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A Startling Conclusion
Who Is the Most Powerful Person on Earth?
I have a theory
Mum’s grip wasn’t as good in her later years. Age and arthritis took their toll. She’d had to ask Dad, or us if we were around, to break the seal on new beetroot, pickles, and jam jars.
In much the same way, Donald Trump no longer has a grip on reality.
After World War II, it was a given that the President of the United States was the most powerful person on earth. It was said with the same certainty as “the job’s fucked” or “I need coffee.” Every U.S. incumbent of the White House, whether he was great or not, could waltz naked down Fifth Avenue while singing “I’m too sexy,” and still get into The Groucho Club to take a shit.
The reasoning was simple: America had military might, nuclear weapons, oodles of money, and its economic alliances gave the commander-in-chief true political clout.
Not anymore. Not since Trump first entered the White House. His re-entry has been even more incendiary. Once the power seat of the world, it has been reduced to shrapnel.
World leaders do not admire this man. None of them. Not even the ones Trump toadies up to. They see his politics for what they are. They know the man for what he is.
