Trump's madness

There are a wealth of posts out there castigating Trump. Here's a good one, by Michael Jochum:

One year in — and the stench is unmistakable.

 

Donald Trump, at seventy-nine, has come to embody the very worst distortions of the baby-boom generation he so desperately claims to represent. Where there could have been wisdom, there is only vanity. Where there might have been experience, there is only grievance. Where age should have brought perspective, it has produced nothing but brittle ego and reactionary cruelty.

 

We, most of the people of the United States, were humiliated that you were president in 2016. Now, in 2025, we are not merely embarrassed, we are mortified that you occupy the Oval Office again.

 

As a man, you display the most contemptible traits your gender can offer: boorishness dressed up as “strength,” cruelty masquerading as toughness, and insecurity so raw it leaks into every decision you make. Men and women across the world recoil at your nastiness, your sexism, your bullying, your perpetual adolescent need to dominate and belittle.

 

As an American, you possess a chilling absence of compassion. You look at the vulnerable, the poor, the sick, the immigrant, the worker, and see not fellow citizens but expendable props in your narcissistic theater. You slash their benefits while scheming to protect your own hidden privileges. You posture as a “billionaire” while treating the less fortunate as if they exist only to serve your lifestyle.

 

As a supposed steward of democracy, you are a walking repudiation of everything the Founders envisioned. Your presidency is not public service; it is personal enrichment and political vengeance. You manifest a stunning ignorance of how government actually works, yet you wield power with reckless arrogance.

 

Educated people are not “confused” by you, they are stupefied by your incompetence. Your speech is a toxic paella, tangle of incoherence, your thinking shallow, your grasp of facts tenuous at best. You fumble words, distort reality, and weaponize ignorance like a badge of honor.

 

Physically and morally, you present a grotesque spectacle: absurd hair, ill-fitting suits, a posture of manufactured bravado that barely conceals a cowardly core. You are weak in character, devoid of empathy, desperate for validation, and incapable of confronting the truth, about yourself, your crimes, or your country.

 

And yet, through a grotesque fluke of history, you became the most powerful person in the world, first in 2016, and now again. That fact alone will stain this era forever.

 

The Arctic Delusion, A First-Year Catastrophe in the Making.

 

If your administration follows through on its Arctic fantasy of seizing Greenland, we must be brutally clear about what that means. This is not a “real estate deal.” It is not strategy. It is not bargaining. It is the geopolitical equivalent of pulling the pin on a grenade in a crowded elevator and smirking as the doors close.

 

The moment American boots touch Greenland to steal territory from a fellow NATO member, the world as we know it fractures. The consequences would not be symbolic or temporary, they would be total, permanent, and devastating.

 

First casualty: NATO itself.

Article 5 — the sacred promise that an attack on one is an attack on all, becomes a cruel joke the instant the United States attacks Denmark. Seventy-five years of European stability would evaporate overnight. Instead of leading the free world, America would manufacture a unified enemy across the Atlantic.

 

Second: military humiliation.

Europe would demand the closure of U.S. bases: Ramstein, Aviano, Lakenheath, gone. American power projection would collapse. We would be expelled from the very continent we helped defend, retreating like a chastened bully forced back into isolation. “Fortress America” would not be strength, it would be exile.

 

Third: economic annihilation.

The European Union, the largest market on Earth would weaponize its power. U.S. debt could be called in. Dollar reserves dumped. The greenback would spiral. Inflation would make post-COVID look trivial. Pensions, savings, retirement accounts, incinerated.

 

Corporate America would face extinction: Apple, Google, Tesla, McDonald’s, markets frozen, assets seized, access revoked. The stock exchange would not merely crash; it would seize up. De-globalization would become a lived catastrophe.

 

Fourth: isolation in the skies and on the seas.

Boeing jets grounded. U.S. airlines banned from European airspace. Transatlantic travel dead. Supply chains severed. Medicines, machinery, technology, cut off. The “indispensable nation” would become an island prison of its own making.

