“We climb aboard the tankers. We seize the ship. We seize the cargo. We seize the oil. It is a very profitable business. We are like pirates.” That is a direct quote. Donald Trump said it himself. Into microphones. In the presence of guests, politicians, and journalists. With the same voice that receives the intelligence briefing every morning and decides on the deployment of American forces around the world. The President of the United States publicly compares his country to pirates. And no one in the room laughs. No one corrects him. No one pushes back. It is broadcast as policy, as if it were policy.
A man who leads the most powerful nation on earth describes his own foreign policy with the vocabulary of late 18th century Caribbean films. It is not funny because it is not meant as irony. It is the honest self expression of a man who sees the world as loot and diplomacy as weakness. Anyone who thinks in terms of loot does not think in alliances. Anyone who thinks in terms of loot does not think in treaties. Anyone who thinks in terms of loot does not even think in consequences, because loot must be taken quickly before someone bigger shows up. His dismal record as a businessman fits that picture as well.
On his own network Truth Social, this man promotes himself daily in images that a normal politician would not even share as a joke. He posts himself with a spread of playing cards and the caption “I have all the cards.” He posts himself digitally inserted on Mount Rushmore, next to Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. He posts an obviously doctored image of himself with JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and a woman in a bikini, floating in an inflatable ring in front of the Washington Monument. He posts his political opponent Hakeem Jeffries with a baseball bat and calls him a “thug” with a low IQ and a danger to the country. Anyone who posts that is not the leader of the free world. Anyone who posts that is an online troll with nuclear codes.
That is exactly the question no one asks anymore because it has become too heavy. Would you trust this man with your children? Even for an afternoon? Would you accept him as a supervisor for a school class? As a best man at a wedding? As a godfather for a newborn? Probably not. You would likely hesitate to leave him alone in your kitchen. But this man has access to the nuclear weapons of the United States. With a single order, he can turn cities into ash, cities where people are waking up right now, drinking their coffee, taking their children to school. And at the same time, he posts the most childish images of playing cards.
The end of the war against Iran by letter, to bypass constitutional violations - a war from which the Trump family in particular profits.
159 ships that never existed. Sunk by a president who no longer knows which country he means, and declares Ukraine defeated
It is a contradiction that cannot be resolved. The sheer scale of the power in this man’s hands stands in no proportion to the inner condition he displays publicly every day. He sees himself as a pirate. He sees himself as an astronaut. He sees himself as younger than 79. He sees himself as healthy, although stairs challenge him. He sees himself as smarter than any advisor. He sees himself as invincible, because no one with enough power to defeat him has defeated him yet. He sees himself as the fifth figure on Mount Rushmore. He actually believes it. This is not a pose. It is a diagnosis.
The President of the United States on May 1, 2026 - shocking and troubling
Behind the orange mask, behind the forced smile, behind the clenched fists and the shouting speeches, stands a man who does not understand the world and will not understand it. The world is supposed to conform to him because he deserves it, not because he has earned it. Anyone who contradicts him is destroyed. Anyone who serves him is rewarded. Anyone who leaves him is declared an enemy. It is not politics. It is a childish logic in an old body, with the sharpest tools in the world in his hands, except intelligence.
Hakeem Jeffries is holding a baseball bat because someone gave it to him. On Trump’s screen, that becomes a “thug” and a “danger to the country.” It is language that has no place in a democratic discourse, and yet it has every place because it is the daily output of the sitting president. When a president publicly labels an opposition leader as a criminal, a door opens that remains closed in normal democracies. Behind that door waits everything that will later appear in history books under dark chapters.
This image from May 1, 2026 shows the condition Mr. Trump is in, and that condition is advancing
The clown with the mask is at the same time the destroyer of the world. That is the true tragedy of this moment. It would be easier if he were only one or the other. A clown you can laugh at without consequences. Or a tyrant you must resist with the full force of an alliance. But he is both at once. Ridiculous and dangerous. Absurd and lethal. A man who posts images of himself next to Washington and Lincoln, and the same man who holds nuclear weapons. That contradiction is the real reason why the world in 2026 has reached a point where no one knows anymore what is up and what is down.
Would you trust him with your children? The honest answer is no. The more honest answer is that the children of this world have already been entrusted to him without anyone being asked. Every shot he orders affects them. Every sanction he imposes affects them. Every climate disaster he accelerates affects them. They are his hostages without knowing it. And one day they will read that there was a generation that watched as a man formulated his foreign policy in childish images, and that this generation did nothing. Except for a few who wrote. Who filed lawsuits. Who spoke out. Hopefully, in the end, it will have been enough.
Until then, the pirate of Washington keeps posting. With nuclear codes in his pocket and a playing card in his hand.
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