Opinion | Trump is an America-first hawk, rules are for the birds
By Philip Yeung, university teacher
PKY480@gmail.com
Thanks to Trump, half the world is flat on the psychiatrist's couch with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Every decent human being with a pulse is plunged into despair. The world needs its head examined. America needs its head examined. How can the US put a "shidiot" twice in the White House? Trump has hit the jackpot. The rest of the world has hit rock bottom. The world's misery index is going through the roof. Trump, the garbage collector, has now recycled himself as America's new savior. Swampy 45 is returning as the swampier 47. This time, he is coming back with one more coveted title denied to all other political candidates in American history: "convicted criminal". God must be in tears. Not only has Trump been convicted of 34 counts, he has broken all of God's 10 commandments except one, "thou shall not kill", but Trump has openly boasted that he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still get elected. In America, criminality is no disqualification for the presidency. The line of brown-nosers queuing up to kiss Donald's ring now stretches from Congress to the White House.
This is a watershed moment, a parting of ways: America is going one way, and the rest of the civilized world is going the other. Morality is meaningless in American politics. Poor Senator Gary Hart. Thirty years ago, his presidential bid was derailed by a photo with an extramarital girlfriend sitting on his lap in his boat coincidentally named "Monkey Business". Eat your heart out Gary. Trump stinks to high heavens, but he is anointed president. He lives by a different set of rules.
Trump's moral bankruptcy has one silver lining: no more American preaching about human rights or human wrongs. No more holier-than-thou US official breathing down China's neck.
Professors at Columbia University were so devastated on the day of Trump's victory that many canceled their classes, unable to speak and unable to teach. They were dumbstruck by grief and disbelief. Underneath America's scalp, they found no grey matter. No wonder Trump, the buffoon, has been called God's biggest blond mistake.
We survived Covid. Now, we must survive the new global virus without a vaccine: Trump madness. How do you process the insanity of this politics of anger? Can we still call ourselves the smartest creatures on this planet? American regression has knocked us down to the bottom of the evolutionary totem pole.
A low life in a high office—the highest in the world. Overnight, America has turned into a banana republic. Trump is really rocking and rolling. Freud would be flummoxed.
Clinically depressed, too, is Europe, now deep in mourning with Ukraine on its last prayer to God. The head of NATO, fearing what comes next, is said to have issued a stern warning that it might expel America should Trump, Putin's poodle, gift-wrap Ukraine to Russia. The Russian leader is gleefully riding on Trump's lazy, fat ass to a Trump-delivered victory lap.
Cut to the quick, too, are the comedians. Trump is no joke. It is unfunny to see the unhinged reoccupying the White House. Even comedic genius can't laugh away this tragic mistake. Instead of being behind bars in an orange jumpsuit, Trump now has his finger on the nuclear button. Trump may be putting comedians out of business. With no sense of humor, he might even outlaw comedy.
The Trump circus has many clowns. They eat hyperbole for lunch and think with their mouth. The nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is on record as saying that China has a 2000-year plan to destroy America. Imagine, America is only 250 years old. China is 5000 years plus. She now accuses an ancient country of having two-thousand-year-old designs on teenage America. This is off-the-wall idiot talk. This is the caliber of the Trump cabinet.
Then there is Marco Rubio, once mocked by Trump as "Little Marco". As the Secretary of State-to-be, his new boots are too big for him. Currently sanctioned by China, Little Marco, Trump's converted biggest bootlicker, is unqualified and unprincipled, with no idea about how to handle China, the world's second-largest economy, except using it as a punching bag. He takes a backyard bully's approach to the fine art of diplomacy.
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising appointment is Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. Figure this out. Gaetz is under House investigation for drug abuse and sexual misconduct and was once charged with sex trafficking. Installing him as Attorney General is like putting a thief behind the cash register. The only consolation is that you can say he knows crimes first-hand. Trump picks him because he will be free to pursue his game of retribution against his enemies. Called a blow torch, Gaetz may soon incinerate the entire justice system—with an inmate running a prison. He is sure to make America great again.
Democracy is a choice. In the US, you can choose either to vote for a fire-breathing, name-calling extremist or a cackling left-wing lunatic. Who cares about what lies in between?
With control over Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and law enforcement apparatus, the whole of Washington is now in Trump's smelly back pocket. There are no guardrails around an unhinged presidency. It is like watching America jump out of the plane without a parachute. The whole world needs an SOS.
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