 

Fifth: cultural exile.

The Olympics. The World Cup. Global sport would treat the United States like Russia, a pariah. No Team USA, no prestige, only humiliation.

 

For ordinary Americans, the damage would be personal: visa-free travel gone, expatriates suddenly vulnerable, the blue passport transformed from privilege to liability.

 

And this break would not be temporary. You do not invade a democratic ally and simply apologize your way back into legitimacy. Europe would build systems designed to exclude us, militarily, financially, politically.

 

All of this, for a frozen island. A handful of minerals. A vanity project disguised as “national security.” Invading Greenland would not be strength. It would be national suicide.

 

The Man Behind the Madness

This Greenland fiasco is not strategy. It is the tantrum of a spoiled, thin-skinned autocrat who wraps his wounded ego in imperial rhetoric.

 

Your demand for “complete and total control” of Greenland, tied, absurdly, to your failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, is the petulant logic of a crybaby king. A man who cannot tolerate rejection now threatens a NATO ally and toys with global stability because his feelings were hurt.

 

This is not leadership. It is toddler tyranny in a tailored suit.

 

You question Denmark’s “ownership” of Greenland as if borders are suggestions for men like you, men who believe power erases consent. You cloak a land grab in “national security” when every serious analyst knows it is nonsense. What you seek is not safety, but domination, not stability, but spectacle.

 

The fact that you are willing to risk the greatest transatlantic crisis in generations exposes the moral rot at the heart of your presidency.

 

Europe sees you clearly. Macron calls out your intimidation. Starmer condemns your coercion. Even Meloni pushes back. Our allies recognize you as what you are: a bully with tariffs instead of tanks, blackmail instead of diplomacy.

 

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin watches with delight as you shred NATO unity and do Russia’s work for free.

 

The Cult of Enablers

 

But the most nauseating element of this first year is not just you, Donald Trump, it is the cult that cheers you on.

 

The true believers who call your madness “patriotism.” The voters who salivate at every threat, who mistake your tantrums for genius. They are willing accomplices in a regime that enriches billionaires, crushes the vulnerable, dismantles democratic norms, and normalizes the idea that America should behave like a rogue empire rather than a republic.

 

Your Greenland gambit is not a curiosity, it is a warning. A preview of what happens when a petulant would-be dictator is given power without restraint, surrounded by sycophants, and worshipped by a movement that confuses cruelty with courage.

 

If you get your way, the precedent will be unmistakable: borders mean nothing, allies are disposable, and the American presidency is a weapon for personal vendettas.

 

That is the world you are building, a world of bullies, billionaires, and broken democracies.

 

And anyone who still defends you is not merely misguided. They are complicit in the erosion of everything this country once claimed to stand for.

 

Postscript: A Year of Reckless Ruin

 

I cannot believe that more Americans are not taking your first year with the existential seriousness it demands. This is not political theater. It is not satire. It is not “Trump being Trump.”

 

It is a calculated drift toward authoritarian expansion dressed up as national security, and its consequences are potentially civilization-shattering.

 

What we are witnessing is not merely global humiliation for the United States, though it is that in abundance. It is a reckless march toward geopolitical catastrophe, driven by your bruised ego and enabled by a cult that mistakes brutality for strength.

 

You are not leading, you are lurching.

 

You are not protecting America — you are isolating it.

 

You are not preserving order, you are detonating it.

 

And still, 78 million Americans stand behind you.

 

When do they wake up? When NATO collapses? When the economy implodes? When American soldiers are sent into a needless, illegal war against a democratic ally? When their savings vanish, their jobs disappear, their children are dragged into a conflict that never should have existed?

 

How much destruction must occur before loyalty is finally exposed as delusion?

 

Because history will not remember you alone as the architect of this catastrophe. It will remember every single person who cheered you on while the world burned.