The US President has frequently boasted about his thumping electoral victory. “The beauty is that we won by so much. The mandate was massive,” he crowed in Time magazine. He claims his success is “unprecedented” when it is nothing of the kind. Trump won 49.8 per cent of the vote, against 48.3 per cent for Kamala Harris.
On this slender basis, Trump feels entitled to do as he pleases, treating people, institutions and nations like pieces in his own cosmic jigsaw.
Wiles, a veteran Republican, may have been remembering the Pottery Barn rule, as explained to President George W Bush by General Colin Powell before the invasion of Iraq: “You break it, you own it.”
Trump is at the height of his powers now, but his downfall has begun. He is going to own everything he is breaking at home and abroad. His rampage through US government agencies and his ripping up of the law and constitution is thrilling his supporters and confounding his enemies. He is bullying nations in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Arctic. High on his own supply, he feels like Superman.
Trump's 'colonialism' is the opposite of America First
Read MoreWe are not there yet. On the contrary, the unelected “first buddy”, Elon Musk, and his band of juvenile geeks at DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) are America’s masters now. Their revolutionary zeal is upending the lives of tens of thousands of real people with families and jobs, while Maga voters egg them on. USAID, which subsidises a few frivolous groups but supports the poorest people on Earth, is being gleefully fed into the “wood chipper” by the richest man on the planet.
One of Musk’s “baby-faced assassins”, Edward Coristine, 19, once went by the name of “Big Balls” online and is heir to his father’s popcorn fortune. The eldest of the group, Marko Elez, 25, has been forced to resign after The Wall Street Journal exposed his white supremacist rantings.
Almost no Republican thinks Trump’s plans for Gaza make sense, but they are too cowed to say so. GOP members of Congress are terrified that Musk will use his vast billions to mount primary campaigns against them and drum them out of office. However, we know what Marco Rubio, the new secretary of state, really thinks about Gaza, because he told Trump at a 2016 presidential debate, “The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, Donald.”
I’m reminded of what happened during the pandemic, when Trump would spout nonsense about bleach and whatever entered his head until the public got fed up with his antics. This mania will end. We just don’t know when.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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