Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Donald Trump for President 2024 |
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| Campaign | Republican primaries for 2024 U.S. presidential election (excluding Colorado) |
| Candidate | Donald Trump 45th President of the United States (2017–2021) |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Announced | November 15, 2022 |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia |
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| Receipts | US$18,240,154 |
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Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, announced his campaign for a non-consecutive second presidential term in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on November 15, 2022.
Trump is seeking to become the second president to ever serve non-consecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland who was re-elected in 1892.
Eligibility
The questions of Trump's eligibility to run for president in 2024 are delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Two amendments addressing this issue are the 14th and 22nd Amendments. Some scholars have argued, although Trump has been indicted multiple times, neither the indictments nor any resulting convictions would render him ineligible for the office.
On December 19, 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in Anderson v. Griswold that Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the ballot for the 2024 United States presidential election in Colorado under section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling is currently stayed to allow for an appeal.
Platform
Trump's platform calls for the vast expansion of presidential powers and the executive branch over every part of the federal government.
Trump and his allies have reportedly drafted executive orders to invoke the Insurrection Act on the first day of his presidency to allow the military to shut down civil demonstrations against him. Campaigning in Iowa, Trump stated he would deploy the military in Democratic cities and states. The Insurrection Act would be used to allow the military to detain migrants at the southern border.
In October 2023, Trump claimed he planned "an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration," including "preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled." To achieve the goal of deporting millions per year, Trump has stated his intent to expand a form of deportation that does not require due process hearings.
Trump has promised to reinstate his ban on entry to individuals from certain Muslim-majority nations, and having the Centers for Disease Control reimpose Covid 19-era restrictions on asylum claims by asserting migrants carry infectious diseases such as the flu, tuberculosis, and scabies. Trump has said he would build more of the border wall, and move thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to the southern border.
Trade
Trump has stated he plans to institute tariffs of "perhaps 10%" on most foreign goods, with increased penalties if trade partners manipulate their currency or engage in unfair trade practices. Trump stated his plans to urge Congress to pass a "Trump Reciprocal Trade Act" to bestow presidential authority to impose a reciprocal tariff on any country that imposed one on the United States.
Trump's trade policies are noted to be mainly aimed against China. Trump has proposed a four-year plan to phase out Chinese imports of essential goods such as electronics, steel, and pharmaceuticals.
Foreign policy
Trump's 2024 campaign has reiterated its isolationist "America First" foreign policy agenda.
Trump has promised to "fundamentally reevaluate" NATO's purpose and mission. During his previous time as President, Trump repeatedly denigrated the NATO alliance, and suggested several times of withdrawing the United States from the alliance. Trump has previously made comments questioning whether or not come to the defense of a NATO ally depending on whether they "fulfilled their obligations to us," called the European Union a "foe" based on "what they do to us in trade," and has provided recent statements questioning the value of alliances.
Health care
Trump has promised to replace the Affordable Care Act if elected as President. Some Republican senators have signaled openness to unwind and replace the ACA. No specifics on a replacement plan have yet been revealed. Trump previously attempted to repeal the ACA in 2017.
LGBT rights
Trump has stated that he will ask Congress to pass a bill stating that the United States will only recognize two genders as determined at birth. Trump has stated that hospitals and health care providers that provide transitional hormones or surgery will no longer qualify for federal funding, including Medicare and Medicaid funding. Trump has stated he will push to prohibit hormonal and surgical intervention for minors in all 50 states.
Education
Trump has pledged to terminate the Department of Education, claiming it has been infiltrated by "radical zealots and Marxists," but also pledged to exert influence over local school districts and universities by giving funding preference to schools that abolish teacher tenure, adopt merit pay, and allow the direct election of school principals by parents. Trump has promised to cut funding to any school with a mask or vaccine mandate. Trump has stated his support for teachers to carry concealed weapons, and to provide funding to allow schools to hire armed guards.
Trump has stated his intention to promote prayer in public schools, and stated he will fight for "patriotic education" that will "teach students to love their country, not to hate their country like they're taught right now" and will promote "the nuclear family" including "the roles of mothers and fathers" and the "things that make men and women different and unique."
Energy, environment, and climate change
Trump has promised to increase oil drilling on public lands and offer tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers. Trump has stated his goal for the U.S. to have the lowest cost of electricity and energy of any country in the world.
He has proposed leaving the Paris Climate Accords, ending wind subsidies, and eliminating regulations targeting incandescent lightbulbs, gas stoves, dishwashers and shower heads. Trump previously rescinded over 125 environmental rules and policies designed to reduce planet-warming emissions during his previous presidency.
During his initial 2016 campaign, Trump stated that climate change was a hoax, that China was using the myth of climate change to gain an advantage over the United States, and that environmentalists were using the phrase climate change because global warming didn't stick.
In an October, 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Trump stated that he didn't deny climate change and that something was changing, but doubted it was being caused by mankind and speculated it was part of a natural cycle and could "go back," and that scientists have a political agenda.
Trump has not officially stated how he will deal with climate change if reelected to the White House.
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