{"id":255669,"date":"2026-01-21T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:18:10","slug":"john-downing-ireland-is-at-the-mercy-of-a-bully-until-we-get-our-defences-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255669\/","title":{"rendered":"John Downing: Ireland is at the mercy of a bully until we get our defences in order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Donald Trump says he no longer feels the need to pursue peace, a chilling sign that the US president is off the leash\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768976290_561_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trump, Greenland\u00a0and an Impending Trade\u00a0War: How will Europe respond? <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You have no head at all if you\u2019re not worried by the globe\u2019s number-one self-absorbed bully, Donald J Trump. And you have no heart if you are not distressed by his antics, which have damaged many lives in the US and across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I have spent all my adult life fixated by news reports, which have helped me pay more than a few bills. But the past 12 months have renewed my profound dread of watching or reading the news, in growing fear of Mr Trump\u2019s latest atrocity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he no longer feels the need to pursue peace, a chilling sign that the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[127414,3025,969,9146,61,60,1843,43,298,25599,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-255669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-davos-world-economic-forum","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-micheal-martin","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-norway","17":"tag-us-politics","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}