Trump 2.0 and Its Meaning for Malaysia

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The victory of Donald Trump in his re-election is an interesting case in the history of modern politics because of the moral implication that such victory brings with it. Philosophers and serious thinkers view the Trump’s presidency as an existential threat due to his open confession to pursue the production of fossil fuels rigorously despite the stage of climate change our world is facing right now is at the worrying level. But not only that, Trump’s insistence that he won’t be a war-waging president, which is not unique anymore after Obama’s failure in Libya and Bush’s disaster in Iraq, is a political distraction in the form of rhetoric, hard enough to overcome, if one forgets what he actually did during his first stint of presidency. Although Biden, as Trump correctly suggested, putting the world further on the brink of nuclear disaster with his persistence of Ukraine’s democratic right, yet neglecting Russia’s justified demand for Ukraine to be a neutral state — a demand that even American policy advisors conceded — it was Trump himself who dismantled two out of three important nuclear treaties between these two giant nations which made such confrontation today, highly dangerous.

This is just one of many other examples, how in politics, rhetoric can blind people’s sense of moral judgement. In America today, the concern for bread-and-butter issue is a top priority, and therefore they are unhappy with Biden’s obsession for Ukraine’s security by giving Ukraine billions…