts cannot be explained by any subjectivism and psychologism, but they are well explained by a deep social structure, universal and common to all historical cultures and civilizations. Deep structure is available brilliant intuition of individual nations / rulers and institutionalization in adequate social mechanisms. These and other similar examples are analyzed in [12, Chapter 3].

Since so far there is no scientific understanding of the deep social structure because of the backwardness of the whole cluster of social sciences, so far the main tool of its knowledge remains the intuition. But it is able not o­nly directly enter into the truth of deep structure. It is subject to endless emotional fluctuations and errors that define its instability. Therefore, the definition of geopolitics of any country depends o­n the quality of intuition of the political leaders who can guess correctly and can fundamentally wrong in determining the trends of deep social macrostructure. Here there are rooted the epistemological reasons of cognition errors, understanding, assessments and predictions of mass social trends. Donald Trump showed in the election campaign dignity of genius intuition in identifying many foreign policy trends of the global macrostructure and the United States but it was not without the forced or arbitrary errors. To analysis of the merits and limitations of Trump's intuition in its foreign policy program is dedicated our article.

3. Trump’s program of peacefulness and peacemaking

Donald Trump has formulated the basic tenets of his foreign policy agenda o­n April 27, 2016 in a speech devoted to the geopolitics of his administration if he is elected president. [2]. It is very strange that until now, this program does not become the subject of a thorough scientific study and journalist investigation. In this speech, Trump has identified the general contours and pillars of his peaceful foreign policy, which, o­n the o­ne hand, together with his domestic agenda, ensured him victory in the elections, and o­n the other hand, have been the subject of fierce militarist criticism and political insinuations by the war party of Obama/Clinton democrats that was undermined its position o­n the elections and which lose in the end. We will present the Trump’s peaceful program in the excerpts row from his speech, which was structured in five sections with comments, comparisons, evaluations and conclusions.

3.1. Complete rejection from aggressive geopolitics of Obama-Clinton

"(We will) replace randomness with purpose, ideology with strategy, and chaos with peace. The strategic foreign policy vision of Obama-Clinton – it has been a complete and total disaster. No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy. But the legacy of the Obama-Clinton interventions will be weakness, confusion, and disarray. Our actions in Iraq, Libya and Syria have helped unleash ISIS. Unfortunately, after the Cold War, our foreign policy veered badly off course. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went o­n, our foreign policy began to make less and less sense. Logic was replaced with foolishness and arrogance, and this led to o­ne foreign policy disaster after another. We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos, and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper. It all began with the dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy. This will change when I am president."[2]

Trump defines geopoliticsof "war without borders" of last administration as aggressive. He gives it a very negative assessment as "a complete and total disaster" (repeated several times), which is characterized by chaos, ideology and interventions. Such geopolitics is devoid of understanding, goal and strategy, so it led o­nly to negative consequences, first of all to the collapse and disorder in Iraq, Libya and Syria, which have become a breeding ground for ISIS terrorism. Trump says "I will stop the aggressive policy", because it is harmful and for America, and for the world community. It is policy of Obama Nobel warlord [14], which provided the "globalization of war" [15] and "full spectrum dominance: totalitarian democracy in the new world order". [16]

Trump’s disclaimer the Obama-Clinton’s belligerent geopolitics is the American people desire to live in peace with all othersnations; it is objective trend of deep social structure of America's population. Trump ingeniously realized in his intuition the deep zeitgeist of peace and expressed it as he can, in his foreign policy program o­n 27 April. Ultimately, it provided him the victory, neutralizing his erroneous statements about some groups of Muslims, Latinos, and women, which took from him a few tens of millions of votes. Rejection from aggression is the first necessary step towards global peace, undermining militarism and depriving it of meaning. If there is no war and aggression - why militarism? Therefore, the Obama-Clinton Democratic Party of the war, hawks and militarists of NATO panicked in hysteria, fueling anti Trump propaganda. But it was powerless to overcome the peaceful spirit of the American deep social structure. This structure rejected aggression of Clinton, who used for it the dirtiest means: "bribed FBI official, received money from state sponsors of terrorism" [17]. What are the key attributes of a peaceful program of Trump?

3.2. Coherent and rational geopolitics instead of aggression

“This will change when I am president. It is a new foreign policy direction for our country.It is time to shake the rust off of America’s foreign policy. It's time to invite new voices and new visions into the fold. My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people, and American security, above all else. That will be the foundation of every decision that I will make. Our foreign policy goals must be based o­n America’s core national security interests, and the following will be my priorities. We’re going to finally have a coherent foreign policy. We need a new, rational American foreign policy, informed by the best minds and supported by both parties. But it’s also a philosophical struggle,…”[2]

The negative assessment of Obama-Hillary aggressive geopolitics served for Trump as the starting point in the formation of his own peaceful foreign policy. What are its features? The main attributes of the US new foreign policy are coherence (harmony, coordination, balance) and rationality. These attributes must be "informed by the best minds and supported by both parties" through the natural "philosophical struggle". Harmony of geopolitics is provided via its rationality and its respective philosophy, theory and science of the best minds, obviously, not o­nly in America but also around the world. Its international and collective character will be the first step of its harmony and peacefulness. It will provide world recognition for a new geopolitics of US and its peaceful global leadership “to make America great again.”Trump’s America should replace its militaristic leadership in peacebuilding o­ne with all economic, political, cultural and social advantages. It is a colossal historic Trump's plan to restore the greatness of America.

To Trump’s goal the most appropriate is Global Peace Science by 174 coauthors (including three Nobel Peace Laureates, a President of India and 59 Americans) from 34 countries [12]. This new science accumulated ideas of the best minds of humanity, ready to cooperate in the Trump program. o­n the basis of this science was born an international project to prevent nuclear war, "Russia-USA-PEACE" [18]. Dialogue between the two superpowers o­n the anti-nuclear, scientific and legal (Global Peace Constitution of the Earth [19]) agenda would be the best practical start of Trump geopolitics. It is also "a chance to avoid World War". [20] Trump’s peacefulness program opens up the limitless prospects of key shift of humanity from "the arms race into a peace race", which brilliantly anticipated Martin Luther King Jr. Trump puts the beginning for implementation of this shift than will be certainly supported by Russia and all other peace-loving countries. The US and Russia could be the pioneers of the "peace race" - a historically unprecedented trend of mankind in the 21st century.

Global Peace Science is also the most powerful joint ideological and spiritual tool for "philosophical struggle" against radical Islam contrasting to its endless mindless murder, terrorism and violence global peace from harmony through acceptable science.

3.3. The center of Trump’s peacefulness: peace and cooperation with Russia and China

“We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes. But we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based o­n shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism. I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia – from a position of strength – is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. We can upgrade NATO’s outdated mission and structure – grown out of the Cold War.”[2]

On the chessboard of world geopolitics key players are the US, Russia and China with their allies. o­n them depends, first of all global peace. If they will embark o­n this path, when and other countries will follow o­n it. Russia and China have long aspirated to it; o­nly an aggressive US policy prevented this. If Trump frees America from it and puts the US o­n the trail of peace, nothing prevents it to live in peace, goodwill and friendship with Russia and China. Trump understands good, o­n the o­ne hand, differences of these three countries, and o­n the other hand, the necessity of their mutual respect as the equals partners "with open eyes", i.e. with the understanding of objective differences and disagreements to seek them a reasonable peace compromises. Trump is absolutely right in saying that "we are not bound to be adversaries" to mercilessly destroy each other. This is contrary to a harmonious, peaceful and rational nature of human society, which is absolutely impossible without this nature, determined by its deep social structure. Therefore, a truth is: "common sense says this cycle of hostility must end." The reasonable alternative does not exist here. So, of course, in this accord, the improvement of "relations with Russia … is possible." But it is not possible "from a position of [military] strength", which excludes mutual respect, equality, friendship and peace, spreading aggression and hostility. It is clear that the "position of strength" - is o­ne of the vestiges of the Pentagon militarism at Trump, which analysis see below.

To provide the reasonable compromises for a peaceful resolution of disagreements "we should seek common ground based o­n shared interests." Search for common ground o­n the basis of shared interests is a brilliant intuition and thought in political imperative of Trump. So he feels and understands well that different interests, so that they are not at hostility and were in harmony, require a common foundation, a single pillar and an objective platform in mind. o­nly science focused o­n the objective truth among the forms of social consciousness. Therefore, "common ground" for the "shared interests" can give o­nly science, in this case - social science, capable and designed to bring the objective truth in some approximation. This science is Global Peace Science [12], which we mentioned above.

To this we must add o­nly o­ne suggestion for Mr. Trump as an innovator of peacemaking and brilliant businessman: to create the USA-Russia joint Institute of Global Peace Science, with departments in every country, in order to develop this science as a "common ground" for a peaceful solution of the whole spectrum of discords between both sides,first and foremost nuclear disarmament as the most pressing problem. Joint development of this science would be a spiritual revolution of two civilizations, complementary political revolution of Trump. It could include Yoga as a universal tool of changing individual mind from violence to nonviolence and harmony.
     This science will be the soft intellectual force, with a position of nonviolence and harmony of which just might be improved relations between the two nuclear superpowers and also among all nations of the Earth. Development of Global Peace Science provides not o­nly new, scientific vision of building global peace, which, scientific visionTrump is seeking. o­n the basis of its discoveries, it will create the unique societal and information technologies with millions of new jobs and billions of revenue as a fundamentally new direction of the technological revolution in the 21st century [12, Chapter 8]. These breakthrough technologies with unmatched economic efficiency will become limitless field for business creativity of Trump and his administration.

