It’s been two-and-a-half weeks since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration and still, it remains one of the most talked about political events in global politics for so many reasons.
While the historical nature of his political comeback remains both a paradox and a marvel, that is, despite being politically-written off and even had his political epitaph ready, that isn’t the source of the continued interest.
However, the presence of ‘Who’s Who’ of foreign dignitaries at the inaugural event is what garnered so much attention.
One common theme and known fact about Trump is that, he isn’t one for traditions. By inviting foreign heads of states to his inauguration, he was breaking away from the American political tradition and thumbing his nose to the status quo.
Afterall, what better way to do so than to invite the “Who’s Who” of the western world’s growing list of agitative, right-leaning, conservative and nationalist leaders.
Furthermore, those who showed up were certain special politicians, those of a different political calibre and breed to that of mainstream American politics.
For instance, Trump’s foreign guests were predominantly conservative, populist and more patriotic in their political affinity. In other words, their politics is more on the right than left-leaning and they were from Argentina, Italy, Spain and Portugal just to name a few.
Among the attendees were the rising political superstars also considered Conservative darlings from West and Eastern Europe including South America. These included Argentinian President, Javier Milei; Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Melon; Britain’s “Mr. Brexit”, populist and anti-EU politician, Nigel Farage; Belgium’s Tom Van Grieken; Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña; France’s own firebrand, Éric Zemmour and former Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki.
The Chinese representative was Vice President Han Zheng who stood in for Xi Jinping.
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