Will Trump call to the Áras for an icy courtesy visit with Catherine Connolly?
It is almost impossible to follow, let alone describe, American foreign policy. The armed conflict with Iran which Donald Trump, for legal reasons, refuses to describe as a war, even though his self-styled secretary for war is nominally in charge, has become ridiculous. With numerous claims of victory, equally numerous claims that the Iranians are desperate to negotiate, […]
Trump’s most loyal supporters – white working-class men – are becoming disillusioned
Reports from Washington suggest the Republican Party has at last become concerned about Donald Trump’s deepening unpopularity and the party’s prospects in November’s midterm elections. It has taken a long time for them to wake up and smell the coffee. Opinion polls suggest near-record levels of unpopularity for Trump’s presidency and growing dissatisfaction among voters with the administration’s […]
Making predictions about the world a year from now is a risky game, so here are mine
One of the less endearing characteristics of professional political commentators is their caution against being proven wrong in the future. The result, frequently, is bet-hedging, vagueness in editorial style, a blend of the lofty, vacuous and the ambiguous. As a counterpoint, I pose the question as to where we will be in one year’s time. […]
The US will face a reckoning one day. In the meantime, Trump just gets more volatile
What happens in the United States often feels more like a bad dream come true than the outcome of democratic politics. If, say, 10 years ago someone suggested that a US president would one day sue the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion (€8.6 billion) and direct his own state lawyers to settle his suit by creating […]
Trump accuses his opponents of treason. But it’s clear who the real traitor is
The visit by Donald Trump, the American idiot king, to Beijing for a summit with President Xi ended in apparent failure and toe-curling abasement of the United States. Trump, in an absurd riff, suggested that this diplomatic fiasco was the “greatest summit ever” and a summit of the type that observers had “never seen before”. […]
Orbán’s defeat is a ‘dunt in the snot’ for Trump – and a lesson for Ireland
It has been an abysmal week for US president Donald Trump and his vice-president JD Vance. For Vance in particular, things could not have been worse. Ordered by the idiot king to fly to Budapest in a forlorn last-minute mercy dash to save the government of Viktor Orbán, he abased himself by a combination of lies and bombast. […]