“Deep State” Ultimatum to Trump: Play Ball or Else
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
January 16, 2017
Since announcing his presidential bid in mid-June 2015, Trump prevailed over long odds, overcoming huge obstacles to reach the brink of becoming America’s 45th president on January 20 – an astonishing story, where it goes from here yet to be determined.
With no public record on which to judge him, his agenda is as much guesswork as likely expectations – with one thing known for certain.
US presidents are fronts for powerful interests running America, intolerant of anyone changing longstanding policy.
Trump is under enormous pressure and threats to continue dirty business as usual or else. Defiance could get him undermined, impeached or assassinated – hardline globalist Mike Pence in the wings to replace him, an easy to control establishment figure.
We’ll know more about Trump’s intentions during his first hundred days in office, much more months later. Campaign rhetoric is one thing, presidential decision-making another.
Lofty promises are meaningless without supportive actions. Trump’s domestic policy largely looks easy to predict, socially and economically conservative, including:
• business-friendly regulatory reform;
• tax cuts for the rich, including repealing estate taxes for high-net worth households;
• rebuilding America’s infrastructure;
• repealing and replacing Obamacare;
• unlimited energy exploration, development and production; and
• rejecting one-sided trade deals like TPP, responsible for offshoring millions of America’s best jobs.
With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, he’ll likely get domestic agenda support – though given budget constraints, perhaps less infrastructure spending than he’d like.
His geopolitical agenda is largely uncertain until his policies become apparent. It’s clear he wants already bloated military spending increased, including expanding America’s nuclear arsenal – unless he and Putin agree to nuclear reduction.
While saying he wants a new role for NATO focused on combating terrorism, he’s unlikely to change how the alliance operated from inception.
Important questions await answers. Will he cooperate with Putin responsibly or maintain longstanding adversarial relations?
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