Just a week ago, we anticipated in this “Planet Earth” column from La Razón, that Trump won according to the forecasts we had made. Now, the president-elect of the United States has to begin to reciprocate the support received.
Starting with the Hispanic vote, which has improved a lot compared to 2020, so no one should be surprised that the magnate/president is already planning to appoint Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, that is, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Who, due to his Cuban origins and his education in the United States, speaks the most perfect Spanish, with all kinds of speculation about whether in 2028 he could be the first “Hispanic president” of the United States.
What will Trump do to quickly end, as he has promised, the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and southern Lebanon? That’s what everyone is asking, starting with its most enthusiastic technologist and businessman, Elon Musk, on his own more than a supermultinational, who supported Trump in a shocking and dazzling way, and always with the greatest enthusiasm. He will enter the most powerful teams in Washington DC, as a kind of technological luminary, to whom in the electoral campaign he already transferred much more than his declared one hundred million dollars.
There will surely be surprises in other Trump appointments: people who are tough on China, Russia and North Korea. As there will also be the harshest attitudes towards NATO, the United Nations, global climate agencies (immediately, with COP-29 in Baku, Azerbaijan), with a rather declining US decarbonization plan.
In any case, Trump will be more conciliatory than he was during an election campaign that was full of thunder and lightning.
Spain will have to tell Trump – also from the European Union – something more than the seasoned olives for the “dry martini”.
The curtain is rising: the world is taking a chance, “ladies and gentlemen”.