It has been one week since Trump has been inaugurated president of the United States. What could he do only in a single week? Well he could have banned an entire group of people (Muslims) from entering the country. Although he banned Muslims from multiple countries, he did not ban those from Saudi Arabia which, at first, I found puzzling. That is, of course, until discovering he made 4.5 million dollars from the Saudi Kingdom for purchasing the 45th floor of his Trump Tower. The positive side is that he exposes himself to his own base as they (far right Republicans and Tea party members) will see this as an abandonment from Trump's policies and their own. This also means despite his xenophobic world view, money overshadows xenophobia in Trump's list of priorities.
Trump has also called for a physical wall to be constructed between the U.S. and Mexico. Mexico's president Enrique Peña cancelled a meeting with Trump on Thursday and told reporters that Mexico will not pay for the wall. The wall would cost anywhere from 12 to 15 billion dollars according to senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. Another act of Trump trying to isolate America from the rest of the world. Instead of solving today's modern immigration problems, Trump decides to throw money at it in hope that it will go away. Anyone who thinks a wall is enough to stop immigration (which was already on steady decline) is fooling themselves. Drug cartels dug Pablo Escobar out of prison twice! Yet Donald believes they can not dig under a new wall. America will end up paying for a wall if one were to be built at all, which regardless in the end will solve nothing. Trump is wasting budget money which could be feeding kids in poverty or fixing the public education system.
Donald also signed an executive action to minimize the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which in plain speak means to remove Obamacare, leaving thousands of Americans without affordable health insurance. This was basically overkill for a long awaited death of Obamacare. They the majority Republican senate were already well under way on repealing Obama Care although they have yet to unveil a replacement plan as promised. While this does not bode will the future of the Trump administration because without doubt this will reflect itself in a the low approval rating down the road. Without an affordable government plan or a public option in today's economy where health insurance for a family cost on average of 5,277$ according to the Kaiser Family.
