The Pope Versus the “King”

Chidi Amuta

United States  President Donald Trump seems intent on fulfilling a self- appointed tragic destiny. Every step he takes to avoid being thought weak is leading him towards the inevitability of a disgraceful end and an apocalyptic legacy. Worse still, every step he has taken to show strength has deepened his dcscent into the abyss of despicable authoritarianism. The world thinks the man is weak, confused, a drawback to America and a danger to the world as we have come to know it. A man trapped in the web of power can hardly find solace in statesmanship or diplomacy because he has made war and the reckless show of military strength the sole business of his powerful office. Just check: he has helped Israel to assassinate Islam’s Supreme Leader of Iran in the holy week of Ramadam. He has invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its authoritarian president. He has incapacitated a harmless Cuba and returned its populace to Medieval conditions.  In recent days, he shifted attention to an unrelenting insults of the Christian Pope.

Habitually condescending towards every other world leader, Mr. Trump has placed himself above all earthly dominions. He now seems to want to rise to contest the supremacy of ambassadors of every divinity. Anyone who accuses him of displaying all the attributes of a tyrant will not be too far off the mark. His absolutist mentality is troublesomely veering far from the rational and normal.

In the White House, he plays God. At cabinet meetings or his numerous rambling briefings or audiences with visiting world leaders, his cabinet secretaries, advisers and other courtiers are kept standing literally in awe of their egocentric overlord while he endlessly rambles in illogical lie infested tirades. A president who was elected on the basis of the world’s showpiece democratic constitution has spent nearly two years behaving like a Medieval king, prompting stunned Americans to stage  intermittent “No King” protests in over 3,000 cities and towns. READ MORE>>