尼日利亚《每日信报》发表了一篇题为《Trump and the 'Africanisation' of American Politics》的评论文章。

文章称，在正常情况下，任何一个民主国家的治理都只关系到它的选民。除非政府侵犯人权，或涉及战争罪行，否则他们的政策和行动不应引起外国人的关注。然而，当这个国家是美利坚合众国，其领导力影响整个世界，每个人都应该关注。

文章称，在过去，美国总统总是站在一个比非洲领导人更高的道德和智力的基础上。然而，随着唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的出现，那些日子一去不复返了。

文章称，特朗普把最糟糕的非洲领导人的所有负面特征都带进了白宫。很明显，他不适合这份工作，也没有能力胜任，他的总统任期的特点是不诚实和不明智的政策。多亏了美国的选举团制度和他支付的“闲钱”来掩盖他的罪行。尽管没有得到大多数选票，特朗普还是当选了总统。由于缺乏个性和渊博的知识，他后来暴露出他不适合担任任何国家的领导人，更不用说美国了。

文章指出，特朗普无法控制自己的情绪，经常公开攻击人们的外表，这与自由世界的领袖完全不相称。他的自恋和自恋的性格与非洲的“民主暴君”相似，这为他在美国的种族主义者、怪人和大企业大亨中赢得了大批拍马屁的支持者。难怪有爱心、有同情心、聪明的人会觉得他无礼。

文章指出，特朗普成功地把美国共和党变成了自己无原则的附庸。他支持毫不掩饰的种族主义，动员白人民族主义者，鼓励他们在种族歧视问题上更加开放，从而赢得了支持。对美国不利的是，他“非洲化”了他们的政治，把领导变成了报复性的空洞姿态。大多数世界领导人都鄙视特朗普，在他的领导下，美国已经把世界领导权让给了中国、德国、法国和俄罗斯。矛盾的是，自称热爱特朗普的尼日利亚人似乎对他明显的种族主义倾向视而不见。具有讽刺意味的是，尽管他们在自己的领导人身上表现出厌恶的特质，但他却是他们心目中的英雄。

文章指出，特朗普在他的选举基础上，任命他的关系户到那些显然不合格的公职人员，侮辱反对派领导人，从事不道德的行为，他任命的人越来越频繁地欺骗公众!  具有传奇色彩的非洲裔美国教授康奈尔·韦斯特(Cornell West)称特朗普是一个货真价实的黑帮分子，为了继续掌权，他愿意做任何事。这种描述也适用于许多削弱民主的非洲领导人。特朗普的基督教支持者无法看穿他的虚伪，因为他说自己在打一场“反对圣战的战争”，所以他们很喜欢他。

文章指出，事实是他没有做这样的事。尽管特朗普摆出一副基督徒的姿态，但他从不去教堂。他只是一个攻击穆斯林的种族主义者，因为他们往往没有白皮肤。他肤浅的“让美国再次伟大”(MAGA)口号掩盖了他缺乏深思熟虑的政策和详细的计划。这与“维护尼日利亚的领土完整”成为无知的尼日利亚政府口头禅的方式相似。

文章指出，特朗普真正的意思是让美国再次变白。他的选民基础包括那些“发现”美国、对这块土地的美国原住民犯下种族灭绝罪行、现在觉得这块土地只属于他们的白人。

文章称，精神科医生表示，目前还没有诊断自恋型人格障碍的血液测试或大脑测试，但特朗普表现出的一些明显特征包括持续的自我表扬和对批评的零容忍。他们还说，他重复的、支离破碎的、不连贯的沉思并不表明他很聪明。

文章称，特朗普有限的词汇量和过度使用形容词，如tremendous、fantastic和incredible，反映了精神病学家所说的“痴呆症前期”。特朗普对美国孤立主义、保护主义和本土主义的核心信仰一直是不被信任的哲学，内部人士称，在白宫的每一天，都是试图控制自己的过度行为。有句谚语说，广告狂人可能在短时间内说得很聪明；然而，如果让他们说话的时间足够长，他们的疯狂就会显现出来。

文章称，上周，特朗普的时代结束了，在他的COVID-19简报会上，在经历了数天的自我吹嘘、错误信息和发脾气之后，他惊人地建议美国人将有毒的漂白剂注入体内，以治疗冠状病毒。这是一个如此令人愤慨和危险的声明，以致于即使是他的死忠支持者说他们爱他，因为他总是说他的意思，也只能说他不是他说的意思!

文章称，特朗普是一个敢于在公众面前表现自己无知的人。他让人想起了已故的乌干达将军伊迪?阿明(Idi Amin)，阿明从未意识到，他的滑稽行为让聪明人嘲笑他，而不是嘲笑他。特朗普的支持者相信他，当他称冠状病毒是一个“骗局”，它将会消失。现在有5万多名美国人死亡，他拒绝承担任何责任。尽管在他的第一个任期内被弹劾，他主要关心的是不惜一切代价的连任，不管结果如何。

文章称，不幸的是，特朗普并不是一个有着冗长而毫无意义的宪法的非洲国家的总统。《美利坚合众国宪法》只有7591个字，必须全部遵守。它赋予人民权力，勾勒出真正的联邦制!尼日利亚的宪法有6万多字，赋予政府权力，但大部分都被忽略了!

