Trump, the world, and what might have been

This is what Trump’s peace in Gaza looks like.

This is what a piece of Trump looks like.

In an interview with The Economist this week, jailbird and ideal MAGAman Steve Bannon said “Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.” Details to come “at the appropriate time.” He added that Trump is an “instrument of divine will.”

His instrumentality works in mysterious ways. Since his singlehanded achievement of a ceasefire in Gaza — “The war is over, you understand that,” said Trump on 12 October — Israeli forces have killed 93 Palestinians, 19 in the last 48 hours.

Israel has also continued barring entry of nearly all medical supplies, foreign doctors remain blocked, and less than 15% of the ceasefire’s promised 600 daily trucks of aid are entering Gaza.

The then-10-year war in Europe that in 2024 Trump assured the globe he’d resolve in mere hours continues, bloodier than ever. As of 30 September, his forever-friend Vladimir Putin had slaughtered 14,383 citizens. Needlessly dead are anywhere from 73,000 to 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers, 82,000 missing.

Last night, this is what living in the Ukrainian port city of Kherson looked, and sounded, like:

A former Fox News host and cabinet secretary of a nonexistent department has ordered an aircraft-carrier group carrying thousands of troops to the Caribbean, as Peace Prize aspirant Trump ponders a military assault on Venezuela.

This comes after his murder of 43 people in 10 high-seas airstrikes so far. And premeditated murder — not “self-defense” or death by “armed conflict,” as the Trump regime claims — is precisely what these killings have been.

Progressives and those in delusional awe of Trump’s received divinity will argue that President Obama committed the same extrajudicial crime, especially and even more egregiously in his drone killing of American citizen/Al Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki.

But Obama’s DOJ Office of Legal Council offered legal arguments. Just snuggle up some night, as I did yesterday, with its 41-page memo on sections 1111, 1112, 1113, 1119 and subsection 1119(b) of Title 18 U.S.C. and United States v. V/harton, 320 F.3d 526, 533 (5Lh Cir. 2003) and United States v. PVhife, 51 F. Supp. 2d 1008, 1013-14 (E.D. Ca. 1997). A spellbinding classic.

Trump has offered no legal justifications at all. Of course that could be because Bam-Bam Bondi would look at the above and say, What in hell do all those numbers mean?

He headed out to Asia last night. There he’ll antagonize and repulse with all manner of boneheaded indecencies America’s friends (soon former), Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and take care to mop up any remaining hopes of a sustainable tariff peace agreement with the world’s most prodigious manufacturer of ... everything, China.

Trump’s six-day travels come after his replay of shocking stupidity heaped on America’s once-closest ally and largest trading partner. In a fit of toddler rage he shrieked in all caps that “all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.” Its offense: correctly pointing out that St. Reagan disliked tariffs. He did. In fact, he “loathed” them. In Trump’s crackerjack mind, Reagan (caps) “loved tariffs.”

Psychologist Henry Goddard’s long-dispatched IQ test should be resurrected exclusively for Trump. For only Henry’s intelligence rankings included the official terms, “moron,” “imbecile,” and “idiot.” And just think, if Justice Holmes’ 1927 ruling in Buck v. Bell had been modified and honored nine months before June 1946 — “one generation of imbeciles is enough” — Donald wouldn’t be with us and destroying the world today.

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Cross-posted in Substack.