Donnie Trump – what a joker, huh?

Remember his promise to end Russia’s war against Ukraine on Day One of his presidency? No joke, he bragged: “It’ll be done within 24 hours. You watch.”

Well, here we are at Day One Hundred, with the war still raging. So Trump either lied… or failed. But The Donald had a Joker up his sleeve – he now claims that, “when I said [Day One] it was in jest.”

Horsefeathers. First it was a core campaign promise, which he talked about at length in at least 53 of his widely publicized events (including two nationally-televised) debates. Second, he repeatedly assured his MAGA devotees that he was not joking, but literally would end Putin’s war in a day.

He became the joke, because he knows nothing about war and has surrounded himself with Fox News blowhards who know even less. I don’t mean that as an idle put-down, but as a screaming civil-defense warning of incoming danger. Unbeknownst to nearly all of us, Commander Trump and his menagerie of macho ne’er-do-wells are quietly-but-rapidly pulling America once again into the Big Muddy.

They’ve blundered into another “forever war,” dumping billions of our dollars into high-tech bombing raids against Houthi militia. Who? Houthis are tenacious guerilla fighters in the small impoverished nation of Yemen. Like the Viet Cong some 60 years ago, they are clever and resilient – and they’re confounding arrogant White House and Pentagon autocrats who keep thinking they can bomb their way to world domination.

As Pete Seeger put it in his Big Muddy song, “The big fool says to push on.” But we don’t have to obey. To push back, go to PeoplesAction.org.

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