Try GOLD - Free
Is Trump making America great or diminishing it?
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|March 02, 2025
When I was young, the Donald I associated with America was the duck. These days, it's Trump. That makes me wonder which of the two is more representative of this powerful nation?
Georges Clemenceau, who was prime minister of France both before and after World War I, thought of America in not dissimilar terms. He's reputed to have said, "America is the only country in the world to have progressed from barbarism to decadence without experiencing the intervening stage of civilisation." I wonder what he would have made of Trump?
The incredible, if not unbelievable, spat that has broken out between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky is not just unedifying but also an interesting illustration of the American President's behaviour. But to understand what happened on Friday, you need to go back to events since January.
Donald Trump called Zelensky a "dictator" who's done "a terrible job". He claims Zelensky only has 4% support even though Ukraine's own polls insist it's 57%. The 4% figure, Zelensky says, is Russian propaganda.
That's not all. Trump has dismissed Zelensky as "a modestly successful comedian", whilst accusing him of starting the Russia-Ukraine war and adding he "better move fast or he is not going to have a country left".
This story is from the March 02, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
First-word problems
What did the earliest writers write about? A new book explores letters about kings, pleas for help from a bereft mother, manuals on how to banish ghosts, as well as poems and fictional tales, classroom exercises and ancient doodles - all dating to before 1500 BCE
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Six appeal: On IPL and the era of boundary hunters
IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Bill for 3-year H-1B pause introduced in US Congress
A group of Republican lawmakers has introduced a bill in the US Congress for a three-year pause to the HI-B visa programme, contending that it has been hijacked to replace American workers with cheap foreign labour.
1 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
The fever news channels catch on counting day
‘Kya lagta hai, kaun aayega iss baar?’
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Women’s rage finds a voice and vocabulary
You couldn’t have missed it — the outpouring of women’s anger across India this month.
2 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
The deferred FCRA bill calls for a quiet burial
It'sa paradox — to put it mildly — that justas the Bharatiya Janata Party was doing its best to reach out to Christian voters in Kerala, its government in Delhi tried to pass the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill.
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
The many moods of Thundercat
BASS TO THE FUTURE
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
Prose and cons of a beloved city
Allahabad has changed over and over. In her memoir, Mamta Kalia writes of the city she knew, one of ease, informality, literary genius
3 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
It's blooming time
The body as a site of insurgency.
4 mins
April 26, 2026
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
How institutions build credibility and sustain it
Institutions endure, but their character is shaped by those who lead them, and those leaders are shaped by the circumstances of their appointment
5 mins
April 26, 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size

