Trump: Netanyahu’s Sugar Daddy

Among this writer’s rather expansive range of acquaintance is a young woman who periodically accesses a website where she meets wealthy men, and establishes semi-long-term ‘arrangements’ with them. In exchange for certain favors, she generally receives a generous allowance, full access to a sports car and a credit card with a limit that this writer envies. He does not know this young woman well, but has no opinion on her lifestyle, believing that any activity between two (or more) consenting adults is none of his business, if he is not one of said adults.

            The men who this young woman ‘dates’ are often referred to as ‘sugar daddies’. This is an arrangement that, for whatever reason, suits both parties and last for as long as it is mutually beneficial, or until one party simply tires of the situation.

            The same sort of arrangement can be seen on a global scale. All presidents prior to Trump, dating back to the 1940s, have had such an arrangement with the Prime Murderer of Israel. Trump is no exception; the current Prime Murderer, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the eyes of Sugar-Daddy Trump, can do no wrong; he slaughters Palestinians who have the temerity to live on land that Trump sees as a real-estate opportunity; Netanyahu talked him into bombing Iran, an action that the U.S.’s own intelligence sources said was a recipe for international disaster, and, possibly best of all, Netanyahu nominated Trump for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. These are among the favors Israel bestows on one of the most narcissistic people on the planet.

            And what does Sugar-Daddy Trump do for his willing mistress? Well, when that mistress is busy violating international law left and right, committing genocide, targeting residential neighborhoods with its bombs in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen, Trump has multiple roles: First, someone has to pay for all those bombs. If Israel had to pay for them, then Israelis wouldn’t have government-subsidized health care or government-subsidized university education; you know, those things that U.S. citizens go into lifelong debt for. So Trump, along with the sub-sugar-daddies in Congress who depend on financial contributions from Israeli lobbies for their election and re-election campaigns, doles out billions of tax-payer dollars annually to Israel. This way, Israel has all the equipment required for genocide, and it is able to influence U.S. elections in a very public way. Russia, China and Iran have been accused of covertly attempting such influence; they have not yet learned that putting such influence right out in the open is a much more effective method.

            So Sugar-Daddy Trump’s first role is to enable Netanyahu & Co. to commit genocide; his second role is to allow it. This is done by vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks to end the genocide. Allow food to get into Gaza? No way! Stop bombing hospitals? Forget it! Respect journalists covering the genocide? Don’t make me laugh!

            Occasionally, however, something goes wrong with a ‘sugar daddy’ arrangement. Perhaps a suspicious wife confronts her philandering husband, or the neighbors get wind of what this ‘upstanding’ community member is really up to, and there are consequences. Those consequences are even worse if the sugar daddy is a classic example of narcissism. Why, doesn’t everybody love him? Do not all in his sphere of acquaintance recognize his wonderfulness? Is his judgment in all matters not completely accurate? Are not his decisions all good and just?

            Well, no. For Trump, the ‘arrangement’ with Netanyahu seems to be fraying at the seams. For one, in order to please his Zionist mistress, he had to embark on what may be the greatest folly to date of the twenty-first century: bombing Iran. Polls indicate that, unlike at the start of most of the U.S.’s previous wars, there is very little support for this one. The little people whose admiration Trump so craves seem to be jumping ship.

            Secondly, Trump actually gave a public order to his mistress! It was almost the equivalent of taking away the sports car and replacing it with a used, budget, compact car. In a ‘Truth Social’ post, Sugar Daddy said this: “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A.” Such harsh words! Such a public rebuke! How will Netanyahu be able to stand it, after all he has done for Trump?
The illustrious president now finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to please both his mistress and his MAGA base: an almost impossible task. But which should he pick? If he jettisons Netanyahu, there goes his dream of building the Riviera of the Middle East on the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Gone also will be his great desire to own the vast resources of Iranian oil that, for some odd reason, the Iranians think they are entitled to. And worst of all, he must think of some way to say his disastrous Middle East misadventures were a great victory and a personal success.

            But on the other hand, if he can’t get his MAGA lemmings back in line, he risks his party losing control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in November of this year. He can almost smell ‘impeachment’ which, while unpleasant, wouldn’t be a new experience for him. But with electoral defeat in November, it’s possible that the usually-spineless Congress members might take the extraordinary step of removing him from office! What! The man who, by his own admission, is the greatest president in the history of the United States! Removed from office! Even the high and mighty Donald Trump must realize that, if that were to happen, that is all he would be remembered for in the annals of history. And any study of his removal, if it were to happen, would explore all the reasons for it.

            So often, is seems that a sugar-daddy arrangement is ‘win – win’: the sugar-daddy gets the favors he craves, and the mistress gets the financial benefits she (or he) wants. But as we can see in the Trump-Netanyahu arrangement, when it goes wrong, it can easily spiral totally out of control.

            What will Sugar-Daddy Trump do now? He is, it seems stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. He can’t please both his dwindling number of adoring acolytes and his Zionist mistress. And displeasing either one can have disastrous personal results for him.

            For many, this might be a morality tale about right and wrong; however, when one is dealing with a narcissist who cannot recognize such basic concepts as right and wrong, or understand that actions have consequences beyond his control, the idea of a morality tale has no relevance. So the most powerful man in the world, with his finger on the nuclear button, trudges around like a wounded bear: dangerous and unpredictable. There is talk of implementing the twenty-fifth amendment, wherein the vice-president and a majority of the cabinet can declare a president unfit and remove him from office. But surrounded by his appointed sycophants, who love their power and moment in the spotlight, the country – and the world – will have to wait at least until the mid-term elections. How much damage can be done between now and then is frightening to even consider.

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