Perhaps the only positive to emerge from the launch of President Trump’s farcical “Board of Peace” will be a modeling contract for Paraguay’s “young and handsome” president, Santiago Peña? Good for him. But even in this context, Trump’s obsession with machismo is no compliment. “I don’t like young, handsome men,” he leered, lecherously, of Peña. “Women I like.”
Beyond this, the inaugural meeting of the board was, fittingly, a disaster. Hearing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago playlist piped into a room full of second-rate world leaders as they waited for the self-styled Pied Piper of Peace was juvenile at best. And maybe that’s the point: This latest cockamamie scheme resembles every other money-making grab Trump has mastered throughout his life—doomed from the start.
Trump’s initiatives all fold like a flimsy card table in the end. They look sturdy when first set up but eventually buckle under the weight of the poker chips stacked on top. In this case, those chips are the proverbial $1 billion buy-ins from participating “Board of Peace” countries.
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