For those of you who haven’t been paying attention it has been a busy few weeks for the United States. Freezing funds, disestablishing crucial networks such as USAID, trying to walk back fundamental principles like Birth right Citizenship and bringing the economy to the verge of collapse. Putting aside the actual loss of life this will create can we acknowledge that in a single month Trump and Musk have ceded America’s position as “Leaders of the Free World.” We have four more years of this shit As if all of this wasn’t bad enough Elon Musk has a literal teenage army of senior advisor across health, state, education and treasury. One of who, genuinely goes by the name “Big Balls”. Well, Mr Musk has crossed the line because an army of child soldiers is the motto for Nexus this year, and we do it better. So we got our own Dylan Levitt, who the boss said “legally we cannot refer to as Medium-Sized but generally proportional balls” to write a commentary on what has been happening with a little help from the fairy godparent our News Team calls Professor Al Gillespie.

As AA Meetings go this one was intense.

(From ABC 8 News) Vice President JD Vance, right speaks during a meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., on Friday, February 28, 2025.

The star-spangled banner of the United States has, for a while, fluttered like the sheet of some ghost over the world. Hanging over all of our heads, anybody under its scope is privy to watch as the threads of this ghost that is ‘The American Dream’ come undone.

The world watched four years of Joe Biden ambling through the faux hoorah of Democratic ‘umming and aahhing’ at contentious issues and refusing to intervene in issues of abortion and trans rights. America ended up with its donkey face down in the dirt, trampled underfoot by the emboldened chimera that has become the Republican party. Donald Trump won the election through the second highest popular vote in American history, 77,284,118, beaten only by Biden’s 2020 victory – We are seeing a swing from ‘softleft’ liberalism. Professor Al Gillespie said in an interview with Nexus: “To me politics is like a pendulum, it goes to the left and it goes to the right […] You’re seeing it just go to the right, but to the far right.”

Trump’s fervent populism and demagogue style media tactics painted him as a sort of renaissance candidate complete with dramatic assassination attempt photos circulating through the social media channels. He ushered in a return to hardline conservatism in a party that was previously filled with post-1960s neocons. It is only a matter of time before the Elephant iconography is dropped for their golden-haired god.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent

Trump’s campaign trail court jester, Elon Musk, has since been revealed as this new administration’s economic grim reaper, creating & spearheading the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, or D.O.G.E, in charge of cutting down on Government spending. The department, which you will never hear me earnestly call ‘DOGE’, has claimed a variety of grand accomplishments – such as slashing an $8 Billion (with a B) contract with Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, contributing to their overall big claim that so far the department has cut down on $55 Billion is U.S government spending. These purported accomplishments don’t quite seem to add up with a pair of analyses done by NPR or the New York Times. A team of four reporters from the NYT found that the version of the contract that the department cut was actually around $8 Million (with an M), and the analysts at NPR found that the listed $55 Billion stat is made up of the largely incorrect $8 Billion contract cuts as well as another $46.5 Billion with “no specifically documented source.” which has been loosely attributed to ‘DEI programs’ and ‘foreign spending’, amongst which cuts includes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – an agency with the goal of protecting the finances of the average American consumer. Now in a strange state of limbo, former director, Lorelei Salas, said that the CFPB has essentially been “fired from the job congress hired them to do.”

Trump’s strange handling of the economy and the ever-so-quoted ‘price of eggs’ continuing to rise, despite his promises of ‘Day One’ alleviations, seems to have disgruntled many Americans, resulting in Gallup releasing his worst economic approval rating ever, with 54% of surveyed Americans disapproving with Trump’s economy. Salas, said that the CFPB would “No longer be able to defend them (consumers)” and that “…the economy itself has become less safe…”

(From PBS News) President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson applaud during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025. Photo by Brian Snyder/ Reuters

The idea of an America which is both somehow a self-reliant hermit kingdom and a global superpower at once is oxymoronic.

The economic insecurity wrought from zealous ambitions is a trait shared with his contemporary in New Zealand, our own Christopher Luxon, who despite his own slogan of ‘Getting New Zealand back on track’, has overseen the largest recession in the country’s history since before the Covid-19 pandemic. Big, sweeping promises to get a country back on track or make it great again with no real foundational basis seem to be a rising trend in the ‘new right’ emerging in Western politics.

MAGA – Make America Great Again – the red and white slogan of the Trump administration seeks to keep the American economy in America. This is nonsensical, and the idea of an America which is both somehow a self-reliant hermit kingdom and a global superpower at once is oxymoronic. Trump ‘knows this’, which is why the administration’s cronies on social media have begun to ‘ironically’ seed narratives about America buying Greenland from Denmark, creating a resort in the Gaza strip, and so much as advancing north into Canada. Trump wants America to rely on itself, but the continental United States just cannot do it alone. This is why there is such a growing narrative on the acquisition of overseas territories, as this would give America footholds in different regions to extract resources while technically keeping these channels entirely insular to the American project.

These swift turns towards some sort of brilliant economic suicide have led to China crossing the gap. The most notable swipe at the American economy that the People’s Republic took was with the launch of Chinese AI model Deepseek – a competitor to the States’ ChatGPT – which erased 1 Trillion (with a T) dollars from the Nasdaq stock exchange, completely bursting the American dominated Artificial Intelligence bubble. A trillion sounds like a lot, but world-renowned lizardman Mark Zuckerberg acted very nonchalant about it, stating in a call following Meta’s most recent quarterly earnings that “it’s probably too early to have a strong opinion on what this means.”

China’s industrial growth, which includes becoming the first nation to enter a stage of ‘dark factories’, that being factories that are completely automated and so do not need light for Human workers, as well as its economic implants to countries throughout the global south, has it on a trajectory to overtake the American economy, even with a President that likes to tote his past as a businessman. At the 2024 World Economic Forum, Keio University professor Jiro Tamura said: “President Trump knows that time is short, it can’t be a long-running thing.”

It is Nexus’ professional opinion after analyzing these facts that Donald J. Trump is a Maoist agent, as this can really be the only explanation for his flagrant and confident mishandling of the American economy. I suspect we will see Trump himself in a Chinese tunic decapitating his billionaire jesters at the end of all of this. As Mao Zedong once said; “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”