Trump in his element: “Only the truly relevant leaders, those who have the most impact, are targeted.” Trump knows that violence feeds on itself and seeks to capitalize on attacks like the one at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. A criminal act by a poor man, Cole Thomas Allen, who has forged his delusions in a country with maximum tolerance for gun use.

Donald Trump's enormous, and sadly proven, destructive capacity does not deprive him of an undeniable comic flair. It works, however, in reverse: when Trump thinks he's funny, he's not funny at all, because all his supposed humor is based on denigrating people or institutions that generally cannot defend themselves, and also on that deceptive resource of the coarsest people which consists of wanting to be politically incorrect (according to them, “you can’t say anything anymore”, but, on the other hand, we hear and read them every single day). Instead, when he doesn't try to be funny, his own grotesque nature makes Trump capable of making us laugh.This is what happened again during the White House Correspondents' Dinner and the attempted attack that the current president of the USA supposedly suffered again, events that, instead of the gravity of a drama, had the ingredients of a comic opera. Journalist Antonia Hitchens, from the New Yorker, for example, tells it with the relaxed tone of someone who has witnessed a farce and not a moment of grave crisis for democratic institutions. The same correspondents' dinner, in fact, is a custom that, over the years, has acquired a certain ceremonial air, but which above all is based on good humor: it is precisely for this reason that Trump had avoided it until now, because his spoiled child attitude cannot tolerate jokes or criticism. He can insult, threaten, or ridicule, but if someone upsets him or makes fun of him, his reaction is to get angry and make a scene. This is what happened the day after the incident, when journalist Norah O'Donnell, from CBS, read Trump a fragment of the manifesto that the supposed terrorist, a certain Cole Thomas Allen, had made public before attempting to shoot him and in which he accused the Republican leader of being a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor. Trump's reaction was to explode in anger at the journalist and insult her gravely in front of the same camera (when, until that moment, he had been playing the part of the understanding, and even compassionate, leader who, when attacked, worries about people's well-being). The effect, in this case, was one of unintentional comedy, in the style of Airplane!.However, whether true or part of a setup to try to boost Trump's very low popularity, the shooter's words were very presumably true: Trump has already been convicted of diverting campaign funds to pay for the sexual services of a pornographic actress, and the indications that he may be a rapist and pedophile are numerous and consistent. Almost all analyses of Trump's role in conflicts such as Gaza, Venezuela, or Iran include the current US president's need to distract public opinion from the scandals that weigh on him, starting with the Epstein case. As for the accusation of treason, there is no need to doubt it: he is merely a parasite of the homeland, like so many others who boast of patriotism. In the USA and everywhere else.

Charles III and Camilla brought the British weather to Washington this Tuesday. Intermittent rain in the early hours of a grey morning over the District of Columbia, as the King and Queen of England were formally received, with all honors, by Donald Trump and Melania in the gardens of the White House, as part of a four-day state visit to the United States. A visit to celebrate the two hundred and fifty years of independence that, in fact, had begun in the early hours of Monday afternoon. The Trumps today unveiled a solemn ceremony on the South Lawn of the presidential residence, a sign of the utmost distinction and diplomatic consideration towards a visiting head of state.

The attempted attack this weekend at a dinner for correspondents attended by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, adds to an ever-growing list. In just two years, at least four people have attempted to attack Trump directly or at an event he was attending. This is an unprecedented figure in the United States. It should be noted, however, that the motive for this weekend's attack has not yet been officially confirmed, although everything points to Trump being the target and authorities are working with a letter that the attacker allegedly sent to his relatives in which, without directly mentioning him, he harshly criticized the American president, without directly mentioning him, harshly criticized the American president.

“I am not willing to allow a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to stain my hands with his crimes”, wrote the man arrested on Saturday night when he was allegedly going to attack Donald Trump at a press dinner. 24 hours later, journalist Norah O'Donnell reads these words to the President of the United States in an interview on CBS's iconic 60 Minutes.

