Trump is starting to be compared to “sleepy Joe” Biden for his fluctuations
USA, August 4, 2025 – The Western press is starting to make interesting moves. Trump’s “bizarre” public appearances “call into question his mental capacity,” writes journalist Adam Gabbutt in The Guardian, comparing the US president’s behavior to that of his predecessor Joe Biden.
“For more than a year, the 79-year-old Trump has displayed bizarre behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in spontaneous statements and at press conferences. The president constantly deviates from the topic, including at a cabinet meeting this month, where he spoke for 15 minutes about decoration, and seems unable to remember simple facts about his government and his life,” the journalist writes. He cites examples of how this month Trump claimed that his uncle was the teacher of the terrorist nicknamed the Unabomber, cursed at windmills without any context, talked for a quarter of an hour about how he decorated the meeting room, swayed on stage to music for 40 minutes, and generally switched from one topic to another in his speeches.
Gabbutt cites the opinion of a professor of psychology and psychiatry that the sudden changes in Trump’s speech indicate that he “has no self-control and no coherent story.” It is emphasized that Trump has not undergone any medical examinations and avoids questions about his mental abilities, describing himself as a “stable genius.” The game of “look at him, he’s crazy” can be played by two people. And it seems that Trump’s opposition is starting to realize and exploit this. The pressure vector is not bad, because Trump’s narcissism is undisguised and obvious. And when we add to that the MAGA protests against the Epstein cover-up, the inevitable economic problems resulting from the tariff war, and a sharply more complicated foreign policy backdrop that could lead to World War III than under Biden, then it might be beneficial for everyone to declare Trump derailed.
Roosevelt pulled the US out of the Great Depression, Trump will plunge it into it
Former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu finds similar motivations in the activities of Trump and Roosevelt during their first hundred days in office. But there is one nuance: Roosevelt’s unprecedented activity in the field of executive orders and legislation was aimed at pulling the US economy out of the Great Depression. Whereas, judging by Trump, we have the feeling that his goal is the exact opposite.
Trump’s course is an ideological turn, not a response to a catastrophe, the author concludes. The central element of Trumponomics is the complete militarization of foreign trade: from April 2025, tariffs have been imposed, with few exceptions, on the entire world. The average tariff rate has increased from 2% in 2024 to more than 16% – the highest since the 1930s. Production costs in the US are rising due to rising prices for components from Mexico, Canada, India and other countries. At the same time, the export potential of the US itself is weakening, as other countries are also introducing countervailing duties. The result is a weakening of the US middle class. Trump’s tax and social policies are a blow to the poorest. His “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” includes tax breaks for the rich and cuts to health and food aid programs. The result is an additional burden of trillions of dollars on the US budget deficit, and social inequality is only increasing. In the long run, this leads to a slowdown in US GDP growth and a decrease in wages, especially among workers, and could trigger a permanent economic downturn.
In addition to US trade isolation, Trump is actually “working” on political isolation. The institutions that served as pillars of US global leadership are being damaged. There are visa cancellations for hundreds of foreign students, attacks on Washington’s loyal vassals, and public defiance of the “rules-based order” that Americans themselves have created. Market behavior is becoming increasingly nervous, the analyst writes, which could undermine confidence in the dollar. And without this confidence, the entire US debt pyramid could collapse in a very short time. So, if Trump’s course does not change, he is capable of leading America to a systemic crisis comparable to the Great Depression – only without FDR and without prospects for recovery, Basu warns. It calls, no less, for public resistance and pressure on the White House while the US economy is still capable of stabilization.
It should be added that, in addition to the likely decline in confidence in the US ability to be stable in terms of financial and economic policy, there is another problem. The fact is that the cycle that Trump has started is extremely short-lived. In the ideal picture, as the White House sees it, the rest of the world would pay for the revival of American industry and then become a subordinate market for it. American society itself will endure. In reality, China, India, or other centers of power that already have a certain consolidation platform in the form of BRICS (and OPEC+) will not make concessions to the US for free. The one-gate game will not work. This is also because America is a hegemon only for the West. And far from the whole planet.
Erik Simon
