
#6 Newsletter
Mr. Tresident is flooding the media zone
While Mr. Tresident Donald John Trump has been back in the Oval Office for 100 days on April 29th, I can only celebrate 84 days in my little writers office, since I have published my first newsletter in February.
Today’s newsletter is my sixth and it comes after a well enjoyed two weeks off over my Easter break. ”Off” is a good starter, because Mr. Tresident plays the “On” and “Off” mode all the time.
Well, for me as a fiction author this fiction-like reality is very hard to follow: On international trade policy, on geopolitics, on the Pope’s funeral in a blue Trump outfit plus a totally black dressed First Lady and an outrage of him and JD Vance over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military dress in the Oval Office – with a second to none behaviour of the US-presidential team. Finally, at the Pope’s funeral, there has been this iconic picture of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy without an entourage with two chairs in the Basilica of St. Peter.
To recap the most important events in these turbulent 100 days, I thought I'd put together a few recommended reads for this newsletter.
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On Tariffs follow the list at: Trump tariffs list: See all the tariffs by country or listen to a great podcast by trade expert Simon Evenett with Peter Thal Larson on What Trump’s tariff tantrum will do to world trade.


On Geopolitics have a look at the Council of Foreign Relations assessment of the first 100 days of Trump’s second term: First 100 Days: Trump’s Foreign Policy Disruption Is Just Beginning.

On the Oval Office Outrage between Trump & Vance against Zelenskyy listen to what Zelenskyy said on Fox News (!): Zelenskyy speaks out after his spat with Trump in explosive Oval Office meeting

On the Pope’s funeral picture of Trump. Zelensky and the famous First Lady in Black: Trump and Zelensky in tense face-to-face meeting at St Peter’s Basilica before Pope's funeral

For me it means a lot of prep research on all these issues, which you can hardly follow: What these guys in the Oval Office do is, what Steve Bannon has called the “flood of the zone” as his comms strategy during Trump’s first term. Flood the world with all the “shit” (Bannon’s words) so that they do neither see the single issue nor the bigger picture of – in my view – disrupting the US constitution now in the second term! Listen more about this: This infamous Steve Bannon quote is key to understanding America’s crazy politics (CNN Business) or into Steve Bannon's 'Flood the Zone' Strategy Explained Amid Trump Policy Blitz (Newsweek)
The Trumpian Tsunami (correctly spelled with a “T” as in Tresident ) is obviously “ON” its way to flood the zone. Let us try to get him “OFF”. The “On” and “Off” mode is a bit like the zero-one binary code of robots. I mention this at the end of today’s newsletter, because during my recent reading in Cotignac (France), a visitor made an interesting comment: Perhaps Donald John Trump is not a human being, but a human robot, which would explain the erratic mode. But who then turns him on and off? Well, this would even in a Trumpian sense of nonsense a very interesting plot, would it not? More in two weeks …
All the best,
Markus A. Will