The gang that wants to rule the world is still embroiled in an argument over what’s next in Venezuela. The Chavez-Maduro regime remains in place: Trump says one thing about Venezuela’s immediate future and Marco Rubio another. The Kaiser of Chaos is the boss, but he doesn’t do details. Rubio has grander plans, he wants to be the Simon Bolivar of Cuba. Trump doesn’t know who that is.
The QOTD focuses on the enormous ego of the man who would be king. The most sensible solution for Team Trump is to heed the calls of opposition leader and Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado to hold new elections. There’s one problem:
“Two people close to the White House said the president’s lack of interest in boosting Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stemmed from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has openly coveted.
Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.”
I am not making this up. That’s the shallowest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Machado’s original sin is insufficient sycophancy, but sexism clearly plays a role. To say that the Insult Comedian is a misogynist is an understatement, something the man himself is incapable of.
Machado surely thought her flattery campaign was working. The administration dispatched special forces to extract her from the country she hopes to govern, after all. No soap. Trump wants her Nobel Peace Prize. Who knew that he liked hand me downs?
Earlier, I called Trump, The Man Who Would Be King. That’s a play on the great John Huston film adaptation of a Kipling story. Sean Connery played the title character. His fate was not pretty: he lost his head; literally, not figuratively. Michael Caine played his sidekick in this tale of imperialism gone terribly wrong. Caine was tortured and left to die. He survived but there’s a message in this for Trump and Rubio, one they will surely ignore.
The last word goes to Thelonious Monk: