Donald Trump is elected and becomes the 45th president of the United States. Barack Obama's successor takes office on January 20
São Paulo - Contrary to expectations, Republican businessman Donald Trump has won and is the new president of the United States. Until the eve of the election, polls showed Democrat Hillary Clinton in tight spot. This scenario, however, has changed.
After months of a fierce contest, the mogul assured on the morning of November 9 the 270 delegates needed to be elected by the Electoral College. The information was released around 05:40 AM (Brasília time) by the Associated Press and the result was soon reflected by the largest newspapers in the country.
Moments after the victory, the businessman told voters in a speech in which he said he had received a call from his rival Hillary and addressed the American people in a tone of unity and conciliation.
"I am writing to you to ask for help, so that together we unify the country," said the magnate, "our campaign was an incredible movement." "Every American will have the opportunity to realize their full potential, men and women will not be forgotten," he said. He was cheered.
Now, Donald John Trump, the outsider who boasts of having financed his own campaign, is the country's 45th president. Barack Obama's successor takes office on January 20 on the so-called "Opening Day".
fierce dispute
Trump's way to the presidency was not easy and the solidity of his candidacy was questioned several times, especially by the weight names of his party, which is experiencing an unprecedented internal crisis.
During the primaries, he managed to secure the votes of 13 million people and left behind candidates with more experience and political experience like Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
Consolidated as the official candidate after the national convention in July, Trump continued to raise the anti-immigration flag, accusing China of being disloyal in the overseas market, cheering on Brexit and delivering blows against rival Hillary and Barack Obama.
The counting of votes was no less exciting. During the night of day 8 and dawn of day 9, the billionaire walked the way to the White House winning by little in the called "swing states", those where any result was possible, like Florida and Ohio.
Despite his regrets, he triumphed.
What to expect
Donald Trump is not exactly known for the consistency of his statements and proposals. So, as long as your official cabinet is not announced, predictions about the prospect of your presidency are hard to come by. In some areas the behavior of the entrepreneur throughout the campaign brings some clues.
He drew the attention of the world by speaking several times in building a wall to separate Mexico from the United States and promised to ban Muslims from the country. Regarding abortion, for example, he came to change his mind three times in just three days, as The Washington Post noted.
For John Hudak, a researcher at the Brookings Institution and director of the entity's Public Policy Center, on the foreign policy landscape, Trump's proposals are still an open door. "We have gone through two years of campaigning and so far we do not have a solid understanding of how your foreign policy will be," he said, "and this is disturbing."
In the economic field, the entrepreneur's plans are based on four pillars: taxes, trade, energy, and regulation, as explained by Peter Navarro, a professor at the University of Irvine in California who was part of Trump's economic team during the campaign.
It wants to reduce taxes, carry out regulatory reform, and is in favor of issuing school vouchers for parents to choose schools and against the so-called Obamacare, a measure that has expanded access to health through control of plan prices.
How will your performance in this area be another unknown. Before the election, a group of 370 economists, including Nobel laureates, classified the entrepreneur's rise to the post of president as "a unique danger to the functioning of democratic institutions and to the prosperity of the country."
I like the power
Born in New York in 1946 in the Queens neighborhood, Trump is the son of Frederick C. Trump, a real estate entrepreneur of German origin, and the Scottish Mary MacLeod.
A graduate in management from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, he entered family business in the early 1970s, and soon began playing his own projects in Manhattan.
In 1980, with the launch of the Grand Hyatt hotel, he began to build his fortune. Soon his most iconic venture, the Trump Tower, would come in 1983. The 1990s were not easy for the businessman, who faced difficulties in his ventures and declared bankruptcy a few times.
According to Michael D'Antonio, author of the biography "The Truth About Trump" in an interview with the CNN news network, Trump's personality was greatly influenced by his father, Fred. Died in 1998, he left his son a fortune valued at 250 million dollars, as well as a taste for politics and power.
According to the author, the entrepreneur's father was an ambitious man who prized strategic friendships. "He's donated a lot of money to many candidates," he explained, "and I think he's shown to Donald how he works with these relationships, how he plays with these people."
Although selling as a businessman who has nothing to do with politics, this was not Trump's first attempt to run for president. He did it in 1999, when he applied for the Reform Party.
Divorced twice, she is since 2005 with Slovenian model Melania Trump, who has just become the second foreigner to take the place of first lady of the United States. The businessman has five children (Donald Junior, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron) and is the grandfather of seven children.