3.4. Trump: peace and prosperity require experts with new approaches

“Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction. Unlike other candidates for the presidency, war and aggression will not be my first instinct. That is why I will also look for talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas. We will do more to inspire positive reforms around the world than military interventions. Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States. Events may require the use of military force. And then there’s ISIS. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered.”[2]

Trump understands clearly what he wants instead of aggression, war and destruction of the past US administrations, especially Obama-Clinton, at who aggression was the “first instinct”. He wants peace and prosperity. But he understands that this is a fundamentally new for the America mission, in which there are practically no "talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas." We must emphasize that until now did not exist peacebuilding professionals/experts with a full scale of competence in its holistic scientific vision. Instead it, there are many fragmented private experts in very narrow and secondary issues of peacebuilding, unable to unite to solve a common problem of peace and suffering with incurable pacifist subjectivism and emotional psychologism. At all their need, they are powerless before the task of building global peace(it was proved the last century), which requires scientific knowledge of its root cause - deep social structure, reality and scientific knowledge of which are unknown to them until now.

Therefore, the search for "talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas" - this is for Trump the most difficult and impossible by traditional ways challenge. It can be solved o­nly in the framework of the proposed Institute for Global Peace with parallel education of broad professional peacebuilders/experts with a holistic scientific vision of deep social structure.It is the task of fundamentally new peace education based o­n science instead of subjectivism, psychologism, pacifism and emotions, which proved own powerlessness before the wars of the past century. [21]. Will Trump’s administration capable to understand and solve this educational problem, to provide the new professional experts its great peacebuilding mission that proclaimed the 45th President of America? Just like education and its experts will be able "more to inspire positive reforms around the world than military interventions."

It is a colossal, unprecedented historical task. It is feasible for a unique leader who was able to penetrate into the deep social structure and therefore was able to tell people deeply unexpected truth instead of superficial lies and trite media fakes: “Trump's biggest virtue was that he seemed to be telling the truth o­n key issues” [22]. America, like other countries, has experts for invasions, but does not have the experts for scientific peacebuilding. It is an indisputable fact. Can Trump overcome it and be able to meet its goals and to make America great? The fact that he understands this challenge: "I will also look for talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas" - it is a half of its solution. The other half is the practical steps in this direction.

3.5. Trump: America will be peacemaker and great again

“The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. You cannot have a foreign policy without diplomacy. A superpower understands that caution and restraint are signs of strength.My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations. America will continually play the role of peacemaker. And we must make America great again. If we do that, perhaps this century can be the most peaceful and prosperous the world has ever known.”[2]

One can argue that "the nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony." It may be the similar if it is organized and operate for the benefit of all people. But if that state is state of democrats Obama-Hillary that Trump knows better than others, it is the state not the people and its privileged ruling elite (1%) as Paul Roberts writes [23]. This state is involved in the genocide of the different people and demonstrates the NATO fascist tendency of continuous wars as it writes Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate: "US and UK committed genocide against the Iraqi people when, between 1990 and 2012, they killed 3.3 million people — including 750,000 children. … NATO should be abolished." [24] This state is guilty with its "war crimes against humanity" [25] and the direct link with "nuclear war" by Joachim Hagopian [26]. This state uses terrorism as an “ultimate weapon of the global elite” by Robert Burrowes [27]. This state, represented by its senior officials Obama and Hillary are the type empire craving U.S. politicians that willingly violates the US Constitution as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, similar to the pattern followed by George W. Bush, in the opinion of Theodore McIntire [28]. This state, which considers itself the "only democracy" but building itself around militarism, destroys it, as Henry Giroux writes: "You can't have a democracy that organizes itself around war." [29]. This state "could be in a nuclear war with Russia thanks to Hillary's foreign policies" via six months after her victory as it writes the presidential candidate from the Green Jill Stein [30]. The list of similar attributes of the nation state, which exclude "happiness and harmony" and o­nly generate unhappiness and disharmony can be continued. About a hundred of similar evidences werecollected here [12, Chapters 9 and 13].

In this context, the Trump’s statement o­n "harmony" should be perceived as an ideal for the future of American state, to which he intends to aspire. He found here a brilliant and unprecedented quality: he is the first American politician and president who had the courage to use the most powerful peace-loving concept and value - HARMONY (with its almost synonym - coherence) in determining US foreign policy. Its program, together with its center – “coherence” (harmony), together with the statement of America as a "constant peacemaker" to make the 21st century "the most peaceful and prosperous" and at the same time to make America "once again great" - all this allows to qualify the Trump’s foreign policy program as "PEACEMAKING REVOLUTION of the USA AGGRESSIVE GEOPOLITICS." It provided Trump’s brilliant victory under extremely adverse conditions, reinforced by his disharmonious errors against women and minorities.

But the main thing is that harmony is the ideal of all social associations, including states and their various unions. Note, President Putin has many times used this important concept in his speeches [12, Chapter 10]. The parallels between Putin and Trump see here [12a]. Harmony is an integral key condition of stability, peace, justice and prosperity for all, without exception, social unions. This was proved by a long history of union of the peoples making the Chinese and Indian civilization, which developed steadily o­n the basis of harmony for many thousands of years. o­n the other hand, Western civilization, EU, America and other are cracking at the seams from the deficit and disregarding for social harmony, from ignorance into it and lack of knowledge about it and stemming from it inability to use and manage with harmony. Therefore, Trump’s "harmony" is his ideal, and the target for the future, which begins today.

Achieving peace from harmony and the transformation of America into a permanent global peacemaker that Trump proclaims, it is impossible not o­nly without Global Peace Science but without the Peace Department in the US government. This idea a long time, more than two centuries, is proclaimed in the United States but because of its militarism has been postponed until now. The US history of this idea, developing its organization and its sad fate were briefly discussed in our book [12, Chapter 10]. Another necessary for harmony, peace and prosperity idea of ​​American origin is the idea of transition every citizen into the owner, which for a long time, since President Reagan, persistently develops by Dr. Norman Kurland with its Center for Economic and Social Justice [12, Chapter 7]. These, and other "practical ideas", interesting for Trump and integrated by the holistic value of harmony in Global Peace Science, can and should be developed in the proposed above Global Peace Institute of the USA and Russia.

4. Obama-Clinton’s militarist foreign policy in comparison with Trump

Against the backdrop of a Trump peaceful foreign policy program is especially prominently emerges militarism of geopolitics Obama-Hillary, which cannot hide every their honest proponents. For example, John Avery of Denmark, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a fierce opponent of Trump honest writing about militarism Hillary, who "known involvement in US wars, and her support for the present provocation of Russia, which might easily escalate into a catastrophic thermonuclear war.... close ties with Wall Street (1% - L.S.) and the Israel Lobby, and her failure to propose cuts in the obscenely bloated Pentagon budget". However, Avery admits Trump unfoundedly "even worse" o­nly o­n the basis of its low-key attitude to the Paris climate agreement [31], about which he, of course, still cannot take a final decision and it can be very different from his election rhetoric.

Farther Avery in this 'worse' Noam Chomsky goes, who, like the mainstream media ignores the Trump foreign policy program, without even mentioning it as would it does not exist. This is contrary to fact and reality of its existence, as well as to scientific ethics that excludes manipulation, concealment and denial of facts. Chomsky builds his anti-Trump argumentation not o­nly based o­n his attributed denial of the Paris Agreement but also o­n the basis of his "change", which he believes will be "worse" Hilary’s change. Hesays: «Exit polls reveal that the passionate support for Trump was inspired primarily by the belief that he represented change, while Clinton was perceived as the candidate who would perpetuate their distress. The "change" that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse.» [32].

The American people did not believe but have heard, read and knew the changes that bears Trump, and did not knew any of the changes that carries Hillary, especially in foreign policy, in which it perpetuated a "war without borders." In this context, it is very strange that Trump’s peace is "worse" than Clinton’s wars and aggressions at peacemaker Chomsky, who requires a "careful look" at Trump’s suggestions. But Chomsky contradicts o­neself. He did not give any "careful look" at the program of Trump's foreign policy. He simply ignores and abuses it. How it's called? From the point of complete apriority negation of Trump, Chomsky calls the "a tale" his intention to reduce harmful tension "on the Russian border," because it's not Mexican border. This "tale" of Chomsky is with a racist tinge.

For the same reason and in view of the alleged "unpredictability" Trump (“Trump is too unpredictable”), Chomsky leaves open the question of changing the administration's foreign policy Trump, its "more or less militarism" compared with the Obama administration (“Trump administration is likely to be more or less than militaristic what we have seen in the Obama administration”), as if geopolitical Trump’s program does not exist. [32] Trump unpredictability in foreign policy as well as its militarism - it is 100% false, which proves its geopolitical program analyzed above. In it, we recall o­nce again, he denies the aggressive policy of the Obama-Clinton as "a complete and total disaster", declaring that "America will be a constant peacemaker." Where is unpredictable here? It is the fruit of the disinform imagination as 100% false of mainstream (militaristic) media, in which, according to the ingenious remark Michel Chossudovsky, "war becomes peace," and "lie turns into truth" [14]. The best way to keep the truth of Trump in o­neself - is to ignore the mainstream media and militaristic journalists, reading o­nly the original texts and peacebuilding journalists separating them from counterfeit. Trump, unlike Obama-Hillary is quite predictable in foreign policy, which he systematically formulated in April 2016.

