It’s supposed to represent the best, most idealistic version of America, rather than its grubbier reality. Due to a combination of Covid-19 and Trump’s attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election, much of the ceremony of Joe Biden’s inauguration was skipped – not least the part where the sitting president is present as his successor takes power.
The actual words Donald Trump said, though, show that America’s new normal is going to be nothing like what went before – especially for America’s friends and allies across the globe. While he did it with a gentle tone and with promises of bringing about peace, Trump set out a plan for a new era of the American empire.
Trump openly invoked this principle in his inaugural speech, before promising his citizens that his next term would be one that brought territorial expansion for America.
In the 21st century, democratic nations have been established on the basis of self-determination – essentially citizens get to decide their own fate, and one country cannot violate the territory of another simply because they want to expand. This is essentially the first principle of the rules-based international order.
Defenders of Trump have a habit of “sane-washing” his proposals. When Trump talked during the campaign of replacing income tax with tariffs on imports, talking heads would instead say that it would be sensible policy for America to launch targeted sanctions against China to protect its manufacturing base. It would, but that isn’t what Trump is actually saying. Trump’s inauguration speech proved it.
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Read MoreThis is not just a pledge to introduce tariffs – but to force the USA’s allies and neighbours to pay the import taxes that Americans should be paying themselves for goods. This is the behaviour of a mafia state, a playground bully on the global stage.
The world will be watching nervously to see how much of it is followed up with action.
James Ball is the political editor at the New European
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