He left upset, angry, and driven by revenge.
When Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, it seemed like the death knell for his political career.
His first term ended in chaos and with social condemnation, even from members of his own party.
Four years later, Donald Trump returned to the White House, after millions of Americans voted to give him a second chance.
This is surely the most dramatic comeback in American political history.
And not only that, taking advantage of an erratic presidential administration by Democrat Joe Biden and a failed electoral campaign by Kamala Harris,
Trump not only easily won the election and his second term as president of the most powerful country in the world, but his candidacy helped the Republican Party capture the House of Representatives and the Senate. In other words,
Trump becomes the supreme leader who can do and undo whatever he wants, without asking permission. There is a work by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos entitled “Yo, el Supremo,” which constitutes a lucid historical account of the political life of a Paraguayan supreme dictator throughout his twenty-six years in office, during which a world of injustice, exploitation, racism, hardship, persecution, and death was forged, as well as a popular sentiment divided between the desire for rebellion and persevering stoicism.
And well, Donald Trump wants to inherit that same tradition. In his classic style, he is now hinting that he will seek a third term, something that reminds us of one of his fans, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who, in his first term, promised to respect the Constitution and not seek reelection. However, he did the opposite: he was reelected and has built a world, yes, with less violence, but at the cost of continued human rights violations.
If there is one thing that characterizes Trump, it is his well-thought-out rhetoric; he doesn’t just talk the talk. He says things, leaves them in the public eye, and the time will come when he will attack with all his might. His comment about a third term cannot be considered a joke.
The country’s judiciary has been the only one that has stood up to him. Trump has threatened them, wants to remove them, and although he pays little attention to them, he has had to slow down on some initiatives.
We’ll see how the decisions that reach the Supreme Court end up.
On April 2, Trump begins a global fight against the world, insulting and threatening Vladimir Putin as much as Canada, Denmark, France, and many others. What he calls Liberation Day isn’t just the imposition of tariffs; it’s his ambition to be recognized as the most powerful “World Leader,” no matter what the cost. We’ll see how this confrontation ends.
