{"id":35482,"date":"2025-03-08T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/donald-trump-is-a-bully-not-a-strongman-and-australia-will-pay-for-his-destruction-as-he-panders-to-the-mega-rich\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:00:43","slug":"donald-trump-is-a-bully-not-a-strongman-and-australia-will-pay-for-his-destruction-as-he-panders-to-the-mega-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/donald-trump-is-a-bully-not-a-strongman-and-australia-will-pay-for-his-destruction-as-he-panders-to-the-mega-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performance is all for the US president, who is intent on creating a world dreamt of by global libertarian thinktanks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For six weeks we watched as Donald Trump \u2013 primped with golden hair, bronzer, fat pens and a zigzag signature \u2013 played the lead role in his new series, The Strongman. It was solid, not great, television, driven by an unspoken, looming threat \u2013 <em>what will he do next?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This makes sense if you understand that on the way to creating a new world order of unfettered, red-blooded, male-dominated American capitalism, there is also a cultural revolution. As Stephen Marche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/03\/trump-america-cultural-revolution\/681863\/\">writes in the Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cWashington today can be understood only as a product of show business, not of law or policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/08\/donald-trump-is-a-bully-not-a-strongman-and-australia-will-pay-for-his-destruction-as-he-panders-to-the-mega-rich\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance is all for the US president, who is intent on creating a world dreamt of by global libertarian thinktanks Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For six weeks we watched as Donald Trump \u2013 primped with golden hair, bronzer, fat pens and a zigzag signature \u2013 played the lead &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/donald-trump-is-a-bully-not-a-strongman-and-australia-will-pay-for-his-destruction-as-he-panders-to-the-mega-rich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}