Hello folks.

You all heard the news. Everyone heard it. Donald Trump became the President of America. And here I am, a girl from Germany, and I am scared of what will follow.



When I woke up on the 09. November I instantly checked my phone to see who won the election. I opened twitter and saw first reactions of people tweeting like

"Trump? No! Help!" "Trump is in the lead. This must be a dream."

And I could not believe it. Then I googled it and, indeed, Trump was in the lead with 244 electoral votes while Clinton had 215. I was instantly completely awake.
My head felt consumed by worry. Never ever had I imagined that he would actually win! German media had had many documentaries and articles about the election and all of them came to the conclusion that it would be delusional to think Trump could win. That his presidency is a big joke. That he is a clown without a single chance.
So this was in fact hellof a scare.
When I went to school I was constantly refreshing the page to see the decision of the swing states. The bad thing was: I had to sit my German Pre-A-Level exam that day. Right before it started, two more states had decided: Trump suddenly had 274 electoral votes, meaning that only 6 were missing. Then my teacher got real mad because I still had my phone and made me bring it to the administration office.
The first hour of the exam was AW-FUL! As soon as I sat on my desk and had my paper in front of me the realization sank in: Trump was going to be the new President of America. Without a doubt.

The man everyone laughed at his first months of presidency. The man who wants to build a wall at the border to Mexico - and make them pay for it. The man who talked about raping and grabbing women "in the p*ssy" just like small talk and now received multiple accusations of sexual assault. The man making fun of a reporter for being disabled. The man who wants to temporarily ban Muslims from the US. The man who has the delusional idea to cut taxes, but at the same time wants to improve the infrastructure and get rid of the 20 billion dollar debt in eight years.The man who hates the LGBTQ+ community.
The list goes on.

Let that sink in. During an important exam. Not fun. Needless to say that exam did not go too well.


I saw so many tweets from people getting texts like

"Please don't wear your hijab today, I want you to be safe."
"Please don't tell people your gay anymore, I want you to be safe."

That was honestly what scared me the most. People not being able to be themselves.
I heard of people shouting "Kill Hillary!", I heard of people trying to ban black people in the back of a bus, because that "is where they belong.".
That is what this presidency does and did to people: They became ignorant and selfish. They feel now assured that it is right to oppress minorities like black people, Muslims, LGBTQ+'s, women... I feel sorry for everyone in the US that is part of one of these groups. I feel very sorry for everyone being afraid to express themselves.

I despise what is happening in the world.
Looking at Europe I see similar people and changes. In France and Belgium the right winged and very racist parties are about to win the elections. In Germany is the AfD-party, filled with outragious people following a leader telling them who to hate and what to do.
People don't want any refugees anymore, because they could be part of IS, or are dangerous in general because they are strangers.

The world is filled with hate. And that is wrong. Hate can never be the answer.
Why you may ask? Well, simply because it is very easy to hate something.
It is so easy to say "Oh I hate that.", "I don't like that", "I'm against that.", because you will always find an argument for your opinion.
It is easy to say "I hate gays, I think it is abnormal." or "Ban the Muslims, they're all part of the IS."
Especially if you have a leader who already puts you the words in your mouth and all you have to do is vote for him.

But supporting and loving is harder and oh boy had I had some discussions and disagreements with people, simply because I was supporting something like marriage for everyone in America and they didn't.


So Trump used all of the bottled up hate and outrage the people had collected over the past years and enlarged it by lies, exaggerations and false accusations. Just take everything he said about Merkel and politics in Germany and then see how much truth was in it. You will see: No truth at all. But he used the ignorance of the Americans and filled the holes with these lies.

By that he encouraged people to bring out the worst of themselves and threw morals out of the window. That is dangerous. There were so many shootings against gays and black men in America. How is that going to develop?

I simply don't know, and the not knowing is what scares me the most.

Donald Trump is the most powerful man of the whole world. 

He could destroy American society. He could start war.
He has no idea what he is doing politically.
He is impulsive, aggressive and dangerous.

If these are not a reason to be scared I don't know what is.

I hope you are safe and remind yourself that you are worth it and that it doesn't matter what sexuality, race, skin colour, religion, gender or what else you are!