What is the president of the United States like? Donald Trump? “I had a father who was an alcoholic personality. Trump is an alcoholic personality.” And the vice president James David Vance? “He’s a conspiracy theorist.” ¿Elon Musk? “A ‘weirdo’.”Pam Bondithe attorney general? He “failed” in his management of the case Jeffrey Epsteinthe American financial magnate and sex offender.
Susie Wilesthe chief of staff of Trumpgranted 11 interviews to journalists from the North American magazine Vanity Fair during the president’s first year in office. And now he has produced a spectacular report. Wiles has called the story a “deceptively framed attack article” that omitted “significant context.” But he did not deny any of his claims.
This portrait of some of his collaborators is circulating at the same time as Trump’s promises about improving living conditions after the era Biden They collide with the reality of an economy that is suffering a slowdown and an increase in unemployment.
Precisely, the employment data for the month of November, published last Tuesday the 16th, raises the unemployment rate to 4.6%, the highest in more than four years. But Trump lives in his own reality. “Tonight [ por el miércoles 17] after 11 months [desde que asumió la presidencia] our border is secure. Inflation has stopped. Prices have gone down. Our nation is strong. I have resolved eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iranian nuclear threat and ended the war against Iran. “I have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years and have freed the hostages, both living and dead.”
Perhaps the appreciation of Susie Wyles – which the president has supported before Vanity Fair – is the most sensible. Or maybe the American Nobel Prize winner in Economics is right Paul Krugman: “He’s crazy.”
Krugman points out: “The November data is at least pre-recessionary, although it is still too early to declare that we are already in a recession. We have to be seriously worried about an approaching recession.”
But the one who has undoubtedly perceived the situation has been himself. Trump because it was he who decided to address a speech to the nation one day after the unemployment data was known, delayed by the government closure.
Before his speech, a rumor circulated in Washington that Trump I would talk about Venezuela. But he didn’t say a word. The thing is that last Tuesday, the president launched a new explanation of what he is doing – and perhaps what he is going to do – with Venezuela.
The deployment of two aircraft carriers, 10,000 soldiers and 6,000 marines off the Venezuelan coast since last August has led to 27 attacks against alleged narcoterrorists, with a death toll of 95, without the Trump Administration having provided any evidence to date regarding the accusations.
The next step has been to stop a ship that was transporting oil and declare the blockade of all those ships that export oil from Venezuela. According to the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’, the North American navy aims to close the black market for Venezuelan oil, which amounts to 8 billion dollars, equivalent to 70% of Venezuela’s oil exports.
According to Trumphis Administration’s plan is to recover what has been stolen from the United States: oil. What is it referring to? To the nationalization of the oil industry decreed by the Government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1976.
“They took away all our energy rights. They stole all our oil not so long ago. And we want it back. They took it illegally. They took our lands, everything we had, because there was a president who perhaps wasn’t paying attention. [en 1976 el republicano Gerald Ford perdió las elecciones ante el demócrata Jimmy Carter]. But they’re not going to get their way. “We want him back,” he wrote. Trump last Wednesday, December 17.
It seems that, although the plan is drawn up to launch a new oil war – that of the appropriation of the large Venezuelan reserves – its timing will depend on the evolution of the Trump Administration’s internal crisis. For now, Trump This week he managed to win two votes in the House of Representatives, removing, as the Democratic Party proposed, the obligation to request authorization to go to open war for the change of Government in Venezuela.
But Venezuela fits into a broader puzzle where the possible recession, the fall in its popularity, the revelations about its friendship and frequent relationships with the sex offender Epstein, and the proximity of the midterm legislative elections, in November 2026, will determine the moment. Maybe we have to revisit that movie Barry Levinson about the war spectacle, ‘Wag the dog’, which was screened in Spain under the title ‘Smoke Curtain’. The one in which they invent a fake war to divert attention from a sexual scandal involving the president.
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