TikTok comment offers glimmer of hope transactional mindset will trump ideology

For his upcoming return to the White House, US president-elect Donald Trump has compiled a long and decisive to-do list, ranging from dramatic cost-cutting operations on bureaucratic institutions to immigration policy reform. But for those goals, and others, to be accomplished, and to truly advance US national interests, it would be wise for him to reflect on the past eight years.

Now that the dust has settled on the campaign trail promises, and real-world concerns have begun to factor in, Trump and his emerging Cabinet have time before his inauguration on Jan 20 to think through some of the outstanding challenges as well as divisive issues facing their country and how he can adjust his administration's policies in his second leap-yeared term in light of what has transpired since he last occupied the White House.

While many anticipate that he will follow through on what initiated during his first term in office, it would serve both his presidency and country better if he and his team took his inauguration on Jan 20 as a fresh starting point.