This Friday, the 10th of February, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Section 4 of this piece of legislation states that if Congress comes to the conclusion ‘that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President.’

President Donald Trump has this week issued an executive order to ban the people from 7 Muslim countries from entering the USA. In doing so, he has further proven that he really does intend to pursue many of the strange promises he made during his campaign, no matter how ridiculous they seem to be. Seeing as though what started out as an irresponsible proposition has actually materialised, and developed into a dangerous reality, which purports to be in defence against extremism, below are just 5 reasons why I think Trump’s mindless policy is actually more likely to increase extremism, than defeat it.

The United States of America, self-proclaimed ‘leader of the free world’ and ‘the greatest nation on Earth,’ this year voted in Donald J Trump, a consistently brazen misogynist- in place of the more qualified Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton.

Talking about ‘the Mexicans’, he’s said “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” 

‘Climb on board... we’ll go slow, and high tempo... Hold me hard...’ my 9 year old cousin sang exuberantly, proudly, in the middle of my garden at a family gathering.

France’s recent ‘burkini ban’ has ignited a wildfire of discussion regarding the extent to which it was positive or negative legislation. 

After the attempted military coup in Turkey last month, President Erdogan and officials within the Turkish government seem to have unequivocally blamed sympathisers of the Hizmet movement and have begun a purge of ‘Gulenists’ (and any other opposition to the President).