A year ago, in France, I compared Trump’s presidency to Nero’s court. I was wrong. It’s actually the miracle court. A person who doesn’t believe in vaccines and used to use heroin is now the Minister of Health, he said, talking about RFK Jr.
Malhuret’s comparison to the mad Emperor Nero makes sense.
It’s said that Nero played the lyre while Rome burned. In Trump’s case, he’s building a ballroom while the whole world is on fire.
A climate-skeptic person is the Minister of Economy.
An alcoholic TV host is the Minister of the Armed Forces, Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
An old Qatar agent is the Minister of Justice.
A person who is close to Putin is the Minister of National Security, Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi once worked for a firm called Ballard Partners, which made over $115,000 a month lobbying for Qatar.
A Turkish saying goes, “When a clown moves into a palace, it doesn’t make him king, it makes the palace a circus,” said Malhuret.
“His team has decided to create a rival to the UN. Since the Board of Peace was formed, Trump has launched more military attacks than Biden did during his whole time in office.”
Every time the Epstein affair comes up, bombs go off somewhere in the world and create a distraction, he continued. “
Bomb more to win more.”
This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile trying to hide the fact that he used to prey on children with his longtime friend Jeffrey Epstein.
“There isn’t a country where Trump didn’t take advantage of the situation to get richer, without ever forgetting his family.
A Boeing plane offered by Qatar,” he said, talking about the $400 million jet that Qatar “gifted” to Trump. “Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from.”
“Any one of these conflicts of interest would have started an impeachment process here,” Malhuret said. “
But we are not here. We are in MAGA’s America where public business is done for private interests.”
Rarely have we heard such a detailed yet clear summary of the Trump administration’s criminal behavior and incompetence.
By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them unfit for office, then expanding to the broader patterns of corruption and harm, Malhuret gave a master class in political messaging.
Every major U.S. news outlet should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of their leaders.
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