Jeovany Jimenez Vega, 23 July 2024: We were stunned, stupefied, it was simply incomprehensible. We have just witnessed a monumental political blunder when, on July 15th, Donald Trump, during the Republican National Convention, attacked incisively and gratuitously the Salvadoran government of Nayik Bukele, accusing it of emptying the prisons of El Salvador to send criminals to the United States, and as if to prove that it had not been a slip of the tongue due to some post-traumatic brain oedema just a few days later, from Michigan, in his first campaign rally after the attack, he retraced his steps and insisted on it with even more viciousness and raised the tone of his jaw-dropping accusation.
But what were you thinking, my little Christian? During the attack, did some shrapnel hit your mesopotálamo or did it lodge in your stupid, idiotic brain? How can you think of attacking in such an absurd way the most popular president in the world – literally speaking, in the whole world with all its continents, archipelagos, islets and polar ice caps – and just when all the media attention is focused on you after the July 13th plot? How can you so stupidly lash out against the most coherent politician in this rotten hemisphere? and on top of that, you call him stupid! Someone who, to top it all, has always stood by your side in the midst of the long political persecution they’ve mounted against you! It’s insane.
Well, you should know, Mr Trump, that this “stupid person” is one of the most brilliant examples of ethical verticality in the current world political panorama, not for nothing beatified in the popular imagination inside and outside his country, a “stupid person” who was re-elected and has more than 90% approval among his people. You should definitely have chosen your words better before showing such inexplicable hostility.
You should know, Mr. Trump, that you came out with that nonsense just when El Salvador is registering historic lows in emigration and thousands of hopeful Salvadorians are seriously considering returning to their count