The drama show called US President - an opinion

One year in, the current US President mandate is to me, the best political drama there has ever been. 

As someone that is not an US citizen, my view of the current US President has been that of shock, upon his election win, then confusion at why people chose him. My opinion of him as politician has never been high, and since I don't know him as a person other than from the media, I cannot say too much about him as a person. What the media transmits, however, gives me not such a good impression. That is nonetheless, not as much relevant.

Let's start with the latest big stunt, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (At least, that's what media said). That is the stunt that made me realize, maybe, why he was elected, and even maybe, it's not that bad. (The ever hopeful me). The thing about recognizing Jerusalem as capital of Israel is that it comes after a series of measures against Muslim communities since the president's first stunt with the travel ban. They have taken the most media covered conflict in the recent years, the war against ISIS and put up a great show. Oh, and I'm not writing about him anymore, it's definitely them. There is only that much one single person can do. This latest fuel to the fire came to break an impasse over Jerusalem territory. In the humanitarian perspective, it's awful. It's going to get bad, worse than it is now. But, maybe, just maybe, it is also an opportunity for talk. The world has focused on this issue again, and people talk about it, more than before. Just this week, a colleague of mine said she went and researched a bit about the history of that conflict. THAT, is a good thing. If we can resolve this conflict once and for all, it will be a good thing. I want to believe that this atrocity of a statement will spring many people into action, but hopefully not to war. 

So, maybe, the tweets and statements and things that the US president says, as crude and shocking and revolting they might be, get people to talk about important issues, get people to try and learn more about those issues and do something about it, it's a good thing he's there.

The thing about this president is the no filter part. I can't say I like it, because I don't, but at least he's not afraid of having a bad image. There are a lot of things being done in politics that no one talks about, that's done secretively, with an ulterior motive. Not saying that they don't have one now, but with a mouthy president like this one.... If he's mouthy and revolt people, but people actually wake up and stand up to him, how is that not a good thing?

Jerusalem annoucement will possibly lead to an armed conflict and Europe in general has a lot to lose. To the US however, it's on the other side of the ocean, just like it was with ISIS, and ISIS crisis started in the last presidency. To make America great again? Not much is needed. You don't have to get better or be better, you just have to make sure your competition is destroyed. Slowly maybe so they don't notice, but not too slow. EU was supposedly an ally, but they had to deal with the consequences of refugee crisis whereas US? not so much. One may swim across the Mediterranian, but one does not swim across the Atlantic, after the Mediterranian.

North Korea is just a puppet in this show. Not that they are not at fault but, who better than a small border country to threaten both Russia and China? If it escalates to a full scale armed conflict, scratch off competition box 2 and 3. 

Honestly, right now, I think this presidency is a lot better for the elitist US people than it is given credit. Though I have to stress elitist, since US citizens are not only white people but all the amalgam of races and ethnicities. They are the ones creating an environment where they feel they need to protect themselves against aggressors from the 'outside'. But that is potentially a vicious cycle. It only works whilst the US is still a bit ahead in terms of economy and military, but it won't always stay that way. And when it's not anymore, we'll see if those high profile decisions have been right or wrong. (wrong in my opinion, but you never know, history will tell.)

This presidency has a very unique vibe, doesn't mean it's good, doesn't mean it's bad. It feels the trends and feeds them. We (first world) live in a world surrounded by social media, so that's how they choose to communicated. That gives them visibility, without the coloured filters of conventional media. We also live in a polarizing world, so they feed of those polarizing views and polarize even more. ISIS jihadist actions were 'trending' and shocking to many so they packaged them into the public enemy and generalized the extremists to all muslim to feed the anger. It just reads the flow so well. 

Everything has at least two sides. The rest of the world can have a very different opinion from the one the US has. Maybe in a later date, we'll find out if US citizens liked Trump as much as Cubans liked Castro. And we'll find out if we hated Trump as much as we hated Castro.