President Swiss Cheese Brain

 

     Every year, at forums and summits, Donald Trump is shamelessly inflicted on the rest of the world. It's like a rich family that occasionally lets its deformed child out of the attic and gives it a break from the steady diet of fish heads. "Oh, look, our beautiful little boy has come down from the attic to join us!", they say to the horrified guests who nervously laugh or stare or look away.

     Today, it was Switzerland's turn at the Davos summit.

    Davos is the place where the world's richest psychopaths meet to discuss how they're going to carve up the world like a birthday cake and make themselves money they plainly don't need. In other words, it's the perfect place for Trump, who's added $1.4 billion to his personal wealth since stealing the Oval Office for the second time.

     So, it only stands to reason, since dementia is a degenerative disease that doesn't get any better, that the deformed little boy would step down from the attic and embarrass the family, one that always manages to hide their mortification and convincingly emulate pride. 

   I don't reasonably expect anyone to listen to Trump's usual meandering hour and 11 minutes of drivel (I certainly didn't, since Trump's voice to me is actually more irritating than nails on a blackboard). But by now we can take it as an article of faith that very little of what Trump said at Davos today was factual. The one thing he did say that we can believe is truthful is when he said,

     "There are a couple of people in the room. I can't stand them...  I would screw them if I could, but I can't do it, right? I can't do it. I would have had a chance, or I could just take them and say, you can't do what Apple's doing, but you're not allowed to do that, Newt Gingrich, right? We can't do it."

     And the world-eating psychopaths in attendance nervously tittered because they all knew he meant every one of them and quietly muttered things related to the 25th amendment. Because they know Donald Trump is the ultimate misanthrope and that he's older than dirt, has had three dementia exams in the past year and will be pushing up daisies soon enough.

    But for now, they have to listen to him, his sagging, jiggling face the color of an old Oxford shoe, hoarsely droning on and on and on... 

     And, of course, he had to dribble some vitriol out of his foul maw at the UK, France, Germany and several other nations, including Ukraine and Russia (Yes, the stupidest man alive called them "stupid"). At the same time he was insulting virtually every nation on earth, the EU's international trade committee decided to halt negotiations of a deal between the US and the EU over his obsession with Greenland.

     And that doesn't even mention the EU's near-activation of its anti-coercion mechanism that's been called a "trade bazooka". That would essentially close off the US from the 450,000,000 customers that could theoretically purchase goods and services from US companies. And let's not forget that the end game of this scenario could involve the EU cashing in its US bonds. Let's also not forget, the European Union owns 40% of US bonds, a historically rock-solid market. If they cashed in all those US bonds, it would be catastrophic to the bond market.

    That comes out to about eight trillion dollars in bonds and equities. But tell that to a moron who'd bankrupted virtually every company and casino he's ever sullied with his grubby little fingers.

    Then there's Trump's shockingly corrupt Board of Peace (which never even mentions Gaza). This would consist of member nations that would pay a one billion dollar bribe for membership. And even though there would be a board, Trump fully plans on making himself the chairman, subject to a three year term but all final decisions would get to be made by him. Oh, and he could personally name his successor. Imagine a coked-up Donald Trump. Jr. demanding a billion dollars from a President Kamala Harris if she gets elected in 2028.

    As McGill University's professor of political theory, Jacob Levy, rightly said, this would make Trump "king of the world".

    Setting aside for a minute the beyond-risible spectacle of a guy who's bombed seven nations and carried out 622 plane or drone strikes in 2025 alone creating something called a "Peace Board", what the "Board of Peace" also fails to mention in its charter is where, exactly, that billion dollar per nation bribe would end up or how it would be used.

      But considering Trump's infallible instinct for enriching himself, an instinct that even dementia can't blunt, is it a stretch to speculate that all that money would wind up in his pockets?