US Student Says Trump is a "Business Guy" Not a Politician!

Donald Trump became the 47th United States president after securing 294 electoral college seats, needing 270 to win the election to win. Kamala Harris got 223.

Biaya Kayembe, studying Communications and Media at the University of Gloucestershire, is an American citizen. He missed the deadline to vote, but says that he would’ve voted for Harris. When asked about how President Trump won the election, he said, “Honestly, great communication. I don’t think he won the election by his ‘amazing’ policies, or the things he can do for the American people. I think its how he got his ideas across. He’s a business guy, he’s not even a politician!”

Sir Kier Starmer congratulated Trump on winning, along with Foreign Secretary David Lammy. However, it’s been reported that Lammy had made some remarks against the President Elect some years ago, referencing him to a ‘neo-Nazi sympathiser’ and ‘Hitler in 1940’. Leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, demanded that the Prime Minister should apologise and that President Trump be invited to address Parliament.

Badenoch congratulated Trump on his re-election after calling out the Foreign Secretary for his remarks towards Prime Ministers. She ended with “if he did not [apologise] himself, will the Prime Minister do it for him?”

Sir Kier mentioned that he and Lammy did meet with the President-Elect in September over dinner to discuss foreign policies, though he did not directly answer the question if he would apologise. The leader of the opposition responded with “Will the Prime minister show that he and his government can be more than student politicians, by asking you, Mr Speaker, to extend an invite on to President Trump to address Parliament on his next visit?”

Biaya has a concern of a non-political character taking control of the White House. He said, “Democracy is genuinely being challenged. And I agree with the guy [David Lammy]. There is no way we should have a president who is not only a felon, but a blatant misogynist in office. I think he dampens the voice of Americans who really fight for diversity and everything that’s important in the country. I don’t think he should apologise.”

With the re-election of Donald Trump, the next four years seem uncertain to some, but Biaya isn’t controlled by fear.

“I always make the joke I’m living in Canada from now on. But I’m always open to anything. If I stay in the UK, I stay, if I go back to the states, I go back. Do I hate him enough to leave the country? No.”

Being a student away from home and currently residing in the UK, Biaya doesn’t pretend that he’s in a compromising position with the next president taking office. Instead he feels for his fellow countrymen and those that are affected by this. “This isn’t something that affects me directly, it’s my people that it will affect. It’s the people who struggle to find food on their table."