If wishes were horses, beggars would ride — a Scottish proverb attributed to James Carmichael in his book Scottish Proverbs four hundred years ago. I believe it remains profoundly applicable, especially to the current occupant of the White House: the revised edition of Donald Trump after his first term in office, who was ousted in the 2020 elections by the coronavirus, that virus from the land of wonders and oddities — the sworn enemy of the Illusion Chef.
A hundred days were more than enough to say everything about the next four years during which the world will have to endure the most dangerous ruler of the United States. He has taken refuge in the White House to escape the mountain of lawsuits piling up against him in American courts. The collective mind of the deep state, applying cold logic, faced a choice: re-elect him for another four years or face a civil war that would spare nothing and no one. They chose the lesser of two evils.
Elon Musk and others like him — icons of the American dream — were summoned to finance this Hollywood-style farce on the daily stage of the Illusion Chef. He claims he will end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours, resolve the Gaza war in even less time, eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat the moment he steps back into the White House, and end Chinese domination of global markets... and so on.
He decided to introduce a new concept of "the deal" in international politics — a deal with a slap, a deal with an electric shock, a deal with a sudden blow. He manipulates global markets in wild upswings and downswings, causing turmoil the world has never witnessed before.
A jealous, bankrupt trader who consumed 130 checkbooks with no funds, issuing executive orders that are nothing but ink on paper, having no real effect. His covetous eyes target people's livelihoods, their lands, their ports, their cars, and even the riches buried beneath their soil.
America's allies, even before its enemies, lined up against him after his accounts were emptied in every bank around the world. A dealer of rotten goods, he became so predictable that his "customers" learned how to bait him with fake deals to bribe him.
He stripped America of its stature, turning it from a superpower respected by all into one of the most hated countries in the world. He vomited up the 2018 nuclear deal, only to prepare to swallow it again in 2025.
He sets traps for his guests in carefully staged meetings designed for blackmail. A presidential team that Trump himself forced into early retirement now monitors the moves of his unique envoy, Steve Witkoff — a "three-in-one" agent, ready to expand his roles as needed, fit for any mission, speaking Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and more — perfectly embodying Trump's nature: a master of saying one thing and its exact opposite within hours, adept at the new dark arts of political deal-making.
A great power that, after eighty years of post-World War II supremacy, woke up to the shocking truth that its grandeur is built only on naval fleets roaming the seas, bombers raining death from the sky, and printing presses churning out the greenback with no real economic backing. A nation that wears what it doesn't weave and eats what it doesn't grow.
Even the hats the clown distributes to his army of cheerleaders on the Stage of Illusions are labeled Made in China — their price jumping from $50 to $77 after his trade war against China. His suits are Italian, his cologne French, his socks possibly Vietnamese or Indian, the timber for his "stage" Canadian, and parts of his presidential motorcade vehicles might be Chinese. Even his beloved sport, golf — if one inspects the clubs and balls — might bear the Chinese ghost.
He never asked where the country he now sees as his arch-enemy came from. They starved, they devoured everything from the earth, and they fought their way to becoming the world's factory, while America's bridges now seem like toys compared to China's achievements. Meanwhile, the Illusion Chef and his family were busy mastering the arts of legal fraud, bankruptcy, tax evasion, and dodging military service — only to point a dirty finger now at the state of his country.
America will not become great again until it confronts the many chronic syndromes infecting it: megalomania, might-is-right ideology, racial supremacy. A disease that has created a domestic army of sixty million blind followers of this clown — who applaud his every word, believe in him more than in Christ himself, and are willing to burn their country at a mere gesture from him.
They believe every bit of nonsense he spouts — annexing Canada, controlling the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, turning Gaza into a Riviera, building walls against the world, bypassing international maritime tariffs, imposing custom duties without retaliation, demanding tribute payments for "protection" without specifying from whom or how. A chaotic mess that has thrown global trade chains into turmoil and uncertainty.
Through the eyes of the East and in the hearts of Arabs and Muslims, he is the most loathed visitor to the region. They experienced him firsthand over four past years: when they needed him to protect them from Houthi missiles, he withdrew Patriot missile batteries from their lands — despite the billions they had paid him.
Not content with that, he turned their leaders into laughingstocks in his circus rallies. He did everything he could to liquidate the Arabs' and Muslims' foremost cause and their most sacred sites.
He colluded with his political swindler twin, Israel's "mythical" Prime Minister, to stage the most tragic scenes in history: two and a half million Palestinians starving and dying of thirst, closer to death than life, while he suggests mercifully killing them slowly.
He negotiates with the Iranians on their nuclear program while allowing attacks on their ports; he sends envoys to Lebanon to "stabilize" it while bombing and destabilizing it; he sends envoys to Syria to "help rebuild" a war-torn country while grabbing more of its land and inciting its factions against each other.
If this is what the world looks like after just one hundred days, what will it be like after four years?
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