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Donald Trump's Presidency

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Favorite topic of Trump! But will he act against the root of Islamic terror which is Pakistan! Or will it be empty rhetoric!!

[h=1]We have no choice but to get rid of radical Islamic terror: Trump to CIA[/h]January 22, 2017 08:51

The United States has no choice but to get rid of ISIS and 'radical Islamic terrorism', the new US President Donald Trump has said.


"We've been fighting these wars for longer than any wars we've ever fought. We have not used the real abilities that we have. We've been restrained. We have to get rid of ISIS. Have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice. Radical Islamic terrorism," Trump told members of the CIA community at its headquarters in Langley.


Reiterating his remarks on the inauguration day, Trump said, "it has to be eradicated" just off the face of the Earth.


"This is evil. This is evil," he said in his maiden address to the CIA officials.


"I can understand the other side. We can all understand the other side. There can be wars between countries, there can be wars. You can understand what happened. This is something nobody can even understand. This is a level of evil that we haven't seen. You're going to go to it, and you're going to do a phenomenal job," he said.


"But we're going to end it. It's time. It's time right now to end it," he added.


Trump's nominee for CIA Director Mike Pompeo has not been confirmed by the Senate yet.


http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...trump-to-cia/ee03731b6bc5df61e0af8ad5c17814f5
 
hi

when india was telling this islamic terror some 40 years ago....nobody was ready to accept and support india...

now whole western world is facing the this same problem....now they realised...but its too late...
 
An interesting scenario for a proxy skirmish between india and Pakistan is emerging. US backing india and china encouraging pakistan.

In the event of this happening, russia, iran can play peacemakers.
 
vgane said:
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You're going to go to it, and you're going to do a phenomenal job," he said.
"But we're going to end it. It's time. It's time right now to end it," he added.
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What isTrump planning to end?
The phenomenal job that the CIA is doing !!!
Trump not only needs to watch his words but the placement of his succeeding pharses/sentences and how they qualify what he just finished saying.
 
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vgane said:
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"I can understand the other side. We can all understand the other side. There can be wars between countries, there can be wars. You can understand what happened. This is something nobody can even understand..." he said.
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True Trump style self contradiction.
So do we understand it or not?
 
Democracy at work in USA!!

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hi

just like bjp replaced everything done by congress or admk did the same ....like anna library /new secretariat.....like Trump is

doing Obama's actions...its natural in politics...
 
Hope to see better relations between the 2 countries-India & US

Trump dials Modi as new regime assumes office

VARGHESE K. GEORGE Washington: January 25, 2017 01:24 IST

President Donald Trump spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday afternoon, the White House said. Press secretary Sean Spicer said a readout on the call would be provided later in the afternoon.
Mr. Modi is the fifth world leader President Trump has spoken with after he assumed office on Friday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Pena Nieto, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi were the first four.
On November 9, Mr. Modi was the fifth world leader to speak to Mr. Trump after the latter won the election.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be the first foreign leader to visit the U.S under the new presidency, on Friday.
Addressing an event organised by the Republican Hindu Coalition in October, Mr. Trump had said he “looked forward to working with Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” whom he described as “very energetic in reforming India’s bureaucracy.”
“Great man. I applaud him for doing so.” Mr. Trump had said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...new-regime-assumes-office/article17090493.ece
 
WASHINGTON: Describing India as a "true friend" of the US, President Donald Trump invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the country later this year, the White House said after both leaders spoke over phone and discussed issues such as trade, defence and terrorism.

Trump spoke to Modi on Tuesday night over phone, four days after he was sworn-in as the 45th President of America.

"During a call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Trump emphasised that the US considers India a true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world," the White House said in a readout of the call.

"President Trump looked forward to hosting Prime Minister Modi in the US later this year," the White House said.

The two leaders discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the US and India in broad areas such as the economy and defence.

Besides this, they also discussed security in the region of South and Central Asia. President Trump and Prime Minister Modi resolved that the US and India stand shoulder to shoulder in the global fight against terrorism, the readout said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nvites-pm-modi-to-us/articleshow/56769802.cms
 
A nation without borders is not a nation says POTUS...Protecting the natives who were once immigrants!!

