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Donald Trump

Gibson Nyikadzino Correspondent
“I think some people become leaders by mistake,” once said Tanzanian analyst Edwin Mashayo.

US leader Donald Trump has in the past week been depicted as “out of touch, borderline illiterate, disrespected by his own closest advisers, sloppy with information and horrified at winning the election”. In a fast-motioned week, Trump threatened world peace when he bragged that his nuclear button is bigger than that of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, while at home he is battling credit against his former chief strategist Steve Bannon through “Fire and Fury” author, Michael Wolff.

Trump’s administration has been telling North Korea that “it is begging for war” and Trump promising “fire and fury”. China, as North Korea’s major ally, has called on both parties to exercise restraint, announcing the region does not want any disturbances.

Trump, in his threatening Twitter diplomacy mood, announced that “the United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.” In the Middle-East, Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds has bolstered the turbulence hitting his presidency, and the decision may spark violence across the region, which has not been seen in many years.

Amidst all this painful global drama, Wolff had this to say about Trump: “They say he’s a moron, an idiot. Actually, there’s a competition to sort of get to the bottom line here of who this man is.

“Let’s remember, this man does not read, does not listen, so he’s like a pinball just shooting off the sides.” For consideration, China and India for a long time have been at each other’s throat because of Dokalam.

At the Brics last meeting, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping held their first bilateral meeting in China’s port city of Xiamen. President Xi told Modi that “healthy, stable ties” are necessary.

The whole world has been put in the dock by Donald Trump. The US is prosecuting the world. To Trump, the whole world remains “guilty until proven guilty”. Last year, Trump said he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I (already) had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”

No matter how much other countries seek to change the course of the world for the better, to only one country, better should come through chaos. The late Roman Catholic church pontiff John Paul II once said: “Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.” As the world grapples with how it can end all vices threatening humanity, there are some protagonists who are advocating for chaos.

There is too much global policing of events by Trump over issues that concern the sovereignty of other states. Trump is working against the core values of global peace, he does not take advice and he is becoming a representation of everything wrong in the world. In a letter written to Trump by his predecessor, Barack Obama, it had nuggets that could be useful to save the world that is being taken to the brink of annihilating centuries old civilisations by Trump. Obama urged Trump to consider policies that would advance the ideal of equal opportunity.

“It’s up to us to do everything we can to build more ladders of success for every child and family that’s willing to work hard,” he wrote. The world has been put at risk because of Trump’s seemingly unwise and his incapability of logical thinking that guides a trajectory for a peaceful world. If stupidity could be what is basic to all that is Trump, Pope John Paul II can be vindicated, it is a gift of God.