Unlike Trump, we do not find at Hillary any peace declaration, any change in the geopolitics of the aggressive "war without borders." We did not find any article o­n this topic. Place of peacefulness is supplanted by her Russophobia hysteria, lies and militaristic propaganda [23-29]. Therefore it is not Trump and Hillary has become an acute problem of the USA. According to Michael Moore: "Our biggest problem here isn’t Trump - it’s Hillary. She is hugely unpopular — nearly 70% of all voters think she is untrustworthy and dishonest. She represents the old way of politics, not really believing in anything other than what can get you elected. … She’s a hawk… Her vote for the Iraq War made me promise her that I would never vote for her again" [33] Fundamental analysisof the USA militaristic foreign policy for the past decades belongs to the famous American historian and analyst William Blum [33a; 33b].Therefore it is not Hillary with her aggression and Trump with his peacefulness found the support of the American people.
       Trump’s peacemaking revolution of foreign policy is not available, in principle, to Obama and Hillary as the militarists. It never dreamed of them and in their heads it did not come either through their minds or through intuition. There is nothing to compare if we have the Trump’s real program of peace. The danger of fascism, of which so many speak some great peacemakers - Chomsky, Avery, and the like, preferring militarism Hillary to peacefulness Trump came from militarism of democrats of Obama-Clinton (that is well proven in many works [6; 15; 16; 17; etc. .]) but not from the peacefulness Trump. It also proves the scientific analysis of his US foreign policy program, which they stubbornly ignore contrary to the requirements of elementary scientific ethics. Therefore, the insinuation of "Trump’s fascism" must be rejected as unfounded and unworthy of attention.

5. Pentagon rudiments of Trump’s foreign policy program

We are well aware that in politics, as in any mass social process cannot be simultaneous turns by 180%. All the turns, even the most radical, proceed slowly and require a long period of time. Therefore, Trump’s peaceful foreign policy program does not promise to turn 180% from aggressive geopolitics Obama-Hillary, despite claim of its denial as "a complete and total disaster". [2] Augean stables of the US/NATO militarism cannot be cleaned up suddenly. This explains the preservation in Trump’s program of peacebuilding Pentagon’s restrictions and militaristic rudiments that we systematized in the following excerpts block from this program.

(1)“President Obama has weakened our military by weakening our economy.... we need to rebuild our military and our economy …

(2)Our allies must contribute toward the financial, political and human costs of our tremendous security burden. In NATO, for instance, o­nly 4 of 28 other member countries, besides America, are spending the minimum required 2% of GDP o­n defense. We have spent trillions of dollars over time – o­n planes, missiles, ships, equipment – building up our military to provide a strong defense for Europe and Asia. The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense – and, if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. The whole world will be safer if our allies do their part to support our common defense and security. A Trump Administration will lead a free world that is properly armed and funded.

(3)Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and, under a Trump Administration, will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. The Iran deal, like so many of our worst agreements, is the result of not being willing to leave the table. President Obama gutted our missile defense program, then abandoned our missile defense plans with Poland and the Czech Republic. Israel, our great friend and the o­ne true Democracy in the Middle East, has been snubbed and criticized by an Administration that lacks moral clarity. President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power in the Middle East – all at the expense of Israel, our other allies in the region and, critically, the United States.

(4)President Obama watches helplessly as North Korea increases its aggression and expands even further with its nuclear reach. Our president has allowed China to continue its economic assault o­n American jobs and wealth, refusing to enforce trade rules – or apply the leverage o­n China necessary to rein in North Korea. He has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engage in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies. If President Obama’s goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job.

(5)The Russians and Chinese have rapidly expanded their military capability, but look what’s happened to us! Our nuclear weapons arsenal – our ultimate deterrent – has been allowed to atrophy and is desperately in need of modernization and renewal. Our active duty armed forces have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about 1.3 million today. The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during that time. The Air Force is about 1/3 smaller than 1991. Pilots are flying B-52s in combat missions today which are older than most people in this room. And what are we doing about this? President Obama has proposed a 2017 defense budget that, in real dollars, cuts nearly 25% from what we were spending in 2011. Our military is depleted, and we’re asking our generals and military leaders to worry about global warming. We will spend what we need to rebuild our military. It is the cheapest investment we can make. We will develop, build and purchase the best equipment known to mankind. Our military dominance must be unquestioned.

(6)I will not hesitate to deploy military force when there is no alternative. But if America fights, it must fight to win. I will never send our finest into battle unless necessary – and will o­nly do so if we have a plan for victory. Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction. Our power will be used if others do not play by the rules.”

Trump clearly and systematically formulated here the militaristic limits of its peaceful foreign policy. They are clearly serving as the rudiments of the USA most powerful and influential Department - the Pentagon. He cannot ignore its interests, what makes it clear that part of his foreign policy, which is reflected in the excerpts above. Pentagon has to expand all kinds of troops that Trump is unambiguously formulated here. Trump gently and diplomatically delivers Pentagon rudiments, not to tease the civil society geese, under the sauce of "weaknesses in our foreign policy", justifying their by growing military strength of China and Russia, which, in turn, was provoked an American growing military threat about that he prefers to remain silent. Trumpdoes not recollect that the US has the world's largest military budget, the most powerful armed forces, the most powerful military-industrial complex, the largest number of military bases in the world - more than 800 in all continents, etc. We can understand his as an American politician. Therefore, we will not comment o­n the Pentagon vestiges of his peacefulness. For all the contradictory to peacefulness, they are natural and inevitable at this stage of his presidency, which later, in 2-3 years will clearly show the dynamics of its foreign policy towards global peace or towards the Pentagon militarism.

When we are comparing the two parts of the Trump foreign policy: peace and war, we can see the firmness and priority of the peacebuilding direction in its geopolitics. Nothing in his program does not call into question or doubt a peace priority. This is the historical value and uniqueness of its program of foreign policy, which should support all peace-loving countries and peoples of the world because it is in the interest of humanity survival and sustainable development in peace and prosperity from harmony.

Unbiased observers, as well as the American people, it is well understood. For example, the Polish Professor W. Julian Korab-Karpowiczwrote long before the elections, "Donald Trump stands for triumph of America’s greatness and peace. He wants a strong America that serves World Peace, and not spreading continuous wars. He has condemned the "military adventures" USA in other countries that… Also, he wants to improve America’s corrupted political system. Vote for Trump, vote for peace!" He suggested even to award Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for his love of peace. [35] The Internet now walks a similar idea: Peace Nobel Prize should be taken away from Obama and handed over to Trump- it would be the height of justice! American researcher Joachim Hagopian says: "many Americans who've been supporting President-elect Trump see him as the populist leader who will save America from ruin". [36]

On the other hand, the protests that were unfolded in the United States, were clearly artificial, provided by "professional demonstrators" who receive salaries from the democratic and militaristic rich and mainstream media. Paul Roberts has described these demonstrators as "tools of the oligarchy" [37], which consider the normal Americans who gave their voices to Trump "as deplorables". [38]

There is another embarrassing moment in the presidential election. It was expressed by Roberto Savio dissatisfied with Trump victory: "In any country of the world, Hillary Clinton would have won the elections after obtaining the greater number of votes. The United States, however, does not have a democratic Constitution. And while the Americans consider themselves the “only democracy in the world” (George W. Bush, speech to the U.S. Congress at his inauguration), it should be noted that the US Constitution is a vestige of the past.” [39].

We cannot go into the analysis of the United States 'non-democratic’ Constitution. It is a different matter than our but in accordance with it were elected all 45 US presidents, including Trump. The US electoral system is tuned to elect the president not the voters but the 50 states (by the electors from 50 states) for what all the presidential candidates are fighting. In this respect, they are o­n an equal footing and have no complaints. Hillary congratulated Trump's election; she has recognized this, even though she knew that won a slim majority of the votes but the states support was in the minority. Therefore, Trump’s win is valid and just in this system, adopted by the American people throughout its history and there is no a reason to do from it the exclusive advantage of Trump. Thisisabsurd.

6.Trump’s peacebuilding geopolitics and Global Peace Science

So we summarize our scientific analysis of geopolitics Trump and define its links with Global Peace Science.

The first thing we should note is the incompleteness of our analysis, behind which were many important issues of Trump’s policy, especially its internal policy that requires special analysis.

Second, Trump geopolitics program is a brilliant and unprecedented peaceful vision of modernity. It is verified almost every word to articulate a new, peacebuilding order and contour of the US geopolitics. Nothing like the world did not knew in the past centuries and especially during the almost continuous militarist US foreign policy. Therefore, peace program of Trump, with full reason - this is peacemaking Copernican revolution of the US geopolitics for all history. This program meets the highest political, moral and peacemaking ideals of the past proclaimed by the American thinkers and politicians, since America's founding fathers, since William Penn and ending pacifist geniuses of Martin Luther King and Albert Einstein. Therefore, the key slogan Trump is: "Make America Great Again" in peace not in a war! Each phrase of the program develops it and expresses a whole layer of peacefulness that requires fundamental research.

Third. The Trump peacefulness program has great international significance and become a positive example to elect the peaceful leaders in other countries, such as France and Germany. It opens before the USA the prospect of global leadership in peacebuilding if Trump will not o­nly perform but also actively to develop this program, ensuring its expansion beyond his presidency. He formulated this intention but whether he will be able to keep the country o­n the path of peace and not allow it to return to the aggressive way of Obama-Clinton depends o­n many circumstances he should anticipate. Someofthesearediscussedbelow.

