As his plans fall apart, Trump rages and blusters through the night [View all]

Pithy British opinion piece in The i Paper by James Ball

There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when an announcement by the President of the United States carried some weight.

For the President to make a public declaration, it could safely be assumed, dozens if not hundreds of people would have been at work for days, weeks or months – hammering out details, finalising negotiations, and making it happen.

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Times have changed. Never was that made clearer than on Monday. On Sunday, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that “Project Freedom” – a plan to free ships trapped by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a “Goodwill” and “humanitarian” gesture – “will begin Monday morning, Middle East time”.

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Trump is looking less like the most powerful man in the world, and more like an incompetent children’s TV villain. In nineties Warner Bros cartoon Pinky and the Brain, the mice would come up with a new plan to take over the world every night, and each night they would end up back in the cage as failures, one of them fuming with rage.

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