To the Editor:
After changing the name of the “Department of Defense” to the “War Department,” Trump was awarded a pretend peace prize by FIFA, the international organization whose fans have a tendency to riot after soccer games.
I used to give Trump credit for violating only nine out of the Ten Commandments because he hadn’t killed anyone. But now that he’s using the U.S. military to blow up civilians in their boats, and finishing them off as they cling to the wreckage if they survived the first strike, he appears to have accomplished ten out of ten.
If his claim that he’s stopping drug trafficking were true, then he wouldn’t have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, a drug kingpin who was found guilty of importing 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
Trump has attacked Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Venezuela, where he kidnapped President Maduro. He has threatened to take over Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal. Trump also illegally deployed the military into U.S. cities, an unnecessary and illegal action that is not befitting a peace prize winner.
Trump has been campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, probably because he is jealous of President Obama and his award. Many previous Nobel Peace Prize winners received their awards for humanitarian reasons: Think Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt after advocating for equal education opportunities.
But the hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children, who have reportedly died due to Trump’s dismantling of USAID, make that route to the Nobel Prize unlikely.
Trump also wants to build a huge arch in Washington D.C., similar to the Arch of Constantine in Rome that was built in the year 312 for victorious Roman legions to march under. This is another action that the Nobel Prize committee will place in the “NO” column.
Perhaps Trump will hang his FIFA medal from the top of the arch. The juxtaposition would be perfect.
Daniel Lack
Ocala