
Donald
Trump - 47th US President
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
Born in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. After six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s, he began side ventures. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show The Apprentice. A political outsider, Trump won the 2016 presidential election against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In his first term, Trump imposed a travel ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, expanded the U.S.–Mexico border wall, and implemented a family separation policy. He rolled back environmental and business regulations, signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and appointed three Supreme Court justices. In foreign policy, Trump withdrew the U.S. from agreements on climate, trade, and Iran's nuclear program, began a trade war with
China, and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without reaching a deal on
de-nuclearization. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he downplayed its severity, contradicted health officials, and signed the CARES Act stimulus. Trump was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and in 2021 for incitement of insurrection; the Senate acquitted him in both cases. After his first term, scholars and historians ranked him as one of the worst presidents in American history.
Trump is the central figure of Trumpism. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged, racist or misogynistic, and he has made false and misleading statements and promoted conspiracy theories to a degree unprecedented in American politics. After losing the 2020 presidential election to
Joe Biden, Trump attempted to overturn the outcome, culminating in the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021. In 2023, Trump was found liable in civil cases for sexual abuse and defamation and for business fraud, and in 2024 he was found guilty of falsifying business records, making him the first U.S. president convicted of a felony. After winning the 2024 presidential election against Kamala Harris, Trump was sentenced to a penalty-free discharge, and two other felony indictments against him were dismissed.
Trump began his second term by pardoning around 1,500 January 6 rioters, initiating mass layoffs of the federal workforce, and starting a trade war with
Mexico and
Canada. Trump's broad and extensive use of executive orders has drawn numerous lawsuits challenging their legality.
WHO
ARE THE MOST POPULAR?
Who
are the most popular United States presidents, the best known and most
hated world leaders from the USA. And how many have been assassinated,
or the subject of shooting attempts. The most famous of which must surely be a
toss up between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Then,
who is the best looking, most charismatic, handsome and sexiest, to garner voter
appeal. And that may include manner of speaking as well as athletic
physique. We'd vote for Arnold
Schwarzenegger in a flash, and he did make it to Governor of
California. Probably one of the most charismatic Presidents was Barack
Obama, he could talk the hind leg off a Donkey. Why Henry Cavill does not run for President, beats us. He'd do
well, so long as he joins the right party and their politics work. And
he wears body armour in case of slip ups by his administration.
Alternatively,
politicians could start telling the truth. It could be law that
politicians who lie will be prosecuted for fraud. How about lie
detectors live during political rallies. So the public can see if they
are telling the truth when asked certain baseline questions. It might
save a few bullets in the long run.

Former
US President Donald Trump, running for office again in 2024 against the
incumbent Joe Biden.
Four American Presidents have been assassinated so far, with two more
shot. The electorate voting with a rifle or pistol. Maybe. Except the
shooting of Ronald Reagan was due to the shooter, John Warnock Hinckley Jr.,
being infatuated with the actress Jodie Foster. Nothing at all to do
with politics, apparently.
In
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador
Hotel.
Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism.
He was assassinated as he was running for president, much the same as
Donald Trump being shot in 2024.
Russian
President Vladimir
Putin has also been targeted, also his nemesis Volodymyr
Zelenskyy. As was Sir
Winston Churchill, and Adolf
Hitler in World
War Two. But these were not members of the public, these appear to
have been military operations.

