Are You for Biden or Trump?

The American presidential election has raised international expectations: It appears to be taking place in our own countries. Yes, you heard that right. Arab interest (for Islamists and everyday people) has exceeded all limits, and a point of division has arisen surrounding which candidate we support: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. This stems from the mainstream media stirring public opinion, and from the fragments of American policies that were scattered throughout the world during Trump’s enthralling first term.

The world superpower’s behavior in the Middle East, from the devastating aftershocks after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 to the present day with Jerusalem, Palestine and the Deal of the Century, the wave of normalization agreements and the secretive news media, may have also had a hand in the matter.

It also may all harken back to a deep and extensive analysis of Trump’s personality, which was the basis of his second presidential campaign. I can quickly summarize it with a quote from the book “Trump Revealed”: "Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat. You can't just let people make a sucker of you."

Trump was direct and articulate in his language about America’s withdrawal from the tremendous, rapid transitions of governments around the world. With the slogan “America First,” the sharp historical divisions in the nation and a future of foreign relations fraught with contradictory expectations, there are difficult questions that remain unanswered about the second term he is fighting to attain.

With a quick comparison between Biden and Trump, we see two personalities that are polar opposites in terms of their temperaments, perspectives and affiliations:

1. Trump is a hothead. “Trump” is a name that just doesn’t sit well with the Republican Party, or within the party politics’ framework in general. With his striking countenance, dark suits, fiery red and bright yellow ties and an entourage of beauty queens, all neatly framed by an air of affluence and two thumbs-up, he was a vendor of dreams in the world of deals. Trump loves gossip — it’s almost as if it never harmed him, what with the deals, fortunes, apartments, restaurants, offices, casinos, skyscrapers and politics he has managed to command.

He is haunted by the “Fourth Estate,” the news media, which adds fuel to the flames and stokes an uproar that serves to disguise its own role in the matter. He is relentless about bringing it down. Though this is an impossible feat, he is willing to lose sleep over its suppression. Only superintelligence could understand the power of contemporary media, of which one can take advantage, whether positive or negative. In that regard, it becomes the “first estate.”

Perhaps my readers are unaware that Trump’s mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, is from a humble village called Tong on the Western Isles of Scotland, and worked raising livestock, fishing, gathering coal, collecting seaweed for fertilizer and gutting and cleaning huge fish for the businesses that invested in the island. When she made the decision to leave when she was 18 years old, she registered her trade as “domestic help,” a maid. She then boarded the ship that would take her to America, where she would get married on June 4, 1946, to Fred Trump, the grandson of a German barber.

Their fourth son, Donald, was led by luck and carved his family’s name into history with his estate, riches, real estate properties, skyscrapers, airplanes, pageant queens and finally, his presidency. The stories of his ancestors in Germany and Scotland eroded (or were erased, rather) from memory. Baby Trump emerged from the womb of a simple woman who was content with little, yet his life was a game of winning, fame, wealth, adventures and the exercise of authority in all its different appearances. Emphasizing the point that a lot is much better than a little, he said, “Whoever is content with little in this world is stupid.”

2. Now on to Biden, a former lawyer born five years before Trump (his birthday is Nov. 20, 1942). A stoic, ambitious, sober Democrat, a miserable fate of tragedies followed him throughout his life. How? After his 1972 election to the U.S. Senate, he attracted the admiration of the American public as the youngest senator in the Senate’s history. Fate quickly swept through with the death of his wife and daughter in an awful car accident. His eldest son Beau, who was then 2, was injured along with his youngest brother, Hunter, which made Biden withdraw to tend to his family life. However, voters continued to choose Biden as their senator six times in a row.

Even though he remarried in 1975, and was a candidate in the 1988 and 2008 presidential elections, luck only ever granted him the role of vice president to Barack Hussein Obama. Living vicariously through his son, he aspired to ensure a bright future for his son Beau, who practiced law like his father and became attorney general. However, these plans were kidnapped by his tragic diagnosis of brain cancer, just as he was preparing to run for his father’s seat in the Senate.

Whatever the result, the positions and attributes of the two candidates do not differ much, and they meet in the middle on Israel, so everything will continue united and uninterrupted.