But to the victor belong the spoils. So, we haven’t heard— We haven’t heard that in, I think, maybe hundreds of years,” Trump began.
The reason we haven’t heard that particular phrase in the context of American leadership is because it’s profoundly immoral.
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It’s medieval, “might makes right” psychopathy, the kind of rationale that led Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Of course it strikes a chord with Trump.
“Now with Venezuela, and we— Just so you understand, the people of Venezuela… They say if I ran for president of Venezuela, I’m polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela, so after I’m finished with this [Iran War], I can go to Venezuela,” said Trump.
“I will quickly learn Spanish. It won’t take too long. I’m good at language. And I will go to Venezuela. I’m gonna run for president.”
While some Republicans immediately rushed to insist that Trump was joking, his tone was serious and the room didn’t laugh at the suggestion.
And while he obviously can’t run for president of Venezuela, it’s unclear if Trump’s clearly dementia-addled brain recognizes that fact. He’s increasingly confused and untethered from reality.
As for those supposed polling numbers, Tucker Carlson — no ally of American democracy but a reliable viewport into Republican Party inner workings — previously revealed that Trump is being fed fake polls on a regular basis.
That explains why he thinks that his deeply unpopular Iran War is anything but and why he thinks that Venezuelans feel anything but hatred for him.
“But we’re very happy with the president-elect that we have right now, the people that are running it,” Trump continued in his rambling remarks.
“If you remember Bush with Iraq, they fired the generals. They fired the police. They fired the people that worked in their equivalent of the White House. They fired everybody. And you know what they had? They had a mess.
“And you know what happened?
ISIS formed. Those generals and those soldiers got together. The police got together. They all got together. They formed ISIS. Not going to happen with us,” Trump continued, mustering the hubris of countless failed leaders before him. “So Venezuela has been an incredible— It’s been an incredible situation.”
“We went in.
We were very successful. Military power like nobody’s ever seen. The general, Venezuelan general said, ‘I was on that site. I said, I’ve never seen ferocity like that.’ I’ve been doing this for 40 years,” Trump rambled on. “He said, I’ve never seen anything. They hit us from 17 different— It was— They were all set—”
“They saw that big, beautiful aircraft carrier, the Ford, in that case,” said Trump. “
And planes were pouring off it at 1 o’clock in the morning. So typically, when you see that late at night, you know you could be in trouble. Right? And we were all ready. They had their equipment. It was Russian. And they had Chinese equipment. It was all set. They were going to give us a fight.”
“He said, ‘And then they came.
And they came at speeds like we’ve never seen. And they came at 17 different angles,'” said Trump. “The general and his people, that was a lot of angles. They hit them from every angle. He said, ‘We knew it was over in three minutes. We were waiting for them.’ Their equipment didn’t work. And there’s a reason it didn’t work. Someday we’ll explain that to people. They pressed the button. Nothing happened. They pressed it again and again. Nothing happened.”
If these remarks remind you of an addled old man recounting a half-remembered story at a nursing home, it’s because that’s exactly what they are.
Trump can’t be trusted to remember what he had for breakfast but he has unilateral control over our nuclear arsenal. Until he’s removed from office, the world will not sleep safe at night.
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