Message #48847

[Jitendra Hydonus]

BREAKING: Donald Trump derails his big meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a deranged rant about his Nobel Peace Prize snub but then pathetically insists that he doesn't "care about that stuff."

Every day is a new humiliation under this man's rule...

"Maybe it can turn around, maybe it can..." Trump said of the Russia-Ukraine war, which was the topic of the meeting. "But in the meantime we'll have them keep a little bit of distance and we're going to see if we can get it done. Uh this is number nine, okay? This will be number nine, uh, for me. I've solved eight, including the Middle East. I've solved eight. This I thought would have been among the easiest."

Americans will recall that Trump regularly attacked President Biden for failing to end the Russian invasion and promised to bring the war to an end within "24 hours" of taking office for his second term. Clearly, that hasn't happened, adding yet one more failure to the ever-growing pile of broken promises from Trump.

"We solved— President Putin mentioned yesterday Armenia, you know all of the different wars..." continued Trump, who has repeatedly confused Armenia and Albania while discussing the conflict. "He said it was amazing because we— But the big one that he was surprised we were able to settle was the Middle East. He thought it was incredible. He was very generous in that sense... Uh, this should be something that we're able to settle. And I think we will be able to settle."

A right-wing reporter then called out and told Trump that he will "go down as the peacemaker," a hilarious suggestion given the fact that Trump is driving us towards war in Venezuela with murderous military strikes in the Caribbean and has already bombed Iran.

"Well, you know we resolved eight others. It's funny how people say that 'If you get this one,'" said Trump. "Every time I do one they forget about that one. Uh... I solved eight wars. Go to Rwanda and the Congo. Talk about India and Pakistan. Uh... Look at Thailand. Look at all of the wars that we solved."

"And every time I solve one they say 'If you solve the next one you're gonna get the Nobel Prize.' I didn't get a Nobel Prize," he went on. "Somebody who got it who's a very nice woman, very nice... I don't know who she is but she was very generous. Uh... So, I don't care about all that stuff. I just care about saving lives."

Trump most certainly does care about "all that stuff" because he aggressively lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee ultimately awarded the prize to María Corina Machado, the head of the Venezuelan party opposed to President Nicolás Maduro. She wisely dedicated the prize to Trump, flattering his ego and somewhat dampening the backlash.

Trump's claim that doesn't know who she is is either a lie meant to diminish her standing or another profound hole in his knowledge. He is currently engaged in a campaign to overthrow Maduro — including through the use of CIA covert actions — so he had better know who the opposition party leader is. Then again, it's  possible that his worsening cognitive decline has erased his memory of her.

"But this will be number nine. But every time I solve one, they say 'Sir if you solve one more you're gonna be known as the peacekeeper,'" Trump rambled on. "So to the best of my knowledge, we've never had a president that solved one war. Not one war. Bush started a war. A lot of them start wars but they don't solve the wars, they don't settle them. And especially when they're not— When they have nothing to do with us."

Obviously, numerous presidents have ended wars and engaged in successful peace talks. In fact, most of them have been far more hands-on in global diplomacy whereas Trump leaves it all up to his surrogates. He's too lazy and too ignorant of geopolitics to do the hard work himself. He just likes to take credit.

"I solved almost, I guess, just about all of these wars had nothing to do with us. But I saved tens of millions lives," Trump continued. "The Prime Minister of Pakistan said I saved millions of lives in interceding on Pakistan and uh, you look at Pakistan and India as an example. That would have been a bad one, two nuclear nations right? So, I say this uh... This is pretty much the last one. Although I do understand that Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan."

"That's an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve it. In the meantime, I have to run the U.S.A. but I love solving wars. You know why? I like stopping people from being killed and I've saved millions and millions of lives and I think we're going to have success with this war," he finally concluded.

Throughout the entire embarrassing performance, President Zelensky sat patiently and quietly across the table, waiting for Trump to finish. As usual, the Ukrainian president was a picture of poise and leadership, willing to brave the constant stream of indignities heaped on him by this administration because he knows that his duty is to his embattled people, not his pride.