The global rule of law is not collapsing – Trump is the lone problem and he can be defeated | Simon Tisdall

2026-01-25 - 21:05

The president’s approval ratings are plummeting and most Americans see him as an aberration. It is now up to them to curtail his despotic reign Donald Trump is a monster, and a stupid one at that – as his foul slander of British soldiers who served in Afghanistan shows. His bid to seize loyal ally Denmark’s sovereign territory; his norm-shattering, profoundly ignorant speech in Davos last week; and his contemptuous bullying of UK and EU leaders have definitively demonstrated what an existential, unappeasable, unspeakable menace the 47th US president truly is. All