I know I’ve made the comparison before, but Trump’s second term keeps feeling like Nixon on rerun... minus the foreign policy aptitude and cabinet competence.

You’ve got the Iran crisis, an energy shock, a fresh moon mission with Artemis II, and a presidential scandal of his own making, with the Epstein files saga refusing to die quietly.

You’ve even got the old ghost of détente floating around... except this time it looks less like strategic cooling with China and more like appeasement of Russia dressed up as realism.

It’s not a perfect historical rerun, obviously. History never photocopies itself that neatly.

But the atmosphere is familiar... foreign policy crisis, energy shock, cosmic ambition, great-power manoeuvring, and a presidency that keeps tripping over its own shadow.

At this point, all we need is the funk soundtrack and flared jeans in a wood-panelled room while America tries to convince itself this is all perfectly normal.