<p>The President-elect of the United States of America</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 15 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:36, 15 November 2016

Real leaders build bridges, not walls—that’s the one thing we have to remember. Humanity does not prosper when countries try to cut themselves off from each other. That leads to conflict, and we see from history where that leads. The President-elect will have a huge task on his hands to unite his very divided country—there’s no question about that. We’ve seen in the past week that America is far from being a country at ease with itself, and he will have a significant task to do in order to move forward towards a more united country. He will clearly have to tone down, at the very least, some of the remarks that he made during his election campaign. There are signs that that might be happening, but we wait to see what happens when he is inaugurated in January.