On the hostage front, it's Joe Biden-135, Donnie Trump-20. And the fighting continues

Many American Jews are kvelling over the notion that their fair-haired fuhrer brought peace to the Middle East. Visions of mullahs dancing in the streets, Sunni and Shia Muslims embracing and Hezbollah turning their rocket launchers into poppy planters swirl like sugar plum fairies.

Donnie’s war-ending count (in his own mind) is up to eight, because he had already ended seven (again, in his own, fetid mind).

Some of us, however, aren’t buying what he’s selling. It would be swell to be able to believe the most dishonest man on the planet or what they say on Fox, but I don’t remember the previous seven wars he ended and have slim hopes for any sort of lasting peace for Israel.

Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law in 1993. Donnie Trump called that agreement horrible and in 2020 entered into a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada called the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Most economists and international trade analysts call Trump’s agreement NAFTA 2.0 because it’s essentially an updated version of the original NAFTA, which probably needed updating after 27 years, anyway.

That’s what Donnie does. He massages and rebrands the work of others to make it look like he actually has ideas, but not all of us are fooled.

Donnie’s 20-point Israel/Gaza peace plan is remarkably similar (exact, in fact) to the plan President Biden had been pushing more than a year earlier. Biden’s timing was the problem, though.

Just as he told House Republicans not to pass immigration reform while Joe Biden was president, Trump told his buddy, Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu that they’d both be better off waiting until he was back in the White House before moving forward with any kind of cease fire.

Sound shocking? He’s doing the same thing with Putin and Zelenskyy.

One day he tells the president of Ukraine that he’s impatient with Putin and is going to send Ukraine long range missiles, but then, when the missiles are supposed to ship, he talks to Putin and stalls those shipments for another couple of weeks while Putin pounds the crap out Ukraine.

See the pattern yet? They don’t care about the people getting slaughtered, they only care about their own political and financial fortunes.

Seeing Trump in Israel declaring world peace was like seeing G.W. Bush land on the USS Abraham Lincoln and declare Mission Accomplished some 18 years before Joe Biden finally extricated us from Afghanistan.

Addressing Israel’s Knesset, Trump declared Netanyahu to be a ferocious negotiator and urged the Knesset to pardon his felonious counterpart.

Is it about peace or pardons?

Trump and Netanyahu personify the birds-of-a-feather thing, whether you call it an adage, an idiom or a proverb.

Another adage is about the devil being in the details and those things are just not in Donnie’s wheelhouse. He’s more of a one-and-done kind of guy, except when it comes to his personal grievances, which persist ad nauseum.

Things like repatriation of Israeli remains, the continuity of aid into Gaza or getting any other country to agree to an international peace keeper mission with the least trustworthy man on Earth are no longer his problem.

Whatever’s next, President Joe Biden was able to help Israel get back 135 living hostages while Trump only brought home 20, although that is reportedly the last of the living hostages and we should all be grateful.

It’s just a little bit of a bummer to see two of our world leaders so thoroughly united in corruption.

Special note: In 2024, ICE agents, under the presidency of Joe Biden, sent undocumented immigrants home to 192 (ONE HUNDRED NINETY TWO) countries WITHOUT the protection of federal troops.