NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 7- President Donald Trump is on his way out, or not.
But this is not about the next four years in the United States but the past four years during his tenure.
A period when Trump re-wrote all the conventional rules and showed people the worst that can happen in any administration.
Trump has shown the world that it is not the system of governance but the person at the helm of it.
What a man Trump was!
Arguably one of the most controversial players in modern American politics.
He breached all or any democratic standards we have held the US by, and he intrigued us daily for it.
From how he handled Africa and the rest of the world, to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
On February 27, he said this about the disease; “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
As it stands, US is the worst-hit country by the disease, that has claimed 237,000 Americans.
Multiple times, he has claimed the situation was improving. Like in May, he said; “Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,” and cases are “coming way down.”
That was a lie.
Over time, 9.83 million people more than the entire population of Nairobi- have turned positive.
It is under Trump’s leadership that the United States became the first country in the world to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
It is an agreement that was drafted in 2015 to bolster the response to the threat of climate change across the world.
Among other things, the deal aims to keep global temperature rise this century below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
It also hopes to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5°C.
If elected, Democratic nominee Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the agreement.
On September 14, Trump had this to say about climate change, “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch.”
He said Wade Crowfoot, California’s secretary for natural resources, urged him and others not to “put our head in the sand” and simply ignore the warming climate.
It was during a roundtable in McLellan Park, California, on the wildfires that have engulfed huge swaths of the state, CNBC television network reported.
And to say the least, his sentiments were baffling.
The big question is, why would the most powerful man on earth hold such an issue so casually?
Trump was an exciting person!
But it is about that time the world goes back to factory settings.
The writer is the Secretary-General of the Crime Journalists Association of Kenya-CJAK.
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