Donald Trump’s late-night rants often reveal his deepest feelings, grievances, and insecurities. And, just about every time, they also show how much of a dunce he is.
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Late at night, when his courtiers are asleep, Fox News is airing reruns of its primetime shows, and golf courses are closed, Donald Trump often takes to social media to share his innermost thoughts on what he perceives to be the great injustices of the world.
Of course, we don’t mean the wealth gap or world hunger but rather perceived slights he has experienced.
When he then takes to Truth Social to make his feelings known, we experience Trump at his purest — unfiltered, insecure, ill-informed, consumed by grievances, unfamiliar with the rules of capitalization, and clearly insane.
The resulting posts are often as worrisome as they are unintentionally hilarious.
For example, late Wednesday night he ranted about the judge who issued the temporary restraining order (which the Trump administration ignored) to stop deportation flights that delivered suspected gang members, barbers and makeup artists to an El Salvadoran gulag. It should be noted that a higher court on Wednesday upheld that ruling.
Trump also had some complaints about NPR and PBS, which he wants to be defunded, and seemed excited about the upcoming “Liberation Day,” which is what he calls April 2, the day on which he plans to plunge the world into an epic trade war that is expected to do great harm to the US economy.
However, he reserved his most characteristic post for the burgeoning alliance between the European Union and Canada.
If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!
That’s classic Trump, which means breathtakingly idiotic.
Essentially, after threatening both of them with great economic harm (and already imposing tariffs), he is now upset that they are working together to soften the blow that is coming.
Now, setting aside for a moment that the EU is not a country, it is true that the United States used to be Europe’s greatest friend and ally… until Trump came along.
Now, however, the EU needs to recalibrate its alliances because the US can no longer be relied upon to support goals like a shared defense or standing up to authoritarian governments.
In addition to frequently siding with Russia, there is also a very real chance that Trump is going to blow up NATO.
It’s certainly also not helping that members of his administration have been saying highly disparaging things about the EU… both in public and when nobody else was listening (apart from the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic).
Finally, the looming tariffs pose a very real threat to European economies, so it’s certainly a stretch to call a Trump-led United States a “friend.” In fact, it would be much more accurate to describe the US as an adversary at this point.
All of the above also applies to Canada, which will be impacted even more by Trump’s trade war because the economies of the two countries are so deeply intertwined.
And, of course, he keeps musing about annexing Canada and making it a US state… albeit a “cherished” one. Still, for some odd reason, Canadians are not rushing into the loving embrace of its neighbor and are instead increasingly viewing the US as an enemy.
Just about the only thing that Trump’s rhetoric toward Canada has achieved is that the ruling center-left party now has a chance to come out ahead in next month’s election after the conservatives, which now also have to take a more anti-US position, were previously seen as a lock to win.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the EU and Canada are trying to work together more closely to weather the economic storm Trump promises to unleash in a week.
Lastly, it should go without saying that threatening people if they refuse to be your friends is not the way to forge lasting relationships.
In fact, Trump sounds more like an abusive husband than the leader of an ally (“Europe and Canada, you sometimes make me so mad that I just have to punish you more”).
In the end, apart from making him feel better, the only thing that this post will achieve is that Western countries will resolve to work together even more closely.
Great work, Mr. President!
In his Navigating the Insanity columns, Klaus Marre provides the kind of hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and often humorous analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
