Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump sat at the cabinet table speaking about Iran, and while he spoke, it felt like listening to a man who was simultaneously standing on a campaign stage and talking to himself. Iran desperately wanted a deal, he said. They had simply tried to wait him out because the midterms were coming. Then came the sentence that hung in the room for a moment. Look at what happened last night. That was only the prelude. An American president speaking about war as if it were a television series with another episode about to air. It is a quiet sentence, and yet it carries the weight of a heavy stone.
Moments later, he lost the thread. In the middle of the Iran discussion, he suddenly began talking about Venezuela. Venezuela no longer has a navy. No longer has an air force. The sentence simply dropped into the room without any visible connection, without anyone at the table catching it. Nobody corrected him. Nobody paused. The cabinet members sat there as if nothing had happened, and the truly disturbing part was not the jump itself, but the silence surrounding it.
This is where something begins that weighs more heavily than any individual statement. It is no longer just a question of the condition in which a president appears publicly. It is the question of what kind of environment no longer seems to assess that condition, but merely manages it. Anyone who continues pushing a man in this state in front of cameras is making a decision. At some point, loyalty stops being a political virtue. What begins after that has another name.
While Trump drifted back and forth between the two conflicts, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was already discussing the administration’s next initiative at the same table. Not whether Trump might nod off again in the middle of things, but the so-called Trump Accounts. Every newborn child in the United States would receive one thousand dollars, provided the parents open an account. The money would then be invested on the stock market by private investment firms. The children would not gain access until they turned eighteen. Bessent presented the program as a gift for the republic’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Nearly six million children, he said, had already been registered.
It is worth pausing for a moment over that idea while the president partially falls asleep beside him. Even the nursery becomes a Wall Street concept in this administration. Government assistance turns into an investment product feeding the market before a child can even speak. And even this program carries the president’s name. Trump Accounts. A political brand stamped onto lives that have not even begun yet.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin simultaneously announced the next escalation against so-called sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities are cities or regions in the United States where local authorities cooperate only partially with the federal immigration agency ICE and do not automatically report undocumented immigrants to deportation authorities. The administration, Mullin said, is working on plans to restrict international flights into certain cities or suspend customs and immigration processing there entirely if local governments refuse to cooperate with federal deportation policy. The targets would include some of the country’s most important international hubs. Millions of travelers, entire airport systems, entire sectors of the economy would become leverage in a political dispute that has nothing to do with them.
Anyone listening carefully can recognize a pattern running through all of this that matters more than any individual headline. Everything becomes a question of loyalty. Cities. Government agencies. Universities. Airports. Children’s investment accounts. Anyone who does not fully comply is publicly threatened or economically pressured. The government no longer behaves like an administration, but like a political camp constantly testing who belongs and who does not. At the same time, the line between performance and confusion inside the White House continues to blur. Years ago, a president suddenly inserting Venezuela into the middle of a discussion about Iran would have triggered days of national debate. Today the moment simply passes as if the country has grown accustomed to foreign policy statements from the Oval Office sounding like the uncontrolled mental jumps of a man who has spent too long speaking only to himself.
Perhaps that is the real danger of this period. Not the individual statements themselves, but the normalization of them. The routine acceptance of a president who speaks of a military prelude as though it were another item on a schedule. While cabinet members sitting beside him reshape airports, immigration policy, and even newborn children into instruments of one overarching idea of power. It happens quietly. It happens routinely. And that is exactly why it happens at all.
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Trump ist der nützliche Idiot.
Putin lacht sich eins, denn Trump macht die Arbeit und er muss nur warten.
Auch Xi lacht sich eins.
Abwarten, Trump destabilisiert die Welt, die westlichen Bündnisse.
China wartet und wird die Lücken füllen.
Die meisten Politiker buckeln vorm senile Trump.
Es sagt keiner mal was wirklich klares.
Außer Mark Carney aus Kanada.
Am Schlimmsten sind aber die Republikaner und die MAGA.
Sie tanzen um Trump, wie um das golden Kalb.
Er ist der, der Macht und Geld bringt.
Da scheint es egal zu sein, was er brabbelt.
Er könnte wohl auch von seinem Schnupfen samt Popeln sprechen und bekäme noch Applaus.
Die Nutznießer dieses brabbelnden, somnolenten Greises werden einenTeufel tun, ihre Pfründe zu gefährden. Die USA sind ein Selbstbedienungsladen für Reiche und Kriminelle geworden. Mit Politik hat das nicht mehr das Geringste zu tun. Das alles ist eine bekannte Größe. Da ist sie, die Gewöhnung, das beginnende Schulterzucken, die Hoffnungslosigkeit. Wenn. sie um sich greifen, geht die Krise in eine konstituierende Phase. Das Aufweichen des Widerstands ist gefährlich.
Der monatelange Marathon der fassungslosen Gegenwehr hat die Ressourcen erschöpft und mir scheint, die Stimmen werden insgesamt leiser. Das macht die Gierigen noch gieriger und siegessicherer. Die Menschen, auch man selbst, versuchen selbst in Krisenzeiten so etwas wie Normalität des Alltags zu bewahren. Aber der hat sich unter dem Regime der MAGA-Sekte und ihrer Anhänger längst verabschiedet. Unterstützt durch die allmächtigen KI-Medien, die totschweigen, was nicht gehört werden soll, und verbreiten, was sie großartig erscheinen lässt.
Die Welt, die wir bis vor etwas mehr als einem Jahr noch hatten, ist tot. Wer weiß schon, wie die neue aussehen wird. Jedenfalls nicht schön, wenn Egozentrik, Dummheit und Verschlagenheit weiterhin das Sagen haben.
Und…. es gibt immer noch genügend Menschen, die dieses Kartell wählen werden. Es lügt und lügt und lügt und lügt und sonnt sich in seiner fiktiven Parallelwelt. Seine Mitglieder kriechen dem Sektenführer auf einer breiten Schleimspur in den schlaffen Hintern. Diese roten Narrenkappen auf dem Tisch vor erwachsenen Menschen die ein Land führen sollen…. ….einem wird übel dabei. Ich wette, unterm Tisch tragen sie alle MAGA-Schuhe in unpassenden Größen. Einfach. nur. widerlich. Wer da nicht das Gefühl hat, verrückt zu werden, ist nicht normal.