In light of Donald Trump becoming the 47th US president this week, the Limerick Voice team took to the UL campus to see what students thought of the historic election outcome
The Former US President won victory over current Vice President, Kamala Harris, in the polls in the early hours of November 6.
When asking Eve, an electronic and computer engineering student, about Trump winning the US election she said: “I think if anything I’m shocked. I feel as though that Kamala was the better option for everything but it’s almost a sign of the divisiveness in America that they would take themselves down like that.”
“I don’t know how he managed to do it; I’m shocked really,” said business student Ronan O’Kane. Speaking on how he thinks Trump’s win will affect Ireland: “He’s bringing up tariffs. A chunk of our revenue will be gone because of this.”
Similarly, Luke O’Sullivan, a cyber security and IT forensics student said: “Pharmaceuticals is one of the biggest industries in Ireland and last time he was president he said he was going to pull out all of the pharmaceuticals from Ireland and obviously that would be bad for Ireland.”
Conor, a criminal justice student, said he thinks “It’s a devastation for America.”
Talking about one of the major swing states Pennsylvania, Sophie, another criminal justice student expressed her disappointment for Harris losing this state, “I think a lot of people thought Kamala would take Pennsylvania which is disappointing because if she had she probably would have won.”
Speaking about Trump’s plans for abortion bans, applied languages student, Roisin expressed concern for women in America. “It’s really worrying to see people have so little respect for autonomy, especially in terms of women’s reproductive rights.”
On the same point, Hazel, an Arts student said: “I don’t know what they are going to do in America, I’m so worried for them.”