A major British forecasting and advisory firm has listed "President Trump" as one of the top 10 risks facing the world, the BBC reports. The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidency as an even bigger threat than Britain leaving the European Union or a "clash of arms" in the South China Sea over China's expansionism.
"[Trump's] militaristic tendencies towards the Middle East and ban on all Muslim travel to the U.S. would be a potent recruitment tool for jihadi groups, increasing their threat both within the region and beyond," the EIU found in their report. Researchers also wrote that, "In the event of a Trump victory, his hostile attitude to free trade, and alienation of Mexico and China in particular, could escalate rapidly into a trade war — and at the least scupper the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the U.S. and 11 other American and Asian states signed in February 2016."
The risk of a Trump presidency was tied with "the rising threat of jihadi terrorism [destabilizing] the global economy." Both possibilities earned a score of 12 out of 25 possible points, with 25 being the most serious threat.
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Analysts, however, docked some points from the dangerousness of a Trump presidency as they did not expect Trump to actually defeat "his most likely Democratic contender," Hillary Clinton.
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