Donald Trump nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize
Perhaps it's best if we all take a couple of minutes in our busy lives to let the latest news from Washington sink in a bit
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The Barrie Hudson Column
Barrie Hudson is a known quantity when it comes to writing words. Sometimes he even spells them correctly. In fact he has been writing words in the Swindon area for more than two decades. First of all for the Swindon Advertiser and then for Swindon Link and now for The Ink. Here are some of his words…
Donald Trump has been nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize
Donald Trump has been nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump has been nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’ve now written that sentence four times, but somehow it still doesn’t seem to compute. The poor old mental faculties can’t seem to grasp it. The synapses keep giving up and going off to have a cup of tea or a game of cards or whatever those valuable bits of one’s consciousness do when they are confronted by something that makes them say: “Wow, is that the time? Sorry, I’ve got to go and…err…feed the cat and deadhead the hydrangeas. Yes, that’s it. But I promise to come back a bit later and help you think about something else. Lobsters, for example. Or the name of Hong Kong Phooey’s cat. Or pinecones. Anything - it doesn’t matter.”
Let’s try the sentence again. Maybe italics will help.
Donald Trump has been nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nope, still isn’t quite registering.
Maybe somebody with a more agile brain can help me out here, but unless I’m missing something, the sentence - “Donald Trump has been nominated by Benjamin Netanyahu for the Nobel Peace Prize” - involves two people.
One, the man doing the nominating, is in charge of one of the most powerful militaries on the planet and, when faced with a terrorist outrage in 2023, chose not to confine his vengeance to the perpetrators but instead cynically used the attack as an excuse to begin a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing which has so far cost about 60,000 completely innocent men, women and children their lives, mutilated countless more, reduced still more to famine and put an entire region of the globe on a war footing. As if that were not sufficient testament to his character, he is being sought by the International Criminal Court in connection with “…the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts…”
The other man, the one nominated, is in charge of the most powerful nation on the planet, and is currently, among other activities, busily wrecking his own country’s economy, submerging tens of millions of people into poverty and sending his personal racist Gestapo to abduct people, tear husbands from wives, wives from husbands, parents from children, children from parents, babies from their screaming mothers’ arms, and then to take those people to hastily-established concentration camps with a view to merciless deportation, all without recourse to anything resembling what a civilised nation would regard as due legal process.
Yes, I’m sort of grasping it all now. Netanyahu handing Trump the letter regarding the nomination, while each man’s grovelling, gutless, grinning self-interested lickspittles gazed adoringly upon their masters, was not some sort of ghastly hallucination.
It was real - even if the whole thing did resemble nothing so much as a scene from some nightmare clown college in which each of the clowns is Pennywise from Stephen King’s It.
You could tell me anything now, and I’d probably believe it, right up to and including Trump changing the name of his recently-launched perfumes and colognes to Gen Eau Cide or Jeffrey’s Secret.
Or that he’d actually won the Nobel Peace Prize.