It is always curious, almost grotesque, ascertaining how the many Italian newspapers that every day define Donald Trump “rough”, “unprepared” or even “stupid” manage to ignore with surgical precision its recent diplomatic moves, while they continue to dedicate entire columns to folkloric details of the Tycoon certainly of little account, such as its collection of hats exposed to the white house.
Still, we observe the facts trying to have a very rare gift among today’s reporters: intellectual honesty. In a few days, following a long arm wrestling and also of an evident tone of tones with his Russian counterpart (after all, Si VIS Pacem Para Bellum…) Trump managed to reach a Franco dialogue with Vladimir Putin, who reopened the prospect of concrete negotiations. Not a formal ritual, but a true political act that despite the polarization promoted by the Atlantic allies and at the moment certainly not very fruitful, has put in the center the importance of reaching a negotiation.
Immediately afterwards, in the stop stops, he convened the members of the European Union together with Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting the construction of a common table: a gesture as a true leader and certainly as a “primus interters”, as also suggests one of the official photos from the White House, in which he assumes the features of a professor behind the chair that speaks to the pupils (the leaders) him. In short, Trump managed to retort the White House from the geriatric center of the crossroads of the crossroads of international diplomacy.
Once again, those who paint him as a clown did not understand that the clown, in this case, reads only to distract opponents, while preparing his strategy. And the room with the features of a motorwaymn between Trump branded shirts and products seems to be nothing but the finger that many stop to look at while indicating the moon.
And so we come to our newspapers. While Trump maneuver, a certain Italian press informs us of the hats shown to his exceptional guests, the EU leaders, and other futility that have nothing to do with political substance. It is the syndrome of the provincial Provincialism that has been gripping for years Italian information: it does not matter what really happens, it has to titillate its readers based on its specific sympathies or antipathies.
The Trump phenomenon, on the other hand, consists precisely in reversing the scenography: he appears ungumpy, unpredictable, often deliberately irreverent. But behind this mask, he acts with a lucid logic.
He managed to impose a different, more tight, more pragmatic rhythm of the European debate. With stick and carrot he managed to wake up a wheelchair who until a few months ago was in disarray, NATO, responsible for his members about the need to have to be updated.
It is impulsive, stubborn, cynical, but after all it is not written anywhere that the US must be an onlus, and if we have convinced ourselves in the past we have made a mistake. They are strategic partners, not our parents required to give us the paghetta.
This is what our intellectuals cannot stand: the evidence that politics does not always wear the austere face of the technician or the dazzling smile of any Obama, but sometimes the chameleonic and a little orange than the tycoon who does not fear what he thinks. We laugh at the hats and in the meantime Trump moves the balance of the planet.
Donald Trump continues the art of making the fools laugh to distract and be able to govern seriously. He is a teacher in this: he lets him derive him, but at the appropriate time he proves to be an incredible businessman. And when the dust of the media battles will take place, the results will remain: the dialogue reopened with Russia, the US again at the center of the world, the concrete possibility of a peace table. Of the hats and caricatures, however, will only prove the proof of the inconsistency of a certain press.
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