The number one criminal in the Trump administration is Trump himself – in the data’s calculation – but there are many others, from a person convicted of sexual abuse to a defender of war criminals. And, of course, with judgmental “crimes,” like climate change or vaccine deniers. That is to say a hard, ignorant and violent extreme right.
It’s as if the United States is rediscovering the character of its founders. These were the criminals Britain sent to the colonies from the 17th century onwards, who were later joined by criminals from other parts of Europe and excluded by many who had nothing to lose. This original brand of unscrupulous scammers that many still proudly claim there, even if they do not take public order out of their mouths. From the mouth, alone. Donald Trump, winner of November’s election, returns to the White House for a second term resentful of being ousted four years ago and ready to deliver a major slap in the face to the entire democratic system. Now he has all the power. The two legislative chambers and the executive for the votes and the justice for their maneuvers of the previous mandate. The nominations he proposes are a real provocation so that no one is fooled, even if many do so with the desire to believe in what they do not see.
Donald Trump perfectly plays the role of the true American. His ancestors are German and Scottish emigrants who were also godly people, although he cannot be said to be an honest and principled man. Neither in his personal life, nor in his professional life as a businessman. His first political term was marked by sending his supporters to storm the Capitol. In this trial he did not sit on the bench, but in other trials he was convicted of 34 serious crimes. It would seem that in no democratic country he can be president again, but in the United States, yes. And their voters either don’t care or want to believe that it didn’t happen that way. Additionally, Trump prepared for the occasion by making dozens of judicial appointments, including three key appointments to the Supreme Court. Every criminal who aspires to power knows that he must control justice. This is something we all know, right?
We can say – in the calculation of the data – that the number one criminal in the Trump administration is Trump himself, but there are many others, from a person convicted of sexual abuse to a defender of criminals of war. And, of course, with judgmental “crimes,” like climate change or vaccine deniers. That is to say a hard, ignorant and violent extreme right. The Trump case has already been resolved in a few days, presidents benefit from immunity.
One of Trump’s top priorities will be the fight against immigration. He places Stephen Miller and Tom Homan there. The latter, nicknamed the Border Czar, has to his credit the separation of more than 5,000 families, detained upon their arrival in the United States and is linked to an “anti-Muslim hatred” group. Homan will be responsible for the mass deportation of undocumented migrants promised by Trump. Along with Miller, a white supremacist who adheres to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. For national security, he appoints a woman, one of the few, if not the only one. South Dakota Governor Kirsti Noem has no experience on immigration or national security. He was harshly criticized, and not because of his far-right ideology and the damage it usually causes. The problem was that she shot a 14-month-old dog she owned because she had a bad temper and was not a good hunter, as she herself admits in her memoir.
The judiciary, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies have been the obstacles that Trump considers the most difficult during his first term. Safe from her Supreme Court appointments that left her penniless.
In this second, it will solve it even better. Matt Graetz will, in principle, be the state’s attorney general. Belonging to the most ultra wing of the Republican Party, he left his seat in Congress because the Ethics Commission was preparing to release a devastating report on his sexual conduct, at least with a teenage girl. Now the report is simply archived. This is the United States. Just this week, Gaetz suggested abolishing the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which would report to him as attorney general, he said. The New York Times.
John Ratcliffe goes to the CIA. While then serving as director of the National Intelligence Agency, Ratcliffe released unverified information about Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. He also aided Trump in hoaxes against Hillary Clinton. Here he states that the United States should carry out joint attacks against Iran with Israel..
For Defense, he names Pete Hegseth, a Fox News weekend host who is unprepared to lead an armed force of two million troops, despite having served in the U.S. Army. Trump loved him for his defense of a soldier convicted of war crimes. cold-blooded, unarmed murder of a teenager in Iraq in 2017.
“Covid-19 is designed to attack white and black people. The most immune people are the Jews and the Chinese,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., future health secretary, who, in line with this thinking, is also anti-vaccine, Trump told him to “do what he wanted” with caution. women’s health and that he would let her “let off steam” with food and medicine. For Health, this is a population of nearly 335 million people.
It will be up to Lee Zeldin, as director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to deregulate to remove barriers to polluting products. Since Trump wants to “restore American energy dominance and revitalize our auto industry so that jobs come back to the United States,” he said.
Marco Rubio, son of Cuban migrants and senator from Florida, was confirmed as secretary of state: tough on China, opposed to aid to Ukraine and pro-Israel. He considers that Hamas “is 100% responsible”.
It was Elise Stefanik, future United States ambassador to the UN, who was responsible for persecuting pro-Palestinian demonstrations in universities and expelling at least one rector accused of anti-Semitism.
All the accusations point to strong support for Netanyahu’s Israel in its genocide of the Palestinians, even though Trump has promised to end the conflict. We will see how, we will surely see… with horror. Those in Spain who claimed that the two candidates were equal were somewhat far from reality.
This is generally how we see many Trump voters. It gives goosebumps to hear interviews in which a Hispanic voted for him thinking… “of inflation”, and he does not believe that his mother – undocumented – is affected by the promise of a mass expulsion. Beliefs that kill reality and the future.
In Dearborn, the Michigan city where about half the population is of Arab descent, Trump won by at least 2,500 more votes than Harris. And it wasn’t just a protest against the Democrats they were voting for. “I think he is a different person than he was in 2016 and 2020,” Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American and founder of Arab Americans for Trump, told Israel’s Channel 12. “Now he wants an end to the war and lasting peace in the Middle East. And that’s what resonates with the Arab and Muslim American communities,” Bishara says. The Washington Post publishes it, precisely at the time when Trump is rekindling the love affair with the Israeli far right.
JD Vance, the vice-president, has already given his measure during the campaign, a small measure. What he does have is a great ability to radically change his coat, as he did with Donald Trump himself.
And, above several members of the new presidential team, stands out Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and Tesla, the one who orders space rockets and maintains other affairs with the Administration. He has put his vast network at the service of Trump, now so loaded with ultra and conspiracy theories, insults and disinformation, that there is a massive leak from the media and the people involved. It is not the only network of its type; new European networks would be necessary. Musk, another son of immigrants, already got what he wanted. Trump will place him at the head of the new US Department of Government Effectiveness alongside Republican Vivek Ramaswamy. They “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulation, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies – all of which is essential to the ‘Save America’ movement,” Trump said in a statement.
Here comes the chainsaw, which will leave millions of voters naked who thought it wasn’t their thing. With an exorbitant and egocentric personality, similar to that of Trump himself, there is little hope that the clash between the two will somewhat deflate the project. At the moment they are very happy, Musk even participated in Trump rallies, but disagreements due to rivalry cannot be ruled out.
This far-right revanchist crew is currently working towards its commercial ends with the United States as its platform. And in the programming that they are preparing, it is a fundamental element of how they will fry other countries with tariffs and everything they can, the Europeans in the lead. The trade war is served, with all that that implies.
The unthinkable has already happened, it opens in full swing in January. Millions of people around the world will see their leaders pass as a result of this radical involution voted for by bipedal beings in the United States. And in others much closer to ours. Of course, even the Spanish and European PPs come close. A dark period of lies, abuse and growing imbalances is dawning. We will have to trust in a miracle, like that performed by people of flesh and blood.
