There are a lot of people who have expressed views about the terrible damage the Trump administration - more often now referred to as the Trump Regime - is causing to the United States and consequently the entire world. I include the Senator of the French Parliament, Claude Malhuret from his speech to the Parliament on Tuesday the 4th March 2025 and several other European politicians; articles by columnists Johnathan Freedland, Nesrine Malik and others in the Guardian; a variety of United States YouTubers, Meidastouch, Young Turks, Brian Tyler Cohen and others; as well as United States Senators Adam Schiff and Bernie Sanders; congressional Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin; and from MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Jan Psaki. The list is very extensive. Polls have indicated that the approval rating for the President is at an all time low, and yet the Republican Party in America has somehow maintained a hold on power with an Al Capone clone as leader. The parallels with Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui are irresistible.
The hypocrisy of Trump and his followers is, without doubt, beyond brazen. His attack on a journalist asking questions about the decimation of weather services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in relation to the Texas flooding, calling the journalist an evil person, when he, himself, had made false claims and criticisms about federal assistance during hurricanes in Florida and the Carolinas as well as fires in Los Angeles, was outrageous and venal. He clearly did not see the irony, which is typical of his colossal narcissistic behaviour.
When most of the western powers ponder the question of regime change in Iran, they should be discussing more seriously the matter of regime change in the United States. Instead of kowtowing to Trumpism they should be seeking to expunge it. Enough is enough.
It was pointed out to me today by Oliver Cotton, that no-one has yet asked Mr Trump when was America Great. He claims to want to make America great again, but has never actually stated when it was last great from his point of view. This same would apply to his followers. When do they think America stopped being great? What will actually bring it back to that greatness? Trump would have turned 16 in the middle of 1962, his mid teens; probably a junior in high school and in the penultimate year of John F Kennedy’s presidency. Was that his great year, or was it 1968 with the comeback of Richard Nixon, when he would have been 22 and eligible to vote for the first time in a presidential election?
There is a lot of speculation about what era Trump sees as great America. The period just after World War Two, during which time the United States was the sole nuclear power, could be on his mind. This did not last very long, but, nonetheless the Eisenhower years were economically successful. The dollar was the king of currencies at the time. The reality is that one has no idea what era trump has in mind as he keeps saying whatever he does is the greatest achievement of all time, by a lot. Indeed, one has to agree that a convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender being elected president is the greatest con that has ever been achieved by any grifter.
That however is the state of the United States, a country in complete disarray about where it wants to be in the world. The leadership controlled by amateur incompetence in chaos. Also, there is no prospective leader on the horizon for either of the two main parties. The republican party may find itself in difficulties after the midterm elections of 2026, but the democrats must become a more cohesive group, and begin now to make clear headway against the Trump movement and break through the mendacity of Maga.
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