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Donald Trump has given a face to the unsympathetic and petty. He’s done a lot of damage, but the most damaging thing he did was probably show the world that a jerk of his kind could only be himself, writes Morten Strand.
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What is the truest the timing of Donald Trump’s presidency? We ask the question because even for notorious liars, who lie so much that they apparently no longer know the difference between truth and falsehood, there is a moment of truth. Or two. Perhaps it was one last week when he pardoned four mercenaries for a massacre in 2007, when all four opened fire without provocation on civilians in central Baghdad, killing 14 people. The one who opened fire for the first time received life, the other three 30 years. Now they are free men.
Trump also gave amnesty for several of his loyal criminal supporters. After all, it can be understood in Trump’s world, which revolves around unsurpassed self-indulgent egotism. But why have such a beating heart for four war criminals who only kill civilians at random? Because the people killed were only foreigners, Arabs, and apparently Muslims from “shitty countries,” meaning worthless lives, in Trump’s world? Or because the killers were, after all, American mercenaries – America First? In any case, the amnesty undermines in a way that can best be summed up as evil, respect for international law and helps make war crimes less serious. Was that when we saw the real Trump?
Or was it trumps The truest moment when he insisted that there were far more present during his 2017 inauguration than during Barack Obama’s inauguration eight years earlier? That’s when a close associate explained Trump’s obvious lie that it was “alternative facts.” Was this qualified lie a moment of truth about Trump? Maybe the same truth?
Start point because this article is to describe what was most devastating to the world during the Trump presidency. We have, of course, the climate denier, the crown denier, and the fact denier. We have the elephant as a diplomat, who has trampled on most of the agreements and has crossed all borders due to popular customs. We have the president who cultivated personal insults as a political tool in his quest for destruction. But after considering the challenge for a while, the most devastating thing for the world in the Trump era was simply that Trump was Trump. And that was allowed to be.
In choosing between generosity and understanding on the one hand, and the mean and vicious on the other, he was consistent, he chose evil, harassment and hatred. In the choice between rational and irrational politics, he was equally coherent, he chose the irrational. And in the choice between working toward long-term goals that can yield results and short-term stunts that might get attention, he chose attention; in the latter he is not alone. Still, quite successful, he chose both the most immoral and the worst solution. In its myriad inconsistencies, it was actually quite consistent. Is this a moment of truth for Trump? Do we have it now? Do you like consistently inconsistent ones?
In two and a half weeks Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States. A more conventional analysis of Trump and the world than the one you’ve read so far will tell us that he succeeded in destroying relations with his traditional European allies. Norway is one of the countries in Europe where most believe that Trump represents a greater danger to world peace than Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is a surprising recognition that one’s closest ally is more dangerous than the country that was an enemy during the Cold War.
In Asia, the reality is become just as absurd. Trump treated allies like Japan and South Korea with indifference and almost contempt. While he was “in love” with the bloodiest dictator of our time, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump should shine and perform diplomatic miracles, he thought. He defied gravity and thought it would make Kim give up his only security guarantee, nuclear weapons. Foolishness and stupidity, we can say, at least in hindsight. Although some of us said it too when it was on. In any case, the policy was once again based on the desire for maximum attention, rather than sober analysis. The impostor volunteered again.
I can’t believe our own eyes
But the truest However, the analysis is perhaps as follows: that this revolutionary destroyer was able to cultivate all his unfriendly traits from the position of the most powerful man in the world, because he was the wrong man at the wrong time. And while Trump was also a child of his time, people like him, in democracies at least, are, after all, an anomaly in the course of history.
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