That's right, Trump takes things seriously and goes all-in

Donald Trump has done just that, with undisguised pride at having turned the world upside down and having ended the old international order in barely 45 days. 

His long speech, lasting 1 hour and 40 minutes, had many features reminiscent of his recent election rallies, repeating the most oft-repeated slogans of his campaign: ‘Make America Great Again’, ‘Drill Baby Drill’ or ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’, the latter having emerged from the attack in which, after saving his life, he reappeared as the brave man who so appreciates an American tradition accustomed to the stark dichotomy between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’.

As a warning to those who cannot quite believe that Trump is forcibly dynamiting the foundations of the old order, the president snapped at them that ‘we are only just beginning...’ By my own reckoning, the president only referred to the concept of democracy once, asserting that ‘his Administration is in the process of wresting power from the irresponsible bureaucracy in order to restore true democracy in America’. 

Trump seemed to enjoy the atmosphere of tension that reigned among the deputies and senators, to whom he wanted to make it clear not only that he firmly believes in the goodness of the policies undertaken, but also that he is proud of ‘having ended the tyranny of ‘wokism’, that which imposed its so-called policies of diversity, equality and inclusion’. In this respect, he announced that he will bring a law to Congress that ‘definitively prohibits and criminalises the incitement of sex change in children’, brandishing, by the way, as a motto, that ‘every American child must be aware of and accept that he or she is as God created him or her’.

On the domestic front, with the corresponding consequences for the outside world, Trump heaped praise on his friend and close collaborator Elon Musk, whom he praised for his work ‘to end waste’, and threatened to summarily dismiss officials who resist change.

In addition to these issues, a review of the major international problems that Trump addressed also served to reaffirm his positions. Firstly, on Ukraine, he announced to the audience that he had received a letter from President Volodimir Zelenski, in which he indicated ‘his willingness to sit down at the negotiating table as soon as possible, in order to achieve a permanent peace’. Trump omitted, but need not have, that the Ukrainian president apologised for his own behaviour in the Oval Office of the White House, that he was willing to sign the agreement to cede his rare earths, and that he recognised the unquestionable leadership of the American president. An act of recognition, submission and vassalage that could be inserted into many passages of the history of empires of other times.

Trump once again stated his ambitions to complete his domination, massaging the public opinion of Greenland. He promised them a bright future, hinting that the United States will support the planned independence referendum of the largest island on the planet. Denmark, as the sovereign power over the island, and Europe as the container and shelter of both, are going to have a brutal test of strength in the face of Trump's ambitions to control practically the whole of such an immense territory. And the same can be said of Panama and its Canal, about which Trump once again expressed his obsession for it to return to his hands.

Although the waves of immigration to the United States have already slowed considerably during the few days that the Trump Administration has been in power, the president is not satisfied, and has urged Congress to authorise sufficient funds for him to proceed with a mass deportation.

He did not specify who and how many illegal residents, but also those who have been legalised until now, could be affected by this measure, which in any case illustrates Trump's intention to carry out a social engineering process that will result in a country with a demographic make-up that is at least different to what it is now.

And finally, for those who had hoped that Trump would not go through with his tariff threats or would at least reduce them considerably, the US leader has not only blown up the trade agreements with his neighbours, but also intends to apply them brutally from 2 April. 

In short, Trump has delivered a final blow to the coffin of the old international order, whose numerous institutions and bureaucracy will have to disappear or at least be renewed and considerably slimmed down. Change is underway, it will be increasingly brutal and irreversible, and it will sweep away the old paradigms without contemplation.

In any case, we should be grateful to Trump for not mincing his words or using euphemisms. It may be unpleasant, but he does and delivers on what he says, and unlike in other very nearby places where people change their minds with unusual frequency and politicians negotiate transcendental issues in secret, Trump does it openly and in broad daylight.