VVD leader Dilan Yesilgöz is already a disaster for the Netherlands, now she is also a disaster for the VVD. There they feel increasingly uncomfortable among their leader’s messing around. Happiness in an accident, you would almost say.
First she opened the door wide with all kinds of machinations and lies about ‘nareizen’ by asylum seekers for the failing cabinet Wilders. Now that she is standing with empty political hands, she is trying to win the next elections with the chat of Telegraph-Graavel and fired about anti -Semitism and colleague Frans Timmermans.
Almost entertaining is the way she tries to praise her blunders verbally. “I mentioned the wrong number in the wrong topic,” she said about that nareizen at the time. “But they were not deliberate lies. That touches me.” She had confused all kinds of nasty figures. “That’s a mistake and I never meant that.”
It sounded like there were also unintended lies, but she will not have meant that. Something similar happens in the Douwe Bob issue: she first accuses him of hatred of Jews, but later claims that he is not a Jewish hater (“I don’t think so”), only Jewish hatred spread. I think she is now in half with her accusation, without an excuse, by the way, because Bob was threatened with death by a man who will soon say that he had not intended it that way.
I myself get the peculiar feeling – and I also mean it – that Yesilgöz is starting to behave more and more as a kind of step sister of Donald Trump. A lot of populist bleating, little wool. Rather radical right than just right. Prefer tendentious twitter and other media consciously more inherit than serious politics. Eagerly sit down with the non -binding talk show, but keeping it with a silly own video after an artist is threatened thanks to your statements.
That’s how I still come, I can’t help it either, to the big Trump itself. As if not enough was written about it last week. In retrospect, I especially realize that it was not written well enough about that – not even by me, I have to admit with enormous reluctance. By colleague Sander Schimmelpenninck in Monday de Volkskrant, I admit with even more reluctance.
Last week I described with a starting tear in the corner of the eye how Trump had empathically responded to a BBC journalist from Ukraine whose man fought as a soldier at a press conference. She begged Trump for more patriots so that Ukraine could better protect herself against Putin’s air strikes. He would do his best, Promised Trump: “I can see it does a lot to you.”
A few days later it appears how much the Trump does: Niksnothing. He will deliver fewer weapons to Ukraine. Putin can go his own way, Ukraine can crack. Rutte’s charm offensive has not helped anything, we are, including our Sad King and Queen, lied to by the most powerful scammer in the world. “Trump is still underestimated,” wrote Schimmelpenninck, “Ruttes play was not a piece of art, but a mafiosis humiliation.”
Yes, Trump is the mafia boss that in the movie Scarface say: “I always tell the truth when I lie.“