In his losing battle with Joe Biden for the US Presidency, his Republican challenger Donald Trump often claimed that Biden was “low energy”, calling him “Sleepy Joe”. Subsequently, it turned out that Trump may have been right, for Biden had been harbouring cancer for years, unknown to him or to his doctors. It is astonishing that the cancer was discovered only after Biden bid adieu to politics after his successor as candidate Kamala Harris lost to Trump. The present US President was verbally merciless on President Biden, taunting him for “always being in the basement”. It was a subsequently proved fact that Biden was physically unable to handle the rigorous lifestyle of a US President. During that time, the Biden camp continuously derided Trump as being psychologically unfit to be President of the US. Recent events appear to point to some truth in that charge. If reports are true about Chief of General Staff Dan Caine refusing to allow Trump to access the nuclear codes, out of concern that he may nuke Iran, the time may have come to ask if Trump himself is psychologically fit to continue to serve as President of the US. Earlier, eyebrow raising acts such as his creation of himself as a pilot wearing a crown on his head spraying anti-Trump protestors below his aircraft with waste matter, were taken as pranks. But such “pranks” have become too many for the US Congress to ignore. Trump is reducing the majesty of the US Presidency to a burlesque show. Small wonder that uncharitable memes about him are being made daily.
Even in China, where online censorship is stiflingly stiff, online memes and messages making fun of Trump are getting past the censors. Next month, President Trump is scheduled to arrive in China for talks with CCP General Secretary Xi, and thousands of netizens are publicly calling his impending visit a farce, given what they believe to be the mental state of Trump. It is difficult to find a plan or logic in several of his actions, including in the war with Iran. The White House says that only attacks on US ships are a breach of a US-IRGC ceasefire that the IRGC denies is taking place. The US public has noted the actions of Trump and are taking it out in elections and protest rallies. The Republican Party is losing seat after seat in the US Congress. As yet, the Republicans in the US Congress have not accepted that the time has come for Trump to be told to step down from the Presidency. The lack of action by the US Congress majority in the Trump matter is leading to a record low in public opinion of the legislature, with 86% of voters polled expressing disapproval of the US Congress as an institution. Meanwhile, the gerrymandering of Congressional districts initiated under Trump has been adopted by the Democrats also, who thus far have potentially gained more seats than they potentially lost to the Republicans in the gerrymandering process. Throughout the world, largely as a consequence of the Trump Presidency, the US is losing the respect and fealty of its allies and earning the contempt of its foes.
Under Trump, the US as a security partner seems unreliable, and perhaps even unviable. Reports indicate that a major part of the stockpile of usable ordnance of the US military has literally been blown up by the conflict with Iran. If that can create such a dent, the consequences of a kinetic war with China would be unendurable. President Trump is doing what he does best, firing people. The latest to be dismissed is the US Navy Secretary, and this in the midst of the US blockade of Iranian ports. Unless the Republican Party gets Trump to quit, after of course pardoning himself and his family and associates, the party itself risks a split. Meanwhile, gun violence in the US gathers pace. A father shot and killed seven of his children plus another child. Clinical depression is rampant as US citizens think about the future of their country. For the sake of the US, it is time to tell President Trump what Oliver Cromwell in his time told the Long Parliament in the UK. He said, “You have been sitting here far too long for any good that they may be doing. Go.” The US is too important a pillar of the democracies as to any more leave it in the control of an individual who is plainly incapable of handling the job.
