By Adekunle Ade-Adeleye
After resting a little, and waiting for about 100 days since the current president assumed office, former United States president Joe Biden has returned to give President Donald Trump a severe tongue-lashing. He seized upon the subject of social security, which resonated well with his audience. “In fewer than 100 days, this administration has caused so much damage and destruction. It’s breathtaking,” said the former president. “They’ve taken a hatchet to the Social Security Administration…They’re shooting first and aiming later. The result is a lot of needless pain and sleepless nights.”
President Trump’s economic policies may be unscientific and instinctive, and largely counterproductive, misguided and unpredictable, thereby signposting the decline of his country, but it is the atrocious manner he has infected all around him with his scurrility and meanness that has been perhaps the most off-putting to so many millions of people around the world who until now saw America as their lodestar. They may loathe his capricious tariff wars and denounce his resuscitation of the 19th century-style gunboat diplomacy by which he has bullied and alienated the rest of the world, but it is the projection of his own inadequacies and the anchoring of his self-worth on the denigration of others that rankle very badly.
Weeks after he assumed the presidency, he talked whimsically of getting a second or even third term should he desire. He’ll probably encounter a disastrous mid-term election, let alone secure another term. It is unlikely his presidency will end on a high note.
