100 days of past continuous!

“No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days -- that includes on military, on the border, on trade, on regulation, on law enforcement -- we love our law enforcement -- and on government reform,” Trump said on April 18, at headquarters of Snap-on Tools, an American manufacturer and marketer of high-end tools and equipment to professional users.

He added, “Today, we’re building on that optimism, and I'm proud to announce that we're about to take bold, new steps to follow through on my pledge to Buy American and Hire American.”

The brazen aspect of Trump’s statements, other than being Republican and boastful, is how populist they are and remind us the planters’ agenda of the 19th century and their vast plantations in the American south where large numbers of workers, usually Africans held captive for slave labor.

A quick look at the US presidential election in Wisconsin in the years 2012 and 2016 reveals a new Republicans strategy which is turning to populism which makes them more capable of pursuing their old time policies. In 2012, Barack Obama polled 10 electoral votes in Wisconsin while his Republican rival, Mitt Romney had none; but in 2016 it was exactly vice versa.

Speeches and statements made by Republican presidents of the United States have usually had the same color and tendency.

“Our country is strong…We go forward to defend freedom…and all that is good and just in our world,” said George W. Bush shortly after 9/11.

But in Trump’s speeches we clearly see those of the past Republicans presidents as well as a great deal of populism as if it spices the bland and not-any-more-wanted policies of the Republican Party.

However to be cautious about those who may turn away from his charming and mesmerizing populist agenda, just before 7 am eastern time, April 21, Trump tweeted this:

“No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!”

Trump has made hundreds of promises, pledges and threats on his road to the White House. Assuming that we turn a blind eye on all his national semi-heroic populist statements and promises including building a US-Mexico border wall, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, repealing and replacing US former president’s healthcare program also known as the ‘Obamacare,’ lower taxes for individual and corporations, bringing jobs back from overseas, etc, there are some other pledges not negligible at all including defeating the terrorist group of Daesh (ISIS) and renegotiate the historic Iran nuclear pact known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

As we have always seen double standard politics from the US presidents, Trump, by his direct order of a strike on a Syrian air base in Homs and using 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, revealed that he is also on the same path of his predecessors turning all his promises and strategies which he refused to give details upon, to be false regarding the one related to the defeating of Daesh (ISIS).

On April 18, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed Congress that Tehran was keeping up its end of the bargain. And though the White House has initiated a review of plans to lift sanction on Iran, that would violate the multinational accord, CNN reported.

With Trump’s extending the suspension of Iran nuclear sanctions for another period of ninety days as a move which affirms Iran’s adherence to its JCPOA obligation, it becomes crystal clear that the new US warmonger has tried to deviate public opinion by a false promise.

“Rip it up” was one of Trump’s most vocal riffs during his campaign, according to CNN, but this was obviously not a well-loved and catchy tune to hold.

“IranDeal is prudently confined to the nuclear issue, without entering other contentious issues, incl nefarious activities of US Govt.” Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on April, 20.

Zarif further tweeted on that day, “IranDeal obliges US to support successful implementation, incl in public statements, and to refrain from adversely affecting normal trade.”

The US presidents policies, mostly their foreign policies and particularly with regard to warmonger Republicans, is a path of same features but of new shapes and forms which we can trace it not only in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency but also the rest of his term in office and back to his predecessors.

“But what if a tyrant comes to power and no one’s able to stop him because the whole thing’s kind of funny?” is a caption on a cartoon by Paul Noth in New Yorker Magazine that connotes a bitter truth about US Constitution which provides a shortcut for emergence of a prejudicial tyranny at the highest level of the country’s administration.

In order to put an end to Republicans, particularly Trump’s, traditional tendency of one-track-mindedness, we need new abolitionists, like those American people and the Federal Judges who stood up against Trump’s visa ban and those scientists rallying The March for Science, to stand against the tyrants coming to power.

By: Mohammad Reza Elkaei
Editor: Fatemeh M. Safaei

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