The 31 other nations gathered for the Nato summit this week all bowed down before him as World King – Boris Johnson eat your heart out, Ozempic permitting.
No longer. Such democratic-style niceties have been cast aside. By force of will and brute behaviour, Trump is not just getting what he wants – he is also forcing the rest of the world to play by his rules, and accept his bullying behaviour as the norm. Never mind United Nations resolutions, Nato and G7 communiqués – what he says goes.
The former Dutch prime minister, now Nato secretary-general, Mark Rutte, even outdid his monarchs’ brown-nosing. Trump broadcast Rutte’s private fawning greeting as a fitting tribute: “Mr President, dear Donald, congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary, and something no one else dared to do… You will achieve something no American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to pay in a big way, as they should, and it will be your win.”
Unembarrassed, Rutte continued to lay it on thick, calling the President a “Daddy” who “sometimes has to use strong language” to stop the children fighting. Hours earlier Trump had vouchsafed to the international media that Israel and Iran “don’t know what the f**k they are doing”, in threatening to break the ceasefire he had ordered them to observe.
Trump’s fellow leaders excuse their grovelling obsequiousness because they believe it works. Nato members were petrified that he would make good on his previous threat to walk away from the alliance. Instead he assured them at the summit that “he was with them all the way”.
In return, all that Trump guaranteed was that the US would shoulder progressively less of Europe’s defence burden. In spite of his “nice” meeting with Ukraine’s president Zelensky, there was no firm American commitment to restore its previous levels of support to Ukraine’s war effort.
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For all the Union Jack wrapped flattery, the much vaunted first “trade deal” agreed between the US and UK actually leaves this country’s businesses in a worse position than they were before Trump returned to the White House. At best UK plc may just be walloped slightly less hard than other economies. In its haste the UK has undermined potential solidarity and resistance against Trump’s trade protectionism, as a senior Anglophile Japanese diplomat pointed out to me, in sorrow, recently.
Domestically his administration is attempting to brush aside the democratic system’s traditional constitutional checks and balances to rule as an unencumbered autocrat. That is why “No Kings” was the main slogan of the protesters against the military parade he ordered on what just happened to be his birthday. Trump’s frequently issued executive orders carry the authority of an absolute monarch’s royal decrees, as the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt seems to think.
The truth is this stuff is irresistible for the watching world. Foreign political leaders meanwhile are going along with Trump’s way of doing business. This is not the way politics has been carried out for the past 80 years, as a former British prime minister pointed out in a speech this week.
Sir John Major went on to ask: “Is barbarism now accepted? Is might now right? Is it only about national self interest? Then heaven help us all!”
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