Subject: It’s Really Worth A Moment of Reflection



As I was saying (in yesterday’s newsletter), the guy who promised to end “endless wars” is itching for a war of his own. And not just with Venezuela.

Let us pause for a moment to contemplate the bizarre fact that the President of the United States posted this on Saturday:

<photo of AI generated riff on “Apocalypse Now”>

Are you not entertained? Are the libs not well and truly triggered? But let’s briefly break this down:

Trump’s post is an AI-generated image that refers to the movie “Apocalypse Now,” which Trump rebrands as “Chipocalypse Now,” complete with helicopters flying over a burning Chicago.
Trump depicts himself as the character played by Robert Duvall, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, who expressed his fervent love for the War in Vietnam by proclaiming: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Irony is, of course, a foreign language to Trump. But it seems worth pointing out that “Apocalypse Now” was not a celebration of the awesomeness of war; nor was the use of napalm a moment of American Greatness.
We also shouldn’t gloss over another rather important distinction: Trump is not lusting for a war against foreign adversaries, but against Chicago, Illinois

Charlie Sykes