A London journalist views Trump's Davos trip and The Emperor's New Clothes
Opinion by Kat Brown, The Independent
Kat Brown is a journalist and author based in London.
Excerpts:
-- So then, here is Trump’s current draft of the Gaza “board of peace”, a rendition of the word more in keeping with George Orwell’s Ministry of Peace in 1984, which the Trump administration, with its Department of War, increasingly seems to be taking for an assembly manual.
-- Invitations went out to 60 countries, and 21 said yes. Presumably few could resist the option of forking over a billion dollars to ensure a permanent place in Trump’s own Goons Show.
-- The past decade of US populism has been like living in an extended rendition of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Trump’s administration, useless, feckless and mean with power, will only spout that their leader is magnificently clad.
-- As the story goes, it’s only an innocent child that can puncture the illusion by pointing out that the Emperor is naked. On Wednesday, that child was Minnesotan Liam Ramos, just five years old, still in his school backpack and blue bunny hat, being used by Trump’s ICE police as bait for his family before being sent to a detention facility in Texas, alone. The child in the story can’t stand up to the US. It’s time the grown-ups in the room recognised that they need to – and must.
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