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DOnald Trump The nineties of the nineteenth century were called in the setting of the agenda for its second period. But from his request on Panama channel to announce a state of national energy emergency to his order to launch John Kennedy’s assassination records on the music he served in his opening balls, Mr. Trump, in his early days. Office, instead raised a different contract: the seventies of the last century, the formative years for him, and America.
In 1971, Mr. Trump moved, then in his mid -twenties, from Queens to Manhattan, where he took a stable rental studio with a view of the water tank. He had ambitions to convert his father’s business in Brooklyn building middle -class housing into something greater. By the end of the contract, a millionaire in itself will be married to a glamorous immigrant and a match in clubs such as 54 studio, with increasing celebrities for projects such as his sign named on the fifth avenue.
When he left the seventies of the twentieth century in the mid -thirties, Mr. Trump had years of adulthood behind him, such as many Americans, for naive reasons towards politics and business, and to be afraid of inflation, scarcity of oil and urban crime, to be attracted to conspiracy theories, To believe that America lost the national self -insurance of its childhood in the fifties. During what Tom Wolf described as “I”, amid the disclosure of dirty actions by the saint personalities, as the Americans embraced freely and divorced each other, old ideas about duty and service have become like fraud. We forget the “moral” standards that may have tried to cram your throat, “advise one of the best -selling books in those years,” searching for the first number. “
“The seventies of the last century were arduous and frightening because the customs and institutions that were brilliantly succeeded for half a century were suddenly exposed,” David Frum wrote in his history of the contract, “How did we get here: the seventies.” “neverNot even during depression-American pride and self-confidence decrease deeper. “The disappointment and fear and the reaction of those years that stiffness in the global view that carried Mr. Trump twice to the Oval Office.
In the early 1970s, Mr. Trump Boy Cohen, the man who may have affected him more than anyone else alongside his father, met his reflection to fight all arrivals for every advantage, as he now does as president. Mr. Cohen has become a fierce lawyer in New York, a teacher of Mr. Trump, “his introduction to the world of Netherworld of Sordid Quid Pro Quos, who was ruled by Cohen,” wrote the biography of Mr. Trump, Wayne Barrett, in Trump. Over the 1970s, Mr. Trump has become the largest individual donor in New York State and local elections. “I can buy a we Senator for $ 200,000, “I once told a colleague at the time.
The Witrgate investigations were leaking to the teaching of all Americans similar lessons, and more than just President Richard Nixon was involved. The great companies in America have evaded years of law with donations to politicians from both parties. Not only Nixon has secret meetings in the Oval Office. This was how Lindon Johnson and John Kennedy were.
In 1976, Congress established for the first time a permanent committee to supervise the intelligence agencies, and revealed shocking secrets about coups and assassinations before Central Intelligence Agency. Then the disclosure came Federal Bureau of Investigation. Robert Kennedy himself had ordered the islands on Martin Luther King. As doubts about Skuldugger, Congress in 1976 ordered investigations into the assassinations of John Kennedy and Malik. Hollywood seized the ghost Central Intelligence Agency American murders, the “Chinese Quarter” and the “Godfather” chain. Mr. Trump’s response in 2017 when one of the interviews was called Vladimir Putin as a murderer – “Do you think our country is very innocent?” It was directly from the seventies.
The government was coming to look not only corrupt, but it was incompetent. New York City has stumbled on the edge of bankruptcy while officials were struggling with the increasing theft and murder. “Welcome to Fear City”, read the leaflets that carry a head of death that were handed over to the police officers in unofficial clothes for tourists in 1975. During the city’s blackout in 1977, chaos swept the streets, looting. One may call it the American massacre.
Four years from Condor
On the national level, the new laws in the 1960s led to an increase in immigration in the 1970s, and illegal immigration with it. The reverse reaction was based on new rights granted to non -citizens, as it was against policies aimed at enhancing integration and equality such as positive and bus work. Mr. Trump has employed Cohen for the first time to defend him against the lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice, accusing Trump of excluding black tenants. When he was asked about the deposit of 1974 when the first blacks moved to one of his projects, Mr. Trump replied, “I do not care and do not know.” He was insisting on the same type of “spiral blindness”, which he announced in his opening speech this month to be a government policy.
Mr. Trump has once expressed that during the seventies of the last century, America lost “the feeling of the superiority that this country was in the fifties.” In the seventies of the twentieth century, the control of the conservative Panama channel was sworn. In a televised discussion with Ronald Reagan, William Bakli, the founding editor of National reviewHe said that the heart of the channel would bring the Americans more “increase security and increase self -esteem.” Time has proven that it was true as security went. But for many on the right, the treaty with Panama has become exposed to the same weakness that led to the failure of Vietnam and the crisis of Iranian hostages. Mr. Trump pledged to recover the channel is a direct attack in the 1970s, and confirms a basic question about his second term: Will the Americans lead to overcoming this contract in the end, or to overcome it? ■
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