Mic Wright

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The Heavily Drugged Dove of War Equals Peace

If Donald Trump were a fictional character, critics would be extremely sniffy about the writers’ room that created him. Don’t they know anything about subtext or subtlety?

They’ve had their bad guy send his troops into a foreign country, kidnap the President, and then openly admit he’s done the whole thing so he can apparently access its oil reserves.

Don’t they realise they’re meant to write some excuses for him?

But Trump’s Venezuelan adventure began so blatantly because, as the author of his own actions, he knows he doesn’t need to conjure a pretext.

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