The Trumps in Styria


Donald Trump is hatching travel plans — first to Hungary to the Viktator, his vassal. And then to the kingdom of Mario I, where the Trump offshoot celebrated a win and Trump’s mother-in-law traces her roots.

Thursday is Turkey Day in Trump Country, and in Mar-a-Lago, there will be a big Thanksgiving party with all the bells and whistles: DJ Donald plays his biggest hits, from Elvis Presley to Luciano Pavarotti. At the end of Joe Biden‘s interregnum, Trump is already hatching travel plans — possibly as a prince of peace to Moscow and Kyiv, to Ryad and Jerusalem. Maybe to Budapest to the most loyal of his loyal vassals on the Old Continent: Viktor Orbán.

From Hungary, it is not a long way to Styria in Austria, where a defender of “Make Austria Great Again” will soon rule: the sovereign Mario I. Since Karin Kneissels’ wedding and her pas de deux with Vladimir Putin in Gamlitz in 2018, which had the Freedom Party of Austria squad of H.C. Stracke and Mario Kunasek waltzing, along with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and a choir of Don Cossacks, the Styrians have had their hands full with last-minute, spontaneous state visits.

They would certainly roll out the red carpet for the Trumps, especially after the victory of the Freedom Party, a Trumpist offshoot. Particularly since Amalija Knavs, Melania Trump‘s mother, was a dyed-in-the-wool Styrian, born in the chaos of war in 1945 in the municipality of Judendorf-Straßengel near Graz and the Mariatrost Basilica — which makes Melania a half-Styrian. Trump speaks in the best terms about his deceased mother-in-law, who was just one year older than he is. The least he could do would be to mount a golden plaque at her place of birth, with a live band, beer, and grilled chicken.

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