Trump overseeing 'rogue state' that 'demands compliance' from the world: columnist

Donald Trump is overseeing a "rogue state" administration which "demands compliance" from countries all over the world, a political analyst has suggested.

The president's desire to take over Greenland and run the oil refineries in Venezuela has prompted columnist Aditya Chakrabortty to suggest Trump is making theatrics the aim of his second term in office. Writing in The Guardian, Chakrabortty called on political parties the world over to condemn the administration as "a rogue state".

He wrote, "Any other country that did this wouldn’t receive indulgent op-eds about its 'gunboat diplomacy' – it would rightly be condemned as a rogue state, and its oligarchs’ foreign assets impounded. The absence of such action is the true 'Trump derangement syndrome'."

Both Greenland and Venezuela were profiled by Chakrabortty, with both countries showing what Trump wants from the world and how he will go about getting "compliance" from nations in the way of his administration's goal.

Chakrabortty added, "Next, we are confidently assured, the US president will annex Greenland. Yet this is not an administration that wants to colonise; instead it demands compliance. The new bosses in Venezuela are the same old bosses, the same henchmen and yes-men, only now with the No 2 running the show."

"This isn’t 'imperialism', not a new US protectorate nor some southern principality for son-in-law Jared, but something much cheaper and less onerous to the Oval Office: rule by remote control."

The columnist went on to say Trump's focus should be on domestic affairs, not world order. He wrote, "Will Trump rule Venezuela, or Greenland? It would make a change if he ruled the US. The president is a fair way through his second term in office, yet we are still to see Trumpism in one country, let alone around the world."

"For all the rhetoric and locker-room bullying, Trump’s time in office has been about dismembering the government – even that vital task outsourced, to Elon Musk and his chainsaw – and setting troops on Democratic cities he doesn’t like, then blustering his way through a federal shutdown."