A week, it is said, it is an eternity in politics. It is also the day and night between what we live under Donald Trump at the White House and the last upheavals of the presidency of Joe Biden.
It is not surprising that an administration on his departure is less productive than that which arrives, energized by a victorious electoral campaign. Without even judging the value of what Donald Trump was able to say, to announce, to sign since his sworn last Monday, he clearly managed to monopolize all discussions.
He put, in fact, so many things from the front – Greenland, the Panama canal, the right of the soil for citizenship, a flood of pardons for the rioters of January 6, the withdrawal of the Paris Agreement On the climate and WHO, the creation of an external income service, as it seems convinced that the customs duties they intend to impose on the whole planet will be paid for the United States-which we end up with No longer know where to turn.
And that’s what Trump and his advisers want. Unlike 2017, when he was simply trying to understand how to get out of the White House every day, the new president has, this time, a plan, goals, and that’s what he and his entourage are running.
It remains, despite everything, the same
This “perfected presidency”, several believed, in the aftermath of November 5, that she was going to rub off on Donald Trump, that he was going to be a president different from the version that raged during his first mandate.
First, no one challenged his victory or claimed that the Russian computer hackers had lend him a hand. He also arrives with the experience of his chaotic first years in the White House, this time knowing how to surround himself with people who respect him and in whom he trusts.
However, it must be recognized, even before the end of his first week, that Donald Trump did not adjust, did not improve, did not mature. He remained resentful and rule of accounts when he could wallow in the exceptional power conceded by the presidency.
He continues to feed a paranoia with regard to supposed “enemies of the interior”. He imposes loyalty tests and has undertaken a vast purge of career civil servants.
Loyalty and nothing else
From the first day at the White House, he revoked the security access of more than 50 former managers of the intelligence services who dared to sign a letter minimizing the gravity of the laptop scandal of Hunter Biden.
At the Pentagon, we quickly understood the mood of the new president; The portrait of the former joint chief of staff, General Mark Milley, has been removed from the corridor where generations of portraits of other chiefs of staff are aligned.
Donald Trump has never hidden to say that Mark Many, at another era, would have deserved to be executed for having, on his back, sought to reassure the Chinese after the assault against the Capitol in January 2021. is finally his portrait which was … hanged elsewhere.
Former advisers, including Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state, have also seen their protection by the secret services to be revoked, despite warnings from the Biden administration, who argues that they remain threatened by Iran to cause of actions taken on his behalf during his first mandate.
You have to get used to the idea, Donald Trump is as we see, and neither his successes or reverse will make him better … or less worse.