USA After his Meme around the buying of Greenland we have to ask the question: Who protects the president from himself?
In one week, which gave us a display of bizarre moments, in
which the US president stood on the lawn of the white house saying:
"I am the chosen one." You may have thought it's a joke,
Donald Trump just spoke earlier about the China Trade war. But in order to
underline his words, the president looked to the skies, to make sure
everyone understands, from whom Trump receives his orders.
It was wednesday, a few hours earlier Trump announced on a
short notice the cancelation of a statevisit to Denmark. The president
wanted to negotiate with the danish government the sale of Greenland.
The biggest island in the world -but the deal didnt happen. First and
foremost the the People of Greenland decide what happens with
their island said danish Ministerpresident Mette Frederiksen. And second
Greenland is not for sale. She called Trumps idea 'absurd". The
president used the word 'nasty' for Frederiksen a term Trump likes to
use for women, he feels are treating him bad: All in all it has been Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Meghan Markle...
The regular routine of the political machine in Washington to look for ratioale motives for the rather erratic actions of the president went into action. It just happened this week as always. American News networks wrote exerpts, which cite great historian events: Didn't Congress allow in the year 1803 for roundabout 15 Million Dollar the purchase of Louisiana from France? And wasn't it a fantastic bargain to buy Alaska in 1876 for the ridiculous sum of 7.2 Million from Russia by President Andrew Jackson?
The regular routine of the political machine in Washington to look for ratioale motives for the rather erratic actions of the president went into action. It just happened this week as always. American News networks wrote exerpts, which cite great historian events: Didn't Congress allow in the year 1803 for roundabout 15 Million Dollar the purchase of Louisiana from France? And wasn't it a fantastic bargain to buy Alaska in 1876 for the ridiculous sum of 7.2 Million from Russia by President Andrew Jackson?
But those times are over in which whole countries are for sale. Rather a polarbear is being driven upwards the potomac river on a piece of ice than that Greenlands' people will agree to sell their island to the United States!
Far more urgent is the question : Is the most poerful man in the world in his right mind? And who protects him from himself?
If you belive the Wall Street Journal then the president has conveyed the idea to incorporate Greenland into the United States at a Dinner in spring with his consultants. Appearantly nobody had the courage to convince the president of what a bad idea this was. This episode shows that the aparatus of tbe goverment is not able to keep Trump from grave idiocy. In the white house there is apart from Ivanca Trumps daughter nearly no person who can talk him to senses. The president drove everyone away who dared to say something against him..
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not want to carry Donald Trumps foreign policy. Defence minister James Mattis gave up when the president anounced to withdraw US-Troops from Syria. Again more and more people in the second and third row resign. This month Fiona Hill quit her job, Trumps consutlant for russia. She came from the resprctable brookings institute and is respected by both parties as an expert. Hill's colleagues say she joined the government to prevent the worst from happening. Definitely without success.
The only thing remaining is chaos. Will Trump be driven by panic? On his biggest foreign policy construction sites- Iran and Nortth Korea- has no progress been made for months. Now even the economic foercast is getting darker. At the beginning of last week a survey made its round were three of four US economists believe a recession is on the horizon, which will happen in the next election year. Trump's challengers with the Democrats attack Trump more and more with vigilance because of his failed economic politics. At the same time the negative consequences of Trumps Trade war with China are becomming noticeable.
Trumps cancelation of his Denmark journey was just the climax of a Trump week full of Memes and oppositional statements. Wednesday morning President Trump was busy to thank a muddle-head with the name Wayne Allyn Roth on Twitter. Wayne's celebrity status is based upon completely baseles conspiracy theories- like that Islamists and not a fanatic single man are responsible for the massmurder of more than 50 concertguests in the fall of 2017 in Las Vegas.
Then Trump demanded that Russias Primeminister Vladimir Putin has to be takend back into the cirle of most important western industrial nations. The G7 should become the G8. Nonetheless early on US diplomat Richard Grenell from Berlin called Russia a 'BEAST' on Fox Channel, which is being fed by Germany. Meant was the Nord-Stream 2 Pipeline, which goes from russian Wyborg to Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Trump's goal is to prevent this pipeline from being built. In the german government it was assumed that the president wanted to travel to Copenhagen to keep the government in line in regards to Nord Strema. The country has to give the permit for building a deciding part of the project. But the germans thinking was to rational. Trump didn't have anymore friends in Denmark. Former danish Ministerpresident Helle Thorning-Schmidt explained, the president insulted a whole country. It is not likely, that such phrases are getting through in the white house.
