How Trump Turned The Far Right From Fashionable To Toxic

For decades, Donald Trump treated politics like branding — loud, polarising, and built on dominance. Now, in his second term, that brand is starting to curdle. Instead of exporting confidence, strength and aspiration, Trump’s America is exporting fear, instability and a warning label. Across the world, the far-right movement he helped energise is beginning to lose its shine.

The shift is visible even in places once thought susceptible to Trumpian swagger. In Greenland, after sustained US pressure to acquire the island, an overwhelming 85 per cent of residents rejected the idea. Not because of affection for Denmark — a former colonial ruler with a troubled record — but because Trump’s America now looks less like a partner and more like an authoritarian gamble. Offers of cash payments failed to change minds. The problem was not money. It was trust.

That pattern is repeating elsewhere. Trump’s governing style increasingly resembles the illiberal regimes of Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Viktor Orbán — systems marked by weakened institutions, eroded rule of law and entrenched political hierarchies. In each case, young people flee, investment suffers and corruption flourishes. Hierarchy, once sold as “order,” quickly becomes domination.

Britain offered an early warning with Brexit. Sold as a nationalist revival, it delivered economic stagnation, strained public services and fractured politics. The failure was so stark that most European far-right parties have quietly abandoned talk of EU exits. Trump’s America now plays a similar role on a global scale — but with far greater visibility.

Even conservatives in allied nations are taking note. Canadian voters rallied behind Mark Carney’s Liberals. Right-wing figures in Britain and France openly criticised Trump’s Greenland rhetoric. Even Moscow showed discomfort at the prospect of a world governed purely by brute force, where even free riders can become prey.

At home, the illusion is cracking too. Farmers squeezed by tariffs, rural voters losing healthcare, and Latino communities caught in sweeping crackdowns are discovering that “America First” often means uncertainty first. Trump’s promise of dignity through dominance is delivering symbolic humiliation instead.

Trump may yet damage US democracy irreparably. But globally, his presidency is becoming a live demonstration of far-right governance — and it is not selling well. Just as Brexit ultimately strengthened support for the EU, Trump’s America may weaken the appeal of authoritarian politics far beyond its borders.

Key Takeaways

• Trump’s second term is damaging the global far-right brand, turning it from aspirational to cautionary.

• Authoritarian politics promise order but deliver instability, economic decline and loss of personal security.

• Trump’s America may ultimately strengthen liberal democracy abroad by showing voters what far-right rule really looks like.

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On 2/10/2026 at 2:50 PM, Social Media said:

For decades, Donald Trump treated politics like branding — loud, polarising, and built on dominance. Now, in his second term, that brand is starting to curdle. Instead of exporting confidence, strength and aspiration, Trump’s America is exporting fear, instability and a warning label. Across the world, the far-right movement he helped energise is beginning to lose its shine.

As if that wasn't enough the decisions made by trump are VERY suspect and look like a move to save the trump "brand" and the direction in which the MAGA and USA are heading are summed up in this article........

This is the reality of Donald Trump’s sweeping January 6 pardons.

Andrew Paul Johnson — a Florida man who stormed the U.S. Capitol, called himself an “American Terrorist” and a “Proud J6er,” and was later pardoned by Trump — has now been convicted of multiple counts of child molestation and lewd conduct involving minors.

A jury in Hernando County found Johnson guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16. Prosecutors say the abuse happened over a “many-month span.” One victim was just 11 years old.

Let that sink in.

This is one of the men Trump described as a “patriot.” One of the “peaceful” people whom he insisted were treated unfairly. After Johnson served a year in prison for breaking into the Capitol — entering through a shattered window and yelling at police — Trump handed him a pardon as part of his blanket forgiveness for January 6 defendants.

Now Johnson faces up to life in prison.

According to police reports, Johnson allegedly tried to bribe one of his victims into silence, claiming he expected to receive $10 million from the Trump administration as “restitution” for January 6 defendants — and promising to share the money.

This isn’t an isolated case. Several pardoned Capitol rioters have since faced new charges — including possession of child sexual abuse material and violent threats against elected officials.

But the White House has stayed silent.

Trump has repeatedly called the more than 1,500 people charged in the Capitol attack “great people.” He has floated the idea of compensating them. He pardoned virtually all of them. And now the consequences are playing out in courtrooms across the country.

A pardon is not an endorsement of future crimes. But it is a statement of judgment.

The first Trump presidency was a disaster, the second is even worse.

I just hope Trump who leading with a good example changes the world for the better, by not doing as he do and his government. It is a freak show every day coming out of the White house and the congress.

Mabye the saturday night live show will dissapear because of the competition?

Trump and the new Japanese PM seem like best buddies.

Seems they are on the same wavelength.

https://www.politico.eu/article/chase-us-president-donald-trump-europe-politician-giorgia-meloni-viktor-orban-nigel-farage-eric-zemmour

The European MAGA crowd

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 

For 6 Republican Senators to break rank and vote against his Canada tariffs speaks volumes. That REALLY pi$$ed him off, too! He's threatened to "primary" each one of them.

