Within one week of his inauguration, Donald Trump has shattered the international liberal consensus.
Yesterday, following two deportation fights, a Colombian socialist president refused to have his own criminals back.
But within minutes, the aggressive social media diplomacy began.
The President announced Colombia would face 25 per cent tariffs increasing to 50 per cent after a week, a ban of Colombian Government officials, visa and financial sanctions and enhanced customs checks.
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Minutes later, the Socialist Colombian President backed down, prompting Donald Trump to post a photograph on truth social.
Unfortunately, I don’t know what [FAFO] stands for but will be able to consult my children later.
What Donald Trump has proved within a week is that the Western world does not have to submit to manage decline.
He is proving that the idea that if illegal migrants come to the UK, they have to stay, is untrue.
We could leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and sanction home countries if they refuse to accept their own people back.
He is also proving that ballooning public spending isn’t inevitable either, with his new department for government efficiency, Doge, which we tried to do here when I was the Minister for government efficiency.
We had a plan to cut almost 100,000 civil servants before Boris was ousted. And he’s proving that taxes don’t need to increase constantly with his extension of the corporation tax cut.
But above all, he’s proving that the age of liberal, masochistic elitism is over.
We must bring an end to self-flagellation, the national embarrassment, the hesitancy to be proud of who we are and assert ourselves, both domestically and on the world stage.
Trump has reminded us that we don’t have to choose the path of decline, that the golden age of the Western world doesn’t have to come to an end.
The sooner the British government understands this, the better.