Here are Highlights Of The Year 2017- From Trump To Rohingya

What a year 2017 has been so far, so many things that would have been unthinkable in December 2016 actually happened in 2017. These events could be taken as a sign of how 2018 will pan out. 

2017 was a year marred by uncertainty and unpredictability. One of the biggest reasons for that has been the manner in which the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald. J. Trump has gone about doing business in his presidency. As soon as he came to power by defeating the Democrat candidate Hillary R. Clinton, he set about implementing some of his populist policies on the back of which he came to power. 

The first policy that Trump pushed through and sent shock-waves in the realm of global politics. Trump signed an executive order which banned visitors from seven Muslim majority countries from entering US. The order drew huge criticism and at the same time solidarity for the people affected by the slipshod policy. 

Judges in the federal courts of US quickly acted to strike down the ban as unconstitutional, this move forced Trump to back down to some extent. However, after a lot of dilly-dallying the US Supreme Court allowed a modified version of the original executive order to be implemented until a final ruling is issued. 

Trump did not stop there; he muddied the international waters as well with his mercurial and juvenile outbursts. Trump appeared to be single-mindedly focused on unravelling the world as we know it; it is as if a Spanish bull had been set lose in a china shop. Trump not only refused to re-certify the Iran nuclear deal –one of the legacies of Obama administration, he also continued his war-mongering vitriol against Kim Jong Un’s now nuclear capable North Korea. 

In the first time ever, the closest allies of USA such as UK and France explicitly expressed their frustration with Trump administration. 

As if Trump had not done enough, he decided it was good idea to close the year by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the American embassy there. The decision has provoked massive hostility in the UN General Assembly as an overwhelming majority of UN members refused to toe the line of Trump administration. In response to Trump’s decision, the regional hard man Recep Erdogan called a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Countries (OIC) at Istanbul. The meeting passed a resolution declaring East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.  

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