The President in the Empire of Absurdity - where CNN dies like a dog

It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, misunderstood international law, and declared himself the savior of the Middle East. Donald Trump, visibly tired and yet wide awake in his anger, sat in the State Dining Room to designate “Antifa” a “domestic terrorist organization,” after having called it a “foreign terrorist organization” - and ended up, quite unintentionally, in a cabaret act of national significance.

The scene began harmlessly: CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes wanted to know whether the President was personally involved in the negotiations over the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. A simple, factual question. But in the Trumpian cosmos, such questions have long since become state crimes. “That’s CNN, by the way,” he said, with the gesture of a man who had just uncovered a fraud. “One of the worst reporters you’ll ever see. I don’t even want to hear her question. Waste of time.”

The tone was set: a president who claims to be negotiating for world peace is waging war on microphones. And while demonstrators outside the White House protested against his troop deployments, a sleepy man inside struggled with the concept of Habeas Corpus. According to Trump, it apparently referred to a person - perhaps a Belgian diplomat or a new enemy of the state, who knows.

But the true climax followed when Trump was in his element - destroying. “MSNBC is dying, CNN is dying like a dog,” he said, and his audience of handpicked admirers laughed. “Poor CNN, so pathetic. Have you seen their anchors? Nobody knows them. I could take anyone off the street in D.C., they’d do a better job.”

It was the press conference as a mirror of the nation - a reality show about reality itself. FBI Director Kash Patel took the opportunity to thank right-wing bloggers for their “brave reporting.” “They’re putting their lives on the line while the mainstream media stays silent,” he said. A sentence that would trigger a resignation in any other country - but here it drew applause.

Nick Sortor, a right-wing influencer who for years has presented himself as an “independent journalist” and under Trump gained direct access to the White House, sat in the middle of the press room, pointed at his colleagues and called them “the garbage over there” - and Trump laughed. In that moment, every boundary between journalism and propaganda vanished: a man pretending to be a reporter insults the real press - and the president silently applauds him for it.

At the end of the farce stood an exhausted president, taking one last swing: “There are some honest journalists here,” he said, “but mostly dishonest ones - like MS-DNC and CNN. It’s a waste of time talking to them. I have to go now to solve some problems in the Middle East.” You could see that he truly believed the world needed him - and perhaps it does, as a cautionary example of what happens when a democracy abandons itself.

Thus ended the day when the president tried to humiliate the free press, only to show that he cannot exist without it. Because in truth, Trump is no longer the fighter against the media he pretends to be - he is their product, their parody, their final proof that power without oversight becomes nothing more than theater. A tired, poorly lit theater with overheated air conditioning and a man who believes Habeas Corpus is a new anchor at CNN.