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The Trump Supremacy? A Year of an Unorthodox American President

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Vincent
AuthorJames D. Boys
Date01 March 2018
DOI10.1177/2041905818764706
Published date01 March 2018
34 POLITICAL INSIGHT • APRIL 2018
As he prepared to leave the White
House, an American president
reected on the impending
transfer of power and on the
political reality that was about to greet his
successor, who had never previously held
political oce. “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say
do this, do that,” he remarked to an aide,
“and nothing will happen…he’ll nd it very
frustrating.”
This was January 1953, as Harry Truman
prepared to escort General Eisenhower
The Trump Supremacy?
A Year of an Unorthodox
American President
James D. Boys looks back at Donald Trump’s f‌irst year in off‌ice and
f‌inds that while much of the radical reform promised on the campaign
trail has yet to materialise, the new administration has certainly
raised eyebrows, and concerns.
to his inaugural ceremonies, a journey
conducted in icy silence as the two men
avoided even small talk. Sixty-ve years
later, little has changed. Despite having
blasted his rhetorical way to the White
House with talk of ending the ”carnage”
in the United States, “right here, and right
now,” President Trump’s ability to deliver
profound, sweeping change, remains
as dicult to implement as it was for
his predecessors. Following a year of
frustrations and setbacks, however, we are
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Political Insight April 2018.indd 34 19/02/2018 11:19

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