At the time of writing, it has been just over one month since Donald Trump resumed his place on the throne, although it already feels a lot, lot, longer. We have been here before of course, although Trump’s love of all things…Trump, and his obsession with creating news headlines, was overshadowed last time around by a global pandemic. Some might be forgiven for hoping for another one during the next four years.

I know people that have simply decided to boycott the news for the foreseeable future and I envy their willpower, but at the same time, we are on this rollercoaster now so there is little point in closing our eyes. In the past few days, Trump boasted about ending the congestion charge in New York, before writing ‘long live the king’. Being a king was probably on his mind as he had just appointed QAnon conspiracy theorist Kash Patel as the director of the FBI. This was no doubt a thank you to Patel for writing a children’s book about a ‘King Donald’.

Days before negotiations with the US about ending the war in Ukraine, Putin stroked Trump’s ego by saying the war would never have happened if Trump had been re-elected in 2020. Donald liked what he heard, agreeing to give Putin’s negotiators everything they wanted before the meeting had even started, and without even consulting with Ukraine first. He then declared President Zelenskyy a dictator, adding that ‘he has had three years to end the war’.

All the above happened in less than one month, no wait, I mean one week! If you look at the first month then you have to include Trump declaring that the US will be taking control of Gaza, Panama, Canada and Greenland, and by the time you read this there will obviously be far more shocking headlines to wrap your head around, (like implementing tariffs on its neighbouring countries and almost having a punch-up with Zelenskyy in the oval office).

Trump is hellbent on turning the world upside down, attempting to convince us that everything that was wrong is actually right and everything that was right is actually wrong, all the while encouraging us to invest in his ‘Trump’ cryptocurrency (why not ‘King Trump’?), a virtual coin that has no inherent value, but considering that Trump’s team holds at least 80% of the coin’s supply, all untraceable bribes, oops, I obviously meant to say ‘investments’, are welcomed.

However, many large corporations have also openly given millions to Trump via his political nonprofit called ‘Securing American Greatness’, which has reportedly raised almost $500m since his re-election in November 2024, despite the fact that he is ineligible to run again in 2028, although few expect him to honour the 22nd Amendment, which states that a President can only serve two terms, by the time we get to 2028. The payments made by bankers, big-pharma and oil companies are often made in the hope that they won’t ‘get DOGEd’, a term referring to the new Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its ability to cut funding, raise taxes, or do whatever it wants to your business/sector.