Wed Jan 25, 2017 | 8:19pm EST [h=1]Trump moves ahead with wall, puts stamp on U.S. immigration, security policy[/h]
Trump moves ahead on Mexico border wall
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By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON
President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered construction of a U.S.-Mexican border wall and punishment for cities shielding illegal immigrants while mulling restoring a CIA secret detention program as he launched broad but divisive plans to reshape U.S. immigration and national security policy.
A draft executive order seen by Reuters that Trump is expected to sign in the coming days would block the entry of refugees from war-torn Syria and suspend the entry of any immigrants from Muslim-majority Middle Eastern and African countries Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen while permanent rules are studied.
Less than a week into his presidency, Trump has moved aggressively to put his stamp on a range of policies, including steps to gut the healthcare system devised by his predecessor, and make clear that as president he is not turning toward more moderate positions than he took as a candidate.
His directives on Wednesday signaled a tough action toward the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States, most from Latin America, whom he already has threatened to deport.
In a move critics called a slight to the integrity of American democracy, Trump also said on Wednesday he would seek a "major investigation" into what he believes was voter fraud in the November election, despite overwhelming consensus among state officials, election experts and politicians that it is rare in the United States.
"We are going to restore the rule of law in the United States," Trump told an audience that included relatives of people killed by illegal immigrants at the Department of Homeland Security after signing two executive orders.
The directives ordered the construction of a multibillion-dollar wall along the roughly 2,000-mile (3,200-km) U.S.-Mexico border, moved to strip federal funding from "sanctuary" states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants, and expanded the force of American immigration agents.
His plans prompted an outcry from immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers who said Trump was jeopardizing the rights and freedoms of millions of people while treating Mexico as an enemy, not an ally, and soiling America's historic reputation as a welcoming place for immigrants of all stripes.
"The border wall is about political theater at the expense of civil liberties," said Christian Ramirez, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition immigrant advocacy group.
"It is not national security policy. Border communities are among the safest in the nation, and patrolling them with tens of thousands of heavily armed, poorly trained, unaccountable agents puts lives at risks. This will turn these communities into de facto military zones," Ramirez said.
The White House said the wall would stem the flow of drugs, crime and illegal immigration into the United States.
"We are in the middle of a crisis on our southern border: The unprecedented surge of illegal migrants from Central America is harming both Mexico and the United States," Trump said, adding: "A nation without borders is not a nation."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-idUSKBN1591HP
 
Donald Trump to sign executive order to dramatically reduce funding of United Nations

The upcoming order would dramatically reduce the US’ role in the UN and other international organisationsDonald Trump is preparing executive orders that would dramatically reduce US funding of the United Nations, as well as other international organisations that do not meet certain criteria.
The executive order plans to repeal certain multilateral treaties too, officials told the New York Times, which would likely include treaties on climate change.
The first order, called "Auditing and Reducing US Funding of International Organisations", will take away funding for any United Nations agency or international body that meets criteria, including: organisations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organisation; support abortion and any group that circumvents sanctions on Iran or North Korea. Funding will be taken away from any organisation that is "controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism" or is behind the persecution of marginalised groups or systematic violation of human rights.
The order has singled out peacekeeping, the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Population Fund. The UNPFA targets violence against women, fights to keeps childbirth and abortion, where it is legal, safe, and was a key presence in safeguarding women in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew.
The order demands decreasing US funding towards international organisations by at least 40 per cent. Mr Trump has included the International Criminal Court here, yet the US currently pays nothing to the ICC.
If this order is signed, it would essentially decimate a global peacekeeping operation which is present in 16 countries.
Earlier reports revealed that Congress was planning legislation to stop funding the UN after it voted to condemn Israeli settlement building in the Occupied Territories.
President Trump dismissed the UN last December as a "club" for people to "have a good time". He also signed an executive order on Monday, re-instating the Ronald Reagan-era law which prohibits federal funding for any international organisation that carries out abortions or even mentions abortions, or tells its patients or clients where to go to get an abortion.
For this reason, the Mexico City Policy is also called the Global Gag Rule.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ments-president-executive-order-a7546486.html
 
Well....Trump means bussiness.

He seems to be very active and no nonsense types.
He does have admirable qualities for eg he does not drink and does not allow his children to drink.
 
hi

a pakka businessman....with support of congress/house....he can do many signs within hundred days...
 
In a nutshell Trump is one rare politician who is not or never "POLITICALLY CORRECT". From Goa when MODI got in as PM candidate - sulking LKD to media juveniles - ran a campaign. Despite all, MODI made it... Then all these pundits predicted doom.. All ganged up with Beef, Intolerence, Church attacks, Vermula suicide, accused of Sanskrit push - endless LIST... I see the same pattern in U.S.A. - Trump had something to tell his voters & he told them/ convinced them on what he want to say... And he got elected as Prez to lead their country (forget about outsiders - like Indian media were worried - whether Trump will be good to India - WHY SHD AMERICAN VOTER worry about his "goodness with India"" ?). HE IS GOOD FOR AMERICA & AMERICANS - period.
 
renuka said:
Well....Trump means bussiness.

