November 9, 2016. Donald Trump received 276 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 electoral vote threshold for victory, and was elected as the 45th President in U.S. history.
As a "mudslide" in U.S. politics, the most criticized president in U.S. history.
After taking office, Trump fulfilled his promises.
During the campaign, Trump had promised tax cuts, saying he wanted to reduce taxes for middle-class workers and families, and cut taxes for U.S. businesses to boost competitiveness.
In April 2017, the White House released a brief tax reform outline on a single A4 sheet, mainly slashing corporate tax from 35% to 15%, reducing individual income tax brackets from 7 to 3, abolishing the estate tax, and doubling the standard deduction.
Then, the Trump administration announced a detailed tax reform plan; except for adjusting the highest corporate tax rate from 15% in the April outline to 20%, the rest was basically consistent with the outline.
Similarly, at the start of the election, Trump promised that if elected, he would repeal the Obama healthcare plan (i.e., the Affordable Care Act) and redesign a new health insurance scheme.
After taking office, the first executive order he signed was related to repealing Obama healthcare directives.
At the same time, Republican lawmakers began preparing a new healthcare bill to replace the existing law.
On February 22, 2017, the Trump administration also revoked the "bathroom order" left from the Obama era.
The order required all public schools to allow "transgender" students to choose restrooms and locker rooms based on "psychological gender" rather than "biological gender," which had sparked huge controversy in the U.S.
"My father is crazy; he seems to really want to be a good president for the American people, but does he know how many people his plans will offend? Once they don't achieve the expected results, he'll be attacked by everyone."
"Moreover, in every department of this country, there are people opposing him. The Clinton family's connections in politics are too deep; we've all advised my father to lay low at the beginning of his term, but he doesn't listen at all."
Martin advised: "Don't think too much; if he were willing to lay low, he wouldn't be Donald Trump."
It can be said that Trump's personality was cultivated from childhood.
This guy received typical "white strongman education" from a young age. The Trump family children, in their growth process, were instilled with this concept by their elders: "You are a killer, you are a king, you are a strongman."
Meaning you have to be ruthless and heartless, you have to win everything, you have to become the ruler—essentially requiring them to be superior.
So Trump was a bad kid from young, a school bully, domineering in school.
He not only didn't pay attention in class, disrupted the classroom, liked bullying classmates; later he became more reckless, even getting some knives with friends to extort lunch money in school.
Because he went too far, he was forced to drop out by the school, eventually sent by his father to the New York Military Academy.
After adulthood, in business, the family enterprise Trump once discussed the power of genetics in a program:
People are divided into winners and losers; you will be naturally selected, chosen by DNA—either succeed or fail.
This kind of competitive and arrogant mindset has run through every stage of his life.
Thus, such people are extremely prone to arrogance when successful.
Not just Trump—many elites are like this, because society doesn't value humility or hiding one's talents.
Time came to June 2017.
Trump continued his decisive reforms.
On June 10, Trump officially announced immigration reform policy.
According to the policy, the U.S. would sharply reduce the number of immigrants, planning to cut the annual intake from 1 million to 500,000 over 10 years.
After reform, U.S. citizens would no longer be able to apply for green cards for parents or siblings.
Second, the Trump administration announced support for a major skills-based immigration reform proposal, using a "points system" to replace the "low-skilled immigration mechanism," raising the immigration threshold.
According to the proposal, new immigrants need to be proficient in English, have job skills needed in the U.S., and stable financial status, and cannot apply for government welfare.
Finally, Trump ordered the deportation and repatriation of undocumented immigrants, declaring to expel all 11 million undocumented immigrants from the U.S.
The Trump administration also signed an order called "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States," popularly known as the "Muslim Ban."
This executive order required that for the next 90 days, citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya be barred from entering the U.S.
Additionally, Trump suspended the existing refugee admission program for 120 days to conduct thorough background checks on refugees.
The Obama-initiated resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. was indefinitely halted.
The ban would reduce this year's U.S. planned refugee intake from around the world to 50,000, a cut of over 50%.
Not enough—just a month later, Trump signed another travel ban.
This ban required that starting October 18, citizens of 8 countries be barred from entering the U.S.
According to this ban, citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia could not enter the U.S., and certain Venezuelan officials could not enter the U.S.
At the same time, to prevent illegal Mexican immigrants, Trump signed two executive orders at the Department of Homeland Security: "Enhancing Border Security and Enforcing Immigration Policy," and announced the use of federal funds to begin construction of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border within months.
The Trump administration launched a "zero-tolerance" policy, where large numbers of illegal immigrant families were stopped at the Mexican border, adults detained in temporary detention centers, children taken by the government and placed with relatives, foster families, or shelters.
While continuously turning his election promises into actions, Trump did one more thing.
That is, sending large numbers of unemployed workers to Guinea, and along with them to Guinea, large numbers of factory machinery and equipment from closed plants.
One after another, massive cargo ships loaded with machinery crossed the Atlantic, heading to Guinea's ports.
Guinea's industrial level underwent another massive leap forward.
Martin secretly rejoiced.
In a good mood, his efficiency in filming movies increased a bit.
"Use wires to hoist this ship up, and hang the surrounding blue screens too."
"I need the ship to rock."
"Amber, there's a harness under your feet. When the ship rocks, you need to stand firm."