What can we learn from President Trump’s text to Norway’s Prime Minister after being denied the Nobel Peace Prize? Trump says he “no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace.” This is no idle threat. The president has asked for an unheard of 50% increase in the war budget for fiscal year 2027.
This is the president’s way of shifting responsibility for his natural predatory behavior off his own shoulders to somebody else . . . anybody, anywhere.
This is like saying other people and institutions make his moral and ethical decisions for him. What seems more likely is that he is a war-maker at heart, and touts peace only to balance out or cover up his war-making efforts.
In reality, Trump has always run his private social life and business affairs by force and now does the same in public affairs.
Martin Luther King once said world leaders often exercise “power without compassion” and “might without morality.”
Could King be speaking prophetically from the grave about our own No. 47?
Kimball Shinkoskey, Woods Cross
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