As the new week gets underway, Donald Trump finds himself in an unlikely position: thanks to a powerful cocktail unwittingly mixed last week by the Israelis, the Iranians, America’s Nato allies and the US Supreme Court, he is suddenly on a roll.
On Monday, the Senate is poised to deliver the President another major victory that will only add to the enormous amount of power he is amassing, and compound the difficulties his opponents face in constraining him.
The passage of his “Big, Beautiful Bill”, a massive piece of tax and spending legislation, seemed impossible only a month ago.
Now it is poised to secure enough Republican support in the Senate to pass, after Trump’s team engaged in last-ditch negotiations to secure backing for the main pillar of his second term agenda.
Over the last week, Democrats have watched on aghast. Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, overturning the rights of lower-level district judges to apply their decisions nationally, represents a huge setback to the ability of Trump’s opponents to tie him up in judicial knots.
For the last five months, Democrats all over the country have managed to find sympathetic judges siding with their arguments that – on a wide range of issues – Trump has over-reached his authority.
But with the district courts now compelled to apply their decisions only to their own patch, the President’s critics face a much steeper climb in their quest for judicial redress.
Trump has expressed fury towards the courts for tying his hands, and preventing him from fully implementing policies that he has disseminated via Executive Orders.
Whether it’s the gutting of federal agencies overseen by the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency”, or mass deportations that have seen thousands of immigrants denied due legal process, opposition towards Trump’s moves has invariably started in lower-level district courts.
Trump’s spending bill is now poised to clear the Senate (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)On social media, the President called Friday’s Supreme Court ruling “a monumental victory for the Constitution” and indicated to his supporters that he would now be free to ban birthright citizenship, the issue at the heart of the specific case that the nine justices were examining.
In fact, his desire to overturn the right of all children born on US soil from automatically becoming American citizens is not yet cut-and-dried. Ultimately, the Supreme Court could still stop him in his tracks. But for now, he can go ahead and prepare to deny passports to the infants of non-citizens in under a month’s time.
In other areas, Trump is suddenly resplendent. While he insisted only on Tuesday that Israel and Iran “don’t know what the f*** they’re doing”, in the end the truce that he announced that morning between the two countries has held.
On Sunday, he called for a ceasefire in Gaza as well, urging the Israelis to “MAKE THE DEAL” and “GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!” in a post on his social media platform. He used his account also to demand that the Israeli courts drop corruption charges against Benjamin Netanyahu, describing the Prime Minister’s travails as “very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure”.
After months of very public failure to deliver a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump has rediscovered his swagger on the world stage, although whether this leads to substantive progress on a Gaza ceasefire remains to be seen.
But in any case, the vote by Nato members last week to devote 5 per cent of their GDP to defence expenditure by 2035 represented a substantial victory for a US president who pulled that number out of the air during a press conference only in January.
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“WHAT GREAT PEOPLE I MET AT NATO”, wrote Trump on Saturday as he basked in the win, uncharacteristically generous in his description of his alliance partners as “SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST INCREDIBLE LEADERS”.
Even two African nations came to Trump’s aid on Friday, as he participated in the signing of a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda at the White House.
Trump and his top lieutenants believe that the administration’s work bringing that three year conflict to a possible end makes the President a genuine candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, an award he covets more than any other.
For Democrats, the week ahead looks grim.
They are demanding that the text of the President’s entire “Big, Beautiful Bill” is read aloud on the floor of the Senate before Monday’s vote, arguing that the legislation will block millions of Americans from securing access to affordable healthcare, gut Medicaid (the government’s health benefits programme for lower income Americans), and raise the threshold for millions of people to receive food-stamps and other nutritional support.
But the Republicans appear to have the votes to get it done, giving Trump another huge boost and deepening the nightmare that his opponents are experiencing in trying to limit his power and ambitions.
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