Depose the Mad King Before it is Too Late

 

He continues to embarrass the US before the world. Non-Americans who are ignorant of US domestic politics initially were seduced by Trump's campaign promises and thought he would rescue both the world and the US from a wayward adrift posture caused by an aging Joe Biden. 

Ignorant people judge by superficial criteria and rarely look at what is really going on in substance. Joe Biden "appeared" incompetent simply because of his age, while his real policies remained normal and steady and have actually not changed much under Donald Trump, except that Trump's delivery is crude, vulgar, cruel, moronic and, for many of ignorant people, seductively entertaining. 

Now that Trump has played most of his major cards, people are reckoning first with his dangerous constitutive stupidity, and second with his senility and megalomaniacal madness. Donald Trump has become Joe Biden: aging, deterioriating, senile, demented, losing grip on reality. But Joe Biden never was dangerous, while Trump is, specifically because of his pre-senility stupidity and his liability to be manipulated by his own handlers and other creepy leaders around the globe (Putin, Netanyahu....). Joe Biden became incompetent. Donald Trump has always been incompetent.

But his incompetence, which was entertaining for a while because he crossed the lines of social conduct like a comedian does, has now become dangerous. Three more years to go during which the American dictator can wreak more havoc around the world and in the US for the single motive of "been talked about" and "remembered by history as a 'great man'". He can attack other countries. He can cancel elections here in the US and impose martial law to ensure his own perennity further down the rabbit hole. He can foment a US civil war at the behest of the white supremacists who are "handling" the stupid moron. I believe the republicans-GOP-MAGA universe has gone so far out on what was normal US politics that there is no way back to normality. Indeed, Trump, and without the cataclysmic scenarios he can still engineer, may have already altered the American landscape to no return.

The "white man" universe of the Republican-GOP-MAGA is under siege by a laterally hybridizing world: globalism, multi-polarity, speed of communications, enhanced education, access to information, affluence and influence have forced a consanguinity between nations and peoples. Unless each nation retreats into a cocoon, there is no return to the age of monopoly of power like Trump thinks he can do. The "white American man" has already lost the fight for exclusive survival. He must deal with the rest of the world first, then he must do it on a peer-to-peer, not lord-to-vassal basis of relationship. The law of the jungle - might makes right - doesn't work anymore as it did up to World War II. What Trump is doing right now is a desperate, nearly suicidal, attempt by the white American man at bucking the trend of 21st century modernity that has sidelined him. Whereas the white European man understands this and is adjusting, the American man is resisting and Trump is no more than a pathetic manifestation of this moronic resistance to change and evolution.

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The ‘mad king’: has Trump finally lost it?
The Week UK
Updated Sat, January 31, 2026

Has the president come ‘unglued’?. | Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

In the final days of his presidency, Richard Nixon “came unglued”, said Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times. He reportedly became irrational and obsessive, making wild suggestions and rambling about his past triumphs. His son-in-law and adviser Ed Cox recalled that Nixon would wander the halls of the White House “talking to pictures of former presidents”.

Alas, it seems Donald Trump has reached similar depths of “self-destructive mania”. Witness his recent unhinged letter to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, in which Trump implied that he was entitled to seize Greenland owing to Norway’s failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Where to begin? Norway’s government doesn’t choose the winner of the prize. Nor does it own Greenland. And Trump hasn’t, as he insisted, “stopped 8 Wars PLUS”, or anything close. “We have three years left with a mad king. It does not feel sustainable.”
‘Manic performance art’

“Trump has the world’s most consequential case of untreated logorrhea,” said Susan B. Glasser in The New Yorker. According to a new study, in this first year of his second term he has spoken 1,977,609 words in presidential appearances – 145% more than in the first year of his first term.

In his speech in Davos last week, he rambled on for a full hour and a half. In the course of his address he, among other things, explained that only “stupid people” buy wind turbines, and admitted that he had decided to raise tariffs on Switzerland because its prime minister – “a woman” – had “rubbed me the wrong way”. He also kept confusing Iceland and Greenland. Americans are somewhat inured to Trump’s “manic performance art”, but the stunned reaction of Europeans should be a wake-up call. Many there were openly asking: has this man lost his mind? Is he still capable of running the US?
‘Nuttier than a Payday candy bar’

In “a saner, better world”, Trump’s cabinet officials would be discussing invoking the 25th Amendment, said Jim Geraghty in National Review. But of course none of them would dare suggest he was unfit to discharge his powers. Nor did President Biden’s colleagues when he started zoning out in meetings and forgot the name of his defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, referring to him in an interview simply as “the black man”.

“After one president who went senile in office and another who is nuttier than a Payday candy bar, we can only conclude that the 25th Amendment of the Constitution is there for decoration.”