This is the story of a man who continues to amaze the world. By winning the keys to the White House for the second time, Donald Trump continues to make a splash in the history of the United States.
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Eight years after creating the biggest modern political surprise, four years after leaving power in unimaginable chaos, the Republican with the emblematic red tie is making a return to the head of the country in an absolutely unprecedented scenario.
With the support of tens of millions of Americans, the stormy septuagenarian, whose fall has been predicted a thousand times, projects the image of a completely unsinkable man.
As if by dint of accumulation, his indictments, his convictions, his dismissal procedures, no longer had the slightest effect on him.
With formidable political flair and an ability to free himself, one by one, from all norms, Donald Trump has survived everything.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone without losing a single voter,” he said in 2016 in a now famous formula.
Abandoned by his camp after the assault led by his supporters against the Capitol, the 78-year-old man with curious blond hair regained total control over his party in four years.
During the Republican convention in mid-July, the orange-skinned billionaire attended with great pleasure the parade of his former rivals, all of whom came to sing his praises on stage.
Assassination attempts
Then to the spectacle of activists wearing a white bandage, in a nod to the one affixed to his right ear just after the shootings which targeted him in Pennsylvania.
The image of Donald Trump, getting up, his face bloodied and his fist raised, will undoubtedly remain the most striking of his third campaign.
His “Fight!, Fight!, Fight!” (“Fight!”) launched to the crowd while Secret Service agents evacuated him became a rallying cry for his supporters, always convinced that the billionaire understands their daily difficulties better than anyone.
Endowed with a real talent as a tribune, the New Yorker has achieved the feat of positioning himself for nine years as a “spokesperson” for these Americans — mostly white and rather elderly — whom he convinced by speaking about immigrants “poisoning” the blood of the United States and “shit” Democrats.
Contrary to the legend he built for himself, however, he is not a “self-made man”.
His father had already built an empire in New York by constructing buildings for the middle class in working-class neighborhoods after World War II.
Second mandate
Born in 1946, Donald Trump took over the reins of the company in the 1970s with a solid financial boost and made a place for himself in American homes thanks to the reality TV show “The Apprentice”.
Coming to power in 2017 in a scenario that almost no one predicted, he systematically refused to take on the role of unifier.
From the White House, the man with an imposing physique delivered the spectacle of a president freeing himself from all conventions in front of enthusiastic, stunned or frightened Americans.
In the name of “America First”, he has bullied the allies of the United States, engaged in an unpredictable escalation with Iran on nuclear power, demonstrated a disturbing fascination with authoritarian leaders, from Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong Un.
The Republican reshuffled the Supreme Court to his liking, delivering a resounding victory to conservatives on abortion. He tested the limits of democratic institutions, insulted the press.
His first term remained tarnished by his inability to get re-elected in 2020.
Her victory against Kamala Harris serves as revenge for her supporters; a blow to his opponents, convinced that they had definitively closed the Trump parenthesis.
Quite the contrary: the Republican continues to write a unique page in the history of the country.
