On one side of the mess, they are protests erupting all over the country with individuals still broken and dumbfounded from the election results.
And on the other hand, victory cheers and hopes of 'making America great again' (whatever that means) have turned into questions such as: 'wait he's not going to abolish Obamacare?' and 'Trump said what about protecting LGBTQ citizens from ISIS?'
President-Elect Trump proved to everyone he knew what he needed to say to get elected. However cynical, sexist, or racist it may be, it worked, and Donald Trump is now going to be the next president of the United States.
And now that he is the president-elect, questions have been raised regarding the validity of his claims, and other statements that side more on the left than what his very far-right campaign may have suggested.
Was he just saying these things to rile up his supporters and encourage them to go out and vote? Does Trump side more with liberal ideas than he has led his followers to believe? It's seeming more and more like that's the case with almost every public comment he has made since accepting the nomination.
Another question arising in many of our heads is if he actually will be able to carry out any of the things he has hopes to accomplish as president. In a recent interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, the president-elect said he immediately wants to, "Get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country, or we are going to incarcerate (them).” Deporting 2 to 3 million people is a tall task. I asked a few of my friends who voted for Trump to weigh in on Trump's plan and if they think this is an accomplishable goal.
"He will handle the issue to the best of his ability." Said Will Hirschtick, a senior business major at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.
"If an immigrant is here legally they have every right to be here and shouldn't be deported. But I would like to see some form of deportation for illegal immigrants. Open borders lead to trouble and overpopulation," Hirschtick continued.
In 2013, President Obama deported a record 438,421 unauthorized immigrants. In his first five years as president, Obama had deported more unauthorized immigrants than Former President George W. Bush did in eight years of presidency. If the record for deportations in a year (438,421) is less than a quarter of what President-Elect Trump plans to accomplish (2-3 million), it's more than clear he has his work cut out for him.
Not all of his supporters are confident he can achieve the goals he has set for himself. Austin Garttmeyer, a junior flight major at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne Florida, said "I don't think it's an obtainable goal to deport 2 million illegal immigrants because how would he start that process? I think it's going to be very difficult for this actually to happen."
Garttmeyer isn't alone with his feelings of skepticism. Many have questioned whether or not Trump's claims will come to fruition. Even Trump's transition co-chair, Newt Gingrich, speaking of the famous wall which Trump said Mexico would pay for was, “a great campaign device.”
It's yet to be determined what exactly will happen in the first months of Trump's presidency, but if it's anything like what he's said it will be like, change in America is coming. Let's hope it's for the good of us all, not just the demographic that voted for him.
