Donald Trump: 24 things the next

president believes
Republican Donald Trump has won victory in the presidential race,
but no one's quite sure what President Trump will actually do in
office.
The New York businessman-turned-politician said many controversial
things and flip-flopped on a number of policy positions during the
campaign.
Here, we look back at 24 of his professed beliefs.
1. The US should use waterboarding
This and other methods of "strong interrogation" should be deployed
in its fight against the Islamic State group. These methods, Mr Trump
said, are "peanuts" compared to the tactics used by the militants,
such as beheadings. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough,"
he said in June of the banned practice.
2. Mexico should pay for the "great, great wall"
Mr Trump has said he wants to start building the much-touted wall
on the shared border from the first day of his presidency, and that
Mexico will pay for it. In some of his earliest campaign comments, he
suggested that Mexicans coming to the US were criminals and
"rapists". BBC analysis estimates the border wall could cost between
$2.2bn and $13bn.
3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr
Trump wrote that he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown
of Muslims entering the United States until our country's
representatives can figure out what is going on".
He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that
he would temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most
dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of
exporting terrorism".
4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11

Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there

were thousands of Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after
two planes flew into the Twin Towers. He says such public
demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the US.
However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.
5. Obamacare is a "disaster".
Mr Trump says he wants Congress to fully repeal the president's
Affordable Care Act, which aims at extending the number of
Americans with health insurance, but he believes that "everybody's
got to be covered". A spokesman for Mr Trump said he would
propose "a health plan that will return authority to the states and
operate under free market principles". The increase in premiums
revealed just before the election bolstered the Trump attacks.
6. Climate change is just "weather"
While Mr Trump believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean
water" is important, he has dismissed climate change science as a
"hoax" and believes environmental restrictions on businesses make
them less competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not believe
that we should imperil the companies within our country," he told
CNN on the issue. "It costs so much and nobody knows exactly if it's
going to work."
7. The world would be better off if Saddam Hussein and
Muammar Gaddafi were still in power
Mr Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in both Libya and
Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was under the leaders of the two
countries. While he concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says
he did a better job combating terrorists.
8. Illegal migrants should be deported
Trump once said that he wanted to deport all of the approximately
11.3 million undocumented immigrants in the US, despite criticism
that this idea is both xenophobic, next to impossible and
prohibitively expensive - the BBC estimates a cost of $114bn. His
official policy now says only those with criminal records will be
deported immediately, although immigration controls will still be
massively beefed up. Any undocumented migrants would also face
the risk of deportation.

9. Syrian refugees could be a "Trojan horse"

He says that the Paris attacks prove that even a handful of terrorists
posing as migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he will
oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and deport those who have
already been resettled. It's unclear if he still believes that
deportations are necessary, though he has still vowed to suspend
the intake of Syrian refugees.

10. Vladimir Putin is a "leader"

He has noted the Russian president's "great control over his country"
and criticised the state of the relations between it and the US. He
told CNN: "I would probably get along with him very well. And I don't
think you'd be having the kind of problems that you're having right
now". More recently he has said that Mr Putin doesn't "respect" the
US, although that was no reason to get tough on him.
11. Taxes should be reduced for everyone
Trump wants to condense the current seven tax brackets to just
three, with no income tax for "low-income Americans". He would
lower the business tax to 15%, from 35%. He would also allow
multinational companies keeping profits overseas to repatriate their
cash at a 10% tax rate.
12. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with murder"
Mr Trump found common ground with Democrats like Senator
Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund managers and the
ultra-wealthy did not pay enough taxes. However, after the
campaign released specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge
fund managers would actually get a tax cut along with the middle
class.
13. China should be taken to task on a number of traderelated issues
He has said he will make China stop undervaluing its currency, and
force it to step up its environmental and labour standards. He is also

critical of the county's lax attitude towards American intellectual

property and hacking.
14. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble"
Mr Trump mocked former Democratic
candidates like Martin O'Malley for
apologising to members of the
protest movement against police
brutality and cast himself as a prolaw enforcement candidate. "I think
they're looking for trouble," he once
said of the activist group. He also
tweeted a controversial and widely
debunked graphic purporting to show
that African Americans kill white and
black people at far higher rates than white people or police officers.
15. He's worth $10bn
Based on Mr Trump's 92-page personal financial disclosure form,
Bloomberg calculated last year that the real estate mogul was worth
about $2.9bn, while Forbes recently put Trump's net worth at $3.7bn.
Mr Trump has however insisted that he is worth "in excess" of $10bn.
16. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major overhaul
Mr Trump wants to clear out the executive level in the Department of
Veterans Affairs, saying that waiting times for doctor visits have only
increased after previous interventions failed. Thousands of veterans
have died while waiting for care, he says. He will invest in the
treatment of "invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress disorder
and depression. He would also increase the number of doctors who
specialise in women's health to help care for the increasing number
of female veterans.
17. Lobbyists should be more restricted

Mr Trump proposes that there be a five-year ban that prevents

government officials and members of congress from leaving and
then immediately becoming lobbyists. He also calls for a lifetime ban
on senior administration officials from lobbying on behalf of foreign
governments.
18. He is a "really nice guy"
In Trump's most recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm a
really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on being a nice guy but
I'm also passionate and determined to make our country great
again". The news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a "nice
guy" throughout the book, and Mr Trump repeated that selfassessment in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and in
an interview with the Washington Post.

19. He could not have groped an unattractive woman

A video from 2005 showed Mr Trump making obscene comments
about women and triggered numerous claims of alleged sexual
harassment. At one rally, he suggested that one of the accusers - a
"horrible woman" - was not attractive enough for him to have
groped: "I don't think so! I don't think so!"
20. Tokyo and Seoul should build up nuclear arsenals
He has said Japan and South Korea should not rely on the US so
much and would benefit from having their own weapons. Nuclear
war between Japan and North Korea may be "terrible" but it would
be "pretty quick".
21. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) is a "ripoff"

Why? Because the US pays more than anyone else. But he later said
he was "all" in favour of the alliance.
22. Doctors should be punished for administering abortions
Or should they? In an interview with MSNBC, Mr Trump said that if
abortion were to become illegal, women should be punished for
obtaining them. He then retracted, saying the doctor would be
responsible and he or she should be punished, instead.
23. The Republican
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He called the delegate system "crooked" and "unfair". He repeatedly

clashed with the RNC over its nomination process and how it treated
his candidacy during the primaries. He called rules that allowed
Senator Ted Cruz to gain more delegates than him in some states
"rigged", as he did later when talking about the electoral process
when polls were showing Hillary Clinton ahead of him.
24. The federal minimum wage should be raised
Workers should be paid more than the current level of $7.25/hour, he
has said. though this is another issue he has flip-flopped on
repeatedly.