Trumpiana: Never say never – Nobel nixed, Nixon fixed!

After ending eight ‘unendable wars’ in eight months — including one between nuclear armed India and Pakistan that sulking friend Modi still refuses to acknowledge — the great peacemaker finally got his prize.

No, not the blasted Nobel, but the Richard Nixon Foundation’s Architect of Peace Award established in memory of POTUS 37, who made history in March  1972 with a groundbreaking rapprochement with Communist China.

Donald Trump received the award, a statuesque of Nixon, in his gilded Oval Office from Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of the man who resigned two years later after making history of a different kind months after proclaiming “I am not a crook,” in the midst of the Watergate scandal.

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POTUS 45&47 then took Nixon’s daughter and family around to show the portrait of her father in the presidential gallery of fame on the White House Colonnade with his own predecessor ‘Sleepy Joe’ portrayed by an autopen.

Pity his “new, big, beautiful” 90,000 square foot ballroom to be built at a cost  of over $300 million “privately funded by many generous Patriots, Great American Companies, and, yours truly,” would not be ready for years for a celebratory dance.

But this week, Trump who is demanding the Justice Department pay $230 million to compensate him for the federal investigations into him — with his own appointees reviewing the claim — suggested he may use some taxpayers’ dollars too after all.

“If I get money from our country, I’ll do something nice with it, like give it to charity or give it to the White House while we restore the White House,” he said.

After promising in July that the new addition to the White House “won’t interfere with the current building,” Trump brought in giant excavators to completely raze the entire East Wing to the horror of historians and architects.

Trump wouldn’t wait for the legally required public review by the National Trust for Historic Preservation after two “geniuses” at a dinner with ballroom donors showed him a loophole to begin the project immediately.

“I said, ‘How long would it take?’ They said, ‘Sir, you can start tonight.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?'” Trump recounted as cited by the New York Times. “‘You have zero zoning conditions, you’re the president of…’”

While many saw the demolition of the East Wing as an apt metaphor of the Trump presidency — shaking up Washington, tearing down broken systems, wrecking alliances and rattling global trade, officials dismissed the uproar as a “manufactured outrage.”

“He’s the builder in chief…re-elected back to this People’s House because he is good at building things, ” suggested his press secretary though critics thought ‘wrecker-in-chief’ would be more apt with a series of mocking memes. One EZ Rider posted on X a fake image of Trump perched on a golden wrecking ball having a go at the White House.

Earlier, as some seven million ungrateful subjects – some dressed as frogs, pandas, sharks, lobsters, poodles and chickens – greeted the great Gaza peacemaker at ‘No Kings’ rallies across America, an enraged ‘King Donald’ took to the skies in an AI generated fighter jet to dump excrement on protesters.

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Embracing the king theme, the White House put out another meme of Trump putting a crown on his head and drawing a sword. A third one captioned “We’re built different,” depicted Trump and Veep JD Vance as Kings with Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer wearing Mexican Sombreros.

The meme was meant to falsely suggest that Democrats cared more about providing healthcare to illegal immigrants as the U.S. government shutdown entered its 25th day with no end in sight.

He then sent the ‘chhota’ (little) king Vance to shore up the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and not to “monitor a toddler,” who poured cold water on Israel’s plans to annex the West Bank dismissing a vote in the Israeli Parliament as a “very stupid political stunt.”

Even as the next steps in shaping a peaceful, postwar Gaza remain vague, Trump made clear U.S. would not allow any such Israeli attempt. “It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries,” he told Time, “Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”

But he also warned that “Numerous of our NOW GREAT ALLIES in the Middle East” were ready “to go into GAZA with a heavy force and ‘straighten out Hamas’ if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us.”

Once played twice shy, Trump decided “not to waste time” meeting Russia’s Vladimir Putin for a second proposed summit in Budapest any time soon after Moscow signalled an unwillingness to cease fire without grabbing more territory.

“Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations and then they don’t go anywhere,” said a frustrated Trump ordering surprise new economic sanctions on Russia, including on two of the country’s largest oil companies.

The action may force India and China to slow down purchase of Russian oil and bite Moscow too, but that’s unlikely to sway Putin to change course.

Meanwhile, citing an obscure 1827 Supreme Court ruling over a horse, Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C, with plans to send them to Portland, Chicago and other Democratic cities in response to protests over his immigration crackdown.

But in one instance, Trump called off plans to deploy federal troops to San Francisco after speaking to the city’s mayor and Silicon Valley’s tech titans – “Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others.”

“They have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a ‘shot.’ Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday,” he posted.

Who says, the Donald does not listen. He does so long as it’s the sound of money!