Donald Trump: Why I feel pity for him (opinion)

I don’t know how they are, but I don’t want to feel anything anymore when I see Donald Trump. I felt so much in all the years in which he is trampled into our consciousness like no politician before him (and hopefully none after him). It was almost always strong feelings, always negative: anger, anger, outrage, grief, fainting.

And yet, as much as I tried to dull myself, a new feeling was set up when I saw Trump in Alaska last Friday, on this silly red carpet, which he had rolled out for Vladimir Putin, a war criminal sought by international arrest; When I saw him as “Vladimir” and his country (a mafia state sunk in economic insignificance, only with nuclear weapons) to the global number 2. The US President called so much after recognition by the Russian ruler that a new feeling appeared, it was said: pity. Yes, I felt sorry for Donald Trump.

We could now analyze whether Trump and Putin have a secret plan, whether the American could just get rid of the problem of Ukraine. But that’s not what I felt about this sight. You could see a man who got everything, whom he may not even dream of being: to be the most powerful person in the world who drove in a car called “Beast” on an airplane called Air Force One. And yet the embarrassing-winding real estate agent from Queens, who first wanted to make it in Manhattan, was still waiting in Washington, and then?

What else Trump wants? Sure, the Nobel Peace Prize, which in his view is due, if only because Barack Obama once got him. Above all, he would apparently want to be accepted by the man who can be even more unscrupulous than he, a real dictator, while Trump has so far only fabuled that he could shoot a person on the Fifth Avenue, and it doesn’t matter.

Perhaps on the carpet that he will not get the Nobel Prize or Putin’s recognition because he simply has no trump cards, like Anne Applebaum, the clever chronicler of the US Russia relationship, wrote in the “Atlantic”: “Trump says that he wanted to end the war in Ukraine, and sometimes that he is not angry. The USA is not willing to provide economic, military or political tools to help Ukraine, if Trump does not exert diplomatic pressure on Putin or impose new sanctions, the pious wish of the President, to be seen as a peace pent, can simply be ignored. “

Trump is a tyrant, we know that. Unless he hits a real tyrant, it is submissive. Is it imprisonment to have pity with such a person? Allegedly. But maybe this sensitive interpretation explains the phenomenon Trump better than any sober analysis.