"But now, in his second term, he's morphed into Donald of Deliria. He's mad to make the military do his bidding. I got power, too' At a White House ceremony Thursday honoring the Florida Panthers, the Stanley Cup champions, Trump mused about the players flanking him: Young, beautiful people. I hate them. You hate standing here with all this power behind you. But I got power, too. It's called the United States military. I don't care."
"Donald Trump was always an impresario of chaos. He told me that when violence broke out at his rallies, it added sizzle to the proceedings. He seemed proud of the anarchy and bloodshed in his name on Jan. 6. Yet he wasn't that keen on military adventurism, even though he liked military parades. He came to see W.'s imperialism in Iraq as a big, fat mistake."
Donald Trump historically embraced chaos at rallies, claiming that violence added 'sizzle' to the proceedings and showing pride in the Jan. 6 unrest. He previously preferred deal-making over military invasions and criticized the Iraq occupation as a costly mistake, imagining commercial projects in places like North Korea and Gaza. In his second term he has shifted toward militarism, boasting 'I got power, too' and invoking the United States military. He now favors drone strikes and airstrikes, threatens Iran, intervenes in Venezuela to pursue oil, pressures Denmark over Greenland, and applies double standards toward protesters domestically and abroad.
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