The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –
The disconnect from reality is palpable.
It makes me dread waking up, turning on Matilda the Mac (the pet name for my computer) and scanning the headlines online.
Not a day goes by in the era of Twitter and Trump without a story coming down the pike that is so crazy it makes me throw up in my mouth. Sometimes I literally have to double up on the reflux meds.
But what is a news writer to do? I’m not quite ready to totally retire and give this all up, although there are days when I actually consider it.
Now this: Right there on the front page of the Sunday New York Times website, a big orange trial balloon screaming that Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace.
What?
I would say, “You must be kidding,” right? But no, this is apparently an actual proposal in the works in a campaign that reminds one of the PR moves designed to win college football players the Heisman Trophy.
Of course Trump is portrayed as a cartoon peace prize winner by editorial columnist Maureen Dowd. This is one reason I’m no fan, because even liberal columnists seem to have to portray both sides and make it plausible that it was Trump’s bellicosity that led to the fledgling peace agreement breaking out like spring roses in Korea.
This from someone who once went to Colorado to write about the legalization of marijuana and made the horrible mistake in the name of research of scarfing down an entire weed candy bar that was supposed to be cut into 16 pieces.
But this is not just a novice stoner’s joke. Google it. It’s right there in New York magazine.
The Campaign for Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Has Begun
British oddsmakers now have Trump a two to one favorite to win it, along with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.
The story is all over the news wires, including Bloomberg.
The peace initiative is being billed as “the biggest change since the end of the hostilities,” according to Senator Lindsey Graham, not the president’s biggest fan who once labeled Trump the candidate “a kook,” “crazy” and “unfit for office.” But he said it right there Friday on Fox News. “What happened? Donald Trump convinced North Korea and China he was serious about bringing about change.”
“We’re not there yet, but if this happens, President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” he said.
Barf.
Can we just look for a second at reality?
The real reason North Korea’s child dictator might be coming to the negotiating table is that his entire nuclear development program may be at risk of being buried under a collapsing mountain. This is not a crazy conspiracy theory. It’s from the Associated Press.
BEIJING (AP) — Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation.
Geologists say N. Korea’s nuclear test site likely collapsed
Even Fox News talking heads and viewers should be aware of this since it was reported on Fox Business News.
Some news outlets are now debunking this, but even on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, the so-called experts were talking about peace in North Korea as if it was Trump’s idea.
What?
This is the guy who threatened to “destroy” the country of North Korea and wipe it off the map.
Many of my peacenik friends have openly been scared to death that Trump would get us into a nuclear war with North Korea. Now that fear has shifted to Iran, but a bro-fest with France’s President Emmanuel Macron this week and a lesser reported meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel may make such a confrontation even less likely.
Apparently the reality is there is a move afoot to stop the United States from starting World War III by flattering Trump and awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize.
If that’s what it takes to make world peace break out like spring roses, I guess it’s better than the nuclear option.
But would it not just be better to arrest Trump for his high crimes and misdemeanors?
Never mind. Maybe I just need a Blue Kudu chocolate bar or a Cheeba Chew from Colorado. I promise not to eat the whole thing.
I mean we can’t drink coffee from Starbucks anymore or eat breakfast at the Waffle House.
The world has indeed gone crazy. Thank you Donald Trump.
Keep your head down out there. Next week’s reality show on Netflix: “The sky really is falling.”
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