Per Svensson: Trump is a junk food version of Ludvig the XIV

It was the most attractive moment during the assault in the oval room. A sudden satisfied Don Trumpini summed up the scene: « This is going to be great television », this is going to be fantastic TV.

The democratic world order dies, not with a beep, not with a scream but in the jerk from a docus open star.

It is difficult to « have ice in the stomach » when realizing that the US president imagines the world as a television production. « You were celebrated », you have been fired, was Trump's signature replica in « The Apprentice », the docus soap that prepared him for his current main role as a junk food version of Ludvig the XIV, « Big Mac, that's me ».

Last Friday, the Ovala room was served as « The Boardroom » and it was the heroically struggling Ukraine president who was fired. You have no playing cards! You have to be grateful! You are disrespectful! And you haven't even dressed in the suit and tie!

You're FIRED!

Trump's and Vance's demands on « Respect » and obedience, their reflexive aggressive reaction to every perceived violation, their threatening rawness, actualizes one of Swedish press history's most well -known opinion texts.

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler had become new Chancellor of Germany. Four days later, Torgny Segerstedt wrote in Gothenburg Trade and Shipping Magazine, GHT, a comment on the change of power. It ended with a wording that has become classic: “To force all the world's politics and pressure to work with that figure, it is unforgivable. Mr. Hitler is an insult. « 

Hermann Göring then took on the role that JD Vance has now entrusted, such as Bossens Gorilla-in-Chief. A telegram was sent to GHT, in which Göring protested against « such dirty statements » and threatened with « further measures » unless the editorial staff made cure and improvement.

GHT replied on February 8 with a leader who stated that Göring could not expect to get anywhere « with telegraphic gorm ». The newspaper had nothing to regret or mitigate. On the contrary. The reaction of German power confirmed the characteristic of it:

“The tone Mr Göring uses is undoubtedly it for him the only natural. It is the root sergeant's rooting sergeant. Formed people don't speak that way. They do not come up with clumsy and stupid threats. « 

But Donald Trump does.

Is it a tiring And bizarre unaccustomed to drawing parallels between his regime and Hitlerism? You may think that if you believe that parallels are the same as 100 percent compliance. But no one thinks we will see Vance speeches in Munich in flashy fantasy uniform.

Fascism is a movement with the ability to adapt to prevailing time spirit and culture. In the interwar European European, it was slandering from a revengeist militarism. Boot tramp and parades. Today it can make itself part of a hegemonic entertainment culture. The authoritarian takeover of power as a reality show.

Donald Trump, despite a youth at a military school, has not been formed primarily by the ropes at a barracks. Instead, he is « a man who for years supported himself to scream at people on television », as The New York Times pointed out in a comment on Friday's performance in the White House.

One would imagine that Trump's obvious reluctance to Volodymyr Zelenskyj is not just an expression of his equally obvious delight in Vladimir Putin. There could also be an element of Jalousie de Métierprofessional envy. Zelenskyj also has a background as a TV star. But unlike Trump, he has developed into an authentic statesman and leader, admired by the democratic world for his courage and endurance, a Churchill for our time.

But an envy of That kind would assume that Donald Trump possesses a minimum of self -insight. It is, of all things, to judge a vain hope. His narcissism seems to be so grandiose that there is no room for an never so insignificant streak of self -reflection.

He is the eight -year -old in an old man's body, unashamed selfish and self -absorbed, a Karlsson on the roof without charm that the leader of the liberal democracies in desperation feeds with chuckle muck medicine. It is becoming increasingly nasty and increasingly disgusting to follow « The President ».

Still, you can't help but watch Trump, talk about Trump, write about Trump, dreaming nightmares about Trump. It is a kind of medialized form of mental totalitarianism. You do not stand out. But he is like a raft stain. You just have to rub it even though you know that it just makes it bigger and that you yourself become messy.

Mr Trump is an insult.

Read more about the event in the White House here.