'It's about time that peckerwood in Caracas is history', Trump said to his military chief of staff, and the long-planned invasion of Venezuela began. Maduro and his wife were captured and spirited out of the country, and Venezuelan military installations were destroyed.
'Cocksucker was a pain in the ass', Trump was reported commenting to a gathering in Mar-a-Lago.
Trump was feeling his oats, and finally he had become the President he had always dreamed of being, a decisive, unintimidated, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later leader. 'Who's going to stop me?', the President rhetorically asked channeling Josef Stalin who, when asked about Vatican disapproval of his Communist policies., replied, 'How many divisions does the Pope have?'.
Finally and at long last the people of Iran are demonstrating en masse against the regime of the Ayatollahs, and the streets of Tehran have been filled with protestors who, risking their lives in defiance show no signs of leaving.
'Let one hair on the heads of these demonstrators be harmed', announced President Trump, 'and the Ayatollahs will pay the price'. The President of course has already taken military action against the Islamic regime, destroying its nuclear facilities and sending a strong message to the world. The US is no longer a cossetted, namby-pamby pushover.
So the mullahs must be wondering if their time is up, and many have headed for the hills; but so far the Iranian military has held its fire and surprisingly let the demonstrations go on.
'Raghead muthafuckas', said Trump when shown a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei and his inner circle spirited out of the presidential palace by a dissenter, 'not long for this world', and with that he instructed his military commanders to prepare to invade.
Why is this a surprise? Donald Trump has made no bones about his Machiavellian foreign policy. The removal of Nicolas Maduro, leader of the country with the world's largest reserves oil and the destruction of Iran's nuclear capacity, sending an unmistakable message to the mullahs to cease and desist supporting their terrorist clients are both The Prince's offspring. 'War is diplomacy by other means', said Clausewitz, and Trump has taken his words to heart.
Quite a guy', said Donald Trump after a recent two hour phone conversation with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Trump had always admired Putin, although he kept his feelings pretty much to himself since he wanted to be the world leader who resolved the Ukraine conflict. 'Quite a guy' was the least of it. Putin was a leader in the mold of another of Trump's favorites, Genghis Khan who swept out of the steppes with his Mongol-Turkic armies and conquered the world from Europe to the Far East. Putin had neither the power nor the enabling circumstances to extend Russia's reach much beyond its borders, but there was no doubt that he had more than Ukraine in mind.
Forget the hegemony thing. Complete, unchallenged, doctrinaire authority over his country and the former Soviet satellites was quite enough. America was a fractious mess, and as much power as a president might have, he was still beholden to the other two branches of government; and in Trump's case neither the Congress nor the Supreme Court were doing him any favors.
Winston Churchill had once said that democracy was the worst form of government except for all the rest; and Trump was beginning to believe that only the first part of that famous aphorism was true. What had democracy gotten us, he confided to insiders, other than a bunch of fractious fools howling and bellowing that 'democracy matters' when they didn't have a clue about disciplined governance.
'The Little Guy', said Trump borrowing a line from Martin Scorsese's The Irishman where Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Sheeran use the term to refer to Tony Pro (Provenzano) meaning the new 'democratic socialist' mayor of New York, Zorhan Mamdani, 'gotta go'.
'Watch this space', said the President when asked by a reporter what his next moves against Mamdani would be; and no one doubted that short of a military putsch the President would do his best to chop Mamdani off at the knees.
'Who are the idiots who voted for him in the first place?', Trump and many pollsters and political analysts asked. The history of socialism is nothing but a record of dismal failure, bankruptcy, suppression of individual rights, penitential taxation and unaccountable government power. 'What were they thinking?'
In any case the President would not have this rot befouling his move to refocus America on Hamiltonian principles, restore individualism and unfettered free enterprise, and expunge all traces of progressive fairy tale idealism, and once again he assembled his closest advisors in a closed door meeting to discuss how to bring The Little Guy down.
Wealthy New Yorkers when seeing the bill for his free child care and transportation, rent 'stabilization', city-run grocery stores and more - in the billions of dollars - will not stand for the necessary increases on taxation to pay for these excesses, and will use all their power to force Mamdani out of office. There is no way that this Little Guy, 'this camel jockey' can stay in office.
'Don't you understand that I would never let that happen', Michael Corleone says to his wife who threatens to take his children from him, 'and I would use all my power to prevent it?' The vast, accumulated, consolidated power stronger than many nations. And so it is with New York's current dons - the real estate magnates, land developers, Wall Street investors, big money all who will do everything in their power to see that Mamdani fails, is deposed, and never seen again
So this time Trump can let his New York associates do the dirty work for him; but plans for a coup are still in the making.
Meanwhile for the first time in year, progressives are happy. One of their own has been elected to prominence. La Lucha Continua they shout, we are not dead yet, and our vision of a progressive utopia is not far off. When Mamdani in his inaugural speech talked of collectivism and the end of individualism, they roared with delight. All their hopes and dreams had come true. New York was just the beginning. The Democratic Socialist Republic of America is next.
Fat chance, and Trump is not worried. The Little Guy has no idea what power is really like in America, and he ain't seen nothin' yet.
So, under the new Trump Imperator regime, Gaza is destroyed and soon enough Hamas and Hezbollah will be incinerated. Iran's nuclear facilities have been blasted to smithereens and the ayatollahs brought to heel. The pain in the ass Maduro is history, and meanwhile Trump is making peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, brokering a deal between Ukraine and Russia, Congo and Rwanda, and India and Pakistan - all Machiavellian and directly and distinctly in America's national interest.
A New Age Genghis Khan? Not quite, but channeling the great man in things big and small all the same.
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