“I love you Elon!” Upon hearing of his victory, Trump immediately thanked the “amazing” Musk, calling him a “genius” and a “star.” The world’s richest man, head of Tesla and SpaceX, has indeed played a major role in the return of the populist American president, funding his campaign (with at least $120 million) and offering his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to support him.
Historian and writer Nicole Bacharan, a prominent expert on the United States where she lived for many years, analyzes the Democrats’ downfall and Donald Trump’s triumph.
Former editor-in-chief of Spectacle du Monde, Gérald Olivier is a keen observer of American politics. He is the author of Sur la route de la Maison-Blanche : le dictionnaire des élections présidentielles américaines (Jean Picollec Éditeur, 2020). In this interview, he analyzes the repercussions of Donald Trump’s reelection for the United States and the rest of the world.
Since the announcement of the first results of the U.S. presidential election, videos posted on TikTok, where users film themselves either exulting or bursting into tears, have become ubiquitous. It must be said that social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, and X, formerly Twitter) played a crucial role in the race for the U.S. presidency.
More than just an electoral victory, it is a landslide victory that places Donald Trump back at the top of the world. Moreover, it grants him unprecedented powers that no other American president has ever held. On January 20th, the egocentric billionaire, with a personality as colorful as his famous orange hair, will not only reclaim the keys to the White House. His administration, the 47th of its kind, will also have the support of the majority in both chambers of Congress. It will also count on the backing of the Supreme Court, which he had shaped with conservative appointments at the end of his first term (2017-2021).
With him, it’s a return to the lost paradise of the wide-open spaces of the American West. An armed sheriff leading his caravan, the Republican candidate surfs on the vertigo of a disoriented America.
From Joe Biden’s resignation on 21 July to the vote on 5 November: the Vice-President of the United States will have had just a hundred days to campaign. Kamala Devi Harris, 60, the daughter of a Jamaican economist and an Indian scientist, and a former prosecutor in California, is caricatured by her Trumpist opponents as “a leftist” and by the wokes as “a cop”. The reality is that of a pragmatic centrist, admittedly not very charismatic, but hard-working and honest. This, in the face of the freewheeling bulldozer that is Trump, can convince and reassure undecided voters….
When she was 20, Kamala Harris joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority, which belongs to the vast black network of the Divine Nine. Little did she realise that, several decades later, this would be one of her major assets in her bid to defeat Donald Trump on 5 November.
A former US ambassador to Japan under the Trump administration, Kenneth R. Weinstein is outspoken in his support for the Republican candidate. A great connoisseur of American foreign policy, in this interview he details the repercussions for the rest of the world of a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.
The American presidential election is like no other, with a campaign full of twists and turns. We asked historian André Kaspi, a specialist in the history of the United States, to shed some light on the subject.
