We've been told about World War III so many times that when it finally arrives, we won't believe it. Just as we never imagined a politician like Donald Trump could exist, an egomaniac who has undermined the role of a leader in a democratic state, decency, and any sense of the ridiculous. Having become a caricature and a mirror for far-right populists, he threatens the world order, driven by his megalomania. If you stir up hornets' nests in Ukraine, Venezuela, Gaza, Greenland, and Iran, sooner or later one of them will sting us all.

A congressional investigation has finally confirmed—and added lurid details to—the accusations against Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, which forced his resignation from the nomination for attorney general offered to him by Donald Trump. The damning report from the House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of paying tens of thousands of dollars for sex and drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl in 2017, according to a draft obtained by CNN. The committee itself, led by Republicans, had announced it would release the report on Gaetz, a move he had sought to avoid by resigning his seat. The draft report concludes that the Florida congressman violated the laws of that state, including legislation on rape and sexual assault. The GOP-led group opted to take the unusual step of publishing a report on a former member who resigned from Congress. "The Committee determined that there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, inadmissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress." According to the report, the panel investigated transactions Gaetz personally conducted, often using PayPal or Venmo, with a dozen women during his time in Congress. Investigators also focused on a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, which they said "violated the House gift rule," during which he "engaged in sexual activity" with several women, including one who described the trip itself as "payment" for sex. On the same trip, he also took ecstasy, one woman on the trip told the committee.

Groucho Marx is credited with saying he would never want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. I often have to reassure my friends, when we talk about politics and I unleash my often openly boorish thoughts, that they should relax, that deep down I would never want to live in a country governed by someone who thinks like me.

US President Donald Trump visited an immigration detention center his administration installed—in record time—in a remote area of the Florida Everglades on Tuesday. The center, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, is located about 60 km from Miami, in a vast subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. A demonstration of the White House's hardline stance on immigration.