Gold Rushmore
Such is the inadequacy and ego of Trump that he is once again campaigning to have his image added to the four giant faces on Mount Rushmore. Faces of four of the most brilliant and successful and admired and respected presidents in American history.
Men who would not have allowed the likes of Donald Trump lick their boots.
This might sound like a minor issue in the disaster which is the Trump presidency, but it isn’t. it explains so much about what is going so awfully wrong. The White House is now run by a man child, who really thinks his every word is genius and his every action that of a titan.
He is a self delusional fraud and a chancer and Mount Rushmore is an apt example of why he is held in such contempt by the rest of the world.
Which brings us to gold. Anyone who is a fan of the Die Hard movies knows that the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan holds vast amounts of the worlds’ gold. Much of it has been there for decades for good reason, New York not being prone to invasion and the dollar being the reserve currency of the world and NY the world’s financial capital.
But now Germany and Italy are under domestic political pressure to bring the gold or at least some of it home. France did so in the 1960’s under De Gaulle.
The reasoning is easy enough to understand because the final reason why you would leave your gold in America, is that you trust America.
And as Mount Rushmore shows, you no longer have someone in power who you can trust. You have no idea what his stupidity, ego, pettiness and nastiness will make him do next, to demonstrate his greatness.
Invade allies, abandon friends, support your enemies, tax your exports, undermine the Federal reserve, all in a day’s work for Trump.
Would you trust him with your wallet? That is what the rest of the world is thinking and they have rather a lot of money deposited with the American government in New York.
From Jonty Bloom Media Ltd
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
To quote the manchild who actually got it right once ‘never say never’