I don’t know whether or not Trump personally approved the NFT card of him standing behind a roaring ferocious fiery lion with giant fangs and sharp claws. I wonder if he did, if he meant for the claw of one paw to be directly over Washington, DC. This is a small point, but such a depiction is hardly one of a peacemaker.
The lion is called the king of the beasts. Trump’s lion is wearing a crown that has the number 45 on it representing that Trump was at the time the 45th president. There’s no doubt that the lion represents Trump.
Trump claims to be a Christian. He also thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. I doubt he could quote one of the most famous lines from Jesus in Matthew 5:9. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
This brings me to how he has handled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Trump offered a one-liner on “Fox and Friends” yesterday that was all over the news.
In less volatile times he could claim that beating the hell out of radical-left lunatics meant beating them at the polls.
We should also look at other things Trump has said endorsing people being treated roughly, to think he is referring to voting. When he says beat someone he means this to mean to strike them, not defeat them at the polls.
First, here’s a reminder of what President Bush said after 9/11”
“The face of terrorism not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace, they represent evil and war . . . When we think of Islam, we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world . . .and that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race,” then-President Bush told a shell-shocked and grieving America. (Reference)
Now to the present day:
In a Substack Michael Cohen wrote:
Anthony Scaramucci—who, like me, knows the cost of being chewed up and spit out by Trump’s orbit—said it best: this is a moment when the President should have invited Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton to the White House. Imagine that picture for a second: five presidents standing together, saying, We may not agree on many things, but this must stop.
Thomas Friedman in A Plea for President Trump With a Fragile Country on Edge suggested something similar.
Make peace at home. Make peace between Americans. That is the peace prize that you don’t have to wait for anyone to confer on you. It is there for your making and the taking. This American peace prize will not be awarded by Scandinavians. It will be awarded by history. It will say that when Americans came closer to civil war than perhaps any other time since the Civil War, President Donald Trump surprised everyone on the upside: He called Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Laura Bush, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate and House and all nine Supreme Court Justices and said: Come to the White House and let the country see us standing together against political violence and vowing that we will model civil discourse and disagreement — in our speeches and online — and we will call out the opposite when we see it among our supporters as well our rivals.
I concluded yesterday’s Substack writing:
Here, once again, is a chance to do it the right way, but there is only one person who can stop this from leading to more violence. This, it should be unnecessary to point out, is Donald Trump.
If he could manage this I am willing to entertain the idea that he might deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
I am not optimistic.
If only Trump could find his North Star and follow a moral compass.
Check back later….
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