Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Trump’s finally unleashed – What is the world’s pain tolerance?

Donald Trump is finally getting almost everything that he wants. But the question is, how will everyone else respond to that?

On Wednesday, he arrived at the Kennedy Center and announced that he would host the annual honors award ceremony, a first for a president. For a president who loves the theatrical, it’s definitely a coup, especially given that he removed the board members that Joe Biden nominated before the new board made him chairman.

But while Trump taking over the performing arts center is campy and even a bit weird, it shows how Trump feels no scruples and that he can finally realize the vision he wants for the country.

The only question at this point is what is the rest of the world’s pain tolerance.

Earlier this week, Trump made the unprecedented announcement that he would seize control of the Washington, D.C. police department and deploy the National Guard onto the streets of the nation’s capital.

Trump has long griped about crime and in many ways, it’s a chance for him to live out the vision he wanted during the 2020 George Floyd protests, where he could deploy active duty troops onto the streets of American cities.

But that’s not the only area where Trump has finally removed the handcuffs. Last week, after a prolonged pause, Trump resumed his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

Trump is brooking no opposition from the lords of finance. Earlier this month, he responded to a poor jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by sacking the chief statistician and nominating E.J. Antoni, an alumnus of the conservative Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025.

Then there’s the matter of Russia and Vladimir Putin. On Friday, he will host the Russian authoritarian in Alaska as he hopes to bring an end to Moscow’s war in Ukraine. This will be a stark contrast to the 2018 summit in Helsinki, when he seemed to brush off American intelligence and sided with Putin’s denial that Russia intervened in the 2016 election. 

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By Eric Garcia

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