“I stand before you as proof that “You should never believe that something is impossible.”. Donald Trump He uttered this phrase during the inaugural speech of his second term, on January 20. For some, a reference to what he was able to do, managing to return to the White House four years after his first term despite being the first US president convicted of criminal offenses and having put democracy in check with his incitement to the assault on the Capitol. For others, it was also a warning of what was to come: in just one year of his second term, the red lines crossed by the Republican are countless both inside and outside the country, straining the seams of the executive power and altering the balance of the global order. This 2025, Trump has turned the world, and the US, upside down, and has once again become the protagonist of international information, as the Catalans of the Year of THE NEWSPAPER during the editorial board in which they chose the most outstanding news of the last 365 days.
The magnate’s unorthodox way of governing and understanding life has permeated the world agenda in every possible way, overwhelming the media with an avalanche of executive orders, statements and messages on his social network that seem to follow the strategy of “flood the area” defined in 2019 by whoever was his advisor Steve Bannon: “The media is the opposition party and because they are stupid and lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. All we have to do is flood the area. Every day we throw three things at them, they will take one and we will do everything we want“.
From the first steps, this Trump 2.0 unleashed a trade war against the rest of the world whose consequences remain to be seen. You have used the duty as a weapon of pressure to obtain returns in different parts of the world: read projects to extract rare earth and preferential access to business opportunities. He has set himself up as the great peacemaker with the undisguised purpose of achieving the Nobel Peace Prize, but some of the eight conflicts that he claims to have resolved, most of which he has not even mediated, have flared up again (Cambodia-Thailand, India-Pakistan, Congo-Rwanda). In parallel, it has forced the countries of the I’LL TAKE to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP with tactics more typical of the mafia. Has carried out a offensive against immigration on American soil, with massive raids, deployment of military forces and deportations to prisons in countries with a very lax conception of human rights.
Endless list
He has also undertaken a strategy of harassment and demolition against the regime of Nicolás Maduro and has unleashed a war against alleged drug gangs from Venezuela and Colombia, which already has a hundred dead, violating international law, while he pardoned the former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking. He outlined a plan to convert Gaza in the Middle Eastern Riviera“ before achieving a ceasefire aimed at the interests of Benjamin Netanyahu. He brought the US into Israel’s 12-day war against Iran, bombing nuclear facilities. He attacks viciously to the point of insulting the press that questions his policies and censors comedians. And he brags without shame about his good relationship with satraps like Vladimir Putin o Kim Jong-unbut he got angry in the Oval Office Volodímir Zelenski on his first visit to the White House.
The list is endless. He has also closed the US development aid agency, USAIDa tool used by his predecessors to exert influence (the so-called ‘soft power’) but which was fundamental in the fight against hunger and diseases in many parts of the planet. Now, with his departure, Washington leaves this instrument in the hands of Beijing. And in its National Security Strategy, presented at the beginning of December, it outlines a foreign policy roadmap to achieve the objective of restoring the “dominance” of the United States in the West, confirming the recovery of Monroe Doctrine in his backyard and hints at a possible interference in Europe to encourage those who call “patriotic partiesin reference to far-right forces.
“Trump is the key to everything that is happening. “We are experiencing a very dangerous revolution that is changing the world and affects us directly,” said the writer. Javier CercasCatalà de l’Any 2025. In his opinion, the reaction to the Republican is practically non-existent or “very soft”, which is why he specifically urged the EU to make a move. “You cannot always be aware of who is in the White House. We must create a truly federal Europe because Trump’s plan is to ally with Putin to dismantle Europe“he added. The chef Joan Rocaone of the three children of Montserrat Fontanéthe Catalan of the Year 2025, coincidence: “Trump is a very dangerous phenomenon. He has everyone with their hearts in their mouths. And, furthermore, it is a bad example of nutrition.”
Cracks
In his latest book, ‘War’, published a month before the November 2024 elections, Ron Woodward argued that Trump “is not only the wrong man for the US presidency, He is not prepared to lead a country either.“. “It’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person for this country,” the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Republican’s first term confessed to Woodward for the book. Mark Milley. There are three years of presidency ahead and the course set so far does not invite optimism, although some signs that have recently emerged could end up marking a turning point.
Next year will be decisive to weigh whether the Republican maintains the support of his voters in the elections. November midterm electionsa “litmus test of the democracy’s resilience of the United States” and that will determine “if the abuse of presidential power is stopped,” he stressed Carme Colominasenior researcher at CIDOBin the presentation of the issues that will mark the international agenda in 2026. Cracks are already beginning to open in the MAGA movement and the Republican Party. We will see.
These are other news that have marked international news in 2025:
In Gazaafter two years of Israeli bombings, in October a fragile ceasefire. To advance to the second phase, Hamas must agree to hand over the armas e Israel to withdraw its troops, two requirements that seem far away. In Ukraine The bombs have not even stopped and the conflict is going into its fourth year. Trump has failed to impose his initial plan for kyiv that included Putin’s maximalist demands. The shield that Europe provides to Zelensky has for now prevented Moscow from getting its way with the approval of the Republican, who said he would end this war in 24 hours.
On April 21, Pope Francis died and for a few days the world focused its attention on him. Vatican. A brief conclave named as his successor Robert Prevost, a moderate and advisor to Bergoglio who chose the pontifical name of Leo XIV. He is the first American in the throne of saint peter. Born in Chicago and missionary for 20 years in Peruhas followed Francisco’s line on social issues, such as poverty o to immigrationor decrying Israel’s “barbarism” in Gaza. But he has also had gestures with sectors conservativessuch as the rejection of the ordination of women or homosexual marriage.
2025 has also been marked by the protests of the Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012), who have overthrown governments and taken the unrest of the citizens to the streets. youths for the precariousness o to corruption of the ruling class. Countries as diverse as Nepal, Morocco, Peru and Bulgaria have been the scene of explosions reminiscent of the arab springs. It is necessary to see if these demands against inequality or authoritarian regimes are a lever for change, since in some of these countries there will be elections, and if the protests are reflected in more developed countries.
On October 19, an unusual event took place in a gallery of the most famous museum in the world. As if following the script of a Hollywood movie, several men dressed in workers’ vests entered the Louvre Through a window and in broad daylight, in just a few minutes, nine priceless Napoleonic-era jewels were stolen. The episode has brought to light structural and security problems and some have equated the decay of the museo with the decline of the ‘grandeur’ of France, a country that has experienced an unprecedented political crisis with five prime ministers in just two years.
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