(Washington) Flying cars, the wall on the border with Mexico, the death penalty for drug traffickers: Donald Trump unveiled in a series of videos the surprising program he wants to apply if he were to be re-elected leading the United States in 2024.
Here are the main measures.
Immigration
It was never finished, but the wall between the United States and Mexico was one of the emblematic measures of his first term: if he is re-elected, Donald Trump wants to “fully secure” the border.
During its first mandate, the Trump administration had built about 700 km of the wall, for a border of more than 3000 kilometers.
Donald Trump also raised the possibility of revoking the jus soli for the children of undocumented immigrants.
New towns
Ten new cities, for “a big leap forward in the American standard of living”.
The former president, candidate for a new term, wants to build a series of metropolises, roughly the size of the capital Washington, on federal lands.
Developed around “industrial bastions” full of state-of-the-art factories, these cities would create “a new future for the country”, assures Donald Trump.
The Republican imagines a “big competition” to draw these cities “of freedom”.
Concerned that the United States, and “not China”, will lead the “air mobility” revolution, Donald Trump also proposes in all seriousness that the country work hard on the design of flying vehicles.
“Culture Wars”
The septuagenarian spoke out on these “culture wars”, these questions of gender, racism or education which are tearing the country apart.
The candidate has pledged to crack down on doctors offering transitional care to transgender minors and on ‘pink-haired communists’ who teach the history of racism in schools in a way he considers ‘inappropriate’ .
He also proposed the creation of a tax credit to compensate teachers who teach the use of firearms, at a time when the country is bereaved by a litany of school shootings.
A year of celebration!
America will celebrate in 2026 the 250e anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. To mark the occasion, Donald Trump is proposing “a whole year of festivities across the country” from May 2025.
“I will work with the governors of the 50 states, Republicans and Democrats, to create the Great American Kermesse, a unique event,” promised the former leader. “It will be something,” he assured.
A new war on drugs
In order to combat the crisis of fentanyl in the United States, a dangerous synthetic opiate at the origin of a dramatic increase in fatal overdoses in the United States, the former tenant of the White House proposed to designate the cartels Mexicans as terrorist organizations.
According to the Republican, drug traffickers should be sentenced to death. “They are killing our citizens and poisoning our beautiful children,” he charged in one of his videos.
Donald Trump also defended the return of arbitrary stops and searches (“stop-and-frisk”), a controversial police practice which has resulted in the past in a disproportionate targeting of blacks and Latinos.
And pledged to deploy the National Guard to “restore law and order” – one of his favorite formulas – in cities run by left-wing politicians.
Graces for his supporters
Donald Trump has promised to pardon “a large part” of his supporters imprisoned after attacking the headquarters of the United States Congress on January 6, 2021.
On this cold winter day, thousands of demonstrators had sown chaos and violence in the temple of American democracy, when elected officials certified the victory of his rival Joe Biden in the presidential election.
The sprawling investigation that followed resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 people. Nearly 300 received prison sentences, some of them for sedition.