Trump? We did it.

It’s been one week since the second Donald Trump Inauguration. He has pardoned the terrorists who invaded the Capitol. He has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, an American born white man who happens to be the biggest heroin, cocaine and amphetamine peddler in the country, because he contributed generously to his presidential campaign, he has threatened to invade Panama, force Denmark to sell Greenland, annex Canada and rename the Gulf of Mexico, he is still peddling a Bible with his Trump logo on it, he has created the Trump crypto currency, he has punished former members of his administration whom he deemed “not loyal enough” to himself, he has forced federal employees out of work and replaced them with political loyalists, he has vowed to “drill, baby drill” and stop all investments and incentives in clean energy, he has deported immigrants in military planes in degrading conditions.

He apparently sees himself as a new Roman Emperor. Nero, Caligula? Is he Making America Great Again or is he the embodiment of the “Ugly American”, the folkloric and loud tourist who visits foreign countries trampling ignorantly on their customs, history, usages and rules?

To quote from a recent post on Facebook, “Trump has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honor and no grace. Trump may be laughable but he has never said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty”.

And still Trump got 49.8% of the votes cast for President of the United States in 2024. It was not a majority of the American electorate, but it was enough to put him back in the White House.

We did this to ourselves and to the world.