The submission and flattery shown by the Republicans before Donald Trump in his message to the nation, in the Capitol, have never been seen in the history of that country, especially considering the insults hurled against the Democrats and Joe Biden, particularly when the political campaigns ended with the magnate's assumption of the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.
The event lasted more than 200 minutes, partly due to the president's speech and partly due to the applause and reverences offered to him by the vassals to the reincarnation of the new messiah who will save the world. Before a madman moves the new geopolitical configuration of the globe, where traditional allies are separating from the United States to form new alliances that allow them to withstand the onslaught of the American president.
The apology for his own personality, the egocentrism and narcissism of Trump will cause suffering for millions of people in the world due to the protectionist and even military measures he will deploy against enemies and supposed friends. Against all those who do not conform to his designs.
The American population will be affected by arbitrary taxes that will increase inflation in the country and destabilize its production. This will also happen due to the taxes that other countries will impose on their export products. Donald lives in a dream world where he is the main protagonist and redeemer of the world.
His outbursts against Mexico and Canada represent a burden that will hit him on the head sooner or later, as by mistreating them with all kinds of sanctions, the only thing he will achieve is that both countries look toward other regions of the globe to establish more ambitious trade agreements. North American consumers and companies need Mexican products in their value chains and consumption habits, and by making them more expensive with the imposition of tariffs, he will cause a rejection of his presidency, which has actually rapidly lost popularity placing him at approval levels of 40%.
The trade war, initially to crystallize his purposes, like appropriating the Panama Canal or Greenland, or extracting oil from what is now known as the Gulf of America; and secondly, the military threat as a more radical alternative to silence his enemies. In this context, the president Claudia Sheinbaum moves, with the aggravating factor that she inherited a series of major conflicts, such as public insecurity and the collusion of public officials from the three levels of government with drug lords.
The tariffs and other measures that will come in the future will initially provoke economic recession, devaluation, inflation, and unemployment. Then, with the loss of credit rating, there will only be money to cover debt interests, pensions, current expenses, federal spending, and some social policy programs, which means the end of public money giveaways. Such will be the extent of Trump's actions, especially if Claudia Sheinbaum does not get her act together, instead of wasting time organizing rallies in the Zócalo.
She could call for 100 mega-manifestations; that won't contain the new messiah. If anyone thought Trump would be satisfied with the extradition of 29 Mexican criminals to the US, they have had a rude awakening, while the cleaning operation that the Mexican leader must carry out does not deliver those crooks embedded in the 4T. If she doesn’t do it, the Americans will come to take them.
Trump has repeated ad nauseam that the Mexican government has an unacceptable relationship with the narcos, and that justifies him in invading Mexican territory and extracting Mexican terrorists. Unfortunately, the existence of narcopolitics in Mexico is a painful reality that no one denies, especially in entities governed by figures of dubious reputation, such as the case of Sinaloa with Rubén Rocha Moya and several other state leaders who can no longer even travel to the United States, as happens with federal government officials and family members of President López Obrador.
Betting on dialogue and diplomacy will never be a lost bet, but to achieve results, one must have several aces up their sleeve to reach agreements that do not harm the Mexican economy so much. The federal executive's plans to bring Mexico into the top ten economies of the world have remained a fanciful dream that only exists in that unreal Mexico constructed every morning by Andrés Manuel López Obrador with absurd and sinister lies such as claiming to have a healthcare system like that of Denmark.
