18 March—Donald Trump is bloviating, intimidating, vituperating, and dissimulating as usual about his thoroughly illegal non-war of peace in, around, and about Iran even as America’s once friendly and alacritously cooperative allies in NATO have told him, “You broke it, you fix it.” And SICOTUS’s latest candidate for 51^st-statehood is Cuba.

An historian has described Adolf Hitler’s administration—more accurately, his totalitarian dictatorship—as “an incoherent mess run by third-rate people.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but any objective observer would be hard-pressed not to describe Donald Trump’s administration—more accurately, his totalitarian dictatorship—as an incoherent mess run by third-rate people. QED in spades.

But Trump has his fans, not only in the man caves, bunkers, and funny farms of the United States but for self-defensive—as well, of course, as offensive—reasons in Israel. And that’s evident in this front page of The Jerusalem Post, a center-right English-language rag, from 1 March.

It’s really a pretty good portrait of Trump, truth be told. But why would the “Vice-President of World Jewish Congress representing Ukraine” join in the adulation? Hasn’t Trump told Ukraine by lack of cooperation, inter alia, to drop dead because President Zelenskyy refuses to kiss his narcissistic ass?

Incidentally, the two other major English-language rags in Israel, Haaretz and The Times of Israel, tend towards the left and would never run such a cover.

In conclusion, then, Jesus Christ!