Donald Trump: Why I’m ashamed of America today

Dear Mister President,
Let’s go for a walk. Let’s forget your office and pretend that we are two stinky people. I would like to ask you a few questions.

Pink wrote that, the American pop singer. In 2006, when the Mister President was called George W. Bush. Hit set to music in a general clause. I inevitably think of their old lines these days. I also have a few questions to the current US president (“What’s wrong with you?”). I would also like to encounter Donald John Trump at eye level (I only lack four centimeters for his 1.90,). But then I remember: How damn should you go for a walk with someone with whom you can’t even sit down at a table properly?

Even if almost everyone has seen it now, you have to spell it out again because it is so insane: The leader of the Free West Donald Trump has made the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in front of the eyes of the world public to do it like a student who has forgotten to do all homework before his school trip to Washington. He has accused the head of the government of a attacked country to break a Third World War from the fence, made fun of not wearing a suit, but rather a combative long -sleeved shirt. He said exactly one real thing: “It is good that the Americans see what is going on here.”

It is good that not only the Americans, but the whole world saw what is going on here. Because it would have needed some proof of this, like Trump, the self -proclaimed dealmaker, actually understands that the company was – here he was, live and in color. Things that are otherwise discussed in Hinterzimmer thankfully illuminated for everyone.

So the most powerful man in the world was sitting and talking about war and peace as if it were a poker game. “You don’t have the cards,” he stuck Selenskyj, knowing that he himself has two aces in his hand: a strong economy and the largest military in the world. Trump abuses the strength of his office for a friezen or die-diplomacy. He changes the rules of world politics. He can give Selenskyj on the way home with social media post so often that they only want to “peace”. He is not concerned with peace. Trump is about that he The one who has negotiated the peace that he would say: the deal. How it looks exactly – no matter.

You will have noticed it, dear readers, the contempt drips from these lines. I have always understood myself as a convinced transatlantic, studied in Washington, and I dismissed the first Trump-At time as a four-year shock cure for America, while I am writing these lines-behind me in the bookshelf with a donkey ear Hillbilly elegy stand, this grandiose autobiography of this JD vance, which has become so ingraded.

Like a lap dog, Vance was sitting next to Trump during the scandal, braving, he asked Selenskyj four times, in various execution: “Did you say thank you?” This is roughly the infantile level that is now spoken in the White House.

I honestly had problems watching this video in one go. I had to cancel twice. The foreign shame insisted in me.

The United States was like a big brother for us. Sometimes he appeared a little too wide and caused trouble, but you could rely on him. That no longer applies. With Trump, a 78-year-old problem bear is sitting in the Oval Office. And unfortunately we still haven’t found a real therapeutic approach for him. With a clarifying walk, how Pink once imagined him, it will not be enough.