What colour will the White House be?

The American presidential elections are coming up. Tuesday 5 November is the day. Who gets to live in the White House for the next four years? Will it be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? The most recent exit polls point to a neck-and-neck race. Which presidential candidate would you be willing to stick your neck out for?

Promises that do not come true

Because the risk always exists that the promises they have made will not come true. You will remember Trump's master plan in 2016. He would build a border wall to keep Mexican immigrants out. The only thing that was really kept out was the proposal itself. And as a senator in 2018, Harris enthusiastically introduced a bill to give middle-income working families a substantial tax break. She too ran into a wall.

A sheep in wolf's clothing or a wolf in sheep's clothing?

So appearances are deceptive in these cases. Does the same apply to the personalities of the two presidential candidates? Trump polarises and dominates, and Harris radiates collaboration and inclusiveness. It is hard versus soft, you could say in broad terms. But does the impression they give match the person they essentially are? Put differently: is Trump deep down perhaps a sheep in wolf's clothing, and Harris a wolf in sheep's clothing?

Soft Trump

That Trump can be soft as well is clear from a story told by his daughter Ivanka. For years he cut out newspaper articles about people he did not know. Through no fault of their own they had suffered great setbacks, or an equally great injustice had been done to them. He would then invite those people to Trump Tower for a conversation. They always left Trump's office with the feeling that life can be wonderful again, according to Ivanka. Trump also signed a law to prepare prisoners who had served their sentences better for their return to society.

Hard Harris

Set against that is the sometimes hard side of Harris. During her time as attorney general of California she came in for buckets of criticism because she refused to reduce prison sentences for certain offences. This despite the many calls for more humane reforms within the criminal justice system. Nor was she exactly lenient when she prosecuted Google and Uber, among others, for privacy violations. Another example: in the aftermath of the financial and mortgage crisis she rigorously took the banks to the cleaners with a settlement of no less than $20 billion in favour of Californian homeowners.

MyDrives analysis

So: how does it really stand, who are both presidential candidates by nature? We asked ChatGPT to adopt the personalities of Trump and Harris and then had it complete the MyDrives analysis, so that the question above is answered objectively and clearly. For Trump a predominantly red-orange colour profile emerges, where red stands for decisiveness and orange for a focus on performance. Harris's main colours are yellow and green. She combines a creative and analytical mind (yellow) with attention to and understanding of her fellow human beings (green).

Red-orange or yellow-green

The final conclusion leaves nothing to guess at: both Trump and Harris correspond for the most part to the image the outside world has of them. Depending on who comes out on top on 5 November, the White House will therefore be coloured either red-orange or yellow-green for the next four years.