Quickly, we need to find a technical service twenty-four seven. The newspaper El Mundo has had a breakdown with the Sanchificator 3000, the device that governs the newsroom and is capable of automatically turning any news story into the fault of the central government president. Is it raining too much? Sánchez has been singing. Is there a drought? Sánchez is too tall and is tearing the clouds. We have the blustering Donald Trump threatening to cut trade relations with Spain and the newspaper, instead of considering it the umpteenth blunder of the PSOE leader in the international arena, is capable of making it a front-page story and headlining an editorial without mentioning his name with a chisel so that he is held responsible. I expected something like "Sánchez's headlong flight puts Spanish exports to the United States in check" but no, the newspaper has opted for a headline ("Trump calls Spain an "hostile" country and threatens to isolate it") that is virtually indistinguishable fromEl País.
The editorial is also peculiar. It is titled "Disagreeing with Trump" and makes you smile, because it's as if, all of a sudden, they have discovered that this infantile, narcissistic, and megalomaniacal pathological case might not be as great as he seemed. Better late than never. But the news is again that Trump, not Sánchez, is the protagonist of the headline, even though inside they can't help but make the Sanchificator 3000 sputter to life, as when they write that "the excesses of the President of the United States and his recourse to blackmail and disqualification do not make Moncloa's strategy correct." Heaven forbid! These days promise to bring scenes in which patriotism (and economic interests) will put the extreme right between the sword of having to attack Sánchez at all costs and the wall of not wanting to appear as bad Spaniards. It promises to be quite a spectacle.