Третье. Программа миролюбия Трампа имеет огромное международное значение и становится позитивным примером для избрания миролюбивых лидеров в других странах, например, во Франции и Германии. Она открывает перед США перспективу глобального лидерства в миростроительстве, если Трамп будет не только выполнять, но и активно непрерывно развивать эту программу, обеспечивая ее расширение за пределами своего президентства. Он сформулировал подобное намерение, но удастся ли ему удержать страну на пути миролюбия и не позволить ей вернуться на агрессивный путь Обамы-Клинтон зависит от многих обстоятельств, которые он должен предвидеть. Некоторыеизнихобсуждаютсяниже.

Fourth. Much depends o­n the hardness of the Trump pre-election promises and intentions. His first steps are convinced that he is hard in them and this gives hope for its coherent (harmonious) peaceful geopolitics. Trump is the first American leader that matches to the scale of the great historic King's goal: "to shift the arms race into a peace race."

Fifth. The most acute problem of modern peace and international security is the extreme confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers - Russia and the United States. The risk of nuclear war between them was brought up by the Obama-Clinton administration to the limit point via placing the US/NATO nuclear infrastructure o­n the Russia western border. This risk is exacerbated by two US militaristic attributes:

1. Traditional, since Hiroshima/Nagasaki 1945, US policy, which allows the first use of nuclear weapons. "Throughout the nuclear age, presidents have allowed their senior commanders to plan for the first use of nuclear weapons..." This underscores the Pentagon's former military experts James E. Cartwright and Bruce G. Blairaug [40]. Is Trump continue this dangerous tradition or put an end to it?

2. Decision of the Obama administration to spend an additional $ 1 trillion for modernization of nuclear weapons in the next decade. Can Trump keep this decision or will cancel it?

Without solving these three primary military and political issues, the Trump peace geopolitics will not budge and did not go beyond the Obama-Clinton aggressive foreign policy. This requires a search for "common ground and common sense" of the two nuclear powers, which Trump formulated in his program and that requires the convergence of Putin and Trump peaceful positions.

Sixth. The most important and sensitive issue is definition of "common ground and common sense" of peace for the two nuclear powers, a common platform for convergence of their peaceful leaders, which would be unshakable in the long perspective and excluded a return to militarism and aggression. The necessary revolution of relations between the two powers, their shift from the plane of war and the nuclear standoff to the plane of peace and King’s peace race requires a mutually acceptable Copernican revolution of consciousness of their leadership. Trump started this revolution in his program of peaceful foreign policy. Similar revolution of consciousness is also Global Peace Science by 174 coauthors (including three Nobel Peace Laureates and the president of India Abdul Kalam) from 34 countries, which was created during 11 years by the Global Harmony Association - international peacemaking organization. [12]

Only this science provides a common platform for the joint US and Russian global peacebuilding in entirety of its four societal spheres and the corresponding harmonious classes of the population employed in them (SPHERONS). This is discovery of a new social reality and the unknown actors of global peace. They are unknown to traditional social science and traditional pacifist peacemaking. Their rationale in all cognitive planes is deployed o­n more than 600 pages of this book [12]. In the three-page, very briefly, this justification is presented below and here [41]. Without knowledge of this reality and these actors peacemaking thinking remains o­n the surface of many details does not penetrating into their deep social structure that defines peace from harmony of four spheres of production and employed in them classes of the population. This science is able to use and integrate any private constructive peacemaking idea, which is not contrary to reality as evidenced by coauthorship in it the 174 participants with more than 300 articles.

On the basis of this science was developed the cooperation project "Russia-USA-PEACE" and draft of agenda for the Global Peace Summit [18]. And the project and the Summit are a complement and development for the Trump peacemaking program. Global Peace Science is the best "common sense and common ground" for peacebuilding geopolitics of any country and all together.

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VOTE FOR TRUMP, VOTE FOR PEACE!

DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR TRIUMPH OF AMERICA’S GREATNESS AND PEACE.

The Polish voters in the US have a special reason to vote for Donald. Trump’s grandmother Elizabeth came from Poland and as a young woman in 1919-1920 twice defended the Polish city of Lwow (today’s Lviv in Ukraine), first against the Ukrainian nationalists and then against the Bolsheviks. In early twenties she immigrated to the US where together with her American husband, she developed a network of restaurants. This was the beginning of the Trump family fortune.

Donald Trump has a rich family background. He has inherited the tradition of being a patriot and an entrepreneur.  He wants a strong America that serves World Peace, and not spreading continuous wars. He has condemned the "military adventures" USA in other countries that "last forever and cannot be won by those who lead them now." Also, he wants to improve America’s corrupted political system. His program includes reforms of the economy, governance, and the fight against corruption. He wants to limit the term of office of congressmen and introduce a life ban o­n lobbying the interests of foreign companies to senior officials. In addition, he wants to stop the flow of illegal emigrants to the US and the reduce the inflow of foreigners into the US from countries considered to be breeding grounds of terrorism. To stimulate the economy, Trump plans the reduction of corporate taxes from 35 to 15%, the lifting of restrictions o­n the production of energy, sanctions for companies transferring their factories abroad, as well as the simplification of the tax system. 

Let us give to Donald Trump our full support! This is a great chance for more peaceful and greater America. Vote for Trump, Vote for Peace!

Prof. W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=724 
https://www.facebook.com/korabkarpowicz/

30/10/16

Trump America greatness is peacefulness. Hillary America greatness is genocide, fascism, terrorism and crimes against humanity in the war without borders. This is her global totalitarian democracy.

Dear Prof. W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz:

I found your call to vote for Trump, for the triumph of America's greatness as a peacebuilding power, which it still has not, a very important and relevant for the entire world. So I was happy to post it o­n your personal page GHA website "Peace from Harmony" here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=724 and Donald Trump's page here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=685. Relationship to global peace is a key criterion for evaluating any political leader of any country, especially such as the United States. Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great" in peace rejects Hillary’s militarist slogan: "America has been and remains the great" imperial and militaristic power o­n the planet. This is her global ‘totalitarian democracy’ (William Engdahl: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=659), since which she began and continues into the future.

Thereareplentyofevidences forTrump’swin, forexample, "FiveReasonsWhyTrumpwins" by MichaelMoore (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=685) and many others. At the same time, the mainstream media, which are under the heel of the ruling elite, headed by its patron, "Nobel Warlord Obama" (Michel Chossudovsky: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=682), demonizing Trump with endless fabrication of falsehoods, attributing to him all the mortal sins, since fascism, racial hatred, gender humiliation and etc. Of course, some careless attacks he gives some reason for such accusations, but he was always apologizing for them and disowns from them. But the motif of "Trump’s fascism" sounds even at some peacemakers, for example, John Avery from Denmark Nobel Prize winner, who dedicated to him a few articles, following the advice of Noam Chomsky's "Hold your nose and vote for Hillary” as if Hillary would be the greatest peacemaker. But this is a complete jumble in the minds of peacemakers who have lost peacebuilding guidance in their degenerate and impotent methodology.

Avery and Chomsky are my friends in peacemaking, but the truth is dearer to me as the saying goes. They are brilliant in the criticism of militarism, but powerless in its positive alternative. Avery calls the most dangerous militaristic characteristics Hilary: "her known involvement in US wars, and her support for the present provocation of Russia, which might easily escalate into a catastrophic thermonuclear war.... close ties with Wall Street and the Israel Lobby, and her failure to propose cuts in the obscenely bloated Pentagon budget" (https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/10/what-u-s-progressives-should-do-on-nov-8/). They make its brilliant portrait of the "true hawk and militarist misery of the world" (Jan Oberg:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=703). But this does not prevent Avery say that "Trump would be worse." What exactly?

What could be worse than nuclear war??? In my opinion is NOTHING!!! But at Avery worse than it is climate change: “his most dangerous feature is his denial of climate change, and his proposal to scrap the Paris agreement. Climate change is an even more severe threat to the long-term future of human civilization and the biosphere than nuclear war.”(Ibid). I do not understand here the great scientist-chemist Avery. If you know that within o­ne hour of a nuclear war, each side will destroy all life o­n Earth many times and plunges it into a "nuclear winter", then about WHAT future and WHAT climate change we can talk, when they will be destroyed at 100%??? This is an obvious logical inconsistency in the reasoning of my fellow scientists, which I cannot recognize in any way. It is contrary to reason, logic and scientific facts/experiments.

The worst nuclear war Hilary are "the serious flaws in Donald Trump’s character", created for the most partbythe mainstream media purchased democratic Washington elite. What the flaws: "a vulgar misogynist, and a racist bigot, he is a neofascist who appeals to the lowest and most violent instincts of voters. He is also a poorly informed egomaniac who is unable to recognize his own limitations" (Ibid.). Avery uncritically repeats the demonized image of Trump, created by the Washington propaganda. As this paid mythology is more terrible than nuclear war??? HOW propaganda doll for peacemaker Avery could become more dangerous than a real nuclear war???

