The White House

White House, the world’s dynamic building and home to dominant elected representative. White House is the official residence to the President of USA. The monumental white coloured building is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington. Since the presidency of John Admas in 1800 this house has been the official residence of every USA president. The construction of house started in 13 October 1792 (228 years ago) and was completed on November 1, 1800 (220 years ago) and since then ownership of this house switches every 4 years , as the term of office of American president is 4 years. Some get and have got possession for 8 years as they successfully got Re-elected to the most powerful house. USA has seen many presidents in their journey till now and each one of them is known by one way or the other. Most of the USA presidents are known for destroying countries they want to, in the name of security and imposing sanctions, the best thing any US president can do. People like Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and many more have set their names in the history of US politics by mass killings, invasions and Imposing sanctions. Bush well known for destroying Iraq and Afghanistan to prove his own might. How both the wars destroyed both the countries is well known. And surprisingly he’s being appreciated for his actions. Clinton who got Saddam Hussein killed for allegedly having Human Destructive weapons which were never discovered but the way he destroyed the country Saddam Hussein was in, is very well discovered .Barak Obama who’s in the list of becoming President for the two consecutive times. He increased troops in Afghanistan, which led to escalation of uncertainty in Afghanistan and he also ordered operations that led to killing of Osama Bin Laden and suspected yemeni Al Qaeda operative Anwar Al Awlaki. Not to forget killings, genocides, invasions and imposing sanctions is hallmark for US President. They have different pride in themselves while they do so and they keep bragging about their murderous success and the troops when return back from so called peace operations get in tears when they see their children and wives, not keeping count of how many innocent loved ones they killed, where they have returned from. Till now USA has seen 45 presidents and almost every president has at least innocent killings in his name. They do work for the betterment of their people but that often comes at the cost of knocking down other nations. I don’t know why in 194 countries only USA has the threats. Why’s the most powerful country with weapons that no country has and with the most number of Nuclear weapons is afraid of countries like Iran, Iraq, cuba, chile, Zimbabwe , Afghanistan and many others those spotlight on the US sanction list. A sanction on Iran made and is making it difficult for it to deal with corona pandemic. Well none the less Donald J Trump become 45th President of United States of America after Obama completed his two consecutive terms in 2017. Donald Trump Republican candidate won in 2017 by defeating Hillary Clinton the Democratic Presidential candidate; she has been the first woman to be nominated for USA president race. She has been First Lady of USA from 1993 to 2001, she has been in office as 67th United States secretary of states during the Obama administration From January 21, 2009 to February 2013. The wining of Trump stunned many as in the beginning Hillary Clinton had a good lead over Trump but as the elections kept inching near the lead narrowed and finally Trump defeated Hillary and become 45th Republican President of USA.
A video of Trump become viral , in which he was seen acting as a kid in a kindergarten where he had visited after becoming the president. As the Trump administration continued he implemented policies like Travel Ban which confined muslims from entering to US, the policy drew a strong condemnations and even confronted by demonstrations. With time Donald J Trump abolished “Obama Care” Which gave an affordable health care to be people of USA. But Trump did away with it and annoyed the people of USA. His policies made USA suffer. He also imposed many sanctions on Iran making it suffer further. But he has been very critical on Afghanistan and had shown willingness to resolve it during his term in office.The worst phase of USA as per many expert was Donald J Trump in office of president. The media had never good relations with him. He was often seen having stormy arguments with them during the press conferences. During his beginning times CNN made a tweet saying “Your job is to solve the problems and our job is to find the problems. Don’t teach us our job” . ( The wording may vary). He had problem with Fox News in particular and he has openly displayed his displeasure with the channel during many of his press conferences. Media has given a very tough time to him. His polices were being Criticised by US media day in and day out. Well his policies were worth that. Pulling out of Paris Agreement, pulling out from WHO and then the Ukiran controversy. Trump had allegedly made some dealing on election which were to happen in 2020. Well nevertheless time inched and the tenure of Donald Trump started to move towards the final end. As the USA 2020 elections kicked in, Joe Biden who has been Vice President during Obama administration stood against the Trump who was seeking re-elctions. Campaigns kicked in , elections were held and Trump lost while as Biden won. In 2020 elections Democrats got into some Republican Constituencies and regained some lost Ones. As the elections results kept unfolding Trump started to get frustrated, made some tweets in frustration, moved to supreme Court and even called elections riged. But it’s not any ordinary democracy it’s the democracy of USA, Every single vote got counted and Biden was declared President elect and Kamala Harris was declared the VP elect. But Donald Trump who was counting his end days didn’t recognize the win and kept calling himself the winner but that was not the case. Trump during his last days took some hassle and bassle decisions and made sure that upcoming president doesn’t have an easy as pie office. While as the days for the oth taking cermony edged near the USA was clutched in violence. The Republican supporters assembled at white house and tuned into a violent mob, the police had to restore to tear gas shelling to disband the mob. In all this came 20th January 2021 the day when President and Vice President elected would turn President and Vice President. Trump on 20th January early morning left for Florida, he was give a brief farewell at airport. He was supposed to attend the maiden ceremony which he didn’t attend, instead he left a letter for Biden which had “Joe, you know I won” written on it .In his last press brefing as president he said “This family has done so much for you” , and that marked the end of his presidency. The Biden kamala oth taking ceremony was an emotional moment for almost every Amarican and that was very well evident from the enthusiasm of the people. Biden kamala oth taking was well mannered following COVID protocol and social distancing. Only 1000 people attended the ceremony otherwise it was supposed to be attended by lakhs of supporters. People like Lady Gaga & Jennifer Lopez added colours to the inaugural ceremony. After taking oth Biden in his first presidential address said “Democracy has prevailed” . In his first address instead of making promises and etc he called for unity, to restore the soul and secure the future of Amarica. He paid tribute to all the people who lost their lives due to corona virus. As President Joseph R. Biden jr. stepped into the office he made USA return to Paris Climate agreement, rejoined WHO and most importantly he ended the Muslim travel ban. He doesn’t recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, one of the blunders of Trump, which added to the worries of people are Palestine. To counter the Biden the Official Twitter handle of US ambassador to isreal added The West Bank and Gaza in name and bio. Well he made a good start winning hearts and undoing the blunders. In all this we must not forget he was the one who was in control during Iraq war. I have mentioned his role in various operations in my article ” Biden kamala and the White House “, published in Kashmir horizon. To predict anything about USA under Biden won’t be justice with the newly sworn in President, but with a good start let’s hope for the best.
(Author is a freelancer and writes frequently for “Kashmir Horizon”. Views are exclusively his own)