Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Updated: Trump corruption as blatant and brazen is not a surprise. What is more concerning is the failure of the American
legal system to deal with it. And the seeming acceptance of that still by a significant millions of American voters.

From yours:

Text update: "The original instrument of surrender was rejected by the Soviet army. It didn’t mention the Soviet Union explicitly, and they had some other objections to it, and so the final instrument was negotiated during the day of May 8—was agreed about shortly before 10 p.m. on the 8th of May—and went into effect a little past 11 p.m. on the 8th of May. Eleven p.m., May 8, was, of course, the early morning in Moscow, May 9, and so this chain of events has left ever afterwards a question mark about what is the exact and proper date of the end of the Second World War in Europe: whether it’s May 8—as it was in Berlin and where the Allied armies were—or May 9, as it was in Moscow.

Of course, the war itself would continue for more months. As the Germans surrendered in the West, American forces in the Pacific were fighting a brutal battle on the island of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest battles of the whole war—certainly, I think, the bloodiest battle of the American Pacific campaign. And no one knew on the day that the Nazis surrendered how long that war in the Pacific would last, except for a handful of Americans who were party to the secret of the atomic bomb. Most Americans—most people—assumed that there was probably another year of fighting ahead, an invasion of Japan, and many thousands, maybe many hundreds of thousands, of American casualties and Allied casualties, too, because the American army that entered Japan would be supported by Commonwealth forces: Australia, British, Canadian. But the atomic bomb did explode. Japan did surrender, and the war came to an end—a final and