By Philip Yeung
Trump is trash. That is the world's unanimous judgment. No, I am not talking about his tariffs. I am talking about his language.
Is this how America's president speaks?
I never thought I would live to see the day when these words came out of the mouth of a sitting US president: "They are kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal." The language is not just embarrassingly unpresidential, it is at the gutter level, where thugs, bullies and morons dwell.
His sidekick, Vice President JD Vance, is trying to outcompete Trump on the art of the insult, describing the Chinese as "peasants". This is thick with irony as Vance himself has authored a memoir with the cute title of "Hillbilly Elegy". So, who's the real hillbilly now?
A foreign leader publicly bullied by a gangsterish debt collector
Last month, Trump stage-managed a public humiliation of a visiting foreign leader for the whole world to see. The poor man was publicly scolded not only for being insufficiently grateful, but for the way he dressed. He was given a dressing down by a bad-tempered underworld debt collector. Trump has perfected the art of the insult. The civilized world will never forget the shameful indignities visited upon the helpless head of a war-torn state. His ugly treatment tells us America is run by a sick psychopath who has brought its supposed noble global leadership to an ignoble end. The rowdy White House sounds more like a yellow brothel, except in ancient China, even a brothel, or Green Mansion, exuded more culture than Trump's den of iniquity.
The world's most dangerous megalomaniac
Less than three months after being sworn in, Trump has triggered the tariff turmoil on the world, upending the global rules-based trading system. He did it because he can. He wants the world to revolve around him and he has succeeded, and with his success, American moral supremacy has gone with the wind. Only a sociopath could do what Trump has done. Little wonder there is a growing chorus of critics calling for Trump's psychiatric assessment to ascertain his mental fitness for office.
When things fail, pick on China
At the eleventh hour, with massive protests erupting across all 50 states and the markets tumbling, Trump lost his nerve and called a sudden three-month halt to his tariffs on all countries except China, choosing to double-down on the world's second largest economy, upping the levies on Chinese goods to an eye-watering 125%.
This is war, economic nuclear war!
In my guts, I knew this would happen. In the face of nation-wide pushback against his madness, Trump resorted to one proven trick to save his own skin: when nothing else works, blame and isolate China. Demonizing China is the fail-safe tactic that bails Trump out of sticky situations. But, the world, having seen his true colors, may not buy it this time.
China doesn't blink
Eyeball to eyeball with Trump, China doesn't blink. China's response is carefully calibrated, raising its tariffs on American goods to 84%, swearing to see the high-stakes tit-for-tat game to the bitter end. If Trump counts on getting a call from China, begging for peace, he waits in vain. This toe-to-toe with China will not end with a Chinese kowtow, but with Trump trying to make nice. China is a strategic state, the land of Sun Tzu, who gave us the art of war. Trump, with his dirty short-sighted art of the deal and his economic illiteracy, is out of his league.
The puffery and cruelty of a moron and monster
Trump wants a legacy as a history-maker. He may have the appetite but not the ability to make it happen. America has elected a moron and a monster. What he offers the world is puffery and unpredictability. His first term had ended in a Trump-instigated armed insurrection at the Capitol. But Congress just shrugged it off, letting Trump off the hook. Now America must pay the price. Democracy, American-style, has been exposed as a sham. For one thing, it will never elect a woman president, for all its posturing about sexual equality. Trump's policy flip-flops and his unchecked aggression have come home to roost. This is only the third month of a four-year Trump presidency. It feels like an eternity. Will America as we know it survive the second Trump presidency?
Someone should have given Trump's father a condom
The late president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was right when he lamented at age 93 that his biggest regret in life was in not giving Donald Trump's father a condom. Now we know the dangers of unprotected sex. You might get syphilis, or worse, you might get Donald Trump.
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