I believe the Epstein coverup (and at this point there's no other way to describe it) will be the feather that breaks the camel's back. When you lose Joe Rogan's support, you're doomed.

I also firmly believe politicians on both sides of the aisle see the dam breaking and are grabbing as much gravy as their grasping little fingers can pull in before the adults return and accountability resumes. It's looking more likely each passing day that Democrats will retake both the House and the Senate. Interesting times in which we live.

"Is The World Is Falling Out Of Love With Trump"

I never realized that "the world" has ever fallen in love with the criminal in chief.

Except you would call Meloni, Orban and Farage the world...

Oh yeah. Big time. Americans, many Trump voters, and the world are really starting to figure out just who this guy is, and it's nothing even remotely similar to what he represented himself to be.

Whenever a MAGA devotee has nothing to say, and no reasonable argument to put forth, they revert to criticism of Biden, Obama or Clinton.

The irony is that Clinton was a genius when it came to running the economy, and Trump is a total failure, job losses, whipsaw tariff policy, many based on personal vendettas, failed trade deals, consistently getting outsmarted by American allies and adversaries both, price hikes, and the most expensive cars in history.

Trump tapped into the popular sentiment, people don't want to be told how to think, how to talk and how to behave, and that in and of itself is something that the Democrats have to learn. Yet to date I've seen no indication that they've expressed any interest in reform. They're talking about another run for Harris in 2028. Are they completely tone deaf? Are they completely dumb. She would be the last person in the world to consider for another run unless the Democrats are interested in long-term irrelevance.

And lastly it's the economy, Don campaigned with lots of promises to fix the economy, and he's done nothing but make it worse with his ridiculously dumb tariff policies. Groceries are getting more expensive, inflation continues unabated (despite very fake government numbers) and the cost of living continues to rise and cause much pain for the average American.

Don's presidency gets an F mark, so far.

On 2/13/2026 at 2:12 PM, Schoggibueb said:

Except you would call Meloni, Orban and Farage the world...

Meloni is putting measures in place to avoid a similar fate of problems with mass migration that other European countries did not manage well.

The Swedish prime minister has even openly admitted that their immigration policies have failed.

I am guessing Meloni has been influenced by Trump or at least they're on a similar page on this issue. Trump was outspoken to EU leaders on this matter a few weeks back.

To be completely and totally against every single word Trump utters is to be biased, non-objective, narrow-minded, and ignorant.

I think it's safe to say that there are very few that ever loved Trump, including his wives, however he's tolerated for a variety of reasons and some people thought that he was going to actually do some productive things for the US economy. In reality he's just become a human disaster and a ticking time bomb for the world economy and the American economy both.

The man is an utter disaster and there's nothing about him that's likeable.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

Unappealing, unattractive, idiotic, incompetent, hateful, hurtful, abrasive, rude, blowhard, liar, cheater, thief, infantile, failure, loser, fraud, sexual abuser, incestuous, tax cheat, insurrectionist, un-American, dictator-loving dictator wannabe, out of control, sociopathic, convicted felon, toxic narcissist & brutish A-hole.

Trump is simply seething right now. He is striking out at all his perceived enemies. This could not be happening at a better time. He did not give a state of the union speech last year. Tuesday the 24th he will deliver his, and it should be a doozy. There is no way in the world he is going to stay on point. So some big time exposure for him is coming up. What the heck will happen once he opens his mouth and begins to talk?

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58 minutes ago, marin said:

What the heck will happen once he opens his mouth and begins to talk?

He will declassify UFO files?

He he ...

Trump directs US government to prepare release of files o...

Trump says he will seek release of files on extraterrestrials, "based on the tremendous interest shown".

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

He will declassify UFO files?

He he ...

Trump directs US government to prepare release of files o...

Trump says he will seek release of files on extraterrestrials, "based on the tremendous interest shown".

The X-Files, anything but the Epstein Files!

1 hour ago, marin said:

Trump is simply seething right now. He is striking out at all his perceived enemies. This could not be happening at a better time. He did not give a state of the union speech last year. Tuesday the 24th he will deliver his, and it should be a doozy. There is no way in the world he is going to stay on point. So some big time exposure for him is coming up. What the heck will happen once he opens his mouth and begins to talk?

I agree we're likely to see some fresh new material to work with. His decline seems to be happening on a daily basis and his senility seems to be rapidly increasing. Want more like these?

"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"

During a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”

Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the number killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine. Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”

A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.

Trump recalled: “I said: ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ‘Seriously, good.’ He said: ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

“The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it’s told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he’s remembering it,” Segal said. “This level of thinking really has been deteriorating.”

I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

“Any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance,” Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He added: “If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I agree we're likely to see some fresh new material to work with. His decline seems to be happening on a daily basis and his senility seems to be rapidly increasing. Want more like these?

"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"

During a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”

Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the number killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine. Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”

A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.

Trump recalled: “I said: ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ‘Seriously, good.’ He said: ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

“The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it’s told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he’s remembering it,” Segal said. “This level of thinking really has been deteriorating.”