The CBS program 60 Minutes had the opportunity to interview Donald Trump the morning after the attack during the correspondents' dinner. The program's journalist, Norah O'Donnell, who was also present at the event, limited herself to asking him about the facts and delving into the actions of the security forces. The interview was broadcast on Sunday in a reduced format, only twelve minutes long, and covered the most essential informative aspects of Trump's responses. However, the network has posted the full forty-minute interview on YouTube. It is increasingly important to access Trump's complete statements to verify the evolution of his discourse. When O'Donnell asks him if he believes what happened the previous night will change his relationship with the press, Trump goes off on a tangent, recalling disagreements with Democrats on immigration policies. He also says that in sports, he wants women to compete with women and for men not to be part of women's competitions. O'Donnell, with extreme seriousness and discretion, reminds Trump that she is asking him about journalists and not about the opposition, but he seems to have confused them. In such a traumatic context as a shooting, all these remarks are superfluous. When the journalist points out security deficiencies, Trump praises the physical strength and great attractiveness of the officers. He also jokes about the speed of Cole Allen, the assailant, saying that the National Football League should sign him. These are details that may not have a direct bearing on the strictly informative facts, but they are essential for portraying the president in a grave context.There is a very impactful moment in the interview. O’Donnell reads to Trump part of the statement the assailant sent to his family: “I am not willing to allow a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to stain my hands with his crimes”. Trump gets serious and scolds O’Donnell: “I knew you would read it because you are a horrible person. I am not a rapist. I have not raped anyone”. O’Donnell, without flinching and with the same coldness she had shown until that moment, without changing her tone of voice, replies: “Oh! Do you think he was referring to you?” Trump, without answering her, continues to say that he is neither a pedophile nor is he exonerated from any relationship with Epstein. He tells the journalist that she should be ashamed to reproduce those statements, that she should not have read them. “You are a disgrace”, he tells her more than once. “These are the assailant’s words”, replies O’Donnell, who, nevertheless, manages to steer the conversation back and the interview continues for twenty more minutes.At the end of the interview, Trump commits to reconvening the correspondents' dinner within thirty days. It is a meeting of the government and the press that celebrates the First Amendment of the constitution and freedom of the press. It is, in fact, a recognition of the respective roles in democracy. What causes perplexity is that the press continues to want to participate in this type of farce with Trump in the White House.

"I am no longer willing to allow a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to stain my hands with his crimes." This is what Colle Allen, the man who shot at the dinner with journalists and Trump, allegedly wrote in a manifesto published by The New York Post, which has not yet been verified by authorities and which Trump used to claim that the alleged shooter was motivated by "hatred of Christians".

The man who allegedly attempted to attack Donald Trump during the correspondents' dinner in Washington was charged on Monday with attempted assassination of the President of the United States. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, also faces two more charges: carrying a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony and discharging a firearm during a violent crime.In parallel, the White House has once again lashed out at Democrats over the incident. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the incident is the result of "the left's hate cult against the president".

Donald Trump and Charles III will coincide up to five times between this Monday and Thursday on what is possibly the monarch's most uncomfortable official trip The visit, overshadowed by the alleged assassination attempt, takes place just seven months after the King bid farewell to the American president at the gates of Windsor Castle, where the monarchy offered the Republican all its usual pomp and ceremony. That second invitation – an exception in itself – had been conceived to smooth relations between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the ever-unpredictable Trump. When Air Force One took off from Stansted Airport, the impression at Downing Street was that the mission entrusted to the crown had been successful.

It is already known that the first victim of a war is truth and that, for governments, especially in times of war, doing journalism is unpatriotic because certain sensitive information cannot be revealed to the enemy. Media outlets always face this dilemma in times of war, as part of their readership may buy into this message, and therefore, the New York Times has been forced to educate its readers.

Donald Trump was quick to show the face of the man who has burst in shooting in the anteroom where the President of the United States and other high authorities of the country were celebrating the traditional dinner of the correspondents who cover the news of the White House. Trump has posted on his social network the photograph of the man, already subdued by security agents and lying on the ground face down. The authorities have identified him as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old resident of California. The police have deployed a huge security operation to search his home in Torrance, a small and quiet town in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, where neighbors could not believe that one of them had committed the attack. Trump explained that the authorities suspect he is "a lone wolf".

While Trump's and his administration's insults towards the European Union do not subside, European leaders agreed yesterday in Cyprus to shift into fifth gear to achieve a common defense system. What happened this Friday is a demonstration of how much this process needs to be accelerated. In the morning, we woke up to the news that an email circulating within the Pentagon proposed the option of "kicking out" Spain from NATO, as a warning to other countries that refuse to help in the United States and Israel's war against Iran. It is an internal email, not an official statement, and experts warn that it has little traction and at most would mean removing Spain from command or leadership of missions, but the threat is there. Mid-morning, the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, dedicated part of his press conference to criticizing Europeans and pointing out that the conference of countries on the Strait of Hormuz, organized last week by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was "ridiculous" and "ostentatious." Furthermore, he reproached them again for not participating in the war with the veiled threat that the "protection" they had from the United States until now has ended.

