Letters

The problem with stupid people is that they’re too stupid to know how stupid they are. Example: Donald Trump.

Benjamin Netanyahu saw a useful fool in Trump from a mile away when he first engaged with Trump, and he knew early on that if he complimented him and appealed to his enormous ego that Trump would eventually do anything Netanyahu wanted him to do.

Netanyahu, who has sullied Israel’s reputation and turned it into a war criminal state with his savage butchery in Gaza, was able to get Trump to bomb Iran, an extremely provocative move that will make all Americans more vulnerable to terrorist attack.

But the absurdity just starts there. Just two days after doing that, Trump described Netanyahu and Iran’s leader as “not knowing what the [blank] they’re doing.” So it would appear that our “stable genius” didn’t put a whole lot of thought into this decision that will inflame already-held passions against us for years. Stupid is as stupid does.

Netanyahu continues to play Trump like a fool, but Trump is too desperately ignorant to know it. In order to impress Trump, Netanyahu recently said he will advocate for Trump to get the Nobel Prize for Peace, because he knows Trump is too dumb to realize that no leader would ever get a prize for peace by bombing a sovereign nation.

Trump, who is famous for saying that he would settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict within the “first 24 hours” of his latest presidency, now informs us that Vladimir Putin, the man who invaded Ukraine in the first place, “doesn’t want peace.” Who could have seen that coming?

I know I don’t wear sarcasm well, but it seems that Trump was the only one in the world who didn’t see that coming.

If there are any Trump supporters who are unhappy with what I’ve written, you can always tell yourself that the biggest threat to our nation’s security isn’t the dolt who currently resides in the White House, but rather Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Oops, sorry about that sarcasm again.

Colin Grattan

Riverhead