The Leaders of the Free World…? Trump, Putin and Birthday Parties – or: ‘3rd Party Funds’

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3rd Party Funds*: For decades it was something scorned in many parts of Europe: It meant to many that you were being financed by companies with an actual, lively interest in your research, for example. You would be easily corrupted. And most probably would even be obliged to do things in return. Well, it’s not new really but one more proof of the corruption of a person like Trump an indeed sorry excuse for a man:

It would be funny: This almost naive craving for attention and acknowledgement. Now the Kennedy Center to be closed he had claimed his name to be added on a plaque… OMG … The education he could have had with his ‘funds’, i.e. money – and missed out on.

Or the wars he started. Supports. Supports Israel’s extreme right hard-liner Netanyahu.

It’s so cruel that one can only wonder, if he really is actually sane in mind – that is, accountable…?

Well, to some extent it would be a relieve, if he wasn’t. Yet, on the other hand to not be able to hold him accountable would be a shame. In court.

It still is part of the story that he started the war with Iran to cover his severe involvement with the Epstein papers. The fact that all through his life, the first and foremost consideration was more money and more power – by hook or by crook. And rather more often by crook.

It’s obvious that he doesn’t intend to negotiate with Iran. He wants his way, and his way only. And that of his followers of course.

I couldn’t be more joyful at the prospect that some time soon, this president will be history too and his time to leave the oval office draws near, because his last term as president ends.


*Note: The term is used differently in parts of the world. The European connotation stems from research and science in universities around here: Funding by interested, outside academia situated companies and organizations.

Trump as MENACE‌ to DEMOCRACY? – UKRAINE, SYRIA, GAZA: THE‌ DEAL

Screenshot of NATO member states, current, taken at 21-01-2025_06-16-46 at https://www.nato-pa.int/content/membership-map

The signs are there: He had the majority of Supreme Court Justices newly instated during his first time in office. He initiated the attack on the US-Capitol. The signs also are there that he will try to limit freedom of the press. At least.

He is on best terms with president Putin of Russia, who demonstrably manipulated elections in 2016 in Trump’s favour. I am convinced that the deal was worked to make peace in Gaza and Syria so that eventually NATO and Ukraine will agree to special contracts, regarding Ukraine’s status as non-member.
And when you look at the OFFICIAL NATO map, screenshot above taken from their website today, you cannot but wonder how one would not feel at least uncomfortable, being part of the white space to the right…

I recommend (yet, as long as they can) The New York Times as source of reliable information: They have won Pulitzer prizes for their reporting, research as well as content.
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post
Note, update: The Washington Post some time ago was acquired by Jeff Bezos, the founder and owner of amazon and a Trump follower. So, although at the time the link’s content was created, it was reliable; it is not anymore.

Trump himself, as regards a non-character who is willing to do anything to appear powerful and wealthy, is a criminal several times over: He was ruled guilty before US courts more than once, for fraud and bribery as well as sexual coercion.

The Supreme Court, whose Justices in majority he instated newly with his followers during his first term in office, overruled those verdicts with the rather threadbare argument that he had been president and thus immune…