“I was really being tough, and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in
love, okay? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love”
Those were the words of President Donald J. Trump at a Make America Great Again campaign
rally in Wheeling, West Virginia on Saturday speaking of his latest love affair.
Oh, this was no ordinary love affair. This was not a superficial fling with a former Playboy Bunny
or a one night stand with porn star. No, this new found love, as unexpected as it, was with
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
On some level, it had the potential to be the feel good story of the year, the prototypical ‘Boy
meets dictator, is awed by unrestrained power, wants to be just like him, and professes his
undying love for this moody, but clearly misunderstood, mass murderer” story.
I mean, we’ve all seen this movie before, haven’t we? I can’t think of one right now, not off the
top of my head, but surely Hollywood has written this plot line before, somewhere, sometime.
Surely…
In the Age of Trump, there are no rules, and there is no story so absurd, that it should be
considered an impossibility. But when Trump spoke these words, his MAGA supporters began
laughing at first, reassuring me, that there was still hope for these folks, that they too saw the
absurdity, that they too were all in on the joke. But only a few seconds passed and they
realized Trump was serious, and so they stopped laughing, and began to cheer their glorious
leader … crushing my foolish hopes and kicking them to the ground.
So why do I think this particular love affair is destined for the trash heap of insincere romances?
Maybe because Trump has been divorced twice already and is well on his way to his third,
maybe because he doesn’t know anything about real relationships, maybe because it’s always
about him or maybe it’s because I just don’t think you can trust murderous dictators, even the
ones who are in love.
Strange as this may seem, Fox News must have similar sentiments, marking a tuly unique alignment of the stars, because so far, 48 hours or so after Trump's statement of devotion, their homepage featured no headlines devoted to the stunning statement.
Still, wouldn’t it be nice if Trump and Kim were truly in love? Wouldn’t it be nice if their love
proved to be real, and we had a fairy tale ending, ….and they all lived happily ever after?
Yes, yes it would.
But pigs don’t fly… be they domestic or foreign.
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