My colleagues Americans, this is a liberation day, “said President Donald Trump from the White House of Roses, using his expression of his own workmanship as he He presented the cleaning plan cleaning Against all American trading partners.
The day will “remember forever because the day of the American industry was reborn, the day of the American destiny regained, and the day we started to hand in America again,” said the president.
Fanfare on Wednesday stood in the face of the tips from the lower leg experts, who warned of “Catastrophic” effects These taxes would have on American consumers. One day after “day of liberation” Global Stock Exchange Pale And the world leaders vowed to take revenge.
In his inaugural address, the president said “as if never before” five times, and the tariff plan is only the latest example of his ability to build an alternative version of reality.
“We really didn’t see something like”, ” Chapman Rachawaysaid a political professor at Radford University Independent. He called this level the bending of reality “unseen” in modern American history.
Trump has always done it. In April 2011 Celebrate host told His network colleague Meredith Vieira had “actual doubts” that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
The interview revived the Racist Conspiracy “Birther” during President Obama in 2008. years, and he helped Trump in the country for the political reality in which the facts were irrelevant – and to which the two presidents have now built.
Now, however, he has the support of another fan of distortion of the truth: Elon musk. Technological billionaire and now presidential counselor bought Twitter, fired his content moderators and returned suspended accounts (including those Kanon supporters). He even strengthened another Fringe theorieslike “Pizzagate.”
Together, Trump and Musk turned out a new political landscape: one in which president He declares himself “King”, “ and the constitution is ignored. In this reality, there are only two sexes, Canada can be 51. state, and Greenland can be purchased.
This can be partly due to trump and musk histories in the business world. Trump covers six bankruptcy to become the richest president in the history of the nation and musk, the founder of Tesla and Space X, is now an advisor with the presidential counseling.
Their behavior in the White House followed the norms of business leaders – not those who usually adhere to the presidents and their advisors, such as the following checks and balances and respect the rule of law.
In business, “you do pretty much what you want and what you feel like the ultimate effect of success,” Racketway said.
For example, a couple calls to encourage judges who rule over the adum, and not for reasons “on the basis of constitutional principles or identified norms in the last 230 years”, but because they just don’t like decisions.
Disconnecting a typical slow bureaucratic process, Trump and Musk, through the Government Efficiency Department, moved quickly, but not careful. As a result, the government tried to re-feed critical workers after “Accidentally shot themhe shoved Chaos and messand is charged with “Probably a violation” constitution In one of the many legal battles now faces.
Steve Hanson, government professor at William and Mary, believes Trump leads the government like “family business.”
Using the term defied by the German sociologist Max Weber, Hanson described Trump as a “patrymonial” leader, who performs strength based on personal loyalty. “Patrimonial leaders, including not only trumpets, but also politicians like Vladimir Putin in Russia, is treated by Benjamin Netanyaho as his personal property,” said Hanson in the e-mail.
That moment when Trump set up the Red Tesla on the Lawn of the White House, because the shares of the vehicle manufacturer is priced, which is in which the economic interest of the rulers and his “extended household”, Hanson claimed Hanson.
Patrimonial leaders rule as they consider appropriate, he said. “For this reason, they see independent sources of professional and professionalism as a threat and aim to undermine them as effective.” The president examined journalists, judges and prosecutors.
Trump Even No journalist with the corresponding press from attending events in an oval office after the news agency refused to refer to Mexico Bay As the Bay of America – another move of bending in reality and itself.
“There were traces” in his rhetorical style long before he took office, Racketway said, pointing to the Trump time Apprentice. “It’s all about what the enemy is … there was always” good guys against bad guys ” [on the show]. “
Trump usually attacks those who disagree with him, because “it increases this loyalty of their supporters, who feels not only right, is already persecuted because he is right,” he said, “said persecution for right.”
I became a mosques unuddenly. In just three months between musk supporting Trump and 2024 elections. November, ownership “fake or wrong” “fake or wrong” “fake or wrong” setups collected 2 billion examinations, toward a report In addition to the center for combating digital hatred.
Still, it’s not just X. Target He announced that the abolition of his facts On Instagram and Facebook in favor of the Similar X-have “Notes” community “before Trump returned to the office. Truth social media most owned by Trump, aim” to create a Free speech“And it encourages a” unloaded free expression “.
The President of this platform is used equally to fire tariff threats, announce the cabinet meetings and share other types of content, including bizarre Video generated by AI If it was to follow Trump vision and became “The Riviera of the Middle East.”
Fanbase who built himself similar to the religious next – whatever they say it becomes “truths” to those who trust them, no matter how much fact is.
“It should not underestimate the true emotional relationship of President Trump to his followers, of whom he saw him as a leader,” Hanson said as a unique bright entrepreneur, able to break old bureaucrats that were previously considered untouchable. “
Five years after his conversation with Vieir, Trump admitted that Obama was born in the United States – a fragile recognition that hid to another alternative version of reality. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign 2008. They started off-office controversy,” Trump said, without evidence, in September 2016. years. “I’m done.”