Robert
F. Kennedy (RFK) shot dead in 1968; JFK's brother.
Stop
the bullets being loaded by working toward sustainable
development, and world
peace
THE TELEGRAPH 15 JULY 2024 - WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF TRUMP HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED?
“I’m supposed to be dead,” said Donald
Trump, and it’s incredible how close he came. The bullet fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks from a roof in Pennsylvania grazed the former president’s ear. Video suggests he was saved by a head tilt seconds before.
America, warn pundits, was “one inch away from civil war”. Call this distasteful speculation if you wish, but it’s not hyperbolic. It summarises the mood on the ground and the popular memory of past catastrophes.
When people say “civil war”, they don’t mean the 1860s, when North vs South had alternative governments and armies of thousands, but rather the 1960s – when civil unrest was triggered by assassinations and armed extremists lurked in the shadows.
Riots in the wake of the shooting of Martin Luther King Jnr, in April 1968, left 43 dead, 3,500 injured and 27,000 arrested. Liberals demanded reform; conservatives, law and order.
Trump and Biden are old enough to remember those days, and their world-views are shaped by them. Mr Biden sees himself as the heir to Bobby Kennedy, himself assassinated in June 1968. Trump is likened to Richard Nixon.
Today, if either man were to die, or be killed, prior to their formal nomination at a convention, their delegates would be free to pick an alternative via a series of floor votes. Were tragedy to strike after the convention, the nominee would likely be chosen by party officials (with no guarantee that the vice presidential candidate would fill the gap).
The Democrats last held such a brokered convention in 1968, and it descended into a battle between protesters and cops. Institutional memory of that fateful year is precisely why the current Democrat elite is reluctant to drop Mr Biden, to take us back to an age of anarchic politics, mob rule and lone shooters.
Outside of a coal mine, the presidency has proved to be the most dangerous job in US history. Four presidents have been murdered; there were two attempts to kill Gerald Ford alone (heaven knows why). Though the culprits have often been unhinged – Reagan’s would-be assassin wanted to impress Jodie Foster – partisanship provides motive. Lincoln was shot by a confederate actor; William McKinley by an anarchist at a time when that movement was as lethal as al-Qaeda .
Conspiracy theories always follow.
Supporters of Huey Long, a Trump-like populist murdered by a man with a personal grudge in 1935, dubbed their opponents the “Assassination Party”.
The precise effect of political violence depends upon the psychology of society at the time it occurs. By 1981, America wanted to move on from the radicalism of ’68, and Congress became more determinedly collegial. Reagan, recovering in hospital, was visited by Tip O’Neill, the Democrat speaker of the House – and in the most extraordinary scene, Tip fell to his knees in prayer and kissed Ronald on the forehead – rivals, yes, but also friends.
In 2024, partisanship is back in style. Both sides believe the other threatens their liberty, or that they would use unconstitutional means to stay in power.
Violence percolates to the extremes. In 2011, Democrat Gabby Giffords was shot by a constituent; in 2017, Republican Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter at a baseball game. White supremacists marched at Charlottesville in 2017 and riots followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Then there was Jan 6 2021 and the storming of the Capitol.
Madness is stoked by disinformation: conspiracy theories around the Trump shooting now rival JFK or the Moon landings. Some say the Trump shooting was staged by the candidate himself. Others say the security was deliberately cut back to put him at risk – or the ability of the shooter to get so close indicates an inside job. Why, ask chauvinists, was he protected by a detail of women who looked overweight and unable to holster a gun?
A more compelling story is that the Democrats effectively put a target on Trump’s back by demonising him. “Joe Biden sent the orders,” Representative Mike Collins posted on X – although Trump has maligned his opponents plenty, too, and the political sympathies of the shooter remain unclear.
“Democrats and their allies in the media have recklessly stoked fears,” opined Senator Tim Scott. “Their inflammatory rhetoric puts lives at risk.” If what he says is true – and if Trump had been killed – it’s easy to see how some of his supporters would feel justified in turning to violence.
Imagine a series of Jan 6-ers, a trail of sporadic mob violence targeting officials, journalists, election stations and perhaps the conventions. Again, it’s happened before. The 1995 Oklahoma bombing was carried out by a far-Right activist who believed the US government was at war with its own citizens. A revolutionary situation develops when people think the state is against them and cannot be changed through the ballot box, and the killing of a presidential candidate would, to those of extremist temperament, be final proof.
Oklahoma was inspired by the federal siege at a religious compound in Waco in 1993 – and Trump chose to hold a 2024 rally at Waco airport. He defended the January 6-ers and attacked the “abuses of power” that made this one of the most “corrupt, depraved chapters in all of American history”.
In short, Trump’s death would have pushed his country even further down a road it was already going. Many Americans hope that, having glimpsed over the cliff edge into disorder, people will now step back.
The early signs are encouraging. Condemnation of the shooting and sympathy for the Trump family has been universal. Nikki Haley, his rival in the primaries, has agreed to speak at the Republican convention. And Trump revealed that though his original speech attacking Mr Biden was scheduled to be another “humdinger”, he has since rewritten it with a view to national reconciliation.
“It is a chance to bring the country together,” he said. “I was given that chance.”
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"We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Emergency Banking Act, forced all Americans to convert their gold coins, bullion, and certificates into U.S. dollars, to stop the outflow of gold reserves during the Great Depression. The writing was on the wall, but nobody could read it.
[RIGHT] A
$20 dollar bill showing the White House on the reverse
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WORLD
WAR THREE
In
the event of an international nuclear holocaust, World
War Three will wipe out the White House and most of Washington DC.
All that history gone. Unless, we do something to encapsulate and
preserve that heritage. Just in case a madman somewhere on planet
earth loses it, and pushes his big red button.

CHAPTERS
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| MEDIA
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MOVIE REF |
SCREENPLAYS
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