At this time Donald Trump Interpret the most resonant monologue in world politics. He is not the only actor on stage, of course. Trump belongs to that race of politicians to those who do not make their appetite conquer power and, with it, that moment of singular pleasure, which consists in signing a decree under the light of the cameras, or giving an order to a living voice, a clear and resounding instruction, that some officials will come to fulfill immediately, without even asking if the commission is viable.
TO Trump It is not enough for the gratification of the one who orders, and witnesses how his words influence, create some facts and modify reality. I maintain that your enjoyment is not complete if you are not accompanied by acclamation. He needs the public. Of what the theatrical tradition used to call “the favor of the public”, which is nothing other than recurring applause and, in special moments, those magical seconds in which a protagonist listens to how they cheer on him. Each ovation transports some of its desires, other goods to accumulate: popularity, admiration.
Trump Pursue the ovation and has created a device of extraordinary efficiency, which turns on and sets in a daily basis. It consists of actions in refined and deceptive sequences: short statements, posts, phrases with some stop uncertainty, explanatory, threats issued without euphemisms, fulminating executions, spokesmen that keep the public in embers, verbal attacks, decrees that carry sharp decisions. Trump He does not conform to punch on the table: before giving it, he has taken care to put a microphone very close to heard everywhere. Only unsuspecting are shocked by punch. Only unsuspecting think it has lost control. Only unsuspecting do not perceive that Trump He has blurred the borders between politics and show, between politics and theater. What is politician in Trump It is dramaturgical: it goes from scene on stage, representation on behalf.
However, Trump He is not alone in his interpretation. Each interpretation would be failed or would have less relevance if readers would not follow it with obsessive attention. Trump It matters because it acts on decisive matters, on matters that concern us, and also because it is the political actor whose performances, whose interpretations, more conversation, more debate, more applause or revulsion generate: of Trump We examine both what he decides as his actions around each decision. As if in your case, text and acting were inseparable.
Like all audiences, that of Trump It is also volatile. Public that passes between high and low. The emotion follows the disappointment. And, two or three days later, the rush arrives, which will not take long to slide through the slide of the expected expectation.
PASS –We pass – that we translate the phrases of Trump And we turn them into our imagination, in certain realities. We shape some general ads. We listen to the statements of the spokesmen as if they were emissaries of the very prophet. But it turns out that Trump He is playing not only with us, eager readers of this time: he also bewildered, surprises, changes the signs to his most immediate collaborators. Of Trumpthe playwright, nobody is saved.
The chapter that culminated with the revocation of license 41, a license that allowed oil exports from Venezuela Since the end of 2022, which cancels the operations of several companies – not only Chevron, also the Spanish Repsolthe Italian eni and others – passed through that same narrative hesitation: it seemed that yes, after not, and so, a sequence of Sys and Noes, until the decrees came, with all the noise that a similar measure represents for the regime. Around US $ 6,000 million less income, but also a test, fierce as a punch, not at the table but on the face, of the very high risk that represents confusing the staging of Trump as a permit to violate the agreements.
It was said, before the decisive announcement of Trumpthat, between the human rights agenda and the oil agenda, the second had imposed. In other words: that oil exports of Venezuela to USA They would have projections towards politics and would result in an attitude of silence before the long file of crimes committed by the dictatorship of Nicolás MaduroDiosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino López.
The decreon of Trump He warns us: we must learn to wait for the development of his scenes. Do not vent from good to first. There is always more. It always comes more. Who has complied with your promise not to import oil from Venezuela It is a chapter that could change at any time. And that nobody thinks that the work reached its end. No. Only the first act has passed. And many more come. I assure you.
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