De Republica

Actually, when I hear that name, I think of the hero of my childhood, Donald Duck, and not a narcissistic, megalomaniacal egomaniac.

Even your first term in office was a nightmare and showed that you have absolutely no understanding of how geopolitics works. No wonder that your greatest ‘strengths’ before that were your bankruptcies and that you had to sell off the family silver to save your reputation.

Whilst during your first term in office you still had serious advisers who protected not you, but the world from you, you have now surrounded yourself with a bunch of Muppets. They may not understand how politics works either, but they are loyally devoted to you. Your lapdog is let off the leash whenever you want to give the impression of being a level-headed statesman. That then gives you the chance to backtrack and parade your lapdog as a completely moronic redneck, whilst assuring the world that, deep down, it was all just a bit of fun and that none of it was meant seriously. 

You’re ploughing through your second term like a wrecking ball, and it doesn’t bother you that whatever you touch is reduced to tatters. You don’t understand that you’re supposed to trust your partners; you throw them under the bus just to stroke your pathetic ego. Whether in Afghanistan, where you betrayed the Afghans – they probably showed you cartoons in the White House so you’d have some idea of what Afghanistan is like. Belittling a head of state who, along with his country, is fighting for sheer survival. You couldn’t care less; on the contrary, like a protection racketeer, you try to sweet-talk him into paying protection money and force him to hand his country over to the aggressor, if you please. For a commission in your favour, of course. You make grandiose promises of freedom to the people of Iran, then throw them under the bus, because you don’t give a shit about human rights; you don’t even know what they are and believe that rights apply only to you. 

You lead your partners, like Netanyahu, by the nose through the circus ring, and your usual game is to leave them out in the cold in the end. And if they’re unlucky, you threaten them. All your drivel about Jews is pure PR; deep down, you couldn’t care less about the fate of the Jews and you’re just using Israel as a cynical bargaining chip and a PR backdrop for your evangelical electorate. So you throw Israel a few crumbs, give the Israeli government a slap on the wrist whenever you feel they might be taking money from your petty cash, and watch with satisfaction as others, thanks to your idiocy, have to fight for their survival.

Yet you’re nothing more than a windbag – albeit one with a nuclear briefcase in your hand. You store classified documents in the loo at Mar-a-Lago, and your justifications for why you have them sound like those of a state-certified lunatic. And the worst part is, people have to take you seriously because you’re completely unpredictable.

Your tariff policy proves this: when you look at your tariff board, which you slide up and down every minute like a Wall Street broker, whether you’re harming the American people is of just as little interest to you as a rock flying through the air on Mars; as far as you’re concerned, the United States consists of the Donald Trump family and Trump Tower – nothing else. If you were in dire straits, you’d sell your own family to the highest bidder, regardless of the consequences. The main thing is that your property remains untouched.

And this is precisely where the truly alarming question arises for your voters: how can people in the year 2026 still fall for such a crude charlatan? How can a supposedly enlightened electorate follow a man who is smashing the constitution and the institutions of the world’s oldest democracy to smithereens like a cheap wrecking ball?

Anyone who wants to understand you need not read political analyses, but should instead take a look at the classics of mass manipulation. Over 130 years ago, in his ‘The Psychology of the Masses’, Gustave Le Bon described how the masses never thirst for truth, but love illusion above all else. Whoever is able to supply them with the most outrageous illusions will easily become their master. You are living proof of this theory. You employ precisely the methods that Edward Bernays, in his ‘Propaganda’, defined as the deliberate and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses.

Your voters believe they are voting for the freedom and greatness of America, whilst in reality they are merely extras in a gigantic PR show staged by Bernays’ heirs for a deeply disturbed ego. No rational person would trust a snake-oil salesman who betrays partners, throws allies under the bus and jeopardises global security for a personal commission. They are voting for their own downfall, as long as the spectacle is loud enough.