I like a lot of things about Donald Trump.
I admire his energy and dynamism and his war on woke, while he’s anti-war. He deserves respect for pulling off the greatest comeback in political history, winning a second term, even after an attempted assassination. In my view he’s more hotelier than Hitler.
But in recent weeks, people are asking me, with eyebrow raised: ‘Well – how do you like him now?’ And the answer is: not so much, since he took office.
It started off well, with flourishing executive orders on the nonsense we’ve had to endure for the past ten years. He rolled back awful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives in the federal government and the private sector. Good riddance: DEI is a hokey brain-washing industry that is anti-meritocratic and takes civilization back, not forward.
He stopped the silly notion of 100 genders and stated the US only recognises two sexes, male and female. He ended the use of paper straws, which are soggy, don’t work, break apart and aren’t even environmentally friendly.
But then he turned into a mickey-waving megalomaniac, and a bully of the world.
It’s not just the obvious, dumb, distraction stuff, such as his bonkers, crass AI video of ‘Trump Gaza’ which was like a propaganda video by a North Korean dictator. It’s not just his calling Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “tyrant” and turning truth on its head by saying Zelenskyy started the war in Ukraine and so he should finish it.
The first didn’t happen and the second won’t, unless Ukraine completely capitulates to Putin, the real tyrant. The reason I’ve soured on Trump is because behind the headline-grabbing tricks lurks something much worse.
His America First strategy so far seems to be lording it over other nations with swaggering demands for tariffs – the latest being an upcoming 25% on EU goods. He’s more dangerous than ever because he now seems to think he’s the saviour of the universe, a crusader. He’s abusing America’s position as the most powerful country in the world as leverage to prove it.
He’s on some kind of folie-a-deux high with Elon Musk and reckons if he acts all machismo and out-apes everyone, he can solve both the war in Ukraine and in Gaza with a strong hand. It’s all ego-driven, so he can get the credit for ending the world conflicts. However, it’s tyrannical and greedy, behind the scenes.
What Trump has demanded of Ukraine in return for US help is a grossly unfair exploitation. He has demanded Ukraine sign over a huge chunk of its economy as payback for US military aid. He wants HALF the country’s revenue from natural resources, ports and infrastructure INDEFINITELY as pay for fending off Russia.
It would quickly add up to billions more than the US has given Ukraine.
The New York Post – a newspaper that usually supports Donald Trump – compared it to a demand a victor might make of a country that started and lost a war, to teach a lesson. It’s harsher than what the allies imposed on Germany after World War I.
Yet, it’s been a good deal for the USA. Of the $175million Washington has spent on the war, about $70billion went back into the economy to build new weaponry to replace the older models.
Trump turning Shylock and demanding his pound of flesh from war-torn Ukraine is the worst thing he’s done since taking office. He needs to find a less-grabbing compromise
He should stop sticking his beak into international business left right and centre and focus more on what he was voted in to do: making America great again.