By Philip Yeung
America in uncharted territory
America is in uncharted territory. For the first time, the universe is revolving around one certifiable, unhinged man who wants to satisfy his limitless lust for power.
First, the tariffs, then Harvard and other elite universities, and now, real estate---banning Chinese people from owning property in America. You can bet your house that there will be a string of other monstrous schemes up his sleeve to upend the world---so long as Trump is the occupant of the White House.
Trump an addict for attention
America is run by a ruthless convicted criminal who can disregard orders from the Supreme Court. This pathologically insecure man wants non-stop attention from all corners of the earth. The ugly tariff war against allies and enemies alike is nothing but a ploy to monopolize global attention. With his on-again, off-again pause on tariff threats, Trump guarantees that he hijacks round-the-clock preoccupation from around the world. Our planet is reduced to a circus of chaos. Rules are for penguins.
Castrating the court
In hammering Harvard, Trump goes for the jugular, cutting off funding, decertifying its license to recruit foreign students, and canceling its tax-exempt status. And what does poor Harvard have in its arsenal? Lawsuits. But Trump eats lawsuits for lunch. Under a new bill before Congress, contempt orders from the court may become unenforceable if they are starved of funds for their enforcement, as such funds are subject to the approval of the sitting president. The court has effectively been castrated.
Forget Congress. It sits snug and silent in his filthy pocket. Populated by bootlickers who fear for their own political future, Congress is no longer the third branch of government that gives the system its balance. Trump now claims America as his personal playground where he sets the rules and dictates play. Ditto the world.
Winning the lottery of birth
Trump won the lottery of birth by being born filthy-rich. He has parlayed that unearned wealth into dominating a Darwinian world where he is the feared king of the jungle.
Bullet-proof Trump has outgrown war-damaged Putin
In his first term, Trump lived in fear of being exposed by Putin for his Moscow sexual escapades, with incriminating videotapes of his sex orgies in a 5-star hotel room. Now, in his second term, unconcerned about re-election, Trump knows that he has finally escaped Putin's clutches, hence his recent vocal criticism of the Russian leader. Something else has changed, too: America has become shockproof---nothing Trump does, no matter how nauseating, will shock or shake his fan base. He is bullet-proof. And that makes him a danger to us all. He is a major-league weirdo that is major-league lethal.
Our once-in-a-thousand-year moment
We are living in a once-in-a-millennium moment, in which all rules of decency are suspended. It is naked powerplay, with the outcome determined by who carries the bigger stick. There are three brutal wars raging on the planet—the one waged by Putin, another by Netanyahu and the third a non-military but deadly tariff war detonated by a deranged would-be dictator in America. Sadly, the resolution to all three conflicts lies in the hands of this vicious puppet master.
An uncommon cure for the Trump disease
This being so, I have an out-of-the-box idea: because the normal rules of human behavior no longer apply, I strongly recommend that the Nobel committee award the Peace Prize to Trump, on condition that he stops the Ukraine slaughter, the Gaza massacre and the nuclear-level trade war against allies and adversaries alike. Like a jealous little boy, Trump wants the toy that Obama has in his cabinet—the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. Until he gets it, he will not rest. He will continue to make tidal waves, until he collects that one thing that he values more than his trophy wife.
Canadians often joke that when the US sneezes, Canada catches cold. Now, we say that when the man in the White House tests positive, we go into a global pandemic.
So, in the name of humanity, I implore the Nobel committee to take this desperate measure for desperate times. Disable this ticking time bomb and save the world and stop the outbreak of insanity. This might be a first-time novel use for the Nobel Prize. Let Trump take home his prize to his psychiatric haven. But spare us the full Trump, please.
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