Trump in the classroom: how history teachers in 2051 will discuss the 45th president and his legacy
Schools around the world will soon teach the Trump Presidency as history -not current affairs - but how will that change as time goes on?
20 January 2021 • 12:00pm
Campaign: President Donald Trump speaks, with a flag behind him, during a rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, September 2020
Credit: Tom Brenner/Reuters
After four years of divisive policies, outrageous tweets and two impeachments, Donald Trump will leave office today as officially the worst US president.
His approval rating of just 41 per cent is lower than any president since polling began in 1938. In fact, he is the first president never to get above 50 per cent approval at any time. So, what will the history books of the future say about him?
President Biden on Wednesday delivered his first speech after being sworn in at the Capitol.Biden urged "unity" in his inaugural address, which lasted roughly 20 minutes."We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors," he urged. "We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury."Read the full speech, as.
th president of the United States on Wednesday, made an appeal for unity and sought to turn the page on the divisions of the Trump era.
Unity, he said from the West front of the U.S. Capitol, is necessary in order to contain the coronavirus pandemic, restore the U.S. economy, address the effects of climate change, deliver racial justice and mend deep divisions that were laid bare over the last four years.
“To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity,” Biden said.