Early Wednesday morning, everything was ready at the West Palm Beach convention center to worship one man. Donald Trump arrived to sing his historic victory before thousands of his supporters. He went on stage, with dozens of American flags in the background, along with his family, some of his closest collaborators and JD Vance, who will be his vice president, and took the floor to offer him the greatest compliment of the night: “This is the political return largest in the history of the United States.” Trump also had words of recognition, in addition to his own and his followers – faithful, he said in his characteristic hyperbolic tone, to the “largest political movement in the history of Humanity” -, for five people: the architects of his successful campaign. presidential (the aggressive Chris LaCivita and Susan Wiles, always fearsome and always in the shadows), the mixed martial arts promoter Dana White ―who stated: “No one deserves it [el triunfo] more than him and his family”―, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., perhaps the most famous anti-vaccine in the United States, and, above all, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. “A star is born!” Trump exclaimed. “Elon!”
The billionaire – owner, among other large companies, of the electric car firm Tesla, the astronautics SpaceX and the social network a considerable proselytizing effort concentrated in the very decisive State of Pennsylvania, where he gave several rallies full of hoaxes, knocked on doors in search of voters and showered future voters with money in daily raffles that flirted with electoral crime.
In gratitude for the services provided, Trump has promised that he will have him close to his White House, not necessarily with a position in his cabinet, but as an advisor on cutting public spending: slimming the structure of the federal government is one of the great promises from the new president, who defined Musk on election night as “a supergenius.” “He is quite a character. We have to protect our geniuses. “There are not many.” The day after those compliments, Musk posted a graph on X that showed record use of the social network, while Tesla shares rose up to 15%. On voting day, after casting his ballot in Texas (he resides on the eastern coast of the State, in Boca Chica, from where he launches some of his rockets), the businessman flew in his private plane to continue counting the votes. at Trump’s mansion, in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
The future president has already named the position he plans to give to his new and most fervent ally: Spending Cut Secretary, and has spoken of a commission that would be “in charge of carrying out a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.” to make recommendations for drastic reforms.” “I look forward to serving the United States if the opportunity presents itself. “I don’t need a salary, or title, or recognition,” tweeted Musk, who promises that he will be able to make a dent in the two-trillion-dollar State apparatus. It is also expected that their businesses – which, especially SpaceX, depend to a large extent on their relationship with the Administration – will do especially well over the next four years.
The extravagant businessman, who likes to look like the comic character Tony Stark (Iron Man), He is the best-known face among the new president’s men, someone who values one virtue above the rest: loyalty. The other is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was an independent candidate until he decided to join the Republican cause. Last week he announced that he had promised him that he would have a prominent place in the management of American healthcare, specifically, federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the National Institute of Public Health (NIH).
Anti-vaccine conspiracy
The very idea caused stupor in the country’s medical and scientific establishments. The son of murdered senator Bobby Kennedy, descendant of a Democratic dynasty that has repudiated him, was one of the voices that was heard loudest during the anti-vaccine pandemic, although his crusade extends in that field beyond the coronavirus. He is also the author of a famous phrase, for which he later apologized, to refer to the obligation to be inoculated and wear masks: “Even in Hitler’s Germany, one could cross the Alps to Switzerland. Or hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”
This past Saturday it was possible to get an idea of what a health system will be like with Kennedy flying over. In X, he said that one of his first decisions as a Trump Administration official would be to recommend “all systems in the United States remove fluoride from drinking water.” That would mean ending one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century: adding a small amount of that mineral to the supply improved the dental health of millions of people. The alleged harmful effects of a health custom that began to be practiced in the 1940s count as one of the oldest known conspiracy theories.
Kennedy also considers the FDA to be a puppet of pharmaceutical companies. “Their war on public health is about to end,” he said, referring to the “aggressive suppression of [tratamientos, algunos de ellos, pseudocientíficos, con] psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating agents, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunlight, exercise, nutritional compounds and anything else that improves human health and cannot be patented by pharmaceutical companies ”. Trump’s followers trust him to end their power, and, as a supporter said this Monday at a rally in Reading (Pennsylvania) wearing a T-shirt with the slogan MAHA (for “Let’s Make America Healthy Again”) “), “improve the eating habits of children in schools.” “They are poisoning us,” he added.
Stephen Miller, an old acquaintance from his first Administration, also appears on the horizon of Trump’s return to Washington. Miller was, as a White House advisor, the architect of Trump’s racist immigration policies, which included tactics of separating minors from their families at the border, banning citizens of seven Muslim countries and ending the immigration program. DACA, which, since 2012, allows certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to enjoy a two-year period to avoid deportation and try to obtain a work permit. At the rally, full of xenophobic and violent rhetoric, that the Trump campaign gave in Madison Square Garden a couple of Sundays ago, Miller, whose oratory his critics compare to that of Joseph Goebbels, head of Nazi propaganda, declared: “The United States It is for Americans and only Americans.”
Among other names that are being talked about for the second Trump Administration, some loyal members of the party stand out (such as Florida senator Marco Rubio, a converted enemy, or ultra congresswoman Elise Stefanik); billionaire John Paulson; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who reneged before returning to the fold; or the governor of Dakota Don Burgum, whom the future president admires both for his personal fortune and his physical attractiveness. There are also many those who participated in the first round, have shown loyalty in their lowest moments and were able to survive in a work environment that, seen from the outside, resembled a true work crusher. Something that may not surprise anyone, considering that the boss became famous thanks to a reality television show whose star phrase was: “You’re fired!”