文章称，特朗普从不向死者家属表示哀悼。他提到死亡人数只是为了赞扬自己，并声称如果没有他，情况会更糟。都是关于他的。这场大流行表明，对美国来说，有一位具有正义感和人性的总统是多么重要。美国的民主曾经值得效仿；现在，它正被“非洲化”，并被愚蠢的想法慢慢摧毁。

Trump and the 'Africanisation' of American Politics

Under normal circumstances, the governance of any democratic country concerns only its electorate. Unless governments are breaching human rights, or involved in war crimes, their policies and actions shouldn't concern foreigners. However, when the country is the United States of America whose leadership affects the whole world, everyone should be concerned. In bygone days, American presidents had always stood on a higher moral and intellectual ground than African leaders.

With the emergence of Donald Trump however, those days are gone. He has brought all the negative characteristics of the worst African leaders to the White House. Clearly unsuitable for the job and plainly out of his depth, his presidency has been characterised by dishonesty and ill-advised policies. Thanks to the US electoral college system and his payments of "hush-money" to hide his sins. Trump became president despite not polling the majority of votes. Lacking in character and deep knowledge, he has subsequently revealed his unsuitability to be the president of any nation let alone America. 

His inability to control his emotions and regular public attacks on people for their physical appearance is totally unbecoming of the leader of the free world. His narcissistic and self-delusional character is similar to that of African "democratic despots", and this has earned him legions of sycophantic supporters amongst America's racists, cranks and big businesses moguls. It's no surprise that caring, compassionate and intelligent people find him offensive.

He has successfully reduced the US Republican party to an unprincipled appendage of himself. He won support by espousing unconcealed racism and mobilising white nationalists, encouraging them to be more open in racial discrimination. To America's detriment he has "Africanised" their politics and turned leadership into vindictive empty posturing. Held in contempt by most world leaders, under Trump the US has abdicated world leadership to China, Germany, France and Russia. Paradoxically Nigerians who profess to love Trump seem oblivious of his evident racist inclinations. Ironically, he is their hero despite exhibiting traits they loathe in their own leaders. 

He pampers only to his electoral base, appoints his relations into public offices for which they are patently unqualified, insults opposition leaders, engages in unethical practices and his appointees deceive the public with increasing frequency! Legendary Afro-American Professor, Cornell West, described Trump as a bona-fide gangster who will do anything to remain in power. This description is also apt for many African leaders who undercut their democracies. Unable to see through his insincerity, Trump's Christian supporters love him because he says he is fighting a "war against jihad". 

The truth is he is doing no such a thing. Despite all his Christian posturing, Trump doesn't go to Church. He is simply a racist who attacks Muslims because they tend not to have white skins. His superficial "Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan conceals a lack of well thought out policies and detailed plans. It's similar to the manner in which "maintaining territorial integrity of Nigeria" has become the catchphrase of clueless Nigerian governments.

What Trump really means is make America white again. His electoral base comprises those whites who "discovered" America, committed genocide against the native American owners of the land, and now feel that the place now belongs to them alone.

Psychiatrists say that there is no diagnostic blood test or brain test to scan for narcissistic personality disorder, but there are observable traits which Trump exhibits including continuous self-praise and zero tolerance of criticism. They also say that his repetitive, fragmented and disjointed ineloquent musings do not indicate high intellect.

His limited vocabulary and overuse of adjectives like tremendous, fantastic and incredible reflect what psychiatrists refer to as "pre-dementia". Trump's core beliefs in American isolationism, protectionism and nativism are long discredited philosophies and insiders claim that every day at the White house, it's a situation of trying to control his excesses.

There is an adage that mad men may speak intelligently for a short time; however, if allowed to speak for long enough, their madness will manifest itself. Trump's time was up last week when after days of self-aggrandising, misinformation and temper tantrums at his COVID-19 briefings, he astonishingly advised Americans to inject poisonous bleach into their bodies to cure coronavirus. It was such an outrageous and dangerous statement that even his die-hard supporters who say they love him because he always says what he means, were reduced to saying that he didn't mean what he said!

He is a man who has no qualms about exhibiting his lack of knowledge in public. He is reminiscent of the late General Idi Amin of Uganda who never realised that his buffoonish behaviour made intelligent people laugh at him, not with him. Trump's supporters believed him when he called the coronavirus a "hoax" which will go away. Now that over 50,000 Americans are dead, he refuses to take any responsibility whatsoever. Despite having been impeached in his first term, his main concern is re-election at all costs no matter the consequences.

Unfortunately for him, he isn't president of an African country with a long-winded meaningless constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America contains only 7,591 words which must be observed in full. It gives power to the people and outlines true federalism! Nigeria's constitution contains over 60,000 words, gives power to government and is mostly ignored!

He never expresses condolences to the families of the dead. He only refers to the death toll to praise himself and claim it would be worse if not for him. It's always all about him. The pandemic has shown how important it is for America to have a president with a sense of decency and humanity. American democracy used to be worthy of copying; now it's being "Africanised" and slowly destroyed by the whims of the foolish.