BRIAN READE: If an ageing relative spoke as bizarrely as Trump you’d name a household assembly
‘Mad king’ Donald Trump has another three years ruling, says Brian Reade, meaning endless horrific possibilities and one certainty
Resentment grows deeper by the day for the president(Image: Getty Images)
We humans love to laugh at spectacles that are so cringe-inducingly awful they become an addictive pleasure. But there always comes a point when they turn into a parody of themselves, we get bored and switch off. For most of the world’s population that’s what has happened to the Donald Trump show.
We’ve seen through the bluster. We know how his tantrums begin, how his bullying threats play out, and like a tired old vaudeville comedian we’ve decided he’s just no longer worthy of our attention. His tired schtick hit saturation point this week with two excruciating, demented addresses filled with lies (he’s wiped out inflation; China has no wind farms; the US used to control Greenland), insults (Europeans are stupid; Canada only exists because of the US; if it wasn’t for America winning “big” in the last war we’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese) and proclamations of his genius (“I did more for Nato than any other person, alive or dead,” etc, etc.).
If an ageing relative spoke half as bizarrely, you’d call a family meeting, decide that they are suffering from an extreme case of narcissistic dementia, and drive them to a care home. The American president is not a serious man, which means the US is no longer a serious country. As the conservative, Pulitzer Prize-winning American commentator Thomas Friedman put it: “Trump’s behaviour has become so reckless, so self-absorbed, so obviously contrary to American interests that the question must be asked: Is America being ruled by a mad king?”
It is. And sadly for them, the mad king’s reign has another three years to run, throwing up endless horrific possibilities along with one certainty: America will become more and more despised for inflicting this unstable ogre on the world. As Trump’s former spokesman Anthony Scaramucci said at Davos: “The problem America faces is how do you reverse the resentment when he’s gone?”
Well, guys, it will be tough because the resentment grows deeper by the day. Tourists are refusing to visit. Canadians openly boo the US national anthem at sports fixtures and their military chiefs have wargamed a US invasion. The top app in Denmark is one that shows which American products to boycott.
A growing list of organisations, such as England’s LGBTQ+ fans group, plan to snub this summer’s World Cup, financiers are dumping US stocks, and foreign investors are diverting funds away from American markets. More worryingly, your staunchest allies no longer trust you. The EU, Canada and the UK are seeking out trade deals in places like India and South America and moving closer to China. All down to your mad king and his shameless court of sycophants which never dares to speak truth to power.
Sycophants who will soon realise that far from making America great again they have made it more despised than any time since Vietnam atrocities played out nightly on our tellies. As US TV host Jimmy Kimmel told viewers this week: “Remember the good old days when people from other countries thought we were annoying because we talk too loud? Well now they hate us for real stuff. We’re that house at the end of the block where the nice old lady used to live, and then her son-in-law moved in and started letting his dogs run wild and bite children.”
Have a nice day, y’all.
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