A year of Trump has swept the globe. A year of his second term in office, in which he shook up the USA as if stung by furies and left the inhabitants of the world shaking. Finally, with his deepest wish to bring Greenland home and to do everything he can to achieve it. Long gone are the days when one or two US presidents clung to moderation and middle ground – and even longer gone and completely lost is the memory of someone who was also highly ambitious: William Henry Harrison.
On March 4, 1841, in bitter cold and gusts of icy wind, he gave his magnificent, two-hour-long inaugural speech in which he outlined the wonderful program of his fabulous presidency. However, he caught an overwhelming cold and died after four weeks, setting two records: for the longest inaugural speech and the shortest term in office! A presidential masterpiece!
Trump, as much as he likes to adorn himself with the best, most beautiful and highest superlatives, will no longer be able to top this comical record; he can think as American as he wants and with whatever means. But it is clear that no sacrifice is too big for him if others make it. This fantastic tradition goes back to the powerful founding fathers of this most important nation of humanity.
By 1877, twelve of 18 adorable presidents happily owned slaves. George Washington had a modest 300, but his great successor Thomas Jefferson had more than 600, who therefore crafted the sentence for the Constitution of the USA that cleverly aroused noble expectations: “All men are born equal” – and the big punchline was and is to this day: no more after that, ugh!
Joke liberation
The later emancipation of slaves was also a perfectly constructed joke: If the Civil War was the exposition that flexed the nerves of Americans like a lightning bolt, the surprising punchline burst with Lincoln’s great successor Andrew Johnson: He, himself a slave owner, vetoed Lincoln’s Civil Rights Act, and society was able to be frozen until the 1960s.
The transition to a particularly prickly area of comedy is obvious, to black humor, which enjoys the bad and scary; and with that – you guessed it: George W. Bush.
He knew how to combine his job as US President with his sense of horror in a funny way, and joked after the attack on the New York World Trade Towers in Kennebunkport (Maine): “I call on all countries to do everything in their power to stop these terrorist murderers. And now look at my golf swing!”
Free idea
George W. Bush’s ideas could be used to fill joke books. Donald Trump is a different person; he is a poet and titan of free speech. Already in his first term in office, the most creative person ever to occupy the presidential chair produced tens of thousands of fairy tales and short stories that were erroneously called “fake news”. In his second term, this most creative spirit of all living and past heads of government in the universe is expanding his monumental oeuvre.
The best, prettiest and most intelligent US president ever renews the thriller by combining it with fantasy in a bombshell way. So far, both authors have tended to act outside of boring reality. But Trump, by destroying small Venezuelan boats and their crews, stealing tankers and attacking presidents, creates in words and Act a glorious, completely real reality and trumpet it!
A year has now passed in which the most outstanding leader of the human race has just begun and joyfully tackled his gigantic work. Three more years with at least 365 days of 24 hours shine in the firmament! Enough time for the last of all questions: Can’t the colossal and all-powerful Trump also have a little joke, joke, comedy like the other guys?