During his campaign for the US presidential seat in 2016, ex-President Donald Trump, in a bid to win the hearts of Americans, spewed inflammable statements – many of which sprouted racial fires across every nook and cranny of the American corridor.
By Samuel Odunayo Afolabi the Poet
With the intensities of the outrage, criticism, and repulsion oozing heavily from both the Democratic corners and the streets of the Statue of Liberty right before the election, it was easy for one to have thought the presidency would never be his destiny. But, how wrong could one’s conjectures be?
None had barely called Jack Robinson when certainties as to the possibility of his victory were surprisingly squashed right before our eyes and faces immediately the news about how Trump’s political dispensation was flagged off!
That alone explained the mystery of the American dichotomy and, most assuredly, the existent imbalance in the scale of adoption and immigration policies. Although there were arguments that opposed every racial assumption about America and the American people, yet doubts could not be easily doused given physical instances which support them.
Fast forward to 2023, Donald Trump was accused by the White House on Sunday December 17 for spewing “what it described as fascist-like rhetoric“. This was in response to the ex-president’s highly discriminatory statement which accuses immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Let us not forget that, again, election is drawing near and the former president and popular public speaker has been repetitively trying to tread the same path to the American presidency just like he did in 2016.
Now to the question asked, how can Trump not be the Voice of American citizens when, even though the government of President Joe Biden denounces the quality of the statement as not expressing the values of the American population, he keeps having his way closer to election day?
Well, maybe America is merely the metro-pot of turbulent contradictions, just as its liberalism represents, and presidential aspirant Donald Trump only speaks for himself in the absence of American consent.
