This performance text is Elfriede Jelinek’s instant response on the day of the announcement of Trump’s second election victory. It was conceived during his campaign as a coda to her response to Trump’s fi rst victory, titled On the Royal Road–The Burgher King , also translated by Gitta Honegger and published in 2020 by Seagull Books.
Elfriede Jelinek (Sun,) studied this question.