WASHINGTON: Mass expulsions? Political revenge? World peace? A new golden age? As Donald Trump seeks another term in the White House, the country is abuzz with speculation about what life will be like with the former president back in charge.
Here are Trump's plans for America and the world, in five iconic measures.
Mass deportations
Vice President Kamala Harris's rival in the November election has pledged to launch the largest deportation operation of illegal immigrants in US history on his first day in office.
“We're going to get them out as quickly as we can,” he said, accusing undocumented immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The 78-year-old, known for his unfinished US-Mexico border wall project, has said he would be happy to “use the military” as part of the effort and would open detention camps to process those targeted for removal.
“On the first day of my new term, I will sign an executive order that will make clear to federal agencies that, under the correct interpretation of the law, in the future the future children of illegal immigrants will not automatically receive U.S. citizenship,” he said in a campaign video.
It has confirmed it also plans to reinstate its ban on entry to people from several Muslim-majority countries, as a way to “keep terrorists out of our country.”
'Drill, baby, drill!'
During his first term, Trump slammed the door on the 2015 Paris climate accords, and his campaign has said he intends to end U.S. participation again if re-elected.
At a rally earlier this summer, he told supporters he would “stop Biden’s wasteful spending and quickly end the new green scam,” referring to funding pledged by his successor to mitigate climate change.
“I'm going to repeal corrupt Joe Biden's absurd electric vehicle mandate and 'we'll drill, baby, we'll drill,'” Trump said in Wisconsin, using an old Republican slogan.
“Energy costs will come down very quickly,” he promised. “In many cases, we will cut energy costs in half.”
Cryptocurrencies to take with you
Trump has pledged to make the United States the “bitcoin and cryptocurrency capital of the world” and put tech billionaire and right-wing conspiracy theorist Elon Musk in charge of a sweeping audit of government waste.
Trump also envisions tariffs of “more than 10%” on all imports. American companies – and ultimately their customers – pay the import tariffs, not the companies that export the goods.
He insists that the revenue raised will finance “a huge tax cut for the middle class, the upper class, the lower class and the business class.”
Having waged a fierce trade war with China during his first term, he also plans to revoke the Asian giant's “most favored nation” status, granted to promote trade.
Ambiguity about abortion
Trump never misses an opportunity to point out that it is partly thanks to him — and his three conservative Supreme Court appointments — that abortion rights have been significantly weakened in the United States.
But it is more ambiguous about the future of access to reproductive health care.
Insisting that it should be a state-by-state issue, the Republican has refused to push for a nationwide abortion ban, a compromise that would win him support from the religious right.
“You must follow your heart in this matter, but remember that you must also win elections,” he said.
And she promised: “My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”
'Plan' for war in Ukraine
Trump has been saying for months that he could end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours,” without explaining how.
Critics suggest his plan would involve pressuring kyiv to cede territory illegally occupied by Russia in both 2014 and 2022.
“I have a very specific plan on how to stop Ukraine and Russia, and I have a certain idea — maybe not a plan, but an idea — for China,” he said in an interview.
“But I can't give you those plans, because if I give them to you, I won't be able to use them, they'll be very unsuccessful. You know, part of this is a surprise, right?”
Trump portrayed himself as a staunch defender of Israel when the war with Hamas broke out, but has since become more critical in his comments about the US ally's military offensive in Gaza, saying: “I'm not sure I like the way they're doing it.”
