Into the 'golden age' we go with Donald Trump's coalition of cronies and creeps | Marina Hyde

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Well, last Friday, Trump launched a meme coin which reached a market capitalisation of $4.8bn inside of four hours.
57% : By way of background music that actually functioned, there seemed to be a competition between the incoming and outgoing presidents to determine who could issue the most disgraceful pardons, with Trump gifting exoneration to 1,500 of the January 6 rioters like some sort of insurrection Wonka.
56% : Among his withdrawals on Monday were the Paris climate agreement, and the World Health Organization, a body which seems to have been about as prepared for this news as it was for the Covid pandemic.
51% : But on to Musk, slated to head up the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which was sued no fewer than four times within its first hours of the Trump administration's existence, perhaps to be expected in a country where there are far more lawyers than physicians.
48% : I would honestly have preferred Trump to ride in on the QAnon shaman.
43% : At his inauguration yesterday, Trump seated the tech bosses, his nerd broligarchy, in front of his supposed cabinet.
43% : One thing I can already live without is a rapidly decomposing banquet of the world's politicians droning on about "reality" and declaring reedily that they are "ready to work with Trump".
35% : The intimation that this is the only "grownup" position doesn't really account for what many people believe is the most salient fact: that Trump is not a brash but necessary guy, but a serious pox on humanity.
34% : The day marked a personal tipping point for Trump, who has now pulled out of more international agreements than Playmates.
25% : Over in the Oval Office, meanwhile, the Diet Coke button has been restored - the least imaginative red button ever to grace a strongman's desk - along with busts and paintings of admired politicians who are too dead to be able to tell Trump precisely how much they'd have hated him.
21% : Maybe we should substitute the word Trump for a harmful affliction, and see if that feels clarifying in terms of the futility of appeasing him.

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