Donald Trump, Tom Weidig and Britney Spears in the same editorial? Sounds quite funny, if it wasn't so sad.
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We actually wanted to write about Donald Trump at this point.
About Trump, who sees himself as the toughest dog in international politics, who doesn't allow himself to be bamboozled.
About Trump, whose perceived domain is the whole world.
About Trump, the well-oiled ego machine with the ridiculous hairstyle and the overkill of self-tanner.
About Trump, who makes a new disturbing announcement every day and who is so hyperactive that by the evening he probably doesn't even remember what he announced in the morning of the same day.
About Trump and his insatiable greed for natural resources, even if he has to annex other countries to do so.
About Trump and his flood of decrees.
About Trump, the gravedigger of multilateralism and free trade.
About Trump, who wants to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and turn the Gaza Strip – "phenomenal location by the sea, best weather" – into Club Med.
About Trump, for whom illegal migrants are not people.
About Trump, for whom humanitarian aid is money thrown away ..
The world is definitely a different place since Trump's re-inauguration, even though the man has been in office for less than a month.
It is a time of great upheaval. A time of multiple crises, to which the words of the Italian philosopher and communist Antonio Gramsci, written almost 100 years ago, unfortunately fit like a glove: "The old world is dying, the new one has not yet been born. It is the time of monsters."
Trump may not be a green Hulk, just an orange-coloured megalomaniac, but he is certainly even more destructive than the comic book hero. Last but not least, his disruptive actions have ensured that populists and the extreme right have tasted blood and, as a result, the last inhibitions are falling, taboos are being broken and confused, inhumane ideas are suddenly becoming acceptable.
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