Why Avery ignores numerous peacemaking intentions of Trump: 'shake rust off America's foreign policy', ‘have a coherent foreign policy’, to withdraw the NATO troops from the western border of Russia, to establish a dialogue with Russia and cooperation in the fight against terrorism and so o­n. These are the key peacemaking proposals of Trump, which are violated Hilary. Why Avery did not see them? Or he does not want to see them? Ignorance of Trump is better than Hillary professionalism that led to genocide in Iraq and Libya and is leading to a global nuclear war and global genocide. Therefore, the progressive minded people of America and not zombie by propaganda see it and will vote for Trump. Hillary Clinton, by definition of Diana Johnstone is "Queen of Chaos" (Diana Johnstone: Queen of Chaos The misadventures of Hillary Clinton CounterPunch 2015: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=685), with her global ‘totalitarian democracy’ (William Engdahl: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=659), genocide (Mairead Maguire:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=678), fascism (Gary Brumbak:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=675), terrorism (Alastair Crooke: How the US Armed-up Syrian Jihadists:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=716), and war crimes against humanity (Joachim Hagopian. American Empire War and Genocidal Crimes Against Humanity: http://www.globalresearch.ca/historical-tradition-of-american-empire-war-and-genocidal-crimes-against-humanity/5393997), is immeasurably worse for global peace.

Therefore, the progressive-minded American people should vote against Hillary and for Trump. It is our objective conclusion, the opposite to conclusion of Avery. Here truth is dearer friendship. This conclusion is expressed by tens of thinkers, including Julian Korab-Karpowicz and it will be supported by the voters of America. Thank you very much for your courageous appeal, contrary to the mainstream, to vote for Trump, for peace, which is supported by the GHA members and the Global Peace Science coauthors!!!
Regards, best wishes for peace from harmony through science (GPS),
Dr. Leo Semashko,
31/10/16

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Donald Trump unveils 'America first' foreign policy plan

Trump vows to ‘shake rust off America’s foreign policy’

Dan Roberts in Washington

Wednesday 27 April 2016

Donald Trump promised to save “humanity itself” o­n Wednesday, arguing he would “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy” if elected president with an unashamedly self-interested approach to world affairs.

The businessman tried to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan as he made claims to be developing a foreign policy strategy that would “endure for several generations” by seeking peace through strength.

In his first major policy address since becoming frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, he also foreshadowed his likely campaign attacks against Hillary Clinton by holding her and Barack Obama jointly to blame for “reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy” in the Middle East.

Speaking before an invited audience at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, the billionaire celebrity departed from his usual speaking style by relying o­n an autocue and prepared remarks to outline his alternative approach.

“I will return us to a timeless principle. Always put the interest of the American people and American security above all else,” said Trump, claiming he would “replace randomness with purpose ... chaos with peace”.

But though the half-hour speech was longer o­n rhetoric than usual, there was little sign of Trump dialing back o­n the bombastic approach that has alarmed many in the foreign policy community.

Instead he criticised the establishment approach from both parties, with remarks in which he:

Redoubled his criticism of Nato’s “outdated mission”, claiming US allies were “not paying their fair share”;

Said he would hold summits with Russia and China shortly after assuming power and seek to regain their “respect” by showing his strength;

Said Nato should instead upgrade its “outdated mission” to “confront shared challenges like migration and islamic terrorism;

Claimed there there were “scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism”, claiming “for every case known to the public there are dozens and dozens more”;

Promised to use 3D printing, artificial intelligence and cyber warfare to help rebuild US military strength.

Though there was no overt call for war, or the restoration of torture techniques, that had alarmed commentators in recent speeches. Trump said he would stop at little to defeat the Islamic State.

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“Events may require the use of military force, but it’s also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the cold war,” he said.

He also criticised the US response to Isis oil exports in Libya, suggesting he would intervene militarily.

“We don’t blockade, we don’t bomb. It’s almost as if we don’t know anything about it. This will all change when I become president. America is going to be strong again, it is going to be reliable again. We are going to finally have a coherent foreign policy.”

The remarks o­n China and Russia are likely to raise eyebrows in US foreign policy circles, suggesting Trump would seek to foster a policy of accommodation, rather than containment or confrontation if elected.

“We desire to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China. We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes,” he said. “But we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based o­n shared interests.”

“After I am elected president, I will also call for a summit with our Nato allies, and a separate summit with our Asian allies,” added Trump. “In these summits, we will not o­nly discuss a rebalancing of financial commitments, but take a fresh look at how we can adopt new strategies for tackling our common challenges.”

The speech was also shot through with contradictions as Trump at o­nce vowed to modernise and renew America’s nuclear arsenal, then warned that high-powered weapons were the biggest threat to the world.

Trump also found himself mocked for mispronouncing Tanzania, Tan-zay-nee-uh, although former Republican House leader Newt Gingrich praised Trump and the speech, tweeting: “Washington elites mock Trump for mispronouncing Tanzania. They don’t get it. He said the most important word correctly: America. He gets it.”

However, the speech received a damning response from senior figures at both ends of the political spectrum.

“Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave,” said senator Lindsey Graham, a leading Republican hawk and former rival for the presidential nomination.

Graham claimed the “pathetic” speech was not conservative, but “isolationism surrounded by disconnected thought” and “demonstrates lack of understanding about the threats we face”.

The Clinton campaign released a serious of criticisms ahead of the speech, calling Trump a “loose cannon” with a dangerous foreign policy that showed “reckless disregard for the dangers of nuclear proliferation”.

“Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric goes against everything we stand for,” added the campaign o­nce the speech had started.

The Clinton camp plans a more detailed response led by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Virginia senator Tim Kaine later o­n Wednesday.

Original:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech

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5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win

 07/23/2016

Michael Moore Oscar and Emmy-winning Director

Friends:

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president. President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them for the next four years: “PRESIDENT TRUMP.”

Never in my life have I wanted to be proven wrong more than I do right now.

I can see what you’re doing right now. You’re shaking your head wildly - “No, Mike, this won’t happen!” Unfortunately, you are living in a bubble that comes with an adjoining echo chamber where you and your friends are convinced the American people are not going to elect an idiot for president. You alternate between being appalled at him and laughing at him because of his latest crazy comment or his embarrassingly narcissistic stance o­n everything because everything is about him. And then you listen to Hillary and you behold our very first female president, someone the world respects, someone who is whip-smart and cares about kids, who will continue the Obama legacy because that is what the American people clearly want! Yes! Four more years of this!

You need to exit that bubble right now. You need to stop living in denial and face the truth which you know deep down is very, very real. Trying to soothe yourself with the facts - “77% of the electorate are women, people of color, young adults under 35 and Trump cant win a majority of any of them!“ - or logic - “people aren’t going to vote for a buffoon or against their own best interests!“ - is your brain’s way of trying to protect you from trauma. Like when you hear a loud noise o­n the street and you think, “oh, a tire just blew out,” or, “wow, who’s playing with firecrackers?” because you don’t want to think you just heard someone being shot with a gun. It’s the same reason why all the initial news and eyewitness reports o­n 9/11 said “a small plane accidentally flew into the World Trade Center.” We want to - we need to - hope for the best because, frankly, life is already a shit show and it’s hard enough struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. We can’t handle much more bad news. So our mental state goes to default when something scary is actually, truly happening. The first people plowed down by the truck in Nice spent their final moments o­n earth waving at the driver whom they thought had simply lost control of his truck, trying to tell him that he jumped the curb: “Watch out!,” they shouted. “There are people o­n the sidewalk!”

Well, folks, this isn’t an accident. It is happening. And if you believe Hillary Clinton is going to beat Trump with facts and smarts and logic, then you obviously missed the past year of 56 primaries and caucuses where 16 Republican candidates tried that and every kitchen sink they could throw at Trump and nothing could stop his juggernaut. As of today, as things stand now, I believe this is going to happen - and in order to deal with it, I need you first to acknowledge it, and then maybe, just maybe, we can find a way out of the mess we’re in.

Don’t get me wrong. I have great hope for the country I live in. Things are better. The left has won the cultural wars. Gays and lesbians can get married. A majority of Americans now take the liberal position o­n just about every polling question posed to them: Equal pay for women - check. Abortion should be legal - check. Stronger environmental laws - check. More gun control - check. Legalize marijuana - check. A huge shift has taken place - just ask the socialist who won 22 states this year. And there is no doubt in my mind that if people could vote from their couch at home o­n their X-box or PlayStation, Hillary would win in a landslide.

But that is not how it works in America. People have to leave the house and get in line to vote. And if they live in poor, Black or Hispanic neighborhoods, they not o­nly have a longer line to wait in, everything is being done to literally stop them from casting a ballot. So in most elections it’s hard to get even 50% to turn out to vote. And therein lies the problem for November - who is going to have the most motivated, most inspired voters show up to vote? You know the answer to this question. Who’s the candidate with the most rabid supporters? Whose crazed fans are going to be up at 5 AM o­n Election Day, kicking ass all day long, all the way until the last polling place has closed, making sure every Tom, Dick and Harry (and Bob and Joe and Billy Bob and Billy Joe and Billy Bob Joe) has cast his ballot? That’s right. That’s the high level of danger we’re in. And don’t fool yourself — no amount of compelling Hillary TV ads, or outfacting him in the debates or Libertarians siphoning votes away from Trump is going to stop his mojo.

“You need to stop living in denial and face the truth which you know deep down is very, very real.”

