to have lost the popular vote but became president through the backdoor offered by the Electoral College. He is also among the only three who lost popular and electoral votes twice. You see, if democracy were a game of numbers, our man was just a pretender because he never won an election.
Yet this kind of man has an immense following. But so were Hitler and Mussolini. He has taken hold of his party by the jugular, and sadly, it has lost in places it has been winning for years. While the veil is lifting from his supporters’ eyes in America, with some crying for pardon or committing suicide, his Nigerian supporters are further digging in. As if afflicted with a slave mentality, they will choose Trump over their fellow African, Obama. They will hail the racist, who didn’t want a Nigerian to head the WTO, over Joe Biden, who has so far appointed three—and counting—of their countrymen into his administration.
They mimic Trump even in speech and writing. Coming from a background that always sees village people, witches, and wizards as those hindering their prosperity, they claim Trump is a saint fighting the Illuminati! They shuffle around Ajegunle or Surulere, Aba or Kano, everywhere they are, in bathroom slippers, wearing three-quarter-length trousers, hustling to survive to the next day. Yet you hear them calling Joe Biden “sleepy Joe” in mimicry of their Illuminati fighting deity. They can insult their parents over the gadfly. Those trying to stop him from bumbling are hated by them. If they could have their way, Nancy Pelosi would not be breathing today.
Between November last year and the first week of January this year, they were all over the social media space. They were the ones shouting, “We have won Pennsylvania; the Supreme Court will declare us; wait and see.” Or that they had burned the midnight incense for victory, behaving as if they could command God. Their self-delusion makes me recall Musa, a Manchester United supporter in Damaturu. He will look at me in the face and say, “We will buy Ronaldo” or “We will win the League Cup.” We!
Trumpism will remain in America because of the supremacists who see “others” taking over “our America.” But the Republican Party will regenerate and, in doing so, do away with its Retrumplicans if it hopes to survive. As for the Nigerian Trumpideens, they will soon find another renegade to latch on to.
By and large, Trump’s stormy life is a book written by God for people, especially leaders, to take heed and learn lessons. No matter how long it takes, no matter the applause, just as life on earth is temporary, so are the trappings of office.
God, the Ever Wise and Ever Strong, can bless any man He feels like with all blessings and place him among the stars, high above all others, to show that only He can. After all, Trump did not win the election in the strict sense of the word the first time, but God gave it to him, and his opponents accepted His will, saying, “May thy will be done, oh God!” God does everything for a purpose. If the man acknowledges the Lord’s favours and does good, he does good for himself. If he does bad, he does it to himself too.”
But the Creator of man always yanks the rug of blessings from under the feet of the narcissist leader who loves people or hates them based on tongue and, as a result, causes division among them. His curse will visit them either in power or out of it. And like the cookie, they will crumble in humiliation. And the people will witness it until another comes on stage. It is cyclical—the history of the world.
