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It's hard to know where to start with Donald Trump's having dispatched American forces to capture the Venezuelan head of state and his wife.
So I'll start with this: Both Trump and Nicolás Maduro carry the title of president, but both are dictators. And both are as crooked as Steve Buscemi's grin.
When I heard the news of the capture this morning, I immediately wondered what Trump's base would make of this. They voted him in, we're told, largely to bring down prices. MAGA is allergic to foreign affairs, yet lately that's what Trump has been fixated on, while dismissing concerns about the cost of living as a Democratic hoax.
Will MAGA forgive him for blowing them off so he and his ego can earn a place in history? Heaven knows they've forgiven him for everything else, from sexual assault to Constitution assault, so the chances are decent, alas.
I also wondered, of course, why Trump took such an aggressive step. One answer is oil. Also, a friend reminded me that Trump sees the world as divided into his portion, Xi Jinping's portion, and Vladimir Putin's portion. Trump needs to shore up his piece of the pie. Which means the polar bears of Greenland better start worrying.
While thinking about what I'd write, I decided I needed to come up with new names for Venezuela, since Trump's narcissism has recently had him naming things after himself. "Trumpela?" "Donvenez?" "The Republic of The Donald?"
Then I found out the man-child beat me to it. In his press conference hours after Maduro was snatched, Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine, but he called it the "Don-roe Doctrine."
Someone please explain to me how a man with an ego that size doesn't simply explode?
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