Here are the 5 reasons Trump is going to win:

1. Midwest Math, or Welcome to Our Rust Belt Brexit. I believe Trump is going to focus much of his attention on the four blue states in the rustbelt of the upper Great Lakes - Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Four traditionally Democratic states - but each of them have elected a Republican governor since 2010 (only Pennsylvania has now finally elected a Democrat). In the Michigan primary in March, more Michiganders came out to vote for the Republicans (1.32 million) that the Democrats (1.19 million). Trump is ahead of Hillary in the latest polls in Pennsylvania and tied with her in Ohio. Tied? How can the race be this close after everything Trump has said and done? Well maybe it’s because he’s said (correctly) that the Clintons’ support of NAFTA helped to destroy the industrial states of the Upper Midwest. Trump is going to hammer Clinton o­n this and her support of TPP and other trade policies that have royally screwed the people of these four states. When Trump stood in the shadow of a Ford Motor factory during the Michigan primary, he threatened the corporation that if they did indeed go ahead with their planned closure of that factory and move it to Mexico, he would slap a 35% tariff o­n any Mexican-built cars shipped back to the United States. It was sweet, sweet music to the ears of the working class of Michigan, and when he tossed in his threat to Apple that he would force them to stop making their iPhones in China and build them here in America, well, hearts swooned and Trump walked away with a big victory that should have gone to the governor next-door, John Kasich.

From Green Bay to Pittsburgh, this, my friends, is the middle of England - broken, depressed, struggling, the smokestacks strewn across the countryside with the carcass of what we use to call the Middle Class. Angry, embittered working (and nonworking) people who were lied to by the trickle-down of Reagan and abandoned by Democrats who still try to talk a good line but are really just looking forward to rub o­ne out with a lobbyist from Goldman Sachs who’ll write them nice big check before leaving the room. What happened in the UK with Brexit is going to happen here. Elmer Gantry shows up looking like Boris Johnson and just says whatever shit he can make up to convince the masses that this is their chance! To stick to ALL of them, all who wrecked their American Dream! And now The Outsider, Donald Trump, has arrived to clean house! You don’t have to agree with him! You don’t even have to like him! He is your personal Molotov cocktail to throw right into the center of the bastards who did this to you! SEND A MESSAGE! TRUMP IS YOUR MESSENGER!

And this is where the math comes in. In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he’s expected to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states that’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn’t need Florida. He doesn’t need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November.

2. The Last Stand of the Angry White Man. Our male-dominated, 240-year run of the USA is coming to an end. A woman is about to take over! How did this happen?!On our watch! There were warning signs, but we ignored them. Nixon, the gender traitor, imposing Title IX o­n us, the rule that said girls in school should get an equal chance at playing sports. Then they let them fly commercial jets. Before we knew it, Beyoncé stormed o­n the field at this year’s Super Bowl (our game!) with an army of Black Women, fists raised, declaring that our domination was hereby terminated! Oh, the humanity!

That’s a small peek into the mind of the Endangered White Male. There is a sense that the power has slipped out of their hands, that their way of doing things is no longer how things are done. This monster, the “Feminazi,”the thing that as Trump says, “bleeds through her eyes or wherever she bleeds,” has conquered us — and now, after having had to endure eight years of a black man telling us what to do, we’re supposed to just sit back and take eight years of a woman bossing us around? After that it’ll be eight years of the gays in the White House! Then the transgenders! You can see where this is going. By then animals will have been granted human rights and a fuckin’ hamster is going to be running the country. This has to stop!

3. The Hillary Problem. Can we speak honestly, just among ourselves? And before we do, let me state, I actually like Hillary - a lot - and I think she has been given a bad rap she doesn’t deserve. But her vote for the Iraq War made me promise her that I would never vote for her again. To date, I haven’t broken that promise. For the sake of preventing a proto-fascist from becoming our commander-in-chief, I’m breaking that promise. I sadly believe Clinton will find a way to get us in some kind of military action. She’s a hawk, to the right of Obama. But Trump’s psycho finger will be o­n The Button, and that is that. Done and done.

Let’s face it: Our biggest problem here isn’t Trump - it’s Hillary. She is hugely unpopular — nearly 70% of all voters think she is untrustworthy and dishonest. She represents the old way of politics, not really believing in anything other than what can get you elected. That’s why she fights against gays getting married o­ne moment, and the next she’s officiating a gay marriage. Young women are among her biggest detractors, which has to hurt considering it’s the sacrifices and the battles that Hillary and other women of her generation endured so that this younger generation would never have to be told by the Barbara Bushes of the world that they should just shut up and go bake some cookies. But the kids don’t like her, and not a day goes by that a millennial doesn’t tell me they aren’t voting for her. No Democrat, and certainly no independent, is waking up o­n November 8th excited to run out and vote for Hillary the way they did the day Obama became president or when Bernie was o­n the primary ballot. The enthusiasm just isn’t there. And because this election is going to come down to just o­ne thing — who drags the most people out of the house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.

4. The Depressed Sanders Vote. Stop fretting about Bernie’s supporters not voting for Clinton - we’re voting for Clinton! The polls already show that more Sanders voters will vote for Hillary this year than the number of Hillary primary voters in ‘08 who then voted for Obama. This is not the problem. The fire alarm that should be going off is that while the average Bernie backer will drag him/herself to the polls that day to somewhat reluctantly vote for Hillary, it will be what’s called a “depressed vote” - meaning the voter doesn’t bring five people to vote with her. He doesn’t volunteer 10 hours in the month leading up to the election. She never talks in an excited voice when asked why she’s voting for Hillary. A depressed voter. Because, when you’re young, you have zero tolerance for phonies and BS. Returning to the Clinton/Bush era for them is like suddenly having to pay for music, or using MySpace or carrying around o­ne of those big-ass portable phones. They’re not going to vote for Trump; some will vote third party, but many will just stay home. Hillary Clinton is going to have to do something to give them a reason to support her — and picking a moderate, bland-o, middle of the road old white guy as her running mate is not the kind of edgy move that tells millenials that their vote is important to Hillary. Having two women o­n the ticket - that was an exciting idea. But then Hillary got scared and has decided to play it safe. This is just o­ne example of how she is killing the youth vote.

5. The Jesse Ventura Effect. Finally, do not discount the electorate’s ability to be mischievous or underestimate how any millions fancy themselves as closet anarchists o­nce they draw the curtain and are all alone in the voting booth. It’s o­ne of the few places left in society where there are no security cameras, no listening devices, no spouses, no kids, no boss, no cops, there’s not even a friggin’ time limit. You can take as long as you need in there and no o­ne can make you do anything. You can push the button and vote a straight party line, or you can write in Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There are no rules. And because of that, and the anger that so many have toward a broken political system, millions are going to vote for Trump not because they agree with him, not because they like his bigotry or ego, but just because they can. Just because it will upset the apple cart and make mommy and daddy mad. And in the same way like when you’re standing o­n the edge of Niagara Falls and your mind wonders for a moment what would that feel like to go over that thing, a lot of people are going to love being in the position of puppetmaster and plunking down for Trump just to see what that might look like. Remember back in the ‘90s when the people of Minnesota elected a professional wrestler as their governor? They didn’t do this because they’re stupid or thought that Jesse Ventura was some sort of statesman or political intellectual. They did so just because they could. Minnesota is o­ne of the smartest states in the country. It is also filled with people who have a dark sense of humor — and voting for Ventura was their version of a good practical joke o­n a sick political system. This is going to happen again with Trump.

Coming back to the hotel after appearing o­n Bill Maher’s Republican Convention special this week o­n HBO, a man stopped me. “Mike,” he said, “we have to vote for Trump. We HAVE to shake things up.” That was it. That was enough for him. To “shake things up.” President Trump would indeed do just that, and a good chunk of the electorate would like to sit in the bleachers and watch that reality show.

(Next week I will post my thoughts o­n Trump’s Achilles Heel and how I think he can be beat.)

ALSO: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/michael-moores-5-reasons-why-trump-will-win

Yours,
Michael Moore

Follow Michael Moore o­n Twitter: www.twitter.com/MMFlint

Original: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/5-reasons-why-trump-will-_b_11156794.html

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Current Concerns No 19, 14 September 2016, Page 7

zf. In the recent weeks and months the European leading media have strikingly strong voiced their opinion about the US election campaign of the next presidency. The tenor is as forced into line: Donald Trump is the personification of evil, while Hillary Clinton was not an angel, but in any case she was the better choice. And if ever anyone is for Trump and against Clinton, then he must stand o­n the far right. Interesting to note, that now also voices from the rather left located faction have raised their hand and measure the two presidential candidates o­n their significance for peace in Europe. These arguments deserve attention. And lead to the question, whose interests and plans those serve who speak out so vociferously against Trump and in favour of Clinton. By the way: Neocon warmongers like former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz have decided to vote for Hillary Clinton (Spiegel o­nline from 26.08.2016).

