THE BIG QUESTION: What does a Trump White House mean for the Bahamas?

US President-elect Donald Trump. (AP)

As of Wednesday, November 9, 2016

After Donald Trump's shock victory in the US general election, what do you think his presidency will mean for the Bahamas?

Leave your answers in the comments section below . . .

Sickened 8 years ago

I'm sure that Trump would Fook us if we get too close to China. Perhaps the US will also give us some military equipment to balance out China's military in The Bahamas.

Well_mudda_take_sic 8 years ago

I suspect Trump has already received several tweets from Bahamians informing him that Red China is in the process of establishing a strategic foothold in the Bahamas, right on the very door step of the U.S., thanks in large part to Crooked Christie's corrupt cozy relationship with his Chinese friends driven by his insatiable greed for political power and personal financial wealth.

ThisIsOurs 8 years ago

I think I've heard the ridiculous comment that Republicans are better for the Bahamas than Democrats just one too many times. I often wonder where these people get their info, it's as if they've forgotten Carlos Lehder, Pindling,Nation for sale, Black listing,Shane Gibson, contracts for sale, illegal gaming, What's-Left-of-Nation-on-Fire-Sale, nole, Alfred Grey and Perry Christie, those things have been worse for the Bahamas than any US president.

Publius 8 years ago

Nothing that is not already taking place.

Well_mudda_take_sic 8 years ago

Re-post: I just can't wait until the U.S. media, U.S. public and Trump-led administration wake up to the fact that the Obama/Hillary/Kerry administration has permitted Red China to set up shop (including deep water stealth submarine operations) in the Bahamas only a few short miles away from Florida and the entire Eastern Seaboard. I imagine most Americans will want all senior officials over the past decade or so of the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas, the Dept of State in the U.S. and the NSA to be drawn and quartered for high treason because of their serious failure to gather and act on intelligence information in order to protect the national security interests of the U.S.

ThisIsOurs 8 years ago

Obama gave a very clear warning to our government, he warned small nations not to get involved in too good to be true business deals with China, short of sending in the military and imprisoning them I'm not sure what else he could do. We're a sovereign nation (?) until we aren't.

ScullyUFO 8 years ago

One thing it definitely means is that there will finally be a U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas appointed. Of course it will be a person relevant to Republican and rich white man interests.

Another possibility is that U.S. Preclearance in the Bahamas may be withdrawn as part of Trump's isolationism under the guise of saving money (i.e. no need to pay all of those customs officers). That action could not possibly be beneficial to the Bahamas.

Honestman 8 years ago

I think Bahamas will eventually lose the benefit of pre-clearance. The more we allow China to dominate our economy the quicker it will happen.

TalRussell 8 years ago

Comrades! Few may recall that Donald Trump and The Bahamaland done have a history dating as far back as the 1980s through the 1990s.
The Paradise Island Resort was once owned by two resort companies with Trump being one.The former Hog Island renamed Paradise island by its owner Huntington Hartford was also once owned by Donald Trump (Trump Resorts), then Merv Griffin (Resorts International). Both companies tried unsuccessfully to turn the resort and the island into a premier gambling location. By the early 1990s, the resort had become a shadow of its former self both physically and financially, filing for bankruptcy in 1993. Lessons not learned by either PM Christie and his former law partner Papa Hubert is that both Baha Mar and Atlantis have fallen on hard financial times and that massive tourism resort development projects in we Bahamaland are proven risky investments for taxpayers.

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