The (Very) White House

Since life pre Donald Trump is soon to be no more there is uncertainty in the air for what is yet to come. And the rest of the world is watching America experience the calm before the storm which will destroy America; whether that's due to Trump himself or his loyal supporters.

Unfortunately the future is no longer looking like the altered Utopian presented on our screens with the release of Back to the Future 2 in 1989. Instead the future is looking dark, frightening and bleak; especially so if you are American.

I really fear for the future of humanity when a country so great and wonderful (or so it claims) as America elects a racist who actually believes you can rid of 3 million people because 0.006625% of their religion are extremists and therefore a threat.

In times like this you really do have to ask yourself 'Are there really people out there who believe this?'

One Trump supporter stated that stopping all Muslims entering the country was the correct action to take because 'we can't identify what their attitude is'. Funny, I've never heard anyone talking about kicking white teenage males out of the country because some of them cause mass shootings? Especially shocking when you realise that 94% of terrorist attacks in America since 1980 have been carried out by non-Muslims.

If you have been active on Twitter this past week since Trump got elected then you would have been present with real life scenarios that have surfaced. Muslim women fearing wearing their hijabs in public, women being sexually harassed following Trump's delightful phrase 'grab her by the pussy', people of different ethnicities being told to 'go back home'.

The irony is, most of these people are 'home'. They are American citizens or as American as someone can actually be considering that, excluding the natives, all American's are immigrants but Trump, along with many other 'Americans' seem to ignore this in the same way that they ignore the fact that Trump's wife is also an immigrant and, for a certain period of time, was an illegal one too.

It's disgusting really, how someone can get away with so many racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and discriminatory comments and still be given power. I'm pretty sure that, if fewer than a handful of those comments had been made by almost anyone else there would be severe consequences. But he's the person the people want I suppose, although which people that is I remain unsure of.

In late October The New York Times released a list of all the people, places and things which Donald Trump had insulted via his Twitter account. That list came to a total of 282. Those 282 things included; journalists, CNN, Forbes, protesters, Germany, Britain, illegal immigrants, Whoopi Goldberg, Samuel L. Jackson, television commercials and Obamacare.

I just want to know how. A) I want to know how it is even possible to insult so many things - surely no one hates the world that much? B) how someone can insult that many things and still have people voting for him.

In a world where the ice caps are melting, animals are losing their homes and sea levels are rising; America have elected a president who believes climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. So well done America, at least we can give Brexit a back seat for now.

--- Aimee ---