President-elect Donald Trump's promises of national prosperity and global peace are tempered by warnings of potential setbacks, highlighting a recurring tension in his worldview.
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised national prosperity and global peace , saying he would quickly drive down the cost of groceries in local supermarkets and bring deadly overseas wars to an abrupt end. He echoed that rosy message during a wide-ranging news conference Monday, saying his second term 'will be the most exciting and successful period of reform and renewal in all of American history, maybe of global history.' 'The Golden Age of America, I call it,' he said.
'It's begun.' Then again, maybe not. Trump also offered a caveat — a warning that things could go badly wrong, such as when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted 'out of nowhere' during his first term in office. 'We hope we don't have any intervening problems,' he said, 'because things happen.' The remarks were the latest example of Trump's idea of himself as the strongman fixer of all the world's problems running headlong into his penchant for pessimism — for casting the world as a dangerous place, the nation as a crumbling wreck and himself as the undeserving victim of political ill will and plain bad luck. Since his victory last month, those dueling worldviews have collided repeatedly, as he has softened the assured rhetoric of his stump speeches, walked back some of his more grandiose campaign promises and doubled down on some of his more dire warnings about a future filled with chaos. In his victory speech, Trump said he would 'govern by a simple motto: Promises made, promises kept. We're going to keep our promises. Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, the people.' During a more recent interview with Time magazine, Trump cast fresh doubt on his ability to bring down grocery prices — a key campaign promise — by saying, 'It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up.
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