by Stefano Vaccara
NEW YORK (USA) (ITALPRESS) – A year after his return to the White House, Donald Trump presents himself in Davos with a precise script and a huge problem. The script is that of the incomprehensive winner, of the leader who “has done more than he is recognized”, and who now claims applause, investments, deference. The problem is that while he tries to sell success, the facts he brings with him speak of fracture: with the allies, with the markets, and now also with pieces of his own field. The river press conference before departure, almost two hours, was above all this: spin to the whole field. Trump has listed results, claimed growth and American strength, and repeated that the US is “the strongest country in the world right now.” But his own story was washed up by the questions that chase him and the answers that become symptom. On Greenland, at the question of what he would be willing to push to “buy it”, he cut short: “You will find out.” Even on the Panama Canal, he replied that it is “more or less” still “on the table”. These are phrases that Davos don’t come as jokes, they come as threats.
Greenland is the backdrop of a presidency that has transformed unpredictability into method, and bullying into negotiation doctrine. Trump says he can “find an agreement” with NATO, “in which NATO will be very happy and we will be very happy”, but at the same time threatens duties and coercion against partners. And he insists that the Greenlanders will be “entusiasti” when he talks to them, unless he admits that he has not yet spoken to us. In a few jokes, the heart of the problem: reality as an accessory, will as an argument, pressure as leverage. Here comes the second line of friction Trump brings to Europe: immigration and internal order. Davos, traditionally, is the “responsible” catwalk that tell the world how to manage markets and stability. Trump goes instead with the idea of giving lessons, even to Europeans, on how to “yes” with immigrants, and with an implicit message: liberal democracy is weak, authority is strength. But it is a message that today finds less available ears. It is no longer 2018. It’s not even 2021. The distance between propaganda and political cost has shortened. Meanwhile, in Davos, California governor Gavin Newsom attacks European leaders by accusing them of “boggling” in front of Trump. He says that he should have brought “a bunch of kneelers” for everyone, because on the world scene they seem pathetic.
But the clearest signal comes from money. On the day of his press conference, Wall Street reacted badly to escalation: stocks down, dollar down, Treasury under pressure. The point is not a single waste, but the climate change: the perception that the risk is not “ distant geopolitical”, but instability produced by America itself. When even U.S. shelter goods no longer work, the message is brutal: the world begins to prelate a less reliable America. And then there is the pathological side, what in Europe does not “explain” with the classic categories. The letter to the Norwegian premier, with the resentment for the Nobel not given and therefore the rethinking of the “peace” and the request of “a complete and total control of Greenland”, was a qualitative leap. Not because it is only provocative, but because it reveals a destabilizing and dangerous geopolitical ego. If foreign policy becomes psychodrama, Davos from the summit can become a stage where you will no longer know whether to laugh or cry. Trump starts as a clay giant: noisy, aggressive, but more fragile than he admits. But is there still an internal argine in what was until a year ago as the most formidable democracy in the world?
At the Congress some Republicans begin to distance themselves from Trump, at least in words. The Supreme Court assesses the legality of the duties and Trump, questioned about a possible rejection, said that “dovrehe could use something else.” Translation: If a lever is removed, look for another one. Not moderation, replacement. In Davos, Trump will still seek legitimacy. But he comes with a baggage that weighs: threatening an ally, with an empire rhetoric, a power management that confuses force with impunity. And, in the background, a consensus that is no longer monolithic even between the MAGAs. If Davos is the thermometer of the global establishment, this time he could record high fever from creeps, because of the man who claims to lead him.
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