Washington_ The agenda of US President Donald Trump, during 2017, was marked to a large extent by the abandonment of rules, measures and agreements of past administrations, especially those adopted by his predecessor, Barack Obama (2009-2017), Prensa Latina reports.

Of all the policies that the Republican ruler decided to reverse, those that provoked the greatest international rejection were the decision to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change and the recent recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Also of international scope were the exit of the Trans-Pacific Economic Cooperation Agreement and the call to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, a mechanism that the president has threatened to eliminate if the results he wants are not obtained.

Added to this were the reversal of many steps of the relationship normalization process initiated with Cuba in December 2014, and the decision not to certify Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement that the Persian nation reached in 2015 with six world powers, among other topics.

On the domestic level, his main attack against the legacy of his predecessor in the White House was the attempt to repeal the sanitary law known as Obamacare, which proved unsuccessful after continuous efforts in Congress.

However, other changes were made, such as the reversal of numerous environmental regulations approved by the previous executive, allowing the progress of the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines or reducing the size of national monuments.

Great rejection provoked in several sectors of the country the announcement of the elimination, as of next March, of the program Deferred Action for Arrivals in Childhood (DACA).

This initiative, put into effect by the Obama administration in 2012, has protected from deportation 800 thousand undocumented youth brought to the United States during their childhood, for which Congress must find an answer in the next two months or risk of being expelled.

In addition, although Obamacare's revocation was not successful and the replacement of that health law with a new one, the recently approved tax reform included a provision to eliminate the individual term of that regulation, which is key to its operation.

United States against the world

With the argument of its 'United States First' policy, when adopting many of the mentioned decisions, Trump ignored the calls of world leaders, even traditional allies of this country, and of many North American sectors.

On June 1 the Republican fulfilled one of his campaign promises by announcing the future abandonment of the Paris Agreement, with the justification that what was agreed in the French capital would "punish" this nation and institute "onerous energy restrictions" that would hinder the economic growth.

During that same day the president of France, Emmanuel Macron; the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel; and the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, published a joint statement in which they rejected the North American assertion that the pact could be redrafted.

Meanwhile, on October 13, Trump refused to certify Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement, despite the European Union insisting that the agreement is a "long-term durable solution" and considered that it is "working”.

We encourage the US government and Congress to consider the consequences for the security of the United States and its allies before taking a measure that could undermine the pact, explained in a joint statement United Kingdom, France and Germany.

As part of the announcement, Trump also unveiled a new strategy towards the Persian nation as part of which he asked his administration to work with Congress in order to fix the defects that the mechanism has from its point of view.

Near the end of the year, on December 6, the head of the White House officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, despite warnings from world leaders that the mesure will threaten regional security and possible peace talks.

Through this position, described by the Republican as a new approach to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, he changed the course followed by all his predecessors, who, despite the close alliance with the Jewish territory, avoided a pronouncement of that kind on the holy city.

Trump also directed the State Department to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

US media reported that one day before revealing his position, Trump spoke on the subject with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; the Egyptian, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; and the kings Salman bin Abdulaziz, of Saudi Arabia, and Abdullah II, of Jordan.

Each of these personalities expressed opposition to the ruler's plan, which they warned will undermine regional stability and hopes for peace in the foreseeable future.

Some domestic changes

Among the changes made by Trump in the national order, there is the executive order signed on March 28 that eliminated six executives of the previous administration aimed at stimulating the management of clean energy and mitigate climate change.

The provision called on federal regulators to cancel carbon dioxide emission limits for new thermoelectric plants, as well as methane in the case of drilling for oil and natural gas.

A month later, on April 28, he signed another order that broke the restrictions imposed by Obama on the drilling of oil wells and natural gas in the high seas, especially in areas of the Arctic in Alaska, something he justified with the goal of creating new jobs

On the other hand, the democrat ex-president approved in 2015 a measure that limited the transfer of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, in the context of the debate on police violence after the death of the young African-American Michael Brown at the hands of an agent.

The Obama directive prohibited the transfer to these forces of a large number of armored vehicles, grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and camouflage uniforms formerly used on battlefields.

But on August 28 Trump reversed and again allowed such equipment to be in the possession of state and local authorities, according to the administration, "better protect public safety and reduce crime."

In this regard, civil rights groups criticized the policy change and pointed out that American communities cannot be treated as a war zone.

Equally controversial was the approval by the Federal Communications Commission of the end of the net neutrality rules in force since 2015 to prevent US broadband distributors from interfering with web traffic.

With three votes in favor and two against, in correspondence with the party lines, the republican majority body gave the green light to that decision on December 14 with the consent of the White House.

It was of no use that for months Democrats, consumer groups and technology companies mobilized and tried to stop the derogation plan, because they considered those essential rules to prevent companies like Comcast and Verizon from abusing their powers.

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