Before Trump

Aug 20, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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Kaieteur News – In America.  In Guyana.  The world knows about Donald Trump.  It knows too much, too much of what it wished that it didn’t know, because it never was, just can’t be.  Not America.  In Guyana, there was and is the life and times of Bharrat Jagdeo.  He was Trump before Trump.  Many may think that Trump is voracious, pugnacious, audacious.  They haven’t had the pleasure of an encounter, the experience of Guyana’s bigger, Trumpian brawler, Jagdeo.

Guyana has the man of deeper darkness, greater disunity.  The American had a prior existence, so also the Guyanese.  The second installment of Mr. Trump has blown away the webs of the first, revealed the man that he is in the marrow.  The second exhumation of Mr., now Dr. Jagdeo has produced from the bizarre to the boisterous.  The bad bullyboy that has left Guyanese cowering, and the foreign investor legion reaching for valium or their favorite premium scotch blend.  The locals are about a million, give or take a few hundred thousand; the foreigner contingents feel like a million, though they are largely invisible, the ones who carry the most weight, pack the most heat.

The world recoils from Donald Trump who has his vice squads rampaging across America.  It’s a strange, new America.  The land of the brave in steel helmets, full body armour, and black masks marauding in search of prey.  The machineguns are ever in hand, at the side, and ready.  This land of many waters and many men too smart for the good of the Guyanese people has its vice chief, a special kind.  From America’s vice squads, to Guyana’s vice chief.  Donald Trump doesn’t wait on enemies.  He manufactures them.  Bharrat Jagdeo does him one better, he already has an overflowing storehouse of his enemy fabrications, and those are what keep him alive and breathing.  But, if anything, the Guyana man also has an insatiable appetite (some may say that it is closer to an addiction, I say it’s a sickness) for creating sleaze and then dumping what doesn’t stick on others marked by him for special attentions and dispensations.

Aubrey Norton.  Nigel Hughes.  PNC.  AFC.  Glenn Lall.  This Lall.  Kaieteur News.  Stabroek News.  Women are not spared.  Sometimes, I think that I have missed the younger ones that weren’t excoriated during his raucous rantings that reveal a leader dripping with sludge, drowning in the muck of a pit of his creation.  Citizens made into fiends.  Guyana’s Trump the Better insists that that is democracy.  It’s the commie school of democracy.  Just ask Azruddin Mohamed of WIN, the new political apparition in Guyana’s looming elections that terrorizes Jagdeo into the political versions of St Vitus’ Dance.  I help the unknowing: St Vitus’ Dance is where someone works themselves into froth, twists themselves into barbwire, who then self-destructs from mental and physical dissipation.

It was a plague before in Europe; now it is back in Guyana with sprawling toxic radioactivity.  The virus goes by the name of GRE-2025 (general and regional election 2025).  As this nation’s vice chief goes on, as if he is operating in Iran or Saudi Arabia, so goes his army of similarly afflicted and conflicted lackeys.

WIN Mohamed has brought out the sickness and darkness in Jagdeo, and deposited it right in front of the US Embassy.  Want a contract?  The PPP has one: in a box.  Want some standards?  There are PPP folks ready to provide an education on screws and screwing.  The headmaster is usually oblivious, but the name Mohamed (any one of the two [or three]) transforms him into the rambunctious and noxious.  Distorted face.  Twisted lips.  Bared teeth.  Still ready for a fight?  Any day, but not on September 1st.  Guyana’s Donald Trump blusters that he isn’t afraid of the likes of Maduro.  Yet, the little Mohamed has him turning green around the gills.  Wouldn’t surprise me, if he conspires with the green PNC that he pretends to hate, to cut the WIN man down to size.  Bad choice of words, as I just recalled “in a box”, compliments of Freedom House.

A national leader has oil by the shiploads, yet the focus is on putting a competitor “in a box.”  Many Guyanese are hungry, living in poverty.  Jagdeo is angry, driven to frenzies.  Power corrupts.  Lusting for absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Those that hast eyes, let them see. Those who have ears, let them hear.  Then, they should get understanding, weep.  Guyanese no longer have to go to the USA to get a closeup glimpse of America’s newest Caesar, Trump II.  Trump is right here: larger than life and lower than most of its gifts.  He is Vice Chief, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo 2.  The vice chief is the senior chief, with the September elections unraveling the horrors that torment him.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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