Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday announced plans for his first 100 days in office if elected president which included steps like declaring China a currency manipulator, cancelling payments to United Nations for combating climate change and renegotiating North American Free Trade Agreement.
“I’m not a politician, and have never wanted to be one. But when I saw the trouble our country was in, I knew I couldn’t stand by and watch any longer. Our country has been so good to me, I love our country, I felt I had to act,” Trump said in his address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
“Change has to come from outside this broken system. The fact that the Washington establishment has tried so hard to stop our campaign is only more proof that our campaign represents the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime,” he said while releasing details of his plans which he described as a ‘Contract with the American voter’.
He urged the American people to “rise above the noise and the clutter of broken politics” and to embrace faith and optimism that has always been the central ingredient in the American character.
“I am asking you to dream big,” the 70-year-old business tycoon asserted.
“What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between Donald J Trump and the American voter -- and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington,” Trump said.
Among his other first 100 days measures included a lifetime ban on White House officials to lobby on behalf of foreign governments, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated, a five year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service and a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
This, he said, would clean up the corrupt system.
Trump said on his first day, he would announce his intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205.
“I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator. I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and US Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately,” he said.
“I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. I will lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward and I will cancel billions in payments to UN climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure,” Trump said.
In his speech, Trump said he will sue the women who have levelled allegations of sexual harassment against him.
“They’re trying to poison the mind of the American voter. Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication, the events never happened -- never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over,” he said.
“Just like we found out about these paid violent protesters, it was probably the DNC and the Clinton campaign that put forward these liars with their fabricated stories.
But we’ll find out about their involvement at a later date through litigation. And I look so forward to doing that,” he added.
