Donald Trump is good president

Michel Howellbeq*

However, I have to ask you and I know that what I'm looking for is not easy for you to assess things for a moment from a non-American standpoint. I don't mean “from a French standpoint”, which would be excessive; let's say “from the rest of the world's perspective”.

In many cases when I was asked about Donald Trump's choice, I replied that I don't care at all. France is not Wyoming or Arkansas. France is an independent state, more or less, and will become fully independent once again, when the European Union is dissolved (the sooner, the better).

The United States of America is no longer the first power in the world. They have been for a long time, almost throughout the entire twentieth century. They're gone.

They remain an important power, one among some.

This is not bad news for Americans.

It's great news for the rest of the world.

My answer is a little oversized. Everyone has an ongoing obligation to have an interest in American political life. The United States is still the world's first military power, and unfortunately, it has not yet broken the expression of increasing interventions beyond its borders. I'm not a historian and I don't know much about ancient history, for example, I don't know whether Kennedy or Johnson were more to blame for the terrible issue of Vietnam, but I don't think it's been quite a long time since the United States won a war for the last time, and this for at least fifty years of military interventions in the world, known or disarray, has been nothing but the continuation of the shame that has ended as a failure.

What mostly stands out in new American policies is clearly the country's position in trade and in this case President Trump has been like a healthy catch of fresh air. You have achieved a good result in choosing a president of origin from what is called “civil society”.

President Trump breaks up treaties and trade deals when he thinks their signature was wrong. He's right about that. Leaders need to know how to use the transitional period and withdraw from bad deals.

Unlike the free market liberals (who are, in their own way, as fanatic as the communists, President Trump does not value world free trade as anything for mankind's progress. When free trade is good for American interests, President Trump supports free trade. On the contrary, he calls safeguards out of fashion as proper.

President Trump has been chosen to protect the interests of American workers. He's protecting the interests of American workers. Over the past 50 years in France, everyone would like to have such access more often.

President Trump doesn't like the European Union. He thinks we don't have much in common, especially not “values”. I call this good luck, because, what values? “Human permissions”? Seriously? He would have previously conducted direct talks with separate states and I believe it would be actually more enjoyable. I don't think that power flows through the union. I believe that we in Europe have neither common language, nor common values, nor common interests, in one word, Europe does not exist, and that it will never be made up of a single people or support a potential democracy, simply because it does not want to be composed of a people. In February, Europe is just a dumb idea that over time has turned into a bad dream, from which we should eventually wake up. And in his hopes of the United States of Europe “, a clear reference to the United States, Victor Hugo has only given a further testimony to his greatness and folly; he always does me a little good to criticize Victor Hugo.

quite logically, President Trump was pleased with Brexit. In a very logical way, I was the same; my only regret was that the British were braver once more than we before the kingdom. The British make me angry, but their courage cannot be denied.

President Trump does not name Vladimir Putin an unworthy partner for the talks; neither do I. I don't believe that Russia has been assigned the role of general guidance to all humanity. My admiration for Dostoevsky doesn't go that far, but I appreciate the stability of Orthodoxy on its own lands, I think Catholicism would do well to be inspired by it.

It seems that President Trump has managed to soften the angry North Korean man. This is a class challenge.

It seems that President Trump of late stated: “do you know what I am? I'm a nationalist! Me too, exactly like that. Nationalists can talk to each other; internationalists, quite surprisingly, the talks are not very good.

France must leave NATO, but such a step will probably be meaningless if the lack of operational funds causes NATO to disappear itself. That would be less of a sorrow and a new reason to sing the song of glory to President Trump.

In conclusion, President Trump seems to me like one of the best American presidents I've ever seen. / Translate: Nasuf Abdel

*Michel Howellbeq is a French writer. It also deals with acting, filmmaking, and singing.