Trump as Poster Boy, the West as the Crime

It is truly difficult to find a positive in such a degenerate figure as Donald Trump. He is selfish, greedy, inept, devilish, self-centred, narcissistic, immoral, and foolish to the point that it is almost impossible to identify a good trait and slot it into the catalogue of endless negativities.

However, there is something which, when examined carefully, stands out-not necessarily as a good feature, but rather as something less devastating and less negative. It is a benefit of expediency.

That attribute is his outspokenness and bluntness, his rare refusal to beat around the bush. He says whatever he thinks and rarely thinks about what he says. He hides nothing. And since he is what he is, his speeches and statements are so outlandish, nonsensical, dangerous, and-expectedly-thoughtless and outright stupid.

At times, he resembles Patrick Star from the SpongeBob cartoon series. One is never certain whether his conduct stems from a calculated strategy or from the constraints of his intellect.

So, what is good about this? The answer must be carefully unpacked, its layers separated and revealed. We must remember that he was elected by 74,225,926 votes, representing 46.8% of the popular vote. People knew who he was, what his personality entailed, and what he could and could not do.

This is his second term-marked by equally malicious Hollywood‑style dramas between the two terms-so there is little surprise about his incompetence, disorientation, and vulgar insolence. The problem is Trumpism, which means Trump is neither representing only himself nor acting alone.

He embodies and acts on behalf of almost half of American society, however one dresses the bitter truth in consoling tones. Large segments of American society created Trump in their own image and elected him to lead them into whatever socio‑political‑economic abyss they-he-ultimately chose to descend.

Today, everyone mocks him and ostensibly ostracizes him, yet nobody does anything to stop him or his premeditated strife to bring the country-and the world with it-to the verge of apocalypse. Criticism and ridicule are abundant, but action is absent.

He is simply doing what is expected. He is merely fulfilling the promises made to the electorate-to "make America great again," that is, to make it what it intrinsically is: without hiding, without subtraction, without camouflage.

Re-writing and re-teaching history

I have long argued that the history of the United States ought to be reframed as the chronicle of the most devious and most devastating geopolitical power humanity has known. Our curricula and syllabi should be devised accordingly.

This means that when push comes to shove, Trump is not necessarily doing worse than others; he is just executing it in the wrong or least effective way. No governmental institution has officially declared that the aggressions against Venezuela and now Iran - as the latest instances - are illegal, for which the criminal mafia of the White House should be brought to justice.

No crowds rise, no tremors of upheaval, no chorus of defiance against the corrupt and evil order-only emptiness. Trump continues simultaneously to embody and to lead the nation-regardless of what others may claim. He is in charge. With him, the true U.S. is in charge of itself.

The same placid institutional approval and even encouragement accompanied-and still accompany-the genocide in Gaza. Even institutions of learning and houses of worship fail to uphold what is right.

Why is there apparent reaction but no action? Because reactions are neither powerful nor sincere enough to generate action. Two questions persist then: Is Trump really as stupid as he seems, and is the United States truly responsive as it wants us to believe?

Perhaps, at the end of the day, the whole thing could be but a quiet theater of display. Trump may, in fact, serve merely as a decoy, a diversion from deeper currents. He could be but a distraction, no more, no less.

Trump is no worse; others are no better

Not many realize that his predecessors, supposedly polite and peace‑loving figures such as Biden and Obama, did as much if not more damage than Trump himself, especially to the Muslim world.

Biden allowed, encouraged, and indirectly participated in the Gaza genocide, persistently vindicating and shielding the Israel‑institutionalized West axis of evil.

Obama, perhaps the nicest of all, presided over multiple devastating wars and military conflicts against Muslims, most prominently in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and against the "constructed" ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The mark of guilt is upon their hands, soaked in the blood of Muslim innocents. And like vampires, their hunger is insatiable.

The difference is that presidents other than Trump were masters of diplomacy of convenience and insincere statecraft. They knew how to speak but say little or nothing, how to quietly and secretly manipulate, coerce, and execute equally devilish agendas. They were smooth operators and masters of the masquerade of international relations.

In other words, they were better under‑the‑radar liars and evil‑doers. Trump, conversely, both hates and is unable to do so. That is why his wrongs are perceived and presented in hyperbolic terms, whereas those of his predecessors less so, for there was little evident to be perceived and presented.

The universal brotherhood of the West

Here too the problem is Trump's unprofessional style and ineffective modus operandi, which run counter to the West's usual sly methods. In this way, Trump risks discrediting and exposing the West, potentially laying open many untoward secrets. As if Trump might shout that some emperors have no clothes-which would be too much.

Again, as with other U.S. presidents, let us remember what the West led by Europe is. Presiding over a perennial coalition of malevolence against Islam and Muslims since the days of colonialism, the West is no less evil than Trump and does no less damage.

