Well, the egregious grifter did it.  He won the 2024 US Presidential election by a landslide.  How he did it will have the pundits pondering and pointlessly pontificating for years.  In fact, it’s likely to become a university course – you’ll be able to study Political Science majoring in Blowing Your Own Trumpet and the Art of the Steal amongst many other fawning indigestible courses.  The question now is what is he going to do with his victory?  We know that he likes to do things on a whim but we can be sure that his presidency will be anything but whimsical. 

Well, the egregious grifter did it.  He won the 2024 US Presidential election by a landslide.  How he did it will have the pundits pondering and pointlessly pontificating for years.  In fact, it’s likely to become a university course – you’ll be able to study Political Science majoring in Blowing Your Own Trumpet and the Art of the Steal amongst many other fawning indigestible courses.  The question now is what is he going to do with his victory?  We know that he likes to do things on a whim but we can be sure that his presidency will be anything but whimsical. 

Is he going to take Project 2025’s anarchistic playbook as his bible?

Is he going to go after the Special Counsel, Jack Smith, for his trumped-up charges of using classified documents as a visual laxative in Mag-a-Lago’s toilets and Trump’s attempts to overturn his election dysfunction in 2020?

Is he going to give his personal animus free rein over all those who dissed and denigrated him over the last four years?

As Trump still wants a golf course in Russia, is he going to throw Zelensky to the Russian Bear and strong arm him like he did last time with Hunter Biden, only worse?

Is he going to start a trade war with China?  What about Europe?  What about Mexico?

Is he going to approve pipelines on Federal land, withdraw completely from the Paris Accord on climate change and pursue his many other environmentally unfriendly policies?

Is he going to remake the federal government in his image by converting senior federal positions into political appointments thereby allowing him to fire them at will?

Is he going to appoint whackhead, or is it wormhole, Robert F Kennedy Jnr to head up health, thereby destroying it?

Is he going to appoint that man-child, Elon Musk, to head up some efficiency commission so that he can do to America’s federal government what he did to Twitter?

SMAC doesn’t know, but there is one thing we can be reasonably sure of as to how this victory will affect South Africa.  While claiming a non-aligned status with his wide-eyed innocent look, roly-poly Ramaphosa has been playing footsie-footsie with some of the world’s greatest dictatorships such as China, Russia, Iran and Cuba, and not just secretly under the table.  AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act), which has benefited South Africa with reduced trade tariffs worth billions of dollars each year, is toast.  It’s going, going, AGOA!