The “traumatized” Prime Minister of Slovakia throws insults at the media. He is afraid that he has jeopardized his relationship with “crazy” Trump
According to POLITICO's diplomatic sources, the debate with Trump “traumatically affected” the Slovak prime minister. Meanwhile, Fico, as expected, said that the liberal and pro-Brussels media were lying.
POLITICO's goal, according to Fico, is to “destroy the constructive relations that Slovakia has with all four corners of the world.” He had to say this to save face in his country. However, this whole situation tells us something very important, which the Slovak Prime Minister will not be able to easily avoid.
Anyone who doesn't look away must see that Trump is dangerous. However, Fica recognizing the danger is still better than ignoring it.
The Slovak Prime Minister does not want and cannot publicly admit why he has been so taciturn since returning from Mar-a-Lago. Instead of triumph, there was silence. If POLITICO's claims were even partially true, the Slovak prime minister would even deserve praise for sharing his concerns with EU partners.
That Trump is dangerous since at least January 6, 2021. [doszło wówczas do wtargnięcia zwolenników prezydenta USA na Kapitol] must be seen by anyone who does not deliberately look away.
“A dark, dystopian future becomes a reality”
We don't know what exactly scared the Slovak Prime Minister so much and we will probably never find out. Even the diplomats interviewed by POLITICO journalists do not know this. However, to be afraid of the United States – not of Donald Trump's mental state, but of the state of Trump's America – you do not have to sit across from the US president for hours. Just turn on the news.
New York Times reporter Charles Homans writes that in Minneapolis, a dark, dystopian future is becoming a reality. The journalist spent 10 days in this city. In Minneapolis, masked federal agents who, according to a White House spokeswoman, are supposed to “arrest the worst of the worst criminals among illegal immigrants” killed two white American citizens in two weeks.
ICE's immigration service doubled its staff in 2025 alone and now has a larger budget than all other federal agencies combined. There are only 15 countries in the world whose armies have a larger budget than ICE. “Federal agents are more like a squad of soldiers moving through a hostile city abroad than a regular law enforcement force in an American city,” Homans describes.
“The only thing that held the mob back, I think, was the knowledge that an officer like them had shot a woman a week ago, and another just an hour earlier had shot a man down the street. I left there that night thinking it would happen again,” the reporter writes.
And it actually happened again.
One of the masked men shot 37-year-old paramedic Alex Pretti in the back at close range. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described it as “defensive shooting,” although cellphone footage from bystanders contradicts her claims.
Minnesota's governor is urging all residents to carry a cell phone at all times and film agents to create a “database of atrocities committed against Minnesotans” that will be used in future criminal prosecutions.
And representatives of the Trump administration describe the victim as a terrorist and a person who wanted to murder security service officers just because he had a legally possessed weapon with him, which he did not even touch. The American public must therefore decide whether they will believe their elected representatives or what they have seen with their own eyes. Words about dystopia are not exaggerated at all.
The Trump administration doesn't even care about its own voters. After each mass shooting, which happens almost every day in America, Republicans piously defended the sanctity of the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution and did not want to violate it, but now they claim that anyone carrying a gun is a potential terrorist.
“We live in a real world where force rules”
“You can't own guns. You can't just come with guns [na protesty]” – said Trump. It was once unthinkable that a Republican president could say something like that. But Trumpism is not guided by law, morality or even ideology.
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All he cares about is unconditional loyalty. He is convinced that not only the state, but also the truth belongs to whoever rules.
“We live in a real world where force rules, where coercion rules, where power rules. These are iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of the centuries,” said Trump adviser Stephen Miller bluntly. In a classical state of law, power is limited by law. In Trump's world, rights are limited by power. And this is limited only by the ruler himself.
“My morality. My own mind. That's the only thing holding me back,” Trump admitted when New York Times journalists asked him whether he would abide by international law and where the limits of American global power lie. But why should we expect anything different? If Trump treats his own citizens as if he were not bound by the law, why should he treat foreign countries better? For example, Slovakia.
American commentator Jonathan Rauch believes it is time to call Trump a fascist. “Trump has exposed himself and we must name what we see,” he wrote for The Atlantic magazine. Still, he says America isn't fascist yet. “It is a hybrid state that combines a fascist leader and a liberal constitution. No, it has not fallen into fascism. And it will not.”
We shouldn't be so sure about this. We see that citizens can even pay with their lives for opposing the government. And the government does not defend the victims, but those who killed them. Trump is dangerous. But even more dangerous are all those who enable and support him: Vice President J.D. Vance, adviser Stephen Miller, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
Without them, Trumpism would not be able to survive. We must prepare for the fact that a country that was once almost synonymous with the West may cease to be democratic for a long time. If Robert Fico truly believes that the American president has gone mad in this situation, he may be right.
There's nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary. If fear brings him closer to his European allies, it will be a good thing. Because only naive politicians are afraid of what Trump will do to America. Or those who want to be like Trump. And naive Robert Fico certainly isn't.
