The forty-fifth president becomes the forty-seventh and immediately declares a state of emergency in the US energy sector (Moldova can get a little awkward here), hand in hand with his wife in the style of a Ukrainian singer Claudia Petrivna; at the same time, his predecessor is handing out pardons in advance to innocent people. If you thought you were in a remake of Alice Through the Looking Glass, you are not alone. That's exactly the impression I got from Donald Trump's inauguration and everything that surrounded it.

While working in Washington during Donald Trump's first term, I could not go a week without hearing about the famous American “checks and balances” - a system that is supposed to prevent a one-man dictatorship. Indeed, since 1980, no president of the United States has been so fortunate as to have not only both houses of Congress from his own party, but also a majority of judges on the Supreme Court who are committed to his worldview. The seriousness with which Trump's comeback is being taken is evidenced, for example, by the massive withdrawal of big businesses (Google, Meta, Amazon, McDonald's, etc.) from DEI-related programs. DEI stands for diversity, equality, and inclusion. In the government sector, they were introduced during Biden's term, and IT professionals have been doing this for at least the last ten years: creating conditions for not only white cisgender men to build careers. As soon as he took the oath of office for the second time in his life, Donald Trump declares: “From now on, the official policy of the United States is that there are only two genders: men and women.” At this point, Russian propagandists, who have been fighting the satanic gender war since Trump's first term, should be bursting with joy. Indeed, what else could have hindered the “golden age of America,” which the forty-seventh president proclaimed without undue modesty.

Even before Donald Trump appeared at the Capitol, the broadcast picked up Elon Musk among the guests. The billionaire, who has spent the last few months of his life doing everything he could to stick himself as closely as possible to Trump's transition team, was one of the first to arrive in the Capitol rotunda. Other big business representatives followed: Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, and others, the richest people in America, each of whom donated a million or more to Trump for the inauguration. Make no mistake, it is in backward oligarchic countries that business is obliged to pay the government so that it does not interfere with its work with unnecessary laws or inspections. In the world's first democracy, top managers simply feel the call of their hearts to the president.

Similarly, at the call of his heart, Joe Biden suddenly announced in the last hours at the White House that he would pardon a number of his relatives (brothers, sister and their spouses) and a number of people who had not yet been accused of anything. Among them is the country's chief physician, Fauci, who insisted that everyone wear masks during the coronavirus and get vaccinated in time. Those close to Biden say that at first he was hesitant about whether such a pardon would make it seem as if these people were actually guilty of something. But then he gave up on this impression, because fears of being convicted won out. These sentiments did not prevent Biden and his wife from greeting Trump politely and inviting him to have tea - even though four years ago, Trump himself left the White House and Washington without waiting for the Bidens. Because he continued to prove that his victory was stolen from him. Most likely, when this column is finished (or in the next few hours), Trump will pardon the people who - at his urging - stormed the Capitol four years ago in front of our eyes to prevent the announcement of the election results and ran through the very rotunda where Trump took the oath of office today. This is also a democracy. Every new president has the right to repeal the laws of the old one. For example, to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement again.

This also sounds like a modern remake of Carroll, but after tea at the White House, the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh presidents of the United States got into a limousine together and had about fifteen minutes alone. Despite all of the above, they both survived it and, after the necessary celebrations at the Capitol, went their separate ways. Biden, who was finally left in peace, got into a helicopter and flew to California. Trump went to make America great, the greatest, the trumpest. For some time now, he has not mentioned his election promise to end the Russian war in Ukraine in a day. Instead, he arranges a meeting with Putin, who signals that he is ready to talk. If I had a black hat from Eric Javits, I would follow Melania Trump's example and pull it over my eyes for the next few years, but unfortunately, I can't afford it.