Jan 21, 2026
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The series of actions taken by Trump since his second term in office summarizes the needs of the president of the United States of America.
When Hans Christian Andersen published the story "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1837, Denmark, the country of his birth, had ruled Greenland, the largest island in the world, for 61 years, since 1776. That year, 1776, was the same year that the 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence.Some 250 years later, Andersen's story vindicated itself, set in Greenland.
The axis of the story is not the vanity of the emperor, who lives for pants.No, the story reveals the weakness of his subordinates, who, for fear of losing their privileges, do not tell him the truth: a couple of frauds tricked him by promising him an exclusive suit, which does not exist and therefore cannot be seen, but they convinced him that only the wise and good can see such a unique cloth.So the emperor paraded naked, and no one spoke to him openly so that he would not object.In Trump's case, it's also an option.
Advisors like Stephen Miller, the president's deputy secretary of state for public policy, set not only the president's agenda but his own;In short, these advisers are like those who promise the king a sum of money.
Miller is considered the architect of the immigration crackdown and the approach toward Venezuela.
In an interview with CNN, he said of Venezuela: "We are a superpower and under President Trump we will become a superpower. It is unreasonable to allow our home country to provide resources to our adversaries instead of us, to collect weapons from our adversaries, to turn ourselves into an asset against the United States instead of for the United States."Based on this principle, he justified the action.Against Nicolás Maduro and his rhetoric about Greenland.
Thom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina who is widely trusted by his colleagues, after announcing that he will not seek re-election, criticized Miller for not appointing him to the Senate.their work."
Royal Chancellor
Unlike the first term, the cabinet was stable during the first year of Trump's volatile second term.The likes of Miller - the security of whose work is not in doubt - understand it well and refer to it in terms similar to the Royal Academy's dictionary definition of 'emperor': 'a sovereign ruling over other kings or great princes or a large territory'.
Early in his second term, Trumo claimed Canada as the 51st state, demanded the return of the Panama Canal and set his sights on Greenland, a territory that, a year after returning to the White House, he said he would take "at any cost."The latter despite the fact that the island is one of the three countries that make up the kingdom of Denmark, a historic ally of the United States and a member of NATO, whose fifth article stipulates that an attack on one member will be retaliated by another country.
"President" Venezuela
Trump is an internet troll.In one of his many messages appearing days after the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and Celia Flores and transferred them to New York, he appeared as the "President of Venezuela," copying his altered Wikipedia profile picture.He immediately endorsed the appointment of Delsey Rodríguez as interim president and publicly criticized opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.Rights revoked.Later, he met with oil company executives to determine the future of Venezuela's industry, which has the world's largest crude oil reserves but is less productive, in an event where no Venezuelans attend.
At the meeting, Executive President of ExxonMobil Darren Woods said that there are no conditions for investing in Venezuela.Trump didn't like the response, saying Exxon was "playing nice" and that he would probably be inclined to "remove them from the process."He does not accept criticism or dissent like the emperors.
Stay in command and complete!
One of the most important challenges Trump needs to achieve domestically—he has yet to do so—is one of his biggest campaign promises: improving the quality of life for Americans.Although he publicly wants everything to go well, job creation in his first year in office has been significantly reduced.And although the prices of petrol and eggs have fallen, the prices of meat and coffee have risen.
In this regard, he announced in his application on January 9 that the first year of credit is about 20, the first year.This is a payment alert.Washington said the group was not following his orders and that they were breaking the law.
The problem for Trump is that there is no law that gives the President of the United States the power to set credit card interest rates. Such measures, rejected by the financial sector, must be approved by Congress. They are not based on information on the Internet or the will of the President, who is the President, not the Emperor.
King of the sun
Louis Daya only has to listen to Donald Trump to see the consistency in this way of thinking.9.he declared in January: "I can't think of anyone in history who deserves the Nobel Prize more than me. I don't want to brag, but no one has solved wars."He said this before a visit by the leader of the opposition of Venezuela, María Corina Machado, who gave him the Nobel Peace Prize when she visited him at the White House, in a meeting without journalists, and a day after he publicly declared that Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president of Nicolás Maduro, who is now holding the position of president, is "a great person".
Trump's response to the New York Times about the extent of his power may convince readers, if comparisons with the Sun King grow whiter.My own morality, "Yes, there is only one. My own morality, my own heart. This is the only thing I can put myself on, and it is good."
The White House said Thursday that Trump was only joking about another statement he made regarding the November midterm elections, which generally favors the opposition.Trump responded to Reuters, saying, "It's a very psychological thing, but if you win the presidency, you won't win the midterms."According to the agency, he concluded that his government had achieved a lot in the first year of his second term, and that "when you think about it, we shouldn't even have elections." He had already "joked" about this in a speech he gave to Republicans at the Kennedy Center a few days ago. "How should we compete with these people? I'm not saying that elections should be cancelled, they should cancel them because the fake news will say they want to cancel elections. They always call me a dictator."
The irony is that in the same place, the Kennedy Cultural Center, which by law commemorates the former president who was assassinated in 1963, Trump joked on December 8 about changing his name to include himself, which he abandoned, saying that it was on the board (where he sat).Ten days later, the same board approved the name change.The next day, the Kennedy Center received a new poster with Trump's name before JFK.
And there are at least three years left in the Trump administration.
