Donald Trump is a moronic imbecile who shouldn’t be allowed to order in McDonalds, let alone run a country.
Donald Trump is a complete antidote to the anodyne norm of benign and impotent national leaders.

If these two sentences seem incompatible, incongruous, contradictory? then welcome to my world. Every time I watch the news, those words come to my mind. In no particular order.

Because Don, as I call him when I’m in a good mood with him, gets things done. Ok, they’re not always good things, not from a ‘non-USA’ perspective especially. But he makes his seemingly ridiculous proclamations, issues his ‘executive orders’ and the whole fucking world catches fire.

He’s not stupid. Much of what he says is actually a circuitous route to blackmail people or countries into doing what he wants. Like the ‘tariff threat’ to Mexico. Which had the Mexicans finding 10,000 soldiers to guard the US border, within 24 hours. As Trump said: ‘permanently… and forever’. So possibly a bit stupid.

And he wants to take over Greenland. Which is part of Denmark. Like Gibraltar is ‘part of England’. But unlike those loyalist Gibraltarians, the Greens fucking hate Denmark. Which doesn’t mean Don would be welcome, they’d probably just like to be ‘Greenland’, full stop.

Now Gaza. Clear out all the ‘Palestinian’ people, send ’em to Jordan and Egypt, so Gaza can have a re-fit. Like when you eat in the lounge for 3 weeks whilst your new kitchen is fitted. There are many who see this as Trump taking the opportunity to acquire some really fabulous, beach-side real estate, for next to nothing. And when I say ‘fabulous’ and ‘beach-side’; despite current appearance, it could be fabulous and the beach is the same one I lie on almost every year, 50 miles up the road in Tel Aviv, and it is fabulous. Obviously the ceasefire would need to be made permanent before any sunbathing is likely to occur.

There’s also the point that Egypt and Jordan have never been overly keen on shipping in busloads of Gazan people. Coupled with the fact that it’s unlikely many of them even want to live in Gaza, but Israel. The ‘other’ ‘1-state-solution’ which nobody ever mentions even though its on Hamas to-do list. Saudi Arabia and Syria would never want that many Iran-supporting people in their land.

The reality is that Gaza could be a ‘riviera’ site. Israel is, Beirut was, Dubai wants to be (and will probably be working out a way to move the entire Mediterranean Sea into the desert as we speak), Egypt has done it in the Red Sea. But Gaza, instead of choosing a great route to future national prosperity, chose Hamas. Who promised them ‘all of Palestine!!!’, which includes what most people call ‘Israel’. And this delusion was embraced by the citizens of Gaza more than any appeals for a better future.

So is Trump’s idea any more far-fetched than Kier Starmer’s blanket disagreement because he wants ‘Palestinians’ to live in his mythical ‘2-state solution-land’? I’m not saying Trump’s plan is particularly viable, but it is interesting. And would solve many problems in the region. Possibly creating a few more but that’s politics.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx