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Rimvydas Valatka E. Blažio / LRT nuotr. |
The former American president called the Russian führer Putin a murderer. The current American President calls Putin a good man who wants peace in the world more than anything else. On Monday, America voted at the United Nations, along with the aggressor Russia and a bunch of other dictators, that Russia is not the aggressor in this war.
You can sophistically interpret Trump all you like, as the greatest minds in Lithuania are doing, but Trump aims to turn the world upside down. Lithuania, which will be the first to find itself under the wreckage of that world, cannot replace Trump. But it can at least laugh about it, because what else is there?
So what does Trump remind you of? Especially after he has appointed an alcoholic major to head the Pentagon, a lady who believes that combat mosquitoes have been bred in Ukraine to keep the Russians apart, the FBI is headed by a type of conspiracy theorist, the Department of Health is headed by an anti-vaxxer, and there is an amphetamine billionaire wandering around with a chainsaw in the institutions.
Say what you will, but Trump is like Romanov, the owner of the bankrupt Ūkio Bankas. Remember that Buratin who bought Zalgiris Kaunas, who changed coaches like socks, who called them soldiers of Zuokoks, who handed the coach a slip of paper before the game telling him what substitutions to make, who told his players to train with boxing gloves, and who threw penalties himself?
Romanov founded the Lithuanian People's Party. He put most of the Zalgiris players on the electoral list, and those who disagreed he kicked out, just as Trump did with disloyal Republicans.
Romanov's party proclaimed that the economy would be for the people, not the importers. That is where Trump drew his inspiration from when he announced that he was going to impose 25% tariffs on everyone, or maybe even a hundred.
Both are not humorous. Romanov has been spouting conspiracy theories every day in the newspapers he bought. Trump on a tweet bought for him by Musk. Trump's rants about Ukraine's debt and the fact that everyone owes America a debt can safely be compared with Romanov's texts about swimming across Loch Ness and the antics of the ufonauts in Baikal.
Both are wooden dancers and showmen. Both frauds. And bankruptcies. Romanov has filed an income declaration with the MEC that he has received 23 gifts of LTL 9.9999 million. Trump received a gift from the Russian oligarch Rybolovlev, who overpaid several times and bought a hotel from the once-bankrupt Orange Prankster for USD 95 million because the centre told him to.
Trump is buzzing. So does Romanov. How did Romanov end up? "Zalgiris played the LKL Finals without coaches and blew it, then ended up on the verge of bankruptcy. Ūkio bankas was closed. Romanov fled to Russia. Romanov's party received only 3 399 votes in the parliamentary elections and came last.
The Americans believed Trump's chips. What will happen to America and the world under the Orange Peacock? How will Trump end up? Will he, like Romanov, ever escape from justice and go to Russia to Putin?
Why run to the bottom of the world when you can turn all of America into the bottom of the world. Trump is doing that in a hurry. Let us laugh. If you are still laughing. If we still know how to laugh at ourselves.
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