Trump : A Frightful Year

Published in El Comercio
(Ecuador) on 23 January 2018
by Gonzalo Ruiz (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Stuart Abel. Edited by Elizabeth Cosgriff.
The first year of Donald Trump's administration was like his troubled, hurried, and yet successful businesses: always a reason for news and fierce criticism.

That same turbulent personality figure found himself leading one of the most powerful countries in the world, and one can see the impact, risk and fluctuation involved in the arch-billionaire’s first year in the White House.

For now, Trump is treading lightly because his actions could prompt a federal government shutdown since the Senate didn't approve the federal budget.

Incendiary remarks wouldn't be a problem for a businessman or a TV star, but they are a problem when a president of an influential nation is involved.

Ever since the campaign, his arrogance was questionable, but it is clear now that he sought votes to fulfill his goal of destroying everything left by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

The first controversy arose with his hostile position on Mexico and an obsession with completing the wall; two immigration issues as well as the abuse of Latinos and immigrants in this country without documentation. His international policy has been all over the place. From the tension in relation to Cuba (a relationship that was improved by Obama) to declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, he comes up with some remark to set off sparks every time. His evident inability to compromise in an effort to ease global warming has generated tension; his convoluted treatment of North Korea keeps the world in suspense.

The title of a controversial book called “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” describes the pulse of the first convulsive year of his term, although, as Santiago Estrella, this newspaper’s journalist responsible for the international section, explained in IDEAS last Sunday after reading it, the book is no big deal. Still, it contains anecdotes about an administration that will be characterized by an abundance of scandals and extraordinary controversy.


El primer año de Donald Trump en el gobierno fue como su atribulada, atropellada y exitosa actividad empresarial, siempre motivo de noticia y críticas fuertes.
Esa misma personalidad turbulenta se encuentra al frente de uno de los países más poderosos de la tierra y se pudo observar la incidencia, riesgos y avatares del primer año del archimillonario en la Casa Blanca.

Por ahora Trump anda con las barbas en remojo puesto que le puede sobrevenir el cierre parcial del Gobierno federal, toda vez que el senado no le aprobó el presupuesto.

Las declaraciones incendiarias no serían problema para un empresario o una estrella de TV, pero sí lo son cuando de un mandatario de una nación influyente se trata.

Desde la campaña su arrogancia le valió cuestionamientos, pero salta a la vista que le procuró los votos para cumplir su objetivo y tratar de destruir todo lo que dejó su antecesor, Barack Obama.

La primera polémica surgió por su posición hostil con México y la obsesión por completar el muro; los temas migratorios y la persecución a los latinos y las personas sin papeles. Su política internacional ha sido llena de sobre saltos. Desde la tensión en las relaciones co Cuba - mejoradas por Obama-, hasta la declaratoria de Jerusalén como capital, cada vez que formula algún comentario hace saltar chispas. Su ostensible falta de compromiso para atenuar el calentamiento global genera tensiones y el complejo tratamiento de las relaciones con Corea del Norte, ha tenido al mundo en vilo.

Un libro polémico, llamado Fuego y furia puede resumir en su título el pulso del primer año convulso de su mandato, aunque, según el periodista de este diario, responsable de la sección internacional, Santiago Estrella, quien lo leyó y explicó en IDEAS del domingo pasado, el libro no es gran cosa pero contiene anécdotas de una administración que será caracterizada por la abundancia de escándalos y polémicas inusuales.
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