US-EYE
EVERY fortnight, researching this column, I survey the news like a plumber who’s just unblocked the world’s biggest sewer.
So. Much. Shit.
In fact, let’s start with excrement: in response to the countrywide “No Kings” protests on 18 October, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account, in which he was piloting a plane, wearing a crown, and dumping what the New York Times delicately called “brown liquid” on demonstrators. Completely mad.
That kind of thing barely moves the needle any more, however – not when the administration is simultaneously carrying out extrajudicial killings of alleged smugglers in South America; sending the National Guard to blue cities; accepting a secret $130m donation to help pay soldiers’ wages during the shutdown; and demolishing the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom. Oh, and when it has a press secretary who responds to a reporter’s polite question over who decided to hold a peace summit in Budapest with the three words: “Your mom did.”