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Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a throwback to a greedier, pernicious age | Simon Tisdall

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Donald Trump ’s imperial presidency is a tawdry, threadbare affair.

But for all his crudely plebeian ordinariness, a parvenu imperialism is his global offer.

He peddles it against the tide of history and all human experience, as if invasion, genocide, racial inequality, economic exploitation and cultural conquest had never been tried before.

Like big-power bullies throughout history, Trump picks on easy targets.

Danish -owned Greenland and Panama exemplify the type of weak, defenceless country that 19th-century European empires scrambled for in Africa .

Note how abnormally quiet is loudmouthed Trump about China , America ’s most powerful 21st-century rival.

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