I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

“Any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance,” Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He added: “If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”

It's not new. It's been covered up by the right-wing for years. They should be held accountable for that! 😆

4 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Meloni is putting measures in place to avoid a similar fate of problems with mass migration that other European countries did not manage well.

The Swedish prime minister has even openly admitted that their immigration policies have failed.

I am guessing Meloni has been influenced by Trump or at least they're on a similar page on this issue. Trump was outspoken to EU leaders on this matter a few weeks back.

To be completely and totally against every single word Trump utters is to be biased, non-objective, narrow-minded, and ignorant.

I disagree, sometimes one encounters such stunning levels of ignorance, arrogance, hubris, such extreme lack of education, such devastating amounts of illiteracy and moronic behavior, packed into one spectacularly ugly and toxic package, referred to as a human being, and when that happens every word, every utterance, every gesture, needs to be ignored with a passion. And completely dismissed as you know exactly where this disinformation is coming from.

Trump makes Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart look absolutely sincere and completely righteous.

24 minutes ago, candide said:

It's not new. It's been covered up by the right-wing for years. They should be held accountable for that! 😆

The left would NEVER cover up a leftie Presidents obvious dementia, and they certainly wouldnt censor discussion of this obvious dementia on political forums, so you have a good point for once🤣

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

The left would NEVER cover up a leftie Presidents obvious dementia, so you have a good point for once🤣

Lol! You all used to rant about an alleged Biden's health cover up, and Trump's case is much worse! 😃

Just now, candide said:

Lol! You all used to rant about an alleged Biden's health cover up, and Trump's case is much worse! 😃

And certainly more dangerous given Trump's erratic use of executive power and other decisions he seems to make at random!

At least Biden's administration was maintained on apparently "normal" procedures and decision making processes that did not upset and disrupt a large section of the world.

20 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

The left would NEVER cover up a leftie Presidents obvious dementia, and they certainly wouldnt censor discussion of this obvious dementia on political forums, so you have a good point for once🤣

I am glad that you agree!

for me, it went the other way around, after he cancelled the endangerment finding

President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Craig Rucker said in a statement to The Center Square that “at its core, the Endangerment Finding defies basic science and common sense.”

“CO2, the odorless, colorless, gas you just exhaled, is essential to life,” Rucker said. “It is what plants rely on for photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food.”

“We are all made of that carbon,” Rucker stated; thus, labeling CO2 “a ‘pollutant’ is absurd, akin to declaring water vapor a threat.”

Rucker said that “a rigorous cost/benefit analysis reveals the folly: trillions in economic costs from climate mandates that yield no meaningful environmental benefits, stifle innovation, jobs, and energy independence and distract from genuine environmental priorities.”

Similar to Rucker, president of the Heartland Institute James Taylor told The Center Square in a statement that the Endangerment Finding defied science.

“CO2 is the gift of life for planet Earth, not a pollutant or a threat to public health and welfare,” Rucker said.

If Democrats gain a House majority in the November 2026 midterms (polls currently show them leading by 3-7 points in the generic ballot, with projections favoring Democratic control at ~60-80% probability), it's highly likely they'd pursue impeachment over the SCOTUS-ruled illegal tariffs, abuse of power claims, and other controversies like DOJ actions against opponents.

Conviction in the Senate would still require a 2/3 vote, which is less probable without major shifts.

47 minutes ago, mordothailand said:

for me, it went the other way around, after he cancelled the endangerment finding

President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Craig Rucker said in a statement to The Center Square that “at its core, the Endangerment Finding defies basic science and common sense.”

“CO2, the odorless, colorless, gas you just exhaled, is essential to life,” Rucker said. “It is what plants rely on for photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food.”

“We are all made of that carbon,” Rucker stated; thus, labeling CO2 “a ‘pollutant’ is absurd, akin to declaring water vapor a threat.”

Rucker said that “a rigorous cost/benefit analysis reveals the folly: trillions in economic costs from climate mandates that yield no meaningful environmental benefits, stifle innovation, jobs, and energy independence and distract from genuine environmental priorities.”

Similar to Rucker, president of the Heartland Institute James Taylor told The Center Square in a statement that the Endangerment Finding defied science.

“CO2 is the gift of life for planet Earth, not a pollutant or a threat to public health and welfare,” Rucker said.

Off topic non science.

8 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Off topic non science.

the topic is: Is The World Is Falling Out Of Love With Trump

i am part of the world, and for me it went the other way around, after he terminated the finding that defied science,

and i am certain im not the only one

Inbound tourism is not good now with canadians turning away us travel

15 hours ago, mordothailand said:

the topic is: Is The World Is Falling Out Of Love With Trump

i am part of the world, and for me it went the other way around, after he terminated the finding that defied science,

and i am certain im not the only one

Plenty of threads to spout your opinion based on non science.

There is only one way that I can see the words Trump and love together. "Trumps loves himself."

He does not seem to care for anyone other than himself. All we ever hear is "me, me, me."

20 minutes ago, phetphet said:

He does not seem to care for anyone other than himself. All we ever hear is "me, me, me."

Or maybe you don't understand anything about what he's doing.

Maybe you need to get off TikTok.