“TRUMP’S TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT: President Trump is in a celebratory mood this morning after brokering a landmark peace deal in Gaza. It’s early days, but expectations are sky high after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first part of a deal that will see all remaining Israeli hostages released from Gaza in return for a pullback of Israeli troops. It looks like a historic moment for the Middle East – and yes, a personal triumph for the US president. After months of touting himself as the world’s greatest peace broker, Trump is on the verge of something remarkable,” writes Politico Playbook in Thursday morning’s edition under that manages to be excessively slobbersome even by their standards, under the headline of “The art of the (peace) deal.” Bet they stayed up all night coming up with that one.
The sickening slurping sounds grow even louder and the tempo higher toward the bottom of the very lengthy section “And with perfect timing … It’s Nobel Peace Prize day tomorrow. Unfortunately for Trump, the five-strong panel of Norwegian judges likely made up their minds some weeks back.”
“But next year’s award? Honestly, who knows,” Playbook continues and hang on, it gets even better.
Two brief paragraphs about the White House’s schedule and a small ad later, the next section of the daily roundup opens with “THE MAGA MILITARY – TROOPS MOVE IN: After months of threats from President Trump, the AP reports that an ‘element’ of the 200-strong Texas Guard troops sent to Illinois are now working in the Chicago area, citing a spokesperson for the US Northern Command.”
Yes, Politico Playbook went on for 1,062 words about “TRUMP’S TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT,” capped it off with an affectionate Nobel Peace Prize facial and then, with nothing so much as a hint of acknowledgement that it miiiiiiight just be a little dissonant to put the two items so close together, went into how the “peace president” is deploying lethally armed troops to American cities to combat imaginary threats from dudes in inflatable frog costumes. What the fuck is wrong with these people?