Donald Trump: Like a dealer from the dirty back yard

It is a message that almost a little lost in the face of the bombastic words and bizarre in Washington: Trump threatens Brazil with punitive tariffs of 50 percent and does not justify this with commercial weight weights, but the investigation of the Brazilian judiciary against the former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro has to answer for a suspected coup attempt. On January 1, 2023, his followers in the capital Brasília had stormed and devastated the Congress, the President’s office and the Supreme Court. The right -wing populist Bolsonaro had previously lost the presidential election against Lula da Silva.

Trump’s Zollhammer opposite Brazil is more than another border violation, but, and that is the principle of his government: the threat seamlessly fits into all the other reports of horror that reach us from the USA these days.

Trump insulted Richter. Trump blackmailed universities with drainage. The US Ministry of Justice uses Trump to weaken political opponents. And now: Trump uses an economic policy weapon to keep a political friend from prison.

This “flood da zone”, that is, to flood the public with so many terrorist reports until it no longer frightens, has become an integral part of Trump’s communication. A protective reflex begins with the reader and spectator that the monsters are shifting into a silent and dirty corner of the subconscious until you finally forget it, or at least: until you forget which democratic, rule of law or diplomatic norms were injured here again.

Who is still upset today that Trump excludes news agencies from entrances to the White House because they don’t want to write about the “Golf of America”? And what was again with Greenland and the Panama Canal?

The spirit gets into a dumplings of twilight, you have to force yourself to stay awake so as not to unlearn, to outrage yourself – and that is particularly important in this case. Because Trump is incorporated into the inner affairs of a sovereign country, he writes about a “witch hunt” on Bolsonaro and thus uses the same words with which he also branded the investigation against him.

In order to recognize the red line that has been exceeded, it helps to transfer the constellation to Germany.

That is less absurd than it seems. One only has to remember the speech of JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference in February-as the US Vice President put the European governments on the pillory at the time because they supposedly did not grant the right outer parties like the AfD. Anyone who believes that it is completely absurd that Trump also linked an observation of the AfD with the protection of the constitution with economic policy issues has not yet recognized the current American president in his entire dimension.

By the way, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has kept any influence, he takes the opportunity to gather the country behind him. It’s the only correct answer. It remains to be hoped that the leading politicians in Europe would also give one.