Day 135: Connecting the Dots, or the End of the Storm's Front
- john raymond
- Jun 4
- 2 min read
On this, the 135th day of Trump’s second presidency, a threshold has been crossed...
The world feels it—not just in headlines, not just in stock markets or military briefings, but in the atmosphere itself. Something has shifted. What normally hardens by Day 100 of any presidency has taken longer this time—35 more days of chaos, signaling not strength but decay. And now, Trump sits ensconced in his figurative Führerbunker, watching the storm he helped unleash begin to twist and turn.
This is not ordinary dysfunction. This is a convergence. The world stage is no longer a place of diplomacy but a battlefield of legitimacy, with lines clearer and stakes higher than most are willing to say aloud. The chessboard of civilization has never looked so starkly arranged: on one side, the brittle authoritarian axis—Putin, Xi, Kim, and yes, Trump himself; on the other, a reawakening West, battered but alert, with Ukraine at the vanguard and Europe finding its spine once again.
What should alarm us all is not merely Trump’s alignment with these despots, but his disconnection from reality. The man who once reveled in being at the center of every spectacle now finds himself sidelined—by events he cannot control, by outcomes he never understood, by technologies of defiance like Operation Spiderweb that no autocrat can fully predict or contain. His words are still venomous, but they are losing their magic. His lies still come fast, but fewer take them as gospel. His bunker is no longer symbolic—it is strategic withdrawal masked as bravado.
Day 135 is not just a marker of time. It is the revelation of pattern.
The pattern of weakening empires clinging to illusion. The pattern of strongmen losing their grip as the people they oppress find new tools. The pattern of storms—once summoned—breaking free of their summoner’s control.
And now, the storm front twists and turns all by itself. Trump cannot call it off. Putin cannot outmaneuver it. What began as a gamble for power has become an ungovernable tempest. Ukraine’s resistance, Europe’s recalibration, middle-eastern audacity, and even the whispers from Beijing suggest that a world order is dying—and something rawer, more unstable, more multipolar is being born.
The question now is whether the world will simply brace for impact, or actively shape what comes next.
Day 135 was never going to be the end of the storm. But it may well be the day we stopped pretending it could be contained.
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