The United States of America does not have a prime minister, since it does not follow a parliamentary government unlike other countries (like England, Australia, and India). The head of state is the President of the United States (sometimes abbreviated as POTUS), and it is currently Donald Trump .
Three US states have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. Mr Trump signed an executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries on Monday. New York maintains the new directive is a ban on Muslims while Washington says it is harmful to the state. Oregon and Massachusetts later also joined. The ban begins on 16 March, with the White House saying it is "very confident" of winning in court. Mr Trump's original order was more expansive but it was defeated after a legal challenge initially mounted by Washington and Minnesota. What states this time and why? Oregon - said the order hurts residents, employers, universities health care system and economy Washington - it has "same illegal motivations as the original" and harms residents, although fewer than the first ban New York - "a Muslim ban by another name", said the attorney general Massachusetts -...
Donald Trump is in over his head. This comes as no surprise to the millions of people who could see that he was unprepared and unfit for the job of president of the United States and voted against him. He’s basically a celebrity heir to a fortune who was so entitled that he believed his privileged existence proved he was competent to run the most powerful nation on Earth. That’s the attitude of an aristocrat who ascended to the throne without having any idea what it actually takes to rule. History’s full of such men. It doesn’t often work out well. Trump managed to convince enough voters in just the right places that his “business success,” born mostly of hype and relentless public relations over many years, qualified him for the Oval Office. Since the Protestant work ethic and the philosophy of virtuous capitalism still permeate American culture, it’s not uncommon for people to equate financial success with superior intelligence and character. Many individuals ...
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