"Krone" commentary
America First is America alone
"The strong are most powerful alone." Donald Trump is acting on this quote, although he certainly doesn't know its author: Friedrich Schiller - "William Tell". The Swiss national hero is probably very much to the taste of this president, who has recently been portraying himself as a king with a crown - of a state whose foundation goes back to the rejection of any kind of monarch. Trump goes one better and quotes Napoleon: "He who saves his country violates no law."
In this kind of selfishness, Trump is offending old friends by the dozen, burning old bridges between America and Europe and launching a war against international organizations. On the other hand, he is flirting with other autocrats such as Kremlin boss Putin. Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull remembers encounters between Trump and Putin: "He behaved like a 12-year-old on the sports field, idolizing the captain of a famous soccer team like a hero - really strange."
Meanwhile, Trump's Vice President Vance warns the Europeans: "There's a new sheriff in Washington now." Yes, but he's shooting in the wrong direction. That makes him a target for snipers, for example from Beijing.
It can't end well if the (still?) strongest nation in the world races through this world like a ghost driver.
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