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Trump is not mentally up to the crisis - that has terrible
consequences for the world
The United States is not resting. Protests continue over a week after the death of African American George Floyd in a brutal police operation. US President Donald Trump threatens his own people with the military. It shows in blatant clarity what was to be expected: it is mentally unable to cope with the dramatic situation. It is terrible for his country. And for the rest of the world.
He says it over and over again. "I am the president of law and order," Donald Trump calls out to his countrymen. The president denies his own message by constantly repeating it. His calls, his constant assurances are nothing but signs of aggressive helplessness. Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the American cities to show their horror at the death of African American George Floyd in the brutal police operation a week ago. There are peaceful demonstrations against police violence and racism, but also more and more looting, chaos, unchecked aggression. The unrest in the country is widening.
The No. 1 in the state has so far found only one answer: even more pressure, even more harshness. He reacts to dwindling approval by increasing the dose. Trump is now letting the military run up against its own people. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered soldiers to be transferred to Washington to assist the security forces. What a signal.
Esper has now made it clear that the use of professional soldiers in Germany should only be "last resort" in the "most urgent and extreme situations". They are currently not available.
"Those against us"
One thing is certain: Where the President would have to unite, reconcile and reconcile his people, where he would have to find an answer to the deep trenches in his country, he continues to rely on division: those against us. Only that even this feeling of belonging among its supporters now seems to be disappearing.
"My government has done more for the black community than any government since Abraham Lincoln," Trump insists, in the manner of a defiant child. When he speaks of a "silent majority", as he did recently, referring to his supporters, the question arises whether this majority, which has guaranteed his power for years, is still being discussed exactly five months before the US elections can.
Trump, the guardian of Christian values?
In just a few weeks, the number of people without a job in the United States rose to 40 million, and more than 100,000 people fell victim to the corona virus. The facts this man likes to conjure up speak for themselves. The attempt to counter the pandemic with the well-known Trump slogans has demonstrated the unprecedentedly childless impotence of the 45th President. The country's intellectual and social cohesion is showing ever more threatening cracks.
Like a tireless Duracell being, Trump recycles his phrases every day, rising to embarrassing gestures. There is something deeply disturbing about the image of the President standing in front of St. John's Church with a Bible in hand. What on earth is he trying to say? Trump, a president by God's grace? Trump, the guardian of Christian values? But: which should it be? Painful director's detail on the side: In order to have this photo taken, Trump had to pave the way with tear gas salvos.
USA creates power vacuum
So Trump is and remains a president in this acute situation, who only revolves around himself. The political damage radius, however, has long spanned the entire globe. The fact that he has given up his support to the World Health Organization (WHO) was only the last act in a long cascade of his constant withdrawals by international organizations. The navel show is increasingly replacing the political program.
Globally, the USA is creating a growing vacuum that others have long since filled. China is gradually expanding its influence, is on the way to a digital dictatorship, Russia is largely undisturbed in its power politics in Europe and the Middle East. Europe has verbally named a new, stronger role, but is still a long way from fulfilling its grown responsibilities.
Just don't escalate!
What can other countries do, what can Germany do in this situation? What is more important in this tense time is what should not be done: escalate. Berlin is extremely concerned about what is going on in the United States, and Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) made it clear once again.
In addition, however, other countries are well advised not to further increase aggression in the country through harsh comments from outside. In this situation, anyone who makes inappropriate comparisons between the escalation in a free country, in the USA, and the systematic Chinese suppression of the protests in Hong Kong is doing exactly what he accuses Trump of doing: pouring oil on the fire.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been silent for 20 seconds when asked about Donald Trump: silence as documented bewilderment. Perhaps this is the most appropriate response to the man's goings on in the White House these days. It has come this far.
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