The “crazy” victory in the elections crowned him Man of the Year. Revolution on migrants and geopolitics.Isn’t this crazy?”. “Isn’t this crazy?”. The words with which Donald Trump greeted voters on the night of his victory are becoming the image of a president so “crazy” that Time Magazine has named him “Man of the Year” for the second time. Trump, after all, is turning everything upside down. From the power games of contemporary America to international geopolitics.
We’ve seen it since the ballot boxes. The candidate destined, according to the polls, to be crushed by the revolt of women furious over his positions on abortion has, in reality, stolen large slices of female votes from the Democrats. And he has pulled along with him the largest percentage of black and Latino voters since the days of George W. Bush.
A real revolution explained by «The Donald» in an interview with Time Magazine. «We said things that were in people’s minds. I think the Democrats haven’t figured it out yet… They keep chasing the same old senseless ideas. The country was angry about immigration, I said 21 million, they said much less, but even if that were true it’s irrelevant. The problem is that they let them in». A truth also recognized by the New York Times.
A recent investigation by the flagship newspaper of anti-Trump thought admits that the over eight million migrants who entered during the Biden presidency exceed the arrivals of the first half of the 20th century when millions of Europeans sought their fortune in the United States. The deportation of all illegal immigrants promised by Trump as the first act of his mandate, however, threatens to divide America. And trigger a white-hot clash between federal authorities and states with a Democratic majority.
But the Trump earthquake also shakes the Republican Party. The GOP – the Great Old Party – had never felt so old and impotent in the face of a president and an administration contaminated by the thinking of a Martian like Elon Musk. The singular understanding between the founder of Tesla and Trump exploded in all its virulence as soon as the Republican deputies, led by the speaker of the House Mike Johnson, sought an agreement with the Democrats to avoid the specter of a “shutdown” or blocking of federal payments.
An agreement that the strange couple Musk-Trump did not hesitate to condemn, calling it “full of waste” and “a betrayal of our country”. Politics eventually took its course and bipartisan agreements prevailed. The fracture is, however, a sign of how devastating the action of a Musk ready to transfer to Washington the methods of a Silicon Valley dominated by the motto “move fast and tear apart habits”.
A motto that the “man of the year” is preparing to transfer, instead, to the international scene. Making not only his enemies, but also his allies tremble. The proposal to impose on the members of the Atlantic Alliance the obligation to invest 5% of their budgets in Defense signals how tough the negotiations between European countries and the majority partner of NATO can become. While the mooted peace agreements with Russia raise the specter of a reconstruction of Ukraine destined to weigh entirely on the shoulders of Europe.
A Europe already threatened economically by the sword of Damocles of the new US tariffs. On the Middle Eastern front, the harmony with Bibi Netanyahu raises fears, instead, that the “domino” of the war will move from Ukraine to that Iran considered by Trump to be the origin of all Middle Eastern evils.https://youtu.be/dvc-Xcf6adE?si=PHYB7N4f-SXOzxTc