Not long ago, the President of the United States, talking to a scrum of reporters, defending his (insane) policy with regard to US/China trade relations, and in that context said "I am the chosen one," and looked briefly to the sky before resuming his discourse. It was an intense moment. It is worth marking the intensity as the world skids out of control and even crazier news pushes that bit aside. I'm doing the POTUS an undeserved favor in the paragraph above by using all lower case letters for the phrase "chosen one," although he said it as if he mean, "the Chosen One." In a country where a majority of the citizens are Christians the phrase has a pretty specific meaning, and the look at the skies rather confirms it. This remark makes Donald Trump our first President of whom we can say that his self-image isn't just dynastic. It is metaphysical. After a bit of blowback, a couple of days later, Trump was asked to expand on what he meant by ...
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Our President fancies himself the great dealmaker. In his head, he's gotten into a room with "little rocket man," whose "button" is so much smaller than his own, and talked him into nuclear disarmament and perhaps with a five year plan for dissolving the North as a country and recognizing the capital city of a unified peninsula as Seoul. I have zero expectations for the forthcoming meeting. In fact, I'm hoping for zero because there is a considerable possibility of a negative outcome. The great deal-maker, after all, has led his companies into repeated bankruptcies. That is the basis of the "business success" of which he brags -- using "the system" -- which means a system of laws designed to relieve debtors. But where is the bankruptcy court judge who is going to bail him out if he makes a mess of this?