The enormous US flag flew high yesterday at Mar-a-Lago, the mansion and private club in West Palm Beach (Florida) of the now elected president of the first world power. Outside, tight security, a handful of curious onlookers and some journalists aiming their targets at the Spanish-inspired mansion that a young Donald Trump acquired in the 80s, when he became the -shooting- star of New York brick. Inside, America’s next leader was with his inner circle of advisors and family. They are the first steps of the transition towards his second term. After two stormy days of voting and counting, with the threat of a storm, with the ocean choppy, the sun rose yesterday on the Florida coast. Trump is the choice of most Americans to leave behind four years marked by a weak president, Joe Biden, and an economy dominated by inflation. But, also, almost half of the country believes that they will live four years under a black cloud. On Trump’s table, two priorities: designing his team and laying the foundations of his agenda for his second landing in the White House. It is a process that will take place from now until next January 20, when the president-elect is sworn in on the steps of the Capitol in Washington. “We are going to turn it around” He has been a candidate for almost two years, a time in which has filled Americans with proposals and promises. Many have to do with the two issues that have most moved the vote for the New York billionaire: the aforementioned economy and, partly related to it, the immigration chaos. But also many other ambitions, from banishing the ‘woke’ ideology to transforming the US’s relationship with its allies and rivals around the world. Standard Related News If Trump gets a docile Capitol made everything to his measure David Alandete | Washington Correspondent The Republicans have already achieved a more than sufficient majority in the Senate. “We are going to turn it around,” he said of the US early Wednesday morning at the celebration of his victory at a convention center here in West Palm Beach, very close to your residence. “We have to turn it around quickly, we are going to do it in many ways, in all ways.” The greatest urgency for Americans is to relieve their pockets. Trump has said that he will attack inflation, which has fallen sharply in the final stretch of Joe Biden’s presidency, “from all fronts”, without giving great details. Yes, he has been more explicit about one of the main lines of his economic policy, as he was in his first term: lowering taxes. Trump’s promises here are abundant: lower income taxes in all brackets; reduce the corporate tax from 21% – he already lowered it, before it was at 35% – to 15%; eliminate taxes on tips – the famous ‘no tax on tips’, designed to win Nevada, due to the weight of the Las Vegas hotel sector -, in addition to those imposed on Social Security payments and overtime; At the end of the campaign, when the polls said that things were tied against Kamala Harris, Trump even slipped that he would charge the income tax. All this, of course, has to go through Congress, where the president-elect He will have in his favor the good results that the Republicans have achieved: they have recovered the Senate and aim to do the same with Congress, pending the end of the count. It is likely that part of these tax cuts will not arrive, due to the impact they may have on the US deficit – 36 trillion dollars – and on citizen services. Trump will have the richest man in the world at his side. world, Elon Musk, who has gained great prominence in the last stretch of the campaign, both in rallies and in the financing of his electoral machinery. It will put Musk in charge of a review of the Government to, in essence, scissor it: eliminate regulations, end some government agencies, eliminate superfluous expenses, cut staff. From behind closed doors, Trump’s populist proposal is based on a tariff policy , in which it will use rates on foreign products as a measure of pressure. This includes its Western allies, such as Spain, which in its previous mandate it punished with tariffs, for example, on the olive sector. On the other major front, mass immigration, the task is Herculean. Trump has promised that “on his first day” as president he will manage to “seal” the border with Mexico. To achieve this, he has said that he will use all the powers at his disposal: approve another Title 42 – the public health regulations used in the pandemic to prevent the processing of asylum requests -, end ‘catch and release’ – the practice of detaining to undocumented immigrants and release them until their asylum request is heard -, increase the number of Border Patrol troops by 10,000 agents, punish local entities that provide assistance to immigrants with cuts undocumented immigrants…The star measure, however, is the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Trump has promised the “largest deportation program in US history”, but we will have to see, as with his unfulfilled promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico, how much he achieves: there are eleven million undocumented immigrants in the US, which are a central piece in some labor sectors and whose deportation represents a great legal, logistical and economic challenge. Ukraine and the Middle EastThe same time it will take, according to him, to close the border completely is what It will be difficult to end the war in Ukraine. Trump has said he will do it “within 24 hours.” This aims to force the kyiv Government to give up part of its national sovereignty. In the Middle East, the other source of instability in the world, Trump has said that with him there will be no war in Gaza and that he will quickly end the “chaos.” In his previous term he was successful with the Abraham Accords, in which Israel established diplomatic relations with some Arab countries. Now it will seek the same with the largest player in that region: Saudi Arabia, which would achieve a large retaining wall against Iran. From the world wars to internal cultural wars. Trump has promised to defeat the ‘woke’ ideology: remove it from the military and schools, eliminating funding to centers that the Government considers to promote these ideologies. Trump plans to eliminate the Department of Education. At the moment, he is taking steps to form the teams that will help him deploy that agenda. Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, who was among the finalists to be his vice president, has always been in the pools. He now aspires to be Secretary of State, which could have a direct impact on the US’s relationship with the dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela. Another possibility to lead diplomacy is Richard Grenell, who was director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany under Trump. Names such as John Paulson and Scott Bessent are ringing in the Treasury Department. His attorney general will have much more political burden, at a time when Trump will need the criminal cases against him to decline. Among other options are Senators Mike Lee and Eric Schmitt. And moving all the trouble could be Susie Wiles. She has been the head of a successful campaign, where Trump has scraped votes from electorates previously dominated by Democrats. Wiles is one of the options to be chief of staff.
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