President changed after a year of Trump

washington - Almost no day passed when the 45th President of the United States was not in the news during his first year at the White House. Everyone has an opinion about Donald Trump, not always flattering.

It is clear in any case that he has completely changed the presidency of the US and is in no way comparable to one of his recent predecessors. His instinct is to fight, to divide, to disturb and to insult, and he does not keep himself in it.

Trump is not the first president to use a little lie, but the first who does not consider the truth as the greatest good. In the first year in the Oval Office, he said 2000 times wrong or misleading things, counted the Washington Post. This involved, for example, the public at his inauguration, Saturday a year ago, his former rival Clinton or his predecessor Obama.

He often writes his insults via Twitter, where he posts a barrage of tweets early every morning. There he calls his enemies 'short and fat' (Kim Jong-un) or 'crooked' (underhanded, Hillary Clinton). Last week he received a storm of criticism because he would have called Africa and Haiti 'shithole countries'.

With his use of Twitter, Trump can communicate directly with the American people, without the intervention of the in his eyes unreliable media. He also uses the medium to raise a fire internationally, by challenging North Korea or by waging his allies in Britain. Because there is often a gap between what Trump says and his actual policy, international diplomats are confused about how they can best respond.

Most presidents tried to reach their main voters as candidates, to find a conciliatory tone for the rest of the population once in the White House. Trump consistently continues to look up his own supporters, mostly conservative, white, older men, without drawing much attention on how the rest of the world experiences it.

That can change if the investigation into Russian interference in the elections comes closer to the president himself, or if the Republicans lose their majority in Congress.

Trump is also the president with the lowest ratings, which do not exceed 40 percent. More important for the showman-in-chief is perhaps that the Americans become Trump-tired and lose interest. Figures from Google show that less and less is being sought for his name, now 75 percent less than since his inauguration.