Having known a US president or three, the memory bank says the most powerful man in the world is always likely to hit a bump (even a wall) sooner or later, especially when he listens only to himself or the sycophants around him. But the way Donald Trump – such a consummate performer for his own people until recently – has stripped himself bare, warts and all, in this first, tumultuous month of the year defies belief. It makes you wonder not just how deep the rupture is for our global landscape, but whether we will be left with any world order at all.
Remember the New Year hangovers were still with us when we woke to the dramatic hit-and-run operation in Caracas that had erstwhile tyrant Nicolas Maduro and his despotic wife Cilia Flores dethroned and hurtling towards a New York prison, visual highlights posted online by Trump himself from his Mar-A-Lago resort (where else would a US president be on the night he storm
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