Donald Trump

Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2017.

Donald John Trump is a New Yorker and paleoconservative. Known for his anti-Deep State populism, Donald Trump founded the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement in 2015 and revived the paleoconservative faction of the Republican Party (GOP). (POTUS) in the 2016 American presidential election, however failed to be reelected due to electoral fraud in the 2020 American presidential election. He is again running for reelection in the upcoming 2024 American presidential election. He was indicted and apprehended multiple times in 2023 as part of an attempt by the Deep State to silence MAGA and maintain the political hegemony of the Deep State.

Presidency

Donald Trump giving his inauguration speech in 2017.

Donald Trump was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2017. At his inauguration, Trump gave what is arguably the most famous speach of the MAGA movement, expressing his intent to "make America great again" in front of a crowd of 600,000 people (and another 30.6 million people watching via live television). Taking heavy inspiration from the inaugural address of John F. Kennedy, his inaurgural speech was 16 minutes long with 1,443 words. The speech utilized patriotic and populist rhetoric, and emphasized the need to end the "American carnage" that was turning the United States into a dystopia of "abandoned factories, economic angst, rising crime."

Politics

Main article: Ideology of Donald Trump

Anti-imperialism

Donald Trump supports the diplomatic efforts of anti-imperialist countries such as Russia and China, advocates for pulling US forces out of the Middle East, and threatens the Deep State. In 2023, regarding the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Trump claimed that NATO and Ukraine are to blame for the existence of a war between Russia and Ukraine.

MAGA Movement

MAGA Communism

MAGA Communism is a meme from the Infrared community that took Twitter by storm by trending. Many people on Twitter were confused, calling it a contradictory mix of left and right. In fact, the meme is drawing attention to the absurdity and shallowness of the supposed left-right spectrum which has lost all meaning. The true divide is anti-hegemonic (to which the working class base of MAGA belongs) vs hegemonic (the American unipolar empire and globalism). The core of this divide has always been class struggle.

Maoism

Donald Trump depicted as the leader of a Second American Revolution

The movement of Donald Trump is sometimes compared to Maoism. The accusation is that Trump, much like Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War, has organized the proletariat and the peasantry into a united front against the bourgeoisie.