Perhaps Donald Trump really did get “tired of winning”. Ten years ago, Trump famously promised Americans they would win so often on the world stage that they’d become tired of it. Maybe, a decade on, Trump really did get fed up. That might be one way to explain why he’s had such a catastrophic week of losses on the world stage, on almost every front imaginable.
The embarrassments started out small, at least in geopolitical terms. Trump decided to personally involve himself in the fortunes of Team USA at the World Cup, intervening to reverse Folarin Balogun’s one-match ban following a red card. Trump succeeded in that endeavour – to huge global political outcry – only for the USA to crash out against Belgium all the same, to the world’s general delight.
The sad thing for the President is that this might have been the high spot of his week. Ever since launching a war against Iran in the last days of February, Trump has promised Americans a total victory, and claimed that Iranians desperately wanted to surrender and strike a deal. Last month, it seemed as if he’d finally got his wish, after a fashion, when the two sides agreed a 60-day ceasefire.
This week, less than halfway into that deal, Trump declared it dead. The USA is once again launching strikes against Iran, and Iran in turn is launching missiles against US bases in the region. Trump’s base wanted an end to US involvement in Middle Eastern wars. Instead, he’s now heading into the midterms with a whole new war of his very own.
Trump alongside heads of state at the Nato summit this week including Keir Starmer and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdgoan, as well as the Nato secretary general Mark Rutte. Trump mixed up Iran and Japan and the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, whose countries have been at war for over four years (Photo: TUR Presidency/ Murat Kula/Anadolu via Getty Images)The embarrassments weren’t just political. Trump spent much of the week in Ankara, Turkey, for a Nato summit, during which he often looked tired to the point of exhaustion. At one stage, the 80-year-old President referred to the “Islamic Republic of Japan”, which was apparently launching missiles, while he confused the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin – the kind of gaffes which led to Democrats dropping Joe Biden as their candidate in 2024.
Trump’s beloved new Air Force One jet – a “gift” from the Qatari government, which Trump has praised lavishly at every opportunity – was revealed to be unsafe for travel anywhere near a conflict zone, having fewer defensive features than the existing jet. Trump had to take the old plane along with the new one, swapping over when he was in the UK.
As if all of that wasn’t enough, Trump finally had to pay $5 million (£3.7m) in compensation to the writer E Jean Carroll, following a New York court judgment three years ago that he had sexually assaulted and defamed her. Trump had tried to battle the case all the way to the Supreme Court, but it refused to even hear it. On Wednesday the district judge, in his scathing order, declared: “the defendant has been stalling this case for years… it is time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgment”.
Trump holds up a copy of his Truth Social post about Air Force One, after he switched from the old VC-25A Air Force One to the newer Air Force One gifted by Qatar, which had fewer defensive features than the previous plane (Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)Over the last week, anything Trump has touched has fallen apart. A president obsessed with “winning” has done nothing but lose, and he’s done it in full sight of the world. Trump is famously thin-skinned and insecure, and historically has never dealt well with public humiliation. Age does not seem to have brought him serenity on this front.
Like a wounded animal, or an abusive partner, Trump is lashing out – taking out his visible frustration at his failures on the country he leads. Trump is trying to reassert that he is in control, and he is trying to make sure that his party wins the midterms, even if he can’t do that by just doing what voters want.
Trump is threatening to veto his only major legislative accomplishment of the year, a bipartisan bill to boost homebuilding, unless Congress passes a bill requiring photo ID to vote, and potentially even banning postal voting nationwide. Even Republicans don’t want the bill, and it has no hope of passing.
A court has ordered Trump to pay $5 million (£3.7m) in compensation for sexually assaulting and then defaming the writer E Jean Carroll (Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)At the same time, Trump is threatening states that refuse to comply with demands to hand over voter rolls, and he has fired the last remaining members of the government’s independent electoral commission. He is trying to act like the strongman, redoubling his efforts to send in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across the country – once again with tragic results, after ICE agents killed a man in Houston, Texas.
Trump is looking every bit like the kind of erratic dictator he so often seems to admire, trying to cover up his failures with visible shows of strength at home. These work for dictators only because they have control of their political systems, their media, and anyone else who might say the emperor has no clothes.
While Trump might wish he had that kind of control over America – and seems sometimes to be trying to secure it – he hasn’t got there yet. Trump’s efforts to show he is still in control, and is still the big man, only show up his weaknesses more starkly. Trump is an old, unpopular president, and a term-limited one at that. Once the midterms are over, the conversation will turn almost overnight to who should replace him in the spotlight.
Donald Trump’s time on the world stage is drawing to an end, and on some level he knows it. He is already raging against the dying of the light.
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