A presidency under Donald Trump could see protests, would bring uncertainty and the UK should not expect any favours under his leadership, experts have warned.
Three academics have spoken speculatively about what we could possibly expect if the Republican candidate clinches victory in the
US election – and the outlook is not good.
Civil unrest, legal challenges and the potential of a ‘cozy up’ to Russian president Vladimir Putin are all concerns voiced by professors Scott Lucas, Iwan Morgan and Mike Cullinane.
‘My feeling is that Trump is going to treat the presidency as the equivalent of a CEO position – and it isn’t that,’ Professor Morgan, who lectures US Studies at University College London, told the Press Association.
‘The presidency has to be held by someone who understands the necessity for persuasion, it isn’t a place for command.’
He said everything he has seen about Mr
Trump makes him ‘worry he doesn’t quite
understand’ that being president is a ‘system of checks and balances between co-equal branches of government’.
Professor Lucas, a US citizen who teaches American Studies at the University of Birmingham, said with Mr Trump as president of the free world ‘god knows what you get’.
‘He is completely unpredictable, he is
incoherent – I have not heard him express a coherent thought on foreign policy in his campaign,’ he said.
‘He talks in slogans, but that doesn’t actually make a policy.’
Professor Lucas added: ‘I think with Trump we are into the realm of the unknown, and the unknown is never good for stability – in foreign policy and international relations to say
the least.’
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