Thomas Munson 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

Voters have had enough of what I can only call Trump’s Third World vibe. His territorial claims on neighbours and his petty insistence on renaming lakes and oceans, his obsession with building monstrous triumphal arches, his refusal to understand the difference between the Nobel Prize Committee and the Norwegian state (“a shithouse country”), his demands that political opponents be locked up; and, now, his overt electoral bribery, his offer to send a $5,000 cheque to every American if the Republicans hold Congress. Nowhere is the Third Worldery more visible than in the way the president’s coterie has grown rich in office. The gifts from foreign governments, the digital currency racket – these would, until an eye-blink ago, have been unthinkable in the US. A handy test of whether you are in a tinpot autocracy is that the richest people are not entrepreneurs but presidential cronies. Paywall down. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…