Most of the West, with all its institutions, is complicit in the Gaza genocide and in the systematic destruction of numerous Muslim countries-a process that continues unabated. The West concurrently with and without the U.S. created and sustains the evil of the illegitimate geopolitical entity called Israel.

They stand guilty of implanting Israel as a malignant growth within the very fabric of the Muslim ummah. It was not an accident, nor a passing misstep, but a deliberate act of sabotage-an intrusion designed to corrode unity from within.

Their existence was conceived in betrayal, their survival nourished by Muslim suffering, and their future plotted upon the continued exploitation of that misery. What they built was not a state but a cancer, metastasizing across generations, feeding on the wounds of the ummah, and ensuring that every breath of Muslim life is shadowed by their schemes.

But the difference is that the Western powers of Europe go about their job discreetly, courteously, and civilly. More resources, time, and energy go into propaganda and brainwashing than into operations on the ground. They never run out of masks and duplicity, while Trump rarely wears any.

Britain and France, for instance, are regarded as the sneakiest and most Machiavellian of all: smiling, negotiating and exuding optimism while betraying and backstabbing. They seldom threaten openly. A glance at history, no more, unveils the shadowed patterns that repeat themselves endlessly.

If they think the aggression against Iran is what it plainly is and visible to all, why do they not condemn it unequivocally? Why do they not act to prevent bloodshed and protect the innocent? Why, for once, not rise to defend justice, peace, and human rights? The issue is not one of courage or bravado, but of restoring normalcy and affirming humanity.

Of course, they cannot and will not, because what Trump does suits them and their entrenched imperial interests. He is doing them favors one way or another. They are two sides of the same coin. Indeed, nothing consolidates them more firmly than their plots against Muslims.

The problem, however, is that Trump does it amateurishly and against the protocol of diplomatic double‑standards. Trump is their man. He belongs to them, but he roams unbound. He is a loose cannon on the deck.

The case of the Epstein files

Since when did the immorally wretched West-beginning with the U.S., the bastion of immorality shrouded in nihilism and self‑worship-suddenly become guardian of moral integrity and virtue? Since when did it become fashionable to preach decency and goodness?

Trump is only faithful to the Western worldview of ethical, religious, and epistemic relativism, where no standards apply and no norms bind. As if he wants to scream to all detractors: What is wrong?

Is it not the case that the West has become the global leader in the normalization of vice-alcohol, drugs, gambling, prostitution, pornography-while simultaneously eroding the family, disorienting identity, and exporting existential alienation? What began as indulgence has been elevated into culture, and what was once condemned has been rebranded as freedom.

The family, once the anchor of society, is dismantled; identity, once rooted in clarity, is blurred; and alienation, once a sickness, is now paraded as sophistication. The West does not merely practice these vices-it institutionalizes them, packages them, and exports them as models of progress. Thus, the world is taught to imitate disorder, to celebrate excess, and to confuse collapse with liberty.

It is self‑evident that what Trump is accused of, and what the Epstein files contain, revolve around the daily immoral practices of many Americans in particular and Westerners in general. These same practices are brazenly encouraged and promoted through the filthy layers of Western pop culture, which recognizes neither sanctity nor ethical purity.

Those values were buried long ago in the graveyards of Western failed experiments of refined culture and enlightened civilization. They are merely relics of the past.

Trump and his Epstein circle stand as living echoes of Western fantasies-realized, paraded, and glorified. Yet the West, steeped in hypocrisy, denies them the crown it secretly bestows.

In the eyes of the youth especially, they are woven into the fabric of dreams and desires. Thousands aspire to be like Trump and his Epstein fraternity. Thousands wish to be as "cool" and as successful.

Epstein‑like values at the core of Western ethos

Thus, the problem again is that Trump is neither better nor worse than others morality‑wise, but others keep sweeping things under the carpet, pretending to be what they are not. Trump, however, keeps blowing his trump(et) with no shame, no conscience, and no accountability, causing uneasiness among his counterparts across the tapestry of Western world and its (un)culture and (un)civilization.

Like it or not, the reality is as follows. Trump is Mister America. Trump is Mister West. He is their poster boy-albeit unwanted, yet unavoidable. He is the face they cannot escape, the emblem they cannot deny, the mirror they cannot shatter. In him, their contradictions are laid bare. He is both their creation and their burden, their chosen figure and their regretted symbol.

If there is any good in what he does, it is this: despite everything, he keeps them all on their toes, never knowing what he will say or do next. The silver lining for Muslims, though, is that because of Trump and his fully blown trump(et), they can easily understand what the West truly is and how unfriendly and diabolical it remains towards Islam and Muslims. His time and crimes could be a wake‑up call. They may cause the last masks of the West to fall.

He may, in time, be counted among the so‑called "better" leaders of the West. He may yet drive Muslim unity and awaken the renaissance denied too long. What he does and says is so plain that everyone can understand.