He seems to be very active and no nonsense types.
He does have admirable qualities for eg he does not drink and does not allow his children to drink.
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If I remember, you also admired his "Big Richard"! Don't forget that!
 
hi

its very rare situation in america....all are republicans.....the president/senate /house with single majority....this is like tamil nadu....

AMMA WANTS TAMIL NADU WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION PARTY...SINGLE AUTHORITARIAN....lets wait and see..
 
What Trump does makes sense! This is absolute necessity!!

[h=1]Trump signs orders to keep 'Islamic terrorists out of US'[/h]January 28, 2017 08:25

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order which establishes new vetting measures to limit the flow of refugees and 'keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States'.

"I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. We don't want them here," Trump said after he signed the executive order in his first visit to the Pentagon, a week after he was sworn in as the President.


"We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people," Trump said.


"We will never forget the lessons of 9/11, nor the heroes who lost at the Pentagon. They were the best of us. We will honour them not only with our words, but with our actions, and that's what we're doing today," said Trump flanked with the new Defence Secretary Gen James Mattis (retd) and Vice President Mike Pence.


The executive order 'Protection of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States' notes that the steps taken by the US in the aftermath of 9/11 has not been able to deter terrorists from entering the country.


'Numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in terrorism-related crimes since September 11, 2001, including foreign nationals who entered the US after receiving visitor, student, or employment visas, or who entered through the US refugee resettlement program,' it said.

http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...ts-out-of-us/0c05c0c6fde550b1a446408cbb82c9c7
 
I guess the order will create fear among potential terrorists!! Also it is a temporary freeze for 90 days or 120 days

[h=1]Muslims fear that Trump's visa ban will boost terrorist groups[/h]January 28, 2017 17:36

Across the Muslim world, the refrain was resounding: President Donald Trump's freeze on refugee arrivals and visa requests from seven predominantly Muslim countries will have major diplomatic repercussions, worsen perceptions of Americans and offer a propaganda boost to the terrorist groups Trump says he is targeting.



Trump's stance has been evident since the early days of his campaign, when he advocated a "complete and total shutdown" of all Muslims entering the United States.


Trump has since softened his language, casting his order Friday as a way to keep terrorists, not Muslims, out of the United States.


But in interviews with dozens of officials, analysts and ordinary citizens across Muslim-majority countries, there was overwhelming agreement that the order issued Friday signaled a provocation: a sign that the US president sees Islam itself as the problem.


"I think this is going to alienate the whole Muslim world," said Mouwafak al-Rubaie, a lawmaker and former national security adviser in Iraq.

http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...orist-groups/3e04e361bf5f2bc3718fd84bc81f52b7
 
What does Trumps presidency mean for india?

Our IT majors might feel the heat in US. Outsourcing companies to india will feel the pinch.

He might penalise Pak for terrorist support on their soil. But he might try to find an arbitrating role for himself in india pak border dispute .His unwanted attempts at

mediation might hurt india.He might encourage india to limit chinese influence.

India should be wary of american interest in sub continent.

India can get rid of cola manufacturers like pepsi,coke,pizza makers , starbucks,Mcdonald as health hazards and raise its barriers to US giants hurting domestic

manufacturers.India can turn inwards and bank on domestic manufacture and consumption. In anycase , we do not have much odf an export market. Rupee is being

artificially propped up against dollar. We can depend on gulf more to safeguard our oil ,gas interests . We in mean time can try to increase our domestic production of

oil and gas

We need to keep away from global players and raise our protective guard to save our economy.

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Excellent analysis of reasons for Trump's victory by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of "The black swan" and economist-mathematician by profession, to Suhasini Haidar of The Hindu.

Excerpts:

‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’


NN: I also prefer social media to interviews in the mainstream media as many journalists don’t do their research, and ‘zeitgeist’ updates [Top Ten lists] pass for journalism.

The media is not one organisation or a monolithic entity.

Well, I’m talking about the United States where I get more credible news from the social media than the mainstream media. But I am very impressed with the Indian media that seems to present both sides of the story. In the U.S., you only get either the official, bureaucratic or the academic side of the story.

[Barack] Obama is an actor. He looks good, he raises good children, he is respectable. But he didn’t fix the economic system, he put novocaine [local anaesthetic] in the system

People don’t realise that Obama created inequalities when he distorted the system. You can only get rich if you have assets. What Trump is doing is put some kind of business sense in the system. You don’t have to be a genius to see what’s wrong. Instead of Trump being elected, if you went to the local souk [bazaar] in Aleppo and brought one of the retail shop owners, he would do the same thing Trump is doing. Like making a call to Boeing and asking why are we paying so much.

When Trump was running for election, I said what he says makes sense to a grocery store owner. Because the grocery guy can say Trump is wrong because he can see where he is wrong. But with Obama, he can’t understand what he’s saying, so the grocery man doesn’t know where he is wrong.

Trump never ran for archbishop, so you never saw anything in his behaviour that was saintly, and that was fine. Whereas Obama behaved like the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was going to do good but people didn’t feel their lives were better. As I said, if it was a shopkeeper from Aleppo, or a grocery store owner in Mumbai, people would have liked them as much as Trump. What he says makes common sense, asking why are we paying so much for this rubbish

But the way intellectuals treat people who don’t agree with them isn’t good either. I remember I had an academic friend who supported Brexit, and he said he knew what it meant to be a leper in the U.K. It was the same with supporting Trump in the U.S.

The intellectual class of no more than 2,00,000 people in the U.S. don’t represent everyone upset with Trump. The real problem is the ‘faux-expert problem’, one who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, and assumes he knows what people think. An electrician doesn’t have that problem.

Is the election of Trump part of a global phenomena? You have commented on the similarity to the election of Narendra Modi in India.

Well, with Trump, Modi, Brexit, and now France, there are some similar problems in those countries. What you are hearing is people getting fed up with the ruling class. This is not fascism. It has nothing to do with fascism. It has to do with the faux-experts problem and a world with too many experts. If we had a different elite, we may not see the same problem.

There are other similarities, to quote from studies of populist movements worldwide: these leaders are majoritarian, they build on resentment, they use social media for direct access to their voters, and they can take radical decisions.

I don’t understand how a left-wing person can defend Salafism, or religious extremism. In a democracy, you can allow people to have any view, but they can’t come with a message to destroy democracy. Why should people who come to the West come with a message to finish the West? This is where the discourse goes haywire.

Please read the full interview here if interested: http://www.thehindu.com/books/‘Trum...tore-owner’/article17109351.ece?homepage=true

I was not sure with agenda driven copy-paste on this site this would find a place in our forum.
 
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An Indian-American woman, who along with her husband had been the inspiration behind Shah Rukh Khan's film Swades, was stopped and asked by police if she was in the US "illegally", an incident which comes amid rising fears over President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Aravinda Pillalamarri, 47 was walking in her Bel Air neighbourhood in Maryland on the morning of December 21, a routine with her, when she said she was stopped by a Bel Air Police Department officer, The Baltimore Sun reported.

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Pillalamarri, who was born in India but moved with her parents to the US when she was young, was asked by the police officer about what she was doing and she replied that she was walking.
The officer continued to ask several questions. When she asked why the officer was asking her so many questions, he replied because someone had called police.
"Walking while brown?" Pillalamarri then asked the officer.
The report said a police supervisor arrived at the scene and began to question Pillalamarri more aggressively. The supervisor told her she wasn't free to leave because she "was under criminal investigation."


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He asked why she didn't have an identification with her.
"Why don't you have ID?" she said the supervisor asked her. "Are you here illegally?"
Once the officers had run her name through their computer system, Pillalamarri said, she was allowed to leave and walked to her home, just a few doors away.
Pillalamarri, has lived in Bel Air for more than 30 years and is a US citizen. Her parents came to America from India when she was a baby. She went to Bel Air High School.
"Only when the supervisor asked 'are you here illegally' did my sense of colour, and of being unequal, come forth and my interest in my civil rights take a back seat to get out of the situation safely," she was quoted as saying.
"Public safety does not need to come at the cost of civil rights," she added. "I am sharing this incident here not to ask anyone here to find fault or take sides. We are all on the same side and can use this as an opportunity to learn and improve. The responsibility to uphold civil rights is one that all of us share, and we need to do our part and also expect the police to do their part."
Pillalamarri said she walks in her neighbourhood nearly every day. She related her story to members of the Bel Air Board of Town commissioners at their town meeting on January 17, not to get anyone in trouble but to bring to their attention the need to uphold everyone's civil rights.
Colour was not on her mind when she was first stopped, Pillalamarri told the commissioners.
Bel Air Police Department Chief Charles Moore, who's led the agency since September 2015, said he is not sure if his department has a policy specifically dealing with questioning a person's immigration status, but added, "If there isn't one, there will be."
Pillalamarri along with her husband Ravi Kuchimanchi had been the inspiration for the Shahrukh Khan-starrer 'Swades' in which he returns to his village from the US and then brings electricity to the remote area.

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/01/29/indian-american-who-inspired-swades-detained-questioned-about-i/

To those of "brown skin" who were happy to see the Muslim ban, be aware that you are not immune.
 
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