All Change in the White House? Trump’s Legacy and Biden’s Challenges
| Author | James D. Boys |
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058211001001 |
MARCH 2021 • POLITICAL INSIGHT 29
Wednesday, January 20,
2021, was a day that many
feared they would not live
to see; indeed, 400,000
Americans who died during the COVID
pandemic did not live to watch the departure
of President Trump from the White House and
the inauguration of his successor, Joe Biden.
Following four years in which political norms
were abandoned, international relations were
upended, social discourse became strained,
and national tensions were tested to breaking
point, the United States successfully achieved
what Trump did his best to prevent; the
transfer of executive power and authority.
Now that the Trump presidency is over, what
is its legacy, and what awaits the incoming
Biden administration?
Trump’s tainted legacy
Despite being reviled in vast numbers both
at home and overseas, it must be recognised
that there were successes associated
with the Trump presidency. It got o to
All Change in the White
House? Trump’s Legacy
and Biden’s Challenges
After a chaotic transfer of power and an insurrection on Capitol Hill,
James D. Boys examines the legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency and
asks what is in store for Joe Biden.
a fast start, with the President personally
unveiling a wide-ranging National Security
Strategy within his rst year in oce. The
understandable misgivings about placing
real-estate developer and presidential son-
in-law, Jarred Kushner, in charge of the quest
for peace in the Middle East were quelled
somewhat, by the signing of the Abraham
Accords that normalised relations between
Israel and three Arab states (United Arab
Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan). The more
expansive Middle East peace plan failed to
gain support and eorts to secure a Saudi-
Israeli deal also proved unobtainable, but
such eorts should not go unrecognised.
The state of the American economy must
also rate among the Trump administration’s
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