Suffering from a persistent narcissism, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has just concluded another chapter of his latest reality show: the aggression against Venezuela.

The first part of the series, which began last August with an excessive military deployment off the Venezuelan coast under the pretext of combating drug cartels that supposedly flood the streets of the United States with this scourge, concluded yesterday with the bombing of several Venezuelan regions and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro.

According to his later statements, the pacifist Trump, from an improvised operations room in his Florida residence, was able to witness the action live “as if it were a Hollywood movie.”

Later, at a press conference, after praising the heroism of the U.S. special forces who participated in the kidnapping, the president was proclaimed by his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as the main protagonist of the feat.

According to Rubio, whom Trump himself has called his mastermind on Latin American affairs, “Papa Donald is not just any president, but one who keeps his word.”

Something similar was recently said by his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who stated in an interview that the president, although he doesn't drink, has "the personality of an alcoholic" because "he acts with the conviction that there’s nothing he can't do. Nothing, zero, nada."

In other words, what this supposed practitioner of the so-called "madman theory" can do whatever he pleases.

Something that, incidentally, is not at all far-fetched if one considers the merits accumulated by the current occupant of the White House during his first term and so far in this second one.

Since Donald Trump is a character who "plays the fool" and has the "personality of an alcoholic" who does whatever he wants, he will go down in history as the man who, by unleashing his forces against the Capitol, forever tarnished the legend of so-called American democracy. He has done the same with the justice system, from which he has emerged unscathed from countless accusations.

In his supposed delirium tremens, he has unleashed a racist witch hunt against Latino immigrants, comparable only to the Nazi persecution of Jews.

It’s no coincidence that the American people, who can be fooled once but not all the time, have taken to the streets of the country's major cities on several occasions to reject the new king of the White House who now, apparently after what has just happened in Venezuela, intends to proclaim himself emperor of the world.

But the pacifist gladiator is neither as crazy nor as drunk as he often appears. In reality, the clown Trump represents an oligarchy that refuses to accept that today's world is not that of the 19th century, with its Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny of America First.

In today's world, multilateralism, championed by countries like those in the BRICS, and the unbridled economic development of China have relegated the American empire to a secondary role.

In an era where climate change threatens the existence of all humanity, the oligarchy that the supposedly crazy American represents refuses to relinquish oil exploitation, something that would mean the renewal of its entire economy. For these reasons, the United States continues to support Israel's genocide against Gaza, its enforcer in the Middle East, and does not hesitate to say with the utmost disdain the arrogance that Venezuela's oil belongs to him.

The $50 million reward for Maduro's capture is a pittance compared to the commission the oil companies must have offered the president and his hawks for maintaining the status quo of global pollution.

In the case of the show of force against Venezuela, there are also other personal reasons that undoubtedly determine the madman's actions. We mustn't forget that Trump promised that if elected, he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, something the drunkard, who thinks he can do anything, has failed to achieve.

On the other hand, there is the case of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in which his own Maga base believes the president is implicated.

In a midterm election year, thanks to the president's tariff delusions, the economy is in crisis, and the American people, who believed America would be great again, are now suffering the effects of rampant inflation.

The aggression against Venezuela is, in addition to the insatiable thirst for oil, a smokescreen—remember that Hollywood movie with the same title?—used to conceal all these problems.

To continue concealing them, another long chapter in this series is about to unfold: the circus of the trial of President Maduro and his wife as drug traffickers—not anti-imperialists.

Whether there’s a new season of plunder, killing, and arrogance depends on the unity of the Venezuelan people and the solidarity protests of all dignified and free people around the world who refuse to accept the fascist bondage of the new Nero in the White House.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff