The Trump Caesarship
Paul Craig Roberts
Trump has a disapproval rating of 61%, which indicates that many MAGA Americans have turned against him. Trump brought this rejection of his presidency on himself by renewing America’s 21st century fight for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel–from the Nile to Pakistan.
The millions of displaced persons from Washington’s 21st century wars for Greater Israel resulting in the destruction of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Palestine are changing the politics of Europe and America where these displaced persons have taken root and are entering politics and media.
Yesterday on July 16, the Washington Post reported that more than 100 House Democrats voted to cut off military aid to Israel for fiscal year 2027. That would mean a lack of US dollars for Israel to use to repurchase, as it annually does, the US Government with political campaign donations by which Israel uses our money to buy our government. The vote indicates that Israel’s rule of the United States is running into difficulties. The pressure is on the Israel-worshipping Republicans, bought and paid for with AIPAC political campaign contributions provided by Washington’s annual payments to Israel, to pass AIPAC’s bill that criminalizes any criticism of Israel, including the implied criticism of non-support of Israel. The Israel Lobby is desperate to create law that would lead to the arrest of Democrat elected officials who do not support Israel’s agendas and crimes. The Republicans have shown their determination to sacrifice American interests, money, lives, and the First Amendment for Israel.
By renewing at Netanyahu’s insistence Washington’s war against opponents to Great Israel–principally Iran and the southern Lebanon militia Hezbollah, Trump is further endangering his administration. For example, when was the last time you saw anyone wearing a MAGA hat?
For years I have pointed out, to no avail, that the failure of American democracy was turning the head of the executive branch into a Caesar, as happened in Rome. When democracy fails, as the American one has, a Caesar becomes necessary.
Trump is already adopting the posture of a Caesar. Rome under the Caesars had their portraits on the coinage. Trump has adopted this sign of Caesarship. The US Mint is to produce a one dollar coin with Trump’s image.
The Roman Caesars ruled by force, by violence, and this is Trump’s approach. In his latest outburst, Trump claimed that everything in Iran, not just the oil, belongs to America. He has annexed Venezuela’s oil and government. He claims Greenland which is part of Denmark a US and NATO ally. He claims Cuba, and perhaps Canada and Mexico.
For a person of my generation, which is rapidly dying out, these are incomprehensible claims. This is nothing we have ever previously seen. And the youth know no better. It is what they are born into. To them it is normal.
As the rising generations see this as normal, what is there to stop it?
The Republican Party is not an American party. It is an Israeli Party: https://reason.com/2026/07/16/thomas-massie-sparks-a-democratic-civil-war-over-israel/?mc_eid=b0a2efcaec&utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=edb655c764-reason_brand%7Cnew_at_reason%7C2026_07_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-edb655c764-589981256
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History, by the Numbers
https://reason.com/2026/07/09/the-most-corrupt-presidency-in-american-history-by-the-numbers/