{"id":262482,"date":"2026-01-21T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=262482"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:27:39","slug":"donnie-dear-dont-press-that","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/donnie-dear-dont-press-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie dear, don’t press that!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump comes across as a spoilt, narcissistic child who demands and gets other people’s toys (eg Maria Machado’s own Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>). He sulkily told the Norwegian prime minister<\/a> that, since they didn’t give him the peace prize, he won’t bother to prioritise peace. His demand for Greenland \u2013 another toy \u2013 has caused a geopolitical crisis.<\/p>\n

Is this Kissinger-like Great Power brinkmanship, or deranged MAGA swagger? Capitalism is a dangerous world ‘order’ even when its leaders act like responsible adults. Right now, America’s nuclear button is under the finger of someone who seems divorced from reality and isolated inside a bubble of toadying sycophants. Totalitarian despots and wannabes can barely contain their glee. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-262482","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/262482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}