January 20, 2026
The first year of Donald Trump's second presidency has passed. Unfortunately, I was right in the assessments contained in the book “Trump 2.0: Global Disruptions and Power Shifts” which I wrote during the first weeks of his megalomaniacal rule in the US and his unbridled domination of world affairs. Unfortunately, because most of these assessments are unequivocally negative. I can't point to one in which I was overly pessimistic. If anything, perhaps I was insufficiently pessimistic once or twice, as I didn't expect that, under the influence of his dictatorial tendencies, the United States would withdraw from over sixty international organizations and agreements serving good causes. I certainly wasn't guilty of excessive optimism, although I didn't expect the dollar to fall on such a scale. I consistently treat President Trump as the world's greatest modern pest. Many people still don't realize the scale of this destructiveness, which will cast a long shadow on the future.