The United States is currently in the midst of one of the most, if not the most controversial presidency ever. On January 20, Donald J. Trump, the real estate tycoon was sworn into office. He promised to change the country, yet showed little to no plans on how to actually go about doing that. He was seemingly elected by exploiting the uneducated in the country. A man who publicly discriminates against Muslims and women was sworn into the office. A man with no government experience.  His presidency so far has run exactly how it was expected. He has hidden behind his tweets, picking fights with each media outlet who have anything bad to say against him. He has attempted to make numerous large changes to the country and few of them have been approved. Although most of his followers expected his huge plans to actually change the country, he hasn’t been able to follow through thus far. His economic plan is very hazy, yet it still carries out the same “Make America Great Again” theme. His plan for the economy revolves around the idea that immigration isn’t good for the economy. He has begun to already implement many of his plans into the economy. Although some of his ideas seem to play a positive effect on the economy, some are very immoral. Many of his other plans seemingly won’t positively help the economy. In general, his plan for the economy seems very vague and not exactly helpful to the greater good. His ideas are a mixture of examples of antigrowth and free market plans. The White House has also never seen such an unpredictable president, which really makes it very hard to actually determine how his plans for economic growth will realistically turn out. 

The 2017 presidential election was absolutely hectic. It was filled with hate and created a lot of divide in the country. The country was always holding its breath in anticipation of the next big controversial statement or action that Donald Trump would perform. However, controversy was the reason for one of the biggest upsets in U.S. history, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to win the election. Despite holding very immoral values, Trump came out in front with enough electoral votes to beat Clinton. Analysts had Hillary winning in a landslide. The election showed that there were a lot of unspoken voters who didn’t want to publicly admit that they would be voting for Trump. The country seemed to want something new and radical that they felt would change the country for the better. For some reason, they looked to Trump, a man with no political experience, a man who had varying plans on how to fix the country’s issues. This shows specifically through his economic plans. Many of his proposals don’t seem very concrete or well thought. His radical ideas aren’t going to pass through congress, and are completely against the constitution. It seems that he wants to help the elitists of the country and not help out the majority. His tax reform is a great example of how this holds true. His immigration reform is absolutely unconstitutional, as he wants a complete ban of certain nations’ citizens from entering the country. He also plans to build a wall along the Mexico border, and make Mexico pay for it. The woes of his economic plan don’t stop there. Plenty other factors help to not actually help the country as a whole.

So far the Trump presidency hasn’t exactly lived up to expectations for a little under the majority of the nation. His past 3 months provide a great example of how much of his presidency is going to turn out. Thus far has proven that some of his ideas have been very unconstitutional. The supreme court has recently turned down the “Muslim ban” which would have completely denied the entry of Muslims from certain countries. The Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional. Then, the overhaul of Obamacare was turned down. He demanded that his health care bill be put into place, then admitted that it would hurt his own supporters.  He claimed that it would cover and assist everyone. He actually knew very little about his proposed healthcare bill and demanded it be put into place instead of improvising it. Ultimately, Republicans voted to keep Obamacare in place instead of putting a new health care bill in place. Trump has also accused Obama of wiretapping the White House, based solely on public news reports. The amount of hypocrisy that is present in his actions is unbelievable, how can we trust someone who constantly lashes out at news sources for being “fake” then turns to public news sources to provide claims that his phones are tapped to run our country and our economy.

One of Trump’s main plans for the economy is the immigration reform. So far in his presidency he has attempted to banish any illegal immigrants from entering and staying in the country. This idea has come with a lot of backlash and has ultimately been turned down by the supreme court. Trump’s thought process behind this is that it takes away from jobs being distributed to Americans. With less illegal immigrants in the country, there will be more jobs for people born in the country. Trump believes that the middle class is fading away so he wants to get more Americans in the workforce and less immigrants. He believes that Mexico has been taking advantage of our trade deals and our lack of immigration policy. He wants to create a wall that runs along the border of the U.S. and Mexico, and make Mexico pay for it. This idea is just completely wrong. For starters, it’s a complete waste of money, as most illegal immigrants aren’t actually coming in through the Mexico border (Casselman 1). Illegal immigrants are actually coming from Central America and Asia, not Mexico (1). As a matter of fact, the number of illegal immigrants coming through Mexico has declined since 2007. He also uses the idea that illegal immigrants are using up resources to place more blame on immigrants for the woes of our economy. He believes that they’re taking up our taxpayer money by taking welfare, healthcare costs, education costs, etc. This is yet another fallacy. These government social programs aren’t available to illegal immigrants, and they’re actually not even available to legal immigrants until they have resided in the states for 5 years (1). Although the thought of more jobs being given to Americans sounds nice in retrospect, it actually creates a problem in the nation. The theory that immigrants take up a large portion of the workforce and take up jobs for Americans makes sense. However, according to both Republican and Democratic economists, immigration drives up demand for services and products (1).   Immigrants still pay taxes regardless of their immigration status. Undocumented workers actually paid almost 12 billion dollars in local and state taxes in 2012 (1). Not to mention that they pay income taxes and medicare taxes each year. Trump’s immigration reform is a key component of his economic reform. Many of his plans to keep immigrants out are based on false information, and other plans are just unconstitutional altogether.

Another part of Trump’s economic plan is his tax reform. Although he plans to make America great again, this reform actually only helps the upper class of the nation. According to Hilary Russ, almost all of New York City’s millionaires would encounter a huge tax cut with his plan, while only one third of middle class American families would see an increase (Russ 1). City comptroller Scott Stringer stated that Trump’s tax overhaul would would give more than $5 billion of tax cuts to those living in the city, but two thirds of those cuts would be given to those who earn more than 500,000 dollars (1). As a matter of fact, a single mother making less than 50,000 dollars a year would actually face a tax increase. This is clearly a completely selfish reform, as it is only helping those that he associates with, and himself. Trump isn’t making America great again, he is keeping the rich elitists of the nation great. Another stipulation of his tax reform has corporations taking an income tax cut, however it doesn’t include partnerships, sole proprietorships, and LLCs. Instead, all those listed would face a huge income tax rate of 33 percent (1). This means that family businesses and small business owners would take a hit from his reform. Yet again, Trump is not sticking up for those pursuing the American dream that he has promised to help those in need attain. Instead, he plans on helping himself and his associates. 

Trump’s plan to reform Obamacare is another huge problem for his economic reform. Medicare is an unbelievably complicated subject. Obamacare isn’t perfect by any means, but completely removing and instating a new medicare program is a gruel task in its own. Recently, the overhaul of Obamacare has actually been denied. 

According to Investopedia, “Trumponomics” describes, “the economic policies of U.S. president Donald Trump, who won the November 8, 2016 presidential election on the back of bold economic promises to cut personal and corporate taxes, restructure trade deals and introduce large fiscal stimulus measures focused on infrastructure and defense.” The idea of “Trumponomics” sounds amazing but it is actually a complete fraudulent idea, created by Trump to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It’s actually hard to believe that we have a president in office that has no past political experience, and is running the country on his own beliefs and morals. 
