Orange Turns Red

You may have seen the interview Trump stormed out of after he was confronted with his lies about the stupid, evil war he started – that he also lied was about to end. Trump told the NBC interviewer that he doesn’t “consider” the war he’s embroiled this country in on behalf of the state of Israel “to be a war,” but “if you want to define it as such, I guess you can.” The boggled interviewer followed up with, “how do you define it”? To which Trump replied: “I don’t define it at all . . . I don’t think about it . . . I just do what I have to do.”

Italics added.

He doesn’t think about it.

Just as he doesn’t think much about anything, apparently. Well, at least insofar as it affects us. He just does what he has to do . .  in order to be in congruence with the requirements of his Israeli overlords, toward whom he is strangely simpatico to a degree that can be fairly characterized as either worshipful or servile – perhaps because of things in the Epstein Files (to use the popular term) that compromise not just him but the entire termite-riddled so-called ruling class of both parties.

It is true – as Trump said – that NBC and the rest of the Fake News apparat is corrupt but that does not change the corruption of Trump. He audaciously claimed he never promised no war, a lie so stupendous it could be used as an example of the Big Lie most everyone has heard about. The saying is attributed to Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda in National Socialist Germany (“Nazi” is a term the National Socialists never used themselves but which is reflexively used by the American socialists and their brethren communists to sort-of paper over the reality that the “Nazis” were in fact socialists; a kind of militarized socialism but nonetheless socialists.)

When called out on this, his usually orange visage turned beet red. He eventually stormed out of the interview, dropping his microphone on the floor and audibly crushing it – perhaps inadvertently – with his enormous bulk.

Some finger-waggers didn’t like this, describing Trump’s Randy Watson Moment as unbefitting. In the past, many of Trump’s supporters would have clapped – and some still did.

Trump has played on the corruption of the Fake News – which everyone who is intellectually honest knows to be a thing – to efface his own corruption. He portrays himself as the righteous crusader against the exasperating corruption of the “media, which is effronterous in its peddling of Fake News. The truth is how you spread a bigger lie. (An excellent example of this being the use of the truth that people do catch colds and even a cold can be dangerous when you’re already old and frail to peddle the lie that “COVID” was a serious threat to everyone.)

Trump got a lot of mileage out of his Fake News mantra. But it’s now clear it’s Trump that’s Fake – and dangerous. (Also gay, in a way, when you stop to think about the way he likes to play – and dance to – the Village People’s YMCA song. A song about gay men hooking up at the YMCA.)

He does not turn red because he is ashamed of himself for having betrayed one of his key campaign promises – and not just a little bit, as all politicians routinely do. This is a yuge betrayal – and Trump knows it is. More accurately, he knows (he has to know) that his supporters (most of them) regard it as such. It is why he knows he has to puff up like a cobra and make a threat display, in order to get his followers – so he hopes, because it has worked before – to see him being attacked by the Fake News-peddling “media” as an attack on them. It has worked beautifully – to use Trump’s favorite term – in the past, because there was a kernel truth in it. But now the truth is this country is embroiled in a stupid, evil war that drags on interminably, bleeding Americans every day at the pump – to the tune of $40 billion so far.

There seems to be – per the old Kevin Costner/Gene Hackman film, No Way Out – to be no way out. Our Greatest Ally doesn’t want this stupid, evil war to end. Not before Iran is ended, at any rate. Also Lebanon, which Israel – Our Greatest Ally – is in the process of ending. The Iranians, meanwhile, do not wish to be ended and – key thing – they appear to have the ability to prevent their own ending. This places Trump and his ego in a place too small for them both. A psychologically normal man would try to cut his (and our) losses and come to some reasonable resolution. Trump is not that man.

Neither is Our Greatest Ally. The latter knows this is a kind of two-men-enter-one-man-leaves scenario, for both Our Greatest Ally and Iran. The latter could and probably would agree to an honorable peace. But Our Greatest Ally does not want that. It wants Iran ended – and by dint of that, so does Trump.

But do Americans want that? Well, Trump does not care. He has said so. Best to take him at his word.

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