In his first weeks as president, Donald J. Trump has sparked many different opinions among American people through his tweets, executive orders and his promises to “Make America Great Again.”
While many supporters are pleased with the president, there are also some who are critical of his actions.
Republican Party of Shelby County Chairman Lee Mills said he feels that the Trump administration is off to a good start, but that the man himself isn’t perfect.
“Nobody is perfect,” Mills said. “We all have our faults.”
For example, Mills said he believes that the travel ban is the “safest course of action at the present time” and that other presidents have also “limited immigration from certain parts of the world.”
“President Trump's first responsibility as president is to keep America safe,” Mills said.
However, Mills said that something might need to be done about the president’s Twitter habits.
“While I like the fact that he uses Twitter, he might think of putting a trusted advisor between himself and the send button,” Mills said. “A second opinion on some of his tweets might not be a bad idea.”
Trump’s unique relationship with the media often creates interest among students who support Trump and members of Republican organizations on college campuses. University of Memphis College Republicans treasurer Amber McCollum likes Trump’s tweets against the media.
“It's refreshing to hear Trump call them out for their often skewed agenda and unfair bias,” McCollum said.
Still, there are some who voted for Trump, like 22-year-old history junior Thomas Hall, who said Trump could handle the media differently.
“I think he feels attacked by the media,” Hall said. “He’s definitely handling the media in the wrong way, but he just wants people to invest their trust in him.”
In addition, Hall also said that he feels that Trump's stance on immigration needs revising.
“The immigration policy needs improvement,” Hall said. “I think he’s taking an extra stance because he feels pressured.”
Hall said the president forgetting that there are immigrants who have their family’s best interest at heart, but they do not have the correct means to enter the United States in the proper way.
“There are too many people like that who should be able to come to the United States to have one specific immigration policy that stops all immigrants from coming,” Hall said.
Hall said that the president should work with other countries in order to come up with an immigration policy that is fair. Hall said he feels that building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants is not the best way to go about dealing with the immigration issues at hand.
“I know it’s probably complicated and difficult to hash out, but a fair policy seems right,” Hall said.
Jake Gray is an 18-year-old history and genealogy major who voted for Trump. He said that President Trump is “fixing the immigration problem with the southern border,” but the executive order that bans travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries “goes a bit too far.”
“President Trump needs to work on timing,” the Olive Branch, Mississippi native said. “It has just been one thing after another. It’s just too much.”
On the other hand, some Trump supporters are not at all disappointed in the president’s performance.
Miller Coleman, 18, president of the U of M College Republicans said that all he can do is support the president.
“He’s doing what he promised to do on the campaign trail in the first 100 days, which is a good attribute,” the political science freshman from Union City, Tennessee, said
