Tornado Trump

Trump seems determined to take the “Hugo Chavez” option in wrecking a national economy through ideological zeal while holding on to power through a combination of repression and targeted patronage for loyalists.

The fall of the republic

Donald Trump is no Julius Caesar, but the United States has replaced the rule of the people with the domination of one man and his wealthiest friends in ways which parallel Julius Caesar’s ascent to power in 49 BCE.

Trump’s tariff own-goal

The main effect of Trump’s tariffs may be to boost China’s economy more than the USA as well as increase consumer prices on a host of electronic and other goods.

Trump the tyrant

America’s slippery slide into authoritarianism is now fully entrenched. Not content with dismantling civil liberties and political rights, electoral integrity, eroding the checks and balances of legislative governance within its borders, Donald Trump’s America has declared war on its allies.

A fresh start for US aid?

The United States government is considering replacing USAID with a new agency, the US Agency for International Humanitarian Assistance, according to documents published by POLITICO.

A tale of two leaders

The contrast between the leadership styles and personal values of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump could not be more stark.

One people, one realm, one leader

In what might have been the longest presidential address to Congress in American history—an hour and forty minutes without intermission—President Donald Trump delivered a performance on Tuesday night that was simultaneously grandiose, confrontational, optimistic and revealing of the direction in which he intended to take his administration and his country.

Betrayal

Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump’s America?

King Trump

America’s Founding Fathers consciously designed the nascent country’s constitution to prevent its President ruling as a king, which is exactly what Trump is now doing with Vladimir Putin as his exemplar rather than enemy.

El Presidente

The United States appears to be enthusiastically embracing the type of authoritarian regime which has impoverished and oppressed all too many Latin America countries over time.

Trump in the world – Is it time to panic?

From Ukraine abroad to immigration at home, Donald Trump has wasted no time in implementing his radical agenda, so what are the results likely to be?

The foreign aid lessons Trump refuses to learn

Donald Trump’s capricious destruction of America’s foreign aid programme will damage the USA as much as its recipients, and while the returning American President could learn much from his allies on foreign aid, there’s no sign whatsoever that he’s listening.