MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump will be re-elected for a second term and then he will be replaced by a left-wing Democrat, Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin told students during a meeting at Kommersant’s Academy of Journalism on Monday.

"The likely political scenario in America is that Trump will be re-elected for a second term and later he will be replaced by a Democrat, who will be an extreme leftist. I see this as the most probable scenario. Otherwise, a left-wing Democrat could emerge now if America comes up against an economic crisis earlier than by the next election," he noted.

According to the Russian minister, the Trump phenomenon is not a coincidence, but is a direct aftermath of what is happening in the world.

Over the past 30 years, real wages of the middle class and the lower middle class have not budged, and spending on healthcare and education, net of inflation, has tripled. This means that America is "not a society of equal opportunities anymore," the minister stressed.