Trump triumphs but leaves lingering shadow of a tramp

Trump, triumph and the tramp -either of the three words can be a representative epithet for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the next presidential race in the United States of America. Trump in cards game carries the highest value. A player possessing the same has the advantage of trumping any other cards. He had indeed trumped all his party opponents for the presidential race. 

The American intelligentsia may not endorse the radical and offensive views of Donald Trump but this did not stand in his way of triumphing over his rivals in the Republican fold. Allegations of misogyny, religious and racial hatred were already there. The latest is the fraud suit against the university named after him. But nothing could deter him or prove to be a reversal for the man bent on running for the world's most powerful position.

The Tramp or the Little Tramp is Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, an icon in world cinema. Trump too is iconic in that sense and pretends to be someone he actually is not like Chaplin's character. But then like the Little Tramp, Trump also uses his shrewdness to get what he desires. 

The trump, triumph, tramp combination is a formidable force indeed. Miss American contestants and his women employees may call Donald Trump a misogynist who has treated them 'like cattle' when Trump's company sponsored the beauty pageant in 2013. There are others who  have simply started worshipping him now. A Hindu radical group in India called Hindu Sena have found in him a 'saviour of humanity' because of his inflammatory statements against the Muslims. The group celebrated Trump's 70th birthday in New Delhi, hoping that the man would become the 'king of the world' soon. 

Unsurprisingly, Trump has not been hesitant to declare his fondness for Kim Jong Un. Once he said he would host the North Korean dictator at the White House. His intention of pulling American troops out of South Korea is also an indication of his eccentricity. On the other side, Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed Trump as a US presidential contender. 

The world in general, however, shudders to think that a man of Trump's credentials makes it to the White House next. Although he is trailing Hilary Clinton in opinion polls, there is no knowing if he won't have the last laugh like he did over his Republican rivals for party nomination. 

Politics, it is said, is for the mediocre. But now the world over, it seems to be for the temperamental, the eccentric, the paranoid, the capricious and even the abnormal. In an unusually charged but hollow political environment like this, anything can happen. There is nothing to be surprised if more Kim Jong Uns join the rank of world leaders in the near future. Already, the climate is in turmoil. If people supposed to matter most also feel encouraged to go with the wind, the world surely has to brace for unprecedented danger.