I would like to think that this beautiful April of 2026, while the media and social networks repeatedly recreate the confrontation between Emperor Trump and Pope Leo, some readers have remembered – perhaps with a nostalgic smile – the pages ofThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Not exactly because reality imitates fiction, but because, from time to time, history rehashes old episodes with new actors and modern settings. The clash between secular power and spiritual power, which in the 14th century spread throughout Europe, is now resurfacing in the form of heated statements and truculent memes; despite their contemporary appearance, some have a medieval aroma. In Umberto Eco's novel, Emperor Louis of Bavaria and Pope John XXII fight for legitimacy, for who can tell the truth and by what right can they do so. Caught in the midst of incompatible loyalties, the monks in Eco's novel become witnesses and victims of a struggle that was not only political, but also linguistic: whoever controls the word, controls the world. In that book, the word inhabited a labyrinthine monastic library; today, it is hard to understand amidst the media noise. The conflict between Trump and Pope Leo unfolds in a very different setting – confusing press conferences, social networks, shifting speeches – but the underlying question is surprisingly similar. Who has the moral authority to interpret the present, be it that of the Strait of Hormuz or that of devastated Gaza? Who can claim the final word on community, faith, nation, identity, or that very truth which has the bad habit of making us free?Transformed by many of his followers into a kind of Nero-esque imperial figure, Trump acts as a sovereign who tolerates no limits or criticism of his all-encompassing power. Pope Leo reclaims the Church as a counterweight, as a reminder that there are values that cannot be subordinated to any political will. Between the two opens a space of tension that recalls the labyrinth of Eco's imaginary library: a place where each corridor leads to a different interpretation, where truth is always partial, and where books –or televised speeches, or tweets, or memes– can become weapons of massive epistemological destruction. The comparison with the 14th century is not just a literary metaphor. Both then and now, the conflict was not limited to two personal figures in confrontation, but spread like an oil stain throughout society: this polarization didn't start the day before yesterday... Communities also divided, and the –let's call them– intellectuals who took the wrong side ended up in the dungeon. Rumors circulated with the same force –though not at the same speed, obviously– as official decrees. And, as in The Name of the Rose, the dispute over power ended up contaminating daily life, making every gesture, every word, or even every silence acquire a political meaning, generally over-interpreted.

If there are no last-minute changes, the negotiators of the United States and Iran will meet again in Islamabad to resume peace talks, before the ceasefire expires on Tuesday night to Wednesday. The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, but the ten-day truce has given some breathing room to all parties, and also to the markets. Despite the rhetoric and continued threats from Donald Trump and his team to further destroy Iran, the fact is that there is some consensus among analysts that it is in the best interest of all parties, including the United States, to stop a conflict that is causing an economic crisis of global proportions.

A few days ago, it was done by letter, also signed by Ireland and Slovenia, and next Tuesday the Spanish government will formally request that the European Union break its association agreement with Israel. This was announced by the president of the executive, Pedro Sánchez, from Andalusia, where he participated in an electoral event with the socialist candidate, María Jesús Montero. According to Sánchez, Benjamin Netanyahu's government cannot continue to be a preferred partner of the EU because it "is violating international law" and, therefore, "the principles and values of the EU". It will be at the meeting of Foreign Affairs ministers where the Spanish government's request will be formalized.

Pedro Sánchez sought to proclaim himself the leader of the global left this weekend in Barcelona, and he has succeeded. To re-emphasize this in this piece would be to repeat an analysis that has already been done inside and out since the Spanish president intensified his joust with Donald Trump. Not only has this been written about in the Catalan and state media, but he has been recognized as the North American's "nemesis" by major international newspapers. Barcelona has been the culmination of this strategy, which is the only ace up Sánchez's sleeve to try to stay in Moncloa, along with the fear of PP and Vox governments that will begin to act after this regional electoral cycle.

Donald Trump is a millionaire, a real estate magnate, has direct interests in technology companies and... is Donald Trump. The President of the United States embodies in himself all the characteristics of the "enemy" that this weekend has been pointed out by the left gathered in Barcelona, with Pedro Sánchez as host, who has established himself as the reference of the international progressive movement. "When we socialists govern, states do not bow to elites, we put them in their place," he exclaimed to close the weekend summits before the 6,500 people who filled pavilion 8 of Fira de Barcelona. The commitment of the Spanish leader, but also of the heads of state and government who have met, is to "resist" the push of the far-right, but also to "build" together a new multilateral world. "We will twist the arm of those who believe themselves untouchable. Of the millionaires who exploit people and play with greed; of the speculators who play with people's savings and homes, and of the technologists who line their pockets at the expense of the health of democracies and the mental health of our youth," Sánchez ratified, intoning from the stage the "No to war" that the entire auditorium followed.

A crowd of people moves in unison through the long corridors of Hall 8 of the Barcelona Fair as if following a rock star. No one this Friday has generated the expectation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the great protagonist of the first day of the Global Progressive Mobilisation (GPM). "Progressivism must be united, it must be brave. We will never win by complaining about what the right does, but by convincing with our values and convictions," stressed the former Spanish president just before starting to attend to his followers. Some of them, young enough not to remember him in Moncloa, asked him to make the eyebrow gesture that he exploited so much during his campaign, and he gladly granted it.

Donald Trump distanced himself this Wednesday from Viktor Orbán, three days after his resounding defeat in the legislative elections, and said he likes the president-elect, Péter Magyar, although he did not name him. "I think the new guy will do a good job," he said in an interview with ABC News. During the election campaign, the US president called on Hungarians to "get out and vote" for his friend. He even participated, remotely, in one of his rallies just a week ago. He did so with a call from the phone of his vice president, J.D. Vance, who traveled to Budapest to support the ultraconservative leader.

Donald Trump is increasingly isolated in Europe. The estrangement between the US president and the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, widened this Tuesday. Trump has accused Meloni of not having enough "courage" to give military support to Washington in the war in Iran, after the prime minister criticized Trump for his attacks on the Pope.