Hillary Clinton stands for war

by Hannes Hofbauer

Whoever reads the new book of Diana Johnstone these days, gets more than just a bad feeling in the stomach. In the US presidential campaign o­ne should not hope o­n Hillary Clinton, who is politically portrayed in Johnstones work. The former First Lady and former foreign minister is hot striving for power and war, hides this behind vacuous human rights and women’s rights formulas, but would make the ideal front woman for the US military-industrial complex, the author says. “Queen of Chaos” the Paris-based American Diana Johnstone calls her indepth researched biography of the Democratic presidential candidate. For years, the now 82 year old scientist has dealt with the wars operated from Washington, particularly, with the NATO attack against Yugoslavia. For two legislatures Johnstone was spokeswoman of the Greens in the European Parliament before she fell from favor there because of her indomitable anti-NATO stance. With the political biography of the soon presumably most powerful woman in the world she makes the reader look forward to a chaotic future full of lies and wars. Masterfully Johnstone portrays the world of thought of Hillary Clinton, and how she already succeeded as Secretary of State, to collect civil society groups around the globe for US interests. So she recalls the “strategic dialogue with civil society”, initiated by Clinton in early 2011, with which she swore the US ambassadors to the three pillars of her policy: “a responsive government, a powerful private sector and a civil society that stands for everything else that happens in the space between the state and industry.” Johnstone finds the path of liberal democrats “from equity to diversity”, chosen under Clinton’s leadership, ideologically groundbreaking. With that they succeeded also in Europe until deep inside in left circles, to declare the class issue obsolete and replace it with the “right to be different”. The dominant social doctrine is based here o­n the concepts of multiculturalism, the concern for minorities and antiracism.

Therein Johnstone locates a new mantra that Clinton always keeps spelling out when disagreeable governments refuse the economic and/or political obedience to her. While in the case of Saudi Arabia this was (and is) never mentioned, in the case of Yugoslavia or Libya the US under both Clintons pulled the civil society card. The attack o­n Gaddafi’s Libya was, according to Johnstone, “Hillary’s war”. The Pentagon and military leaders advised against an armed encounter in Libya, but the Secretary of State Clinton boycotted all attempts for a political solution. After the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi she let herself be carried away to the Caesar paraphrasing statement: “We came, we saw, he died.” Such a brutal contempt for a political opponent is rarely heard in the public. If o­ne follows the reasoning of Johnstone, the US-Russian relations are likely to worsen in the likely case of a Clinton presidency. In this regard Johnstone recalls the critique of the “Queen of Chaos” towards George W. Bush in 2008. His then short-term approaching to the Kremlin, which prompted him to the utterance that he had looked Putin in the eyes and had seen his soul, Hillary Clinton acknowledged by saying that a “KGB agent had no soul”. After reading the book anxiety remains, as the author demonstrates how Clinton aggressively enforced her worldview as Foreign Minister, and there is little hope that this could change as president.

• Johnstone, Diana: Queen of Chaos. The misadventures of Hillary Clinton. CounterPunch 2015

Source: www.ossietzky.net. (Translation Current Concerns)

Trump, candidate for peace?

by Rainer Rupppage 8

The Anti-Trump campaign can hardly become still more hysterical. Cartoons bring him close to Hitler, in an ill-concealed way a General is threatening with a coup. Reasonable voices argue against, for example the well-known US-Russia expert Stephen F. Cohen, member of the influential US Council o­n Foreign Relations, who considers Trump a beacon of hope who wants to end the new Cold War in a highly dangerous situation. At the same time public support for the US wars is crumbling. Donald Trump “is inappropriate for being President”, President Obama declared o­n Tuesday this week at a press conference in the White House after a meeting with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He asked the Republicans in Congress to disavow their presidential candidate: “They [the Republicans] have to ask themselves why they still continue to support him, when they repeatedly must explain in very strong words that, what he [Trump] said, is unacceptable. What does that reveal about your party, when Trump is your standard bearer?” In fact, the malicious campaign against Trump is assuming increasingly hysterical proportions.

The Anti-Trump-media campaign has reached a point that even in Cartoon clips like “The Simpsons” propaganda is made for Hillary and Trump is demonised. For example, Trump is shown with a book as bedtime reading entitled “Great speeches by A. Hitler”. Meanwhile the richest man in the world and king of cliquish capitalism promised Hillary to do everything in his power for her by November to drive the voters to the polls. Also stunning is the long list of the warmongers of the Republican Party’s establishment including many leading neoconservatives, who meanwhile are publicly against the candidate of their party, Donald Trump, stating that they prefer to give their voice to Hillary Clinton. At the same time, US Marines’ ex-General John Allen, former top commander in Afghanistan, threatened with catastrophic conditions for the internal US stability in case Trump would be elected for president. General Allen, whose promotion to NATO Europe Commander in Chief (SACEUR), has been spoiled at the last minute o­nly by a scandal, declared last Sunday to the US news channel ABC that Trump’s choice for President would trigger “an unprecedented civil-military crisis for the country”. But what does this warning of passionate Hillary-supporter Allen really mean, when he says that Trump as president would lead to the breakdown in relations between civil and military leadership? Meanwhile, even the US financial portal “Zero Hedge” asked the legitimate question o­n the Internet, whether the US General did not threaten here with a military coup?

Fortunately, there are not o­nly warmongers among the geo-strategic US experts and among Republican Party’s politicians. For example, a former Republican presidential candidate, the libertarian Patrick Buchanan, praised Trump as a candidate of peace in an article released o­n the internet last Tuesday, because of his fresh approach to the role of NATO, being free from ideological ideas of the Cold War. Also Stephen Cohen, who is highly regarded as an expert o­n Russia in both the US and internationally, called Trump a guarantor of peace with Russia and in Europe. Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at the NY University and Princeton and a member of the influential US Council o­n Foreign Relations, last Saturday spoke with Smerconish of CNN about Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the new Cold War. According to Cohen, the media do the American people a vast disservice by simply ignoring the substance of Trump’s arguments about NATO and Russia and instead spread the simplistic Clinton smear campaign that Trump is “a Russian agent”. This would have “absolutely to stop”, says Cohen. “We are approaching a point at all levels comparable to the Cuban missile crisis and its nuclear confrontation with Russia. There is absolutely no discussion, no debate about that in the American media.” “Then unexpectedly Donald Trump shows up”, Cohen continues. “He says he wants to end the new Cold War and cooperate with Russia in various fields and, to the general amazement the media are full of accusations that can still o­nly be described as neo-McCarthyism, that he is a Russian agent, that he is a Manchurian candidate, and that he is a business client of Putin. […]

At present we are in a year of presidential election, where a debate has to take place. But the media do not offer us this today.” With regard to the alleged “Russian threat” in Eastern Europe and Russia wanting to end the independence of the Baltic States, Cohen said: “This is without any proof. None, by all means.” He continues: “Let’s go back to what Trump has said about NATO. From the very beginning, he said, he wanted to know what mission NATO still has, over 65 years after its foundation. Hundreds of policy experts have asked the same question in Washington since the end of the Soviet Union 25 years ago. Is NATO an organisation in search of a mission?” “That’s a justified question. However, we do not discuss it. We do not ask. We just say, oh, Trump wants to leave NATO,” according to Professor Cohen. Nevertheless, how have the voters, the so-called “Central America”, reacted to the accusations of the warmongers in both parties that Trump had undermined the security architecture, which had kept peace in the last 65 years? Central America did not react at all. Voters are neither appalled nor shocked. What does this mean? The public support has collapsed, which means the foundation o­n which Washington gave a war guarantee to dozens of countries in Europe, in the Middle East and in Asia since 1949.

•Source: https://deutsch.rt.com/meinung/39836-trump-kandidat-fur-friedenfrom 5 August 2016

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Donald Trump Biography

Business Leader, Reality Television Star (1946–)

Synopsis

Real estate developer Donald John Trump was born in 1946, in Queens, New York. In 1971 he became involved in large, profitable building projects in Manhattan. In 1980, he opened the Grand Hyatt, which made him the city's best-known and most controversial developer. In 2004 Trump began starring in the hit NBC reality seriesThe Apprentice, which also spawned the off shoot The Celebrity Apprentice. In 2015 Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States and shortly after the first Republican debate became the party's frontrunner.

Early Life and Education

Donald John Trump was born o­n June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York, the fourth of five children of Frederick C. and Mary MacLeod Trump. Frederick Trump was a builder and real estate developer who came to specialize in constructing and operating middle-income apartments in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn. Donald was an energetic, assertive child, and his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy at age 13, hoping the discipline of the school would channel his energy in a positive manner. 

Trump did well at the academy, both socially and academically, rising to become a star athlete and student leader by the time he graduated in 1964. He then entered Fordham University and two years later transferred to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1968 with a degree in economics.

New York Real Estate Developer

Trump seems to have been strongly influenced by his father in his decision to make a career in real estate development, but the younger man's personal goals were much grander than those of his senior. As a student, Trump worked with his father during the summer and then joined his father's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, after graduation from college. He was able to finance an expansion of the company's holdings by convincing his father to be more liberal in the use of loans based o­n the equity in the Trump apartment complexes. However, business was very competitive and profit margins were narrow.

In 1971 Donald Trump was given control of the company, which he later renamed the Trump Organization. He also moved his residence to Manhattan, where he began to make important connections with influential people. Convinced of the city's economic opportunity, Trump soon became involved in large building projects in Manhattan that would offer opportunities for earning high profits, using attractive architectural design and winning public recognition.

When the Pennsylvania Central Railroad entered bankruptcy, Trump was able to obtain an option o­n the railroad's yards o­n the West Side of Manhattan. When initial plans for apartments proved unfeasible because of the poor economic climate, Trump promoted the property as the location of a city convention center, and the city government selected it over two other sites in 1978. Trump's offer to forego a fee if the center were named after his family, however, was turned down, along with his bid to build the complex, which was ultimately named for Senator Jacob Javits.

In 1974 Trump obtained an option o­n o­ne of Penn Central's hotels, the Commodore, which was unprofitable but in an excellent location adjacent to Grand Central Station. The next year he signed a partnership agreement with the Hyatt Hotel Corporation, which did not have a large downtown hotel. Trump then worked out a complex deal with the city to win a 40-year tax abatement, arranged financing and then completely renovated the building, constructing a striking new facade of reflective glass designed by architect Der Scutt. When the hotel, renamed the Grand Hyatt, opened in 1980, it was instantly popular and proved an economic success, making Donald Trump the city's best known and most controversial developer in the process.

Expanding His Empire

In 1977, Trump marriedIvana Zelnickova Winklmayr, a New York fashion model who had been an alternate o­n the 1972 Czech Olympic Ski Team. After the 1978 birth of the couple's first of three children, Donald John Trump Jr., Ivana Trump was named vice president in charge of design in the Trump Organization and played a major role in supervising the renovation of the Commodore.

In 1979 Trump leased a site o­n Fifth Avenue adjacent to the famous Tiffany & Company as the location for a monumental $200-million apartment-retail complex designed by Der Scutt. Opened in 1982, it was dubbed Trump Tower. The 58-story building featured a six-story atrium lined with pink marble and included an 80-foot waterfall. The luxurious building attracted well-known retail stores and celebrity renters and brought Trump national attention.

Meanwhile Trump was investigating the profitable casino gambling business, which was approved in New Jersey in 1977, and in 1980 he was able to acquire a piece of property in Atlantic City. Trump brought in his younger brother Robert to head up the complex project of acquiring the land, winning a gambling license and obtaining permits and financing. Holiday Inn Corporation, the parent company of Harrah's casino hotels, offered a partnership, and the $250 million complex opened in 1984 as Harrah's at Trump Plaza. Trump bought out Holiday Inn soon thereafter and renamed the facility Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Trump also purchased a Hilton Hotels casino-hotel in Atlantic City when the corporation failed to obtain a gambling license and renamed the $320 million complex Trump's Castle. Later, while it was under construction, he was able to acquire the largest hotel-casino in the world, the Taj Mahal at Atlantic City, which opened in 1990.

Back in New York City, Donald Trump had purchased an apartment building and the adjacent Barbizon-Plaza Hotel in New York City, which faced Central Park, with plans to build a large condominium tower o­n the site. The tenants of the apartment building, however, who were protected by the city's rent-control and rent-stabilization programs, fought Trump's plans and won. Trump then renovated the Barbizon, renaming it Trump Parc. In 1985 Trump purchased 76 acres o­n the West Side of Manhattan for $88 million to build a complex to be called Television City, which was to consist of a dozen skyscrapers, a mall and a riverfront park. The huge development was to stress television production and feature the world's tallest building, but community opposition and a long city-approval process delayed commencement of construction o­n the project. In 1988 he acquired the Plaza Hotel for $407 million and spent $50 million refurbishing it under his wife Ivana's direction.

Ups and Downs of Business

Expanding his empire to the south, around this time Trump developed a condominium project in West Palm Beach, Florida, and in 1989 he branched out to purchase the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle for $365 million, which he later renamed the Trump Shuttle. In January 1990, Trump flew to Los Angeles to unveil a plan to build a $1 billion commercial and residential project featuring a 125-story office building.

It was in 1990, however, that the real estate market declined, reducing the value of and income from Trump's empire; though he had asserted his own net worth in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion at that time, aForbes magazine investigation into his assets revealed that his existing debt likely brought the number closer to $500 million. In any event, the Trump Organization required a massive infusion of loans to keep it from collapsing, a situation which raised questions as to whether the corporation could survive bankruptcy. Some observers saw Trump's decline as symbolic of many of the business, economic and social excesses that had arisen in the 1980s.

Donald Trump eventually managed to climb back from a reported deficit of nearly $900 million, claiming to have reached a zenith of more than $2 billion. However, independent sources again questioned his math, estimating his worth at something closer to $500 million by 1997.

Personal Life, Politics and Reality TV

While trying to solve his financial troubles, Donald Trump's image was further tarnished by the publicity surrounding his controversial separation and 1991 divorce from his wife, Ivana. But in 1993 he married again, this time to Marla Maples, a fledgling actress with whom he had been involved for some time and already had a child. Trump would ultimately file for a highly publicized divorce from Maples in 1997, which became final in June 1999. A prenuptial agreement allotted $2 million to Maples. In January 2005, Trump married for a third time in another highly publicized wedding, this time to model Melania Knauss, who gave birth to a son, Barron William Trump, in March 2006; it was her first child and Trump's fifth.

Amidst these personal upheavals, o­n October 7, 1999, Trump announced the formation of an exploratory committee to inform his decision of whether or not he should seek the Reform Party's nomination for the presidential race of 2000. However, after a poor showing during the California primary, Trump withdrew his candidacy. It would not quell his political aspirations, however.

Back in the business world, on August 3, 2000, a state appeals court ruled that Trump had the right to finish an 856-foot-tall condominium. The Coalition for Responsible Development had sued the city, charging it was violating zoning laws by letting the building reach heights that towered over everything in the neighborhood. The city has since moved to revise its rules to prevent more such projects, but the failure of Trump's opponents to obtain an injunction allowed him to continue construction.

In 2004 Trump took advantage of his high-profile persona when he began starring in the NBC reality seriesThe Apprentice, which quickly became a hit. The success of the show resulted numerous spin-offs, including o­ne that showcased well-known figures as contestants, airing under the revised name The Celebrity Apprentice. 

In 2012 Trump's flirtation with politics resume when he publicly announced he was considering running for president again. However, his association with the "Birther" movement, a fringe group that staunchly believedPresident Barack Obamawas not born in the United States, seemingly discredited his political reputation. Regardless, Trump has continued to be a vocal critic of President Obama—not o­nly regarding his place of birth—but also o­n a variety of his policies.

Presidential Contender

On June 16, 2015, Trump made his White House ambitions official when he announced his run for president o­n the Republican ticket for the 2016 elections, joining a crowded field of more than a dozen major candidates. "I am officially running for president of the United States," Trump said during his announcement at Trump Towers in New York City, "and we are going to make our country great again." He added with his signature bravado: "I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” 

Upon Trump's announcement to run for president, his scathing, derogatory remarks about Mexicans and immigration caused NBC to sever business ties with him. “Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump,” NBC responded in a statement. "To that end, the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants, which are part of a joint venture between NBC and Trump, will no longer air o­n NBC."

The statement added: "In addition, as Mr. Trump has already indicated, he will not be participating inThe Celebrity Apprenticeon NBC.Celebrity Apprenticeis licensed fromMark Burnett's United Artists Media Group and that relationship will continue."  

In response to NBC, Trump was unapologetic and defiant, filing a $500 million dollar lawsuit against the company, with his daughter Ivanka stating that her father's comments were distorted by the media. Yet among great social outcry, other organizations have withdrawn from associations with Trump as well: The Professional Golfers Association of America pulled plans for its fall Grand Slam tournament to be held at Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles, while representatives for Macy's announced that the retail chain would no longer carry Trump's menswear collection.   

A Controversial Candidate

On July 18, 2015, Trump set off another media maelstrom with comments made at the Christian-oriented Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, calling out Senator and o­ne-time Republican presidential nomineeJohn McCain's reputation as a military hero. "He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured," Trump said, referring to McCain having been detained during the Vietnam War for several years after being gunned down as an airman, surviving multiple broken limbs and torture. Military veteran groups and advocates have generally denounced Trump's statements.

Despite these and his many other controversial remarks, a national phone poll completed by late July 2015 saw Trump in the lead for the Republican nomination, with ex-governor of FloridaJeb Bushslightly behind and within the poll's margin of error. More than half of Republican voters polled said that they were still unsure about which candidate from the large pool of contenders they would ultimately support. 

Nonetheless, having garnered major media attention, Trump was o­ne of the ten top candidates who participated in a Fox News presidential debate in early August. While the mogul continued a tone set in earlier appearances, he was critiqued and questioned o­n everything from his business practices to demeaning, sexist comments made about women via television and social media. Trump later made highly insulting remarks about moderator Megyn Kelly for the nature of her questions, and was hence disinvited from an Atlanta speaking engagement. He also initially maintained that he might opt for a third-party candidacy if running o­n the Republican ticket wasn't viable, but later signed a loyalty pledge stating he wouldn't do so. 

As of March 2016, Trump appears to be the likely Republican presidential nominee, with o­nly Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich holding out hope for their campaigns. Trump has maintained his somewhat commanding lead over his opponents despite o­ngoing criticisms and controversies, including his proposal to ban the immigration of Muslims to the United States, an apparent endorsement of waterboarding, and widespread protests at his political rallies, several of which have turned violent. 

Original: http://www.biography.com/people/donald-trump-9511238#synopsis

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We actively support BERNIE SANDERS for next USA president. Donald Trump is a psychopath dangerous for humanity!
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From all of us at BUDDHA DHARMA – OBF INTERNATIONAL

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07/05/16

          The GHA actively supports the o­ne who is best for global peace from harmony, according to Global Peace Science (http://peacefromharmony.org). Donald Trump is the first person who determined the US future foreign policy as "coherent", i.e. as harmonious, grows out of social harmony among nations and states.
           With regard to his as "psychopath", then, according to experts (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=675): "Real America is already a sociopathic society", which Trump represents. If he is for peace from harmony, which was first recognized by Buddha, then God, grant more such "psychopaths" to America!
Dr. Leo Semashko,
GHA Honorary President
09/05/16

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