How will Trump’s victory affect the rest of the world?

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the new US president on January 20^th, 2025. He will succeed Joe Biden in the White House.

According to unofficial data, Trump won 291 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris collected 223 electoral votes.

“If a politician and businessman persistently lies, cheats (social, legal, and financial rules), insults people (women, other races, weaker ones), exploits workers, and in the process enriches himself, then he is rewarded by becoming an untouchable president of a superpower.”

Such is the unpleasant truth of these elections, according to Dr. Matjaž Nahtigal, Head of the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

I hope that the younger generations realize that this is not the right way. I hope that they will muster the courage for a better functioning society, economy, and international community. I hope that young people will be able to prove that humanity can do more and better than what is happening in the world and thier own country.

Dr. Matjaž Nahtigal

Nahtigal predicts that Trump’s policies will have a bad impact on everyone, including Europe:

• cancellation of the Paris Climate Agreement will weaken efforts for a green and socially just transition;
• canceling support for international organizations such as the UN can spread conflicts around the world;
• increased trade disputes and unilateral measures will increase uneven economic and sustainable development.

National and class selfishness are not the answer to the contradictions of the modern world – contradictions and conflicts will only deepen. 

dr. Matjaž Nahtigal

“Hope lies in action, education, cooperation, and the search for better solutions at all levels of individual and social activity,” emphasizes Nahtigal. 

Glossary

Inauguration is the ceremony when a president is sworn in to start their job.

National selfishness means that a country or nation puts its own interests above the interests of others.

Class selfishness refers to the priority of the interests of one social group (ex. the rich, influential …) over the needs of others.

Points to Consider

1. Are you following the election?
2. Why is the action of the American president important for the whole world?
3. How can global peace and prosperity be achieved?

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The original version of this article was published on November 7^th.