Trump's Realignment 2.0 (a TL)

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lucon50

Hello, everyone!

Last year I began posting a story based on a PoD where, instead of starting a doomed casino project, property tycoon Donald Trump sets his eyes on the 1988 presidential race. I've developed a timeline, hoping to update on a regular basis. So, newly inspired with big plans for world events, without further ado, I give you:


Realignment

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1986

1 January
  • Portugal and Spain join the European Community
20 January
  • Britain and France announce plans to build the Channel Tunnel
17 February
  • Single European Act is signed
25 February
  • Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduces economic and political reforms
13 March
  • US Navy ships denied entry to Soviet waters near Crimea
26 April
  • Chernobyl nuclear safety accident kills 4,000 and displaces 350,000
2 May
  • 1986 World Exposition opens in Vancouver, Canada
25 May
  • 5,000,000 join hands from California to New York to raise poverty fund
5 July
  • Statue of Liberty reopens to public
7 September
  • Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives assassination attempt
1 October
  • US president Ronald Reagan signs defence reforms into law
12 October
  • Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear talks in Iceland end in failure
4 November
  • Democrats sweep US midterms, with New York businessman Donald Trump elected
16 December
  • Over 165 killed in Kazakh anti-government protests
 
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1987

15 January
  • Chinese conservatives force general secretary Hu Yaobang to retire
26 February
  • Tower Commission criticises Reagan over Iran-Contra files
4 March
  • Reagan recognises Iran-Contra failings in address to US public
31 March
  • British prime minister Margaret Thatcher takes interview questions on Soviet television
13 April
  • Portugal agrees to hand over Macau to China, scheduled for 1999
11 June
  • Thatcher’s Conservatives win third consecutive election victory in Britain
12 June
  • On Berlin visit, Reagan calls on Gorbachev to tear down Berlin Wall
11 July
  • UN predict that world human population has reached 5 billion
3 October
  • Canada and US make progress on free trade agreement
7 October
  • Sikh nationalists declare independence of Khalistan from India
19 October
  • Black Monday: stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world
18 November
  • Reagan charged with responsibility for Iran-Contra affair
30 December
  • Pope John Paul II issues encyclical ‘On Social Concern’

More to follow!
 

lucon50

1988

2 January
  • Gorbachev begins Soviet economic reform programme
3 February
  • US House of Representatives reject Reagan’s call for aid to Nicaraguan rebels
20 February
  • Nagorno-Karabakh secession triggers regional war
25 March
  • Anti-government Candle demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia
8 May
  • François Mitterrand re-elected as French president
15 May
  • Soviet forces begin withdrawal from Afghanistan after 8 years
31 May
  • Reagan addresses 600 Moscow University students in Soviet visit
1 July
  • Soviet Union votes to end CPSU monopoly on economic power
20 July
  • US Democrats nominate Trump for president, over Jesse Jackson
20 August
  • Iran-Iraq War ends, with estimated 1,000,000 casualties
11 September
  • 300,000 demonstrate for Estonian independence
27 October
  • Reagan decides to tear down US Moscow embassy due to Soviet spying
8 November
  • Democrat Trump elected US president, beating Republican vice president George Bush
26 November
  • Moscow rules Estonian Sovereignty Declaration unconstitutional
2 December
  • Benazir Bhutto sworn in as Pakistani prime minister

US presidential election
Results map

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1989

7 January
  • Japanese emperor Hirohito dies, succeeded to throne by Akihito
20 January
  • Trump sworn in as US president with Lee Hamilton as vice president
2 March
  • 12 European Community members agree CFCs ban by 2000
23 March
  • Socialist Republic of Serbia revokes Kosovan autonomy, triggering riots
26 March
  • First contested elections for Soviet Congress result in CPSU losses
5 April
  • Polish government agree to legalise Solidarity union and hold elections
11 May
  • Trump orders 2,000 US troops to protect Americans in Panama
14 May
  • Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since 1960s
17 May
  • Over 1,000,000 protesters march through Beijing calling for democracy
5 June
  • Tiananmen Square: Chinese protester blocks tank column in Beijing
23 August
  • 2,000,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians join hands for independence
3 October
  • Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega foils coup attempt
10 October
  • US Treasury secretary Felix Rohatyn contracts $500 billion infrastructure
23 October
  • Hungary declares multi-party republic, replacing communist state
17 November
  • Prague student protesters launch peaceful pro-democracy revolution
7 December
  • Lithuania becomes first Soviet republic to end CPSU monopoly
17 December
  • Romanian Revolution begins, going on to end communist dictatorship
20 December
  • US launches invasion of Panama in order to overthrow Noriega

Comments welcome!
 
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1990

1 January
  • Poland begins abolishing state socialist economy and exits Warsaw Pact
3 January
  • Noriega deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to US forces
7 February
  • CPSU votes to end monopoly of power, clearing way for multiparty elections
11 February
  • Nelson Mandela released from prison in South Africa
12 February
  • ‘Open Skies’ conference results in US-Soviet agreement on European troop levels and German reunification
11 March
  • Lithuania declares independence from Soviet Union
15 March
  • Gorbachev elected to new US-style presidency for five-year term
4 May
  • Latvia declares independence from Soviet Union
12 June
  • Boris Yeltsin signs declaration of Russian sovereignty
13 June
  • East Germany officially starts dismantling Berlin Wall
2 August
  • Gulf Crisis: Iraq launches invasion of Kuwait
24 August
  • Armenia declares independence from Soviet Union
11 September
  • Trump threatens use of force to end Iraqi occupation in televised speech
24 September
  • Gorbachev granted special powers to transition Soviet Union to market economy
3 October
  • East and West Germany reunify into single Germany
17 November
  • Gorbachev proposes federal reforms to Soviet government
21 November
  • Paris Charter signed, formally marking end of Cold War
28 November
  • Thatcher resigns after 11 years as British prime minister, succeeded by Michael Heseltine
9 December
  • Slobodan Milošević elected Serbian president
23 December
  • 95% vote in favour of Slovenian independence in referendum
 
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Closed per posted policy on Current politics. It is quite literally impossible to discuss this without talking about the current POTUS.
 
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