{"id":79358,"date":"2016-11-09T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=79358"},"modified":"2016-11-09T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:42:21","slug":"donald-j-trump-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/donald-j-trump-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald J. Trump, president of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting next January 20, 2017 the United States will be governed by the recently elected President Donald J. Trump, a 70-year-old Republican, and probably one of the most controversial politicians the country has ever had.<\/p>\n

After an already historic day, a businessman who against all forecasts became the Republican Party\u2019s nominee, and which very few dared to give as a winner, got the majority of the popular vote and the 270 electoral votes necessary to surpass his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Mike Pence (57), his running partner, will cover the post of vice president.<\/p>\n

Trump will get to the White House with a Congress dominated by a Republican majority, which is interpreted as a great privilege that will probably allow him to have a free hand to modify several domestic or foreign policies of his predecessor Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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The markets react<\/h3>\n

During the night of last November 8 and as the majority of the votes in favor of the Republican nominee were confirmed in different states of the Union, the markets started to show a strong fall.<\/p>\n

Wall Street was collapsing around midnight local time and the Dow Jones futures of industrialists lost more than 760 points or 4.17 percent. The futures of the S&P 500 also saw a strong drop (-5.01 percent) as well as those of the Nasdaq (-5.08 percent). The feeling of nervousness also reached Asia, where the Tokyo stock exchange fell by more than 1,000 points and 6 percent in the final stretch of the session.<\/p>\n

The Mexican peso, considered by experts as an indicator of the market\u2019s feeling about Trump\u2019s possibilities, lost around 12 percent with respect to the dollar. The Mexican currency has strongly oscillated in recent months following the movement of the polls and surveys about the U.S. elections, after Trump promised to renegotiate the commercial agreement with its neighbor to the south.<\/p>\n

Texas oil, a reference in the United States, also descended: while stocks that were considered securities, like gold, clearly went up (4.38 percent).<\/p>\n

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