Unhinged

The world has gone to another Defcon level this week as we see an unhinged Trump going crazier like a cornered animal lashing out before it is squashed.

It is now getting unbelievable that the most powerful person in the world is flip-flopping all the time. Things coming out of his mouth are getting more ridiculous by the day. Calling himself the chosen one, spraying anti-semitic and racist themes seems to be his norm nowadays. Faced with opponents like China and the House who refused to blink against the onslaught of a bully’s challenges, Trump is running out of options to use. He probably had not met such opposite parties in his business world before as he would use the courts to outlast the other side till they compromise and settle.

The tariff war with China is now one year old and escalating further. China is playing the long game now. One cannot negotiate with a bully who changes his mind constantly and has an “I win, you lose” attitude to everything in his life. China is betting that there will be a change in leadership before the trade war can be resolved. No point talking to an idiot. It’s better to work with someone else who is a “stable genius”.

The House is also adding pressure, with the progress in the investigations after Mueller’s testimony a few weeks back. Slowly but surely, secrets that he has been trying to hide are leaking out. His shady business dealings with the Russians will eventually come out. Refusing to allow anyone to testify using White House executive privilege card is starting to crack as the courts determine that it is unconstitutional.

He has alienated all non-white Americans with his racism and cruel rules to separate migrant children from their parents for months. GOP members that want tax cuts had turned a blind eye to the rest of his excesses. They now cannot ignore the tsunami of change against him now from the rest of the population. One cannot claim to be a decent human and yet support his inhuman actions.

As an outsider, I can see that he is getting more unhinged as he switches attack targets daily to divert attention away from the main issues plaguing him. Now that he is heading to the G7 meeting this weekend, the other countries have already pre-empted his instability by announcing that they will NOT have a press release after this meeting. They know that nothing will be agreed upon and there is a high probability that he will blow this meetup up into a political mess.

I am curious as to the helplessness of the US political system at the moment. They have so many discussions on how to defeat him in the polls but it is more than a year away. I don’t think they have much time left to stop this unstable genius from blowing up the country and the rest of the world with it.

One day is too many already. The political system has never encountered such an issue before. It was assumed that the presidential screening process would have weeded out such a candidate. But the forefathers could never have forecasted external influences from Russia and the power of social media.

What happens from here will become a history textbook case study for many years to come. Meanwhile, the world seems to be falling off a cliff as other countries mimic America and go full-on confrontational, take no prisoners attitude towards all negotiations.

I will be having a busy two weeks ahead from tomorrow. My monthly trip to Yangon will be longer and then I will head to Seoul next Sat for a Skillsfuture Blockchain course till 06 Sep. Let’s hope that the world continues to keep itself in one piece during this time…