US President Donald Trump has become behind his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, according to opinion polls, which makes it difficult for him to raise hopes for others that he will soon be President of the United States after the November elections, and given his disastrous approach to the Corona pandemic, a significant decline in his popularity is not the stranger.
The advancement of the grave
But Trump has always shown that he has a great capacity to rise again from his political grave, and Irish writer and politician Connor Cruz O'Brien once wrote about the surprising ability of Trump and the similarity of Irish Prime Minister Charlie Hovey to survive scandals and crises, and said, “If I had seen Mr. Hovey be buried in "The middle of the night in his grave, I will always be watching his appearance."
The secret of Trump's permanent escape from crises lies in his skill and prevarication in dealing with the media and using them to his advantage, and he may seem indifferent to the feelings of others, but he is an expert in changing the subject of the hour to make it appear from the old news quickly, and through his actions and bad sayings he controls the news agenda, No matter how he fails, he never gets bored.
This last skill may not seem politically important, but the news industry is related to everything new, interesting and entertaining, and Trump's speeches and tweets may seem strange or irrational, but they are all headlines addressed to the press, and give him huge publicity, often from newspapers and television stations that hate him, and understand Journalists are dancing to his tunes, but there is no trick in dealing with this.
Critics attribute Trump's great ability to remain in the center of the event to his work for 14 years in the role of the reality TV show entitled "The Profession of the Craft", and the success of a successful program year after year was easily accomplished, and of course there is nothing "real" in reality TV , As the one episode of the "profession craft" broadcast, which broadcasts on the air for a period of one hour, was a product of 300 hours of filming, which ultimately makes it produce an industrial product.
genius
Considering Trump a genius in the business helped his political success despite his hotels and clubs announcing his bankruptcy six times, and a few years ago, psychologist Richard Levak, consultant of the Professionist Program, spoke in a special interview with the New Yorker magazine, about The reason why Trump's character is appropriate for the program. He said that the traits that made Trump appropriate for this work are "energy, impulsivity, and the inability to express a complete idea, because he is always interrupted by emotions, and that is why when he talks, everything he says is about qualities such as (great, huge, terrifying), but the matter What made Trump so liked by the public, according to Levak, and this applies so far, is his willingness to go beyond and break the rules.
In fact, Trump's random spontaneity and unpredictable behavior made his television appearances undeniably interesting, but perhaps Trump's punishment has now come in the form of the Corona virus, as Americans believe that his sophistication and political prowess are not convincing to them when he tells them that they should inject themselves Antiseptic to treat corona.
But not all about Trump distinguishes America, aside from his unique ability to maneuver the media, he has all the attributes of populist leaders, nationalist militants, and totalitarianism, who are present throughout the world, and he is characterized by the ability to fear foreigners, the demonization of minorities in his country, and foreigners from Outside his country, he talks about the rule of law and order when the matter applies to others, and ignores all that when it comes to himself and his aides, and deals with elected representatives, experts and scholars with contempt, and in relation to everything around him there is the same smell of corruption and rhetoric and a willingness to use violence.
Showdown on all fronts
Although Trump faces a dangerous situation, and there is a high possibility that he will lose power, he is trying to confront all fronts. In the United States, his racism appears to be frank, and testifies to his willingness to deploy federal security elements against protesters in Democratic-run cities such as Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, In order to stimulate the occurrence of clashes that would strengthen the quality of the rule of law and order he believes in, and outside his country, the new cold war he launched against China is escalating day by day. Traditionally, it precedes the US presidential elections on the third of November, with strong warnings that the White House man plans to carry out a "October surprise" by provoking crises that change the style of the game. These Machiavellian theories rarely happen, but this time they may be true.
Even in the event of a managed crisis, it will not have a decisive impact in the face of the horrific reality of the Corona pandemic, where 142,000 Americans have died and so far four million have been injured. Trump's response that the epidemic was a hoax masterminded by his enemies to offend him, became unreasonable after Trump himself wore the muzzle and canceled the Florida Republican convention for his nomination for a second term.
A failed strategy
And the Democrats ’strategy that Trump could destroy himself failed four years ago, because it formed a void of information that Trump filled with words of defamation and slander from his former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but that was no longer very useful to Trump as it was in previous years, because his enemy Now it is the Corona virus, and therefore his campaign became lame as a result of his administration's failure to control the Corona virus, or convincing Americans that talking about the virus is an exaggeration. His new briefing on America seems to succeed in defeating the virus, out of mind given the existence of schemes that show the epidemic's spread dramatically, and the death rate is more than 1000 per day.
Trump may leave the administration, but he will not go quietly, and the epidemic may drown him, but he will give him unprecedented opportunities to stir up trouble, hatred and divisions on election day. In urban areas, for example, where Democrats have a strong majority, polling stations are usually watched by retired and older volunteers, and if they are affected Hateful and did not appear on election day, the election centers will remain closed for the benefit of Trump, who is now trying to delegitimize voting by mail, and there may be many voters who are afraid of the virus and will not leave their homes to vote.
Patrick Cockburn is a British writer and journalist
Not everything about Trump distinguishes America. Apart from his unique ability to maneuver the media, he has all the qualities of populist leaders, nationalist militants, and totalitarianism, located around the world. He is distinguished by the ability to fear foreigners, the demonization of minorities in his country, and foreigners from outside his country, he talks about the rule of law and order when the matter applies to others, and ignores all that when it comes to himself and his aides, and deals with elected representatives, experts, and scholars with contempt.
The secret of Trump's permanent survival from crises lies in his skill and prevarication in dealing with the media and using them to his advantage, and he may seem indifferent to the feelings of others, but he is an expert in changing the subject of the hour to make it appear from the old news quickly, and through his actions and bad sayings he controls the news agenda, No matter how he fails, he never gets bored.