By Philip Yeung
Trump is a human wrecking ball in global trade and domestic law and order. Now, he is literally taking a wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House itself to make way for a ballroom extension--at an astronomical cost of US$250 million. Remember, Trump is just a tenant. Have you ever heard of a term-limited tenant gut-renovating, demolishing and making structural changes to a historical building? Not even Putin dares to touch the Kremlin. Neither will an anointed monarch like Britain's King Charles mess with Buckingham Palace. Trump's reckless move is full of symbolism. He is telling the world that he is a self-anointed emperor, though an emperor with no clothes. You don't need a psychiatrist to tell you that Trump is consumed by his pathological desire to stay in the White House for good---until death or dementia removes him.
At US$250 million, the cost of renovation is beyond obscene. Think of the thousands of starving children that could be fed with that money. But this man has no conscience. His only concern is his own creature comforts. This is but a vanity project for his giant ego, for Trump is too fat to waltz and too old to disco. Why the ballroom? Because that's where shapely ladies are to be found. Where better to ogle and cuddle young women one third his age? And he can do so legally.
While he has left his poop on the presidential residence, don't be surprised if he will demand compensation for installing his gold-plated toilets.
Meanwhile, 2700 "no king" protests were erupting across America. More than 7 million voters are spitting on his blatant attempt at pretending to be king. The right to protest is long entrenched as a God-given right of Americans. But to Trump, if you protest, you are his sworn enemy. How did Trump respond?
He went bananas. In an AI-generated video, he digitally carpet-bombed protestors with large chunks of presidential poop. America needs an army of pooper-scoopers to clean up his biological waste. Trump has done the unthinkable.
He has not only insulted the protestors. He has pooped on the presidency itself. US politics is beyond toxic. It literally stinks to high heavens. and the stench will linger for generations. This is how he makes America great again, by plumbing new depths of depravity. America could not sink lower than this.
More than the outrageous signs of autocracy, this is about the disappearance of decency itself from American politics, lorded over by the kingpin of a criminal administration. It has removed all residual doubts that a lunatic has taken up residence in the White House. Buckle up--- for he has more than three years to go, and don't be so sure that Trump will voluntarily exit his "throne". Another January 6 uprising is in the cards. Before that happens, brace yourself for endless circus acts of helter-skelter from the clown-in-residence. Chaos, thy name is Donald J Trump.
For the first time in US history, Trump is suing his own government for searching his Mar-a-Lago residence for illegal possession of classified documents. He is treating the US government like an ATM machine, demanding staggering damages of $230 million for also investigating him over alleged collusion with Russian interference in US elections, As the insulter-in-chief, Trump is notorious for his retribution politics, having made a slapdash rush to indict his vocal critic, the former FBI director James Comey, and his own former national security advisor-turned critic John Bolton for alleged illegal acts in performing their official duties. With no scruples or principles, he has only a killer instinct to punish his opponents. So far, the only party who can handle Trump's unpredictability is China. Whether he decides to be naughty or nice, the Chinese read Trump like an open book. His dirty tricks are useless against a smart negotiator with leverage.
We now live in Trump's topsy-turvy world. The old rules have gone out of the window. America and the world are in unfamiliar territory. Eyeball to eyeball with Trump, you blink, you lose.
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