Who Pulls the Donald's Strings?

The Donald is often portrayed as a marionette, manipulated by Vladimir Putin.  But there has to be more to the story.

 

Thee Optimist has it on good authority that his blog posts are too long, too verbose, too wordy.

People - who spend much of their time doomscrolling through six-second videos on social media - can no longer muster the attention span for lengthy articles.

That's fine.  The society is in terminal decline, as I might have mentioned elsewhere.  The idea that we can't read any more aligns perfectly with that decline.

So I'm going to experiment with shorter articles.  Here goes:

Another "Trump as marionette" image.  This is a widespread theme.  There are also plenty showing him as a sock puppet.

The Peace President

You may recall that in the recent election, Trump cast himself as the Peace President.  

Since Genocide Joe Biden was such a filthy war monger, Thee Optimist was willing to play along with this idea of The Donald as a man who would prefer to negotiate.

His previous absurd turn as president went badly in a hundred ways, but he was not a war hawk, at least not compared to the two presidents before him, or the one after him.

So what happened?

Vladimir Putin simply ignores and mocks The Donald's entreaties for peace in Ukraine.  Meanwhile, The Donald verbally attacks Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the unelected president of Ukraine, every chance he gets.  

Even worse, in recent months, Donald the DealMaker honestly seemed to be attempting to negotiate with the Iranians over their nuclear program.

More talks were scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, June 15.

Of course, the maniac Netanyahu scuttled these talks with an unprovoked attack on Iran on Friday.  Netanyahu can't allow peace to break out, because he will lose his iron grip on the Zionist entity and go to jail if he does.

Somewhat poorly rendered Benjamin Netanyahu, as a ventriloquist, using The Donald as his talking dummy.  This cartoon appeared back in January, in the Toronto Sun, and was accused in some quarters of being antisemitic.  To be clear, there is a large and obvious difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.        

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Peace Treaty

After Netanyahu demolished the peace process with unilateral violence (again), a funny thing happened.  

Instead of showing public anger with Netanyahu for destroying his negotiations, The Donald suddenly flipped his script.

The new narrative is he knew the attacks were coming all along.  He was only pretending to negotiate.  The attacks were, in fact, "excellent."

Now, the Donald owes his second presidency, in part, to the financial support of the rabid right-wing Zionist billionaire, Miriam Edelson.  That said, there are no puppet images that I can find of Trump being controlled by Miriam Edelson.

Maybe I will draw one. 

Anyway, it's a little hard to believe that Trump would pretend to negotiate in good faith, simply to give the evil Zionists cover for an attack on Iran, and give the Iranians a false sense of security.

I mean, Biden's demonic secretary of state Antony Blinken did do it repeatedly, both to Hezbollah and Hamas.

(Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me).

Two administrations in a row, though?  Two administrations who despise each other, and aren't on the same page about almost anything else?

Wouldn't that mean there's no reason for any country, or non-state actor, to trust the United States ever again?

Trump as sock puppet.  See?  Lots of images.  Much fewer words.

Words of Wisdom

"I want to have an agreement with Iran.  We are fairly close to a pretty good agreement.  As long as we're close to an agreement, I don't want [the Israelis] going in."

- Donald Trump, June 12, 2025 (one day before the Israeli air attack on Iran)