{"id":331647,"date":"2026-10-02T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331647"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:10:51","slug":"trump-about-to-self-destruct-over-latest-diesel-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331647","title":{"rendered":"Trump about to self-destruct over latest diesel initiative?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Jay \u2013 Strategic Review Oct 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It is a mark of our times that Western leaders are not only the weakest that they have ever been, but they are also the dumbest \u2013 with Donald Trump leading the pack. His latest initiative has enraged the business press, who have wheeled out all the experts to shoot it down in flames. Trump wants to limit diesel exports from the U.S., which he believes will drive down diesel pump prices in the U.S., but it is such a stupid idea that many political commentators are pointing out his own level of desperation by playing what one called \u201can economics game of roulette where if the ball lands on a red number we lose everything\u201d. Experts predict that such an initiative would only reduce diesel prices by about 5 percent for American truckers, but, according to the economists at Goldman Sachs, will drive up gasoline prices at the pumps. Quite apart from the diesel ban also wrecking the global oil economy \u2013 which will have its own blowback with American consumers \u2013 Trump is showing that not only does he not have smart economists around him advising him on these late-night whims which come to him, but he himself understands practically nothing about how the U.S. economy works.<\/p>\n

After giving the most vulgar and disgraceful speech at the UN, talking about himself like a Roman Emperor \u201cannihilating\u201d Iran \u2013 a civilisation which is about 4,000 years old \u2013 it is easy to see, though, how leaders like Trump exist, when there is practically no safety mechanism in place for a U.S. president to behave so appallingly and to be so reckless with the economy. Nothing from Congress, or even either the Speaker of the House or even leaders of either party, to condemn such narcissistic speeches or foolish policy decisions by a man who represents the greatest wrecking ball to Western civilisation as we know it. And even though we saw a glimmer of hope from U.S. media groups who boycotted his Oval Office sessions, few if any journalists are prepared to report on Trump accurately, preferring to give a gloss or simply bypass his buffoonery altogether. In such an environment where the press gives you a free card, is it any wonder that Trump in his second term in office is basically a New Jersey mobster who has lost his mind entirely \u2013 drunk on power and corrupted by it, like Rome\u2019s last emperor who was looking for his chicken while the entire empire was collapsing around him?<\/p>\n

The sad thing, though, is that he is not alone.<\/p>\n

In the EU, we\u2019ve never had such unremarkable, dithering, under-performing, corrupt political wasters as the current coterie of losers running the UK, France and Germany. The UK is particularly bad, as Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband capture the internet\u2019s imagination for a few brief moments as they enter the UN auditorium \u2013 and the main takeaway from their perplexed expressions as they look into someone\u2019s camera is that they appear to be both lost and out of their depths, like children on their first day at the big school. While all three throw all their weight behind war talk about the Russians coming \u2013 a scam designed to distract people\u2019s attention away from failed public sectors, immigration and economies in tailspins \u2013 Burnham stood out this week, though, for a new policy initiative. He\u2019s going to create an Orwellian new police department to control content on the internet, perhaps inspired by the EU\u2019s own German fascist leader \u2013 er, European Commission president, I mean \u2013 Ursula von der Leyen, who hates free speech so much that she wants it outlawed altogether.<\/p>\n

Trump may well end up looking smarter than the leaders of the UK, France and Germany, as these three bankrupt economies now have only one modus operandi, which is to create a phoney war with Russia \u2013 which they believe will deflect any blame aimed at them for when these economies hit rock bottom and all these clowns can offer is to turn to international banks and borrow even more. They know their time in office is limited, and so a war is the perfect solution \u2013 not only to divert attention away from their own failure but to also give a massive boost to their friends in the industrial military complex, who will be very grateful for the huge new contracts given to them. We should not be surprised that both the children of Trump and even Tony Blair have huge stakes in weapons companies and could really do with a war which shovels billions their way. Yet the diesel initiative from Trump could actually be the last nail in his coffin, as if he goes ahead with it and it proves to actually jack up gasoline prices, he is likely to lose both houses. Already droves of Republican senators and representatives are distancing themselves from Trump\u2019s Iran war and higher pump prices; it\u2019s hard to imagine how many more stupid lies Trump can tell, blaming others for his own self-made calamities.<\/p>\n

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We should not be surprised that both the children of Trump and even Tony Blair have huge stakes in weapons companies and could really do with a war that shovels billions their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":331198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331649,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331647\/revisions\/331649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}