There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright. Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the outright insanity is not only destroying the White House and much of the District of Columbia. It also means engaging in wars against otherwise non-threatening adversaries that waste trillions in taxpayer dollars while doing terrible damage to the United States and also creating economic and political catastrophes that might well wreck much of the world as is happening with Iran right now.
Last week there occurred a stream of typical fulminations from Trump directed against Iran linked to Israeli sourced “intelligence” that the Persians are planning to assassinate him. Iran had already been on the receiving end of typical Trump “negotiating skills” in the wake of renewal of fighting around the Strait of Hormuz, highlighted by the president’s referral to the Iranian leadership as “scum.” A normal person in a position of power would know when to put on the brakes to try to find a way out of the potentially disastrous conflict, but that is not Trump’s way.
Trump should have ignored the assassination narrative and ought to have stopped right there, recognizing that anything coming out of Israel will automatically be a lie. In this case it would have been a lie intended to unleash shooting war phase two between the US and Iran, which is precisely what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes and dreams for. So how did Donald respond? He thundered how, if he were to be killed by Iran, the result would be devastating for the Persians, though he did not exactly put it that way. For Trump if his “Art of the Deal” nonsense does not succeed it is always necessary to irrationally threaten adversaries with total destruction.
In any event, on Friday Trump wrote on his Truth Social site how “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the US Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran – PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”
Over at the Ron Paul site Kurt Nimmo observes in the message yet another exercise in Trumpean megalomania. He describes how “Naturally, ME is in caps. Because Donald Trump is, for him and his shrinking legion of MAGA exponents, the alpha and omega, the be-all and end-all of morality and integrity. The very thought that he may be assassinated, after pulling off a mob-like hit on Iran’s Supreme Leader, is malefaction writ large.”
As it is widely accepted that the US military is running out of the preferred weapons to be used against the Iranians Trump might just be blowing smoke, as usual, about the effectiveness of his offensive capability. And, of course, as there always is with Trump, there is the hyperbolic presentation with malapropisms mixed in. He wants to “decimate and destroy all areas of Iran,” ignoring the fact that to do so may be beyond his capabilities when targeting such a large and populous country having its own considerable defensive and offensive infrastructure. Also Trump does not seem to understand the meaning of “decimate,” which he uses frequently in his threats. It derives from the Latin meaning “one in ten” and it originated in the Roman army when a combat unit did not perform effectively in battle. One in ten men would be selected out at random and executed to inspire the rest in future engagements. So is Trump planning on executing his own soldiers if they fail or is he expecting to murder captured Iranians which would be a war crime. So what is it Donald?
Another Trump tale which has just re-surfaced involves the White House, which he is simultaneously gilding and bit-by-bit destroying without any apparent understanding that it is a taxpayer supported government building that is his temporary residence while he is in office. Some refer to it as the “People’s House” and it does not belong to Mr Trump any more than the Kennedy Center, the Institute of Peace and the ancient cherry trees along the Potomac that are being destroyed to build an unneeded golf course named after America’s most unpopular president! And we won’t even mention the enormous Trump[hal] arch DJT is erecting to block the view from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery. And oh, I forgot that Donald Trump has several times mentioned that he should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded for military valor in spite of the fact that he had “bone spurs(?)” so he couldn’t honor his country by serving in the army in 1968 when everyone else like me were graduating from college and getting drafted for Vietnam!
However, let’s get back to the White House. It has been reported that the president has been in the habit of giving guided tours of certain rooms to specially esteemed visitors whom he has wanted to impress. By one account which described the behavior as “deranged,” around a year ago Trump had German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in and took him to what he described as the “Lewinsky Room,” a small office accessible through a door to the right of the Resolution Desk which features in the president’s own office. For those visitors needing elaboration, Trump played the grinning tour guide, explaining that the smaller room was where White House intern Monica Lewinsky would treat President Bill Clinton to oral sex back in the 1990s. Trump would reportedly say to his guests that “I’m told this is where Bill and Monica…”
The Lewinsky room is now configured to sell Donald Trump and MAGA memorabilia, with shelves full of Trump hats and other items that the president presses on his visitors as gifts from the “world’s most powerful man.” There are also boxes of Florsheim dress shoes, which are favorites of Trump, who, in addition to wearing them himself, gave pairs to several of his top Cabinet officials in the spring. They are apparently required to wear them lest they fall out of favor, much as all Trump appointees are expected to follow the leader’s “genius” no matter how bizarre the situation. After Trump had shown off his secret room full of his and MAGA momentos to German Chancellor Merz, it was reported that Trump then said: “Just grab whatever you want.” He then boasted to Merz and the other officials from the German delegation that their wives could one day make lots of money by selling the items for “thousands of dollars.”
On a final note, let us go back to earlier in the week. President Donald J Trump recent political forays also included a trip to a NATO meeting in Ankara Turkey where he managed to alienate close allies by his insistence that the alliance exists to support any war that Washington chooses to start. He seemingly is unaware that NATO is a defensive alliance not intended by its founders to go to war against foreign nations that pose no threat. Trump also made some new incoherent noises about taking over Danish owned Greenland and it is reported that he wants to readjust the border with Canada.
Beyond that, Trump continues to be owned by the State of Israel and its domestic lobby, most particularly by the Jewish billionaires like Miriam Adelson who fund the corruption that he and his his insider trading sons ride on to glory. Trump will do what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants him to do, including renewing the devastating war against Iran, the bombing of which he is already ramping up. And now there have also been unverifiable reports of the US preparing troops to “help” Israel destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon, which will become the next Jewish state conquest after they finish up with Gaza and conclude their expansion up to the Damascus suburbs in Syria. And, inevitably, there are suggestions that using nuclear weapons on Iran and others might well be surfacing in the Israeli and US playbooks! One can only look forward to what might be coming up next!
Reprinted with permission from Unz Review.
