Trump is George Orwells friend!

President Bill Clinton turned to his advisor in the opulent White House hall after his first meeting as US president with Benjamin Netanyahu, who was talking as if Israel were the source of the United States existence! Netanyahu was so confident and arrogant that he seemed to be giving orders to Clinton.

Clinton said to his adviser, "Who is this damn superpower?"

It is difficult to predict Clinton s adviser s response to his boss s contemptuous and surprised question, so as not to add to the degree of insult that Netanyahu had levelled at the United States at the time.

Such a question, uttered by Clinton in 1996, turned into a whisper between Barack Obama and George Bush as they attended Donald Trump s inauguration speech as President of the United States.

Everyone was subjected to a tragic spectacle as they endured Trump s new version of his speech, especially his predecessor Joe Biden. The term "disgruntled" was the most accurate way to describe Biden as he listened to Trump smash his years in the White House and promise to fix the failures and collapse and breathe fresh political air! Trump flogged Biden in front of the whole world, for nothing confuses the mind more than listening to a speech by Trump.

Obama whispered to Bush, "How the hell can we stop this farce?" while Trump continued to lambast American politicians, institutions and countries around the world, under the pretext of rebuilding a new and great America.

In his grim and ominous inauguration speech on 20 January 2025, Trump described that day as "Liberation Day".

It was a strange phrase to use in American political discourse, as it is a trademark of revolutionary movements and military coups. But perhaps that is also why it was appropriate, as this is exactly what Trump said he wanted to do. Will he succeed?

Here, one might question Trump s ability, in his new 2.0 version, which differs from version 1.0, to -restore- American arrogance, which, like, spread to Iraq, Afghanistan and then Ukraine, until we reached Netanyahu.

Netanyahu lied enough to Joe Biden, to the extent that the latter described him in the harshest terms whenever he reneged on his promises. Today, he continues to lie to Trump, and all indications are that a ceasefire agreement in Gaza is not imminent. This is also a continuation of the decline of American arrogance in the Trump era.

This means a decline in institutional authority, which is also evident in the decline in public confidence in Congress, the media, the Supreme Court, large corporations, and the presidency itself, according to opinion polls conducted by the Gallup Institute over the past half-century.

But after more than half a year in office, the backlash against Trump is unlikely to temper his instinct for unpredictability. His executive orders, mass deportation of immigrants, sweeping pledge to usher in a new golden age, imposition of tariffs on foreign exports, and displacement of Gazans to Egypt and Jordan were intended to shock and awe, to reshape the world.

Trump may -restore- American arrogance in Orwellian scenarios. Trump, whose concepts of ethics are constantly debated, did not hesitate to quote George Orwell to express himself, to the extent that his statements greatly increased the distribution of the novel 1984! During a speech, Trump said "What you see and what you read is not what is happening."

Philip Bump, author of " Aftermath, The: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America" , explains this by saying, "Trump used the institutional power of the party against itself by taking over the presidential primaries-;- then he used his power to become president. He re-dir-ected much of his fundraising power, preferring that donors give to him´-or-buy Trump-branded products. The Republican Party, an appendage of Trump, has managed to survive this parasitism, but it is unclear how it might regain its institutional power in a post-Trump world."

Europeans are likely to increase their defence spending for fear of Trump s wrath. He has said that Russia can "do whatever it wants" with allies who spend less than they should. However, over time, Trump will sow distrust in America s word. Deals will start to dry up. Large parts of the world have long since abandoned the idea of a US-led liberal international order, making them optimistic about the rise of the “ugly American.” Or, as Associated Press correspondent Laurie Kellman described it, Trump’s decisions are like throwing a bag of broken glass under the feet of world leaders.

When it comes to Israel, Trump, like all American politicians, engages in immoral double standards, as in his comment on the displacement of Gaza s residents to Jordan and Egypt.

When American politicians talk about the right of individuals and peoples to life, they fall into a shameful double standard when it comes to Israel. This is not how politicians in Washington usually talk about other countries. As writer and journalism professor Peter Beinart says, they usually start with the rights of individuals, then question how well a particular state represents the people under its control. If American leaders put the lives of everyone living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea first, it would become clear that questioning whether Israel has a right to exist is the wrong question. A better question, as puts it, is: Does Israel, as a Jewish state, adequately protect the rights of all individuals under its control?

In the 1990s, it was common to complain about what the then French Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine called excessive American power. The left-leaning diplomat believed that "the issue at the heart of current global power relations" boiled down to US dominance over attitudes, concepts, language and lifestyles.

Meanwhile, the brutal extermination in Gaza and Trump s proposal to take it over and resettle its people in other countries under the pretext of turning it into the "Riviera of the Middle East"! responds to this in a scandalous way to the contradictions that shake the contemporary world. Just as American arrogance as a superpower continues to be shattered by focusing on what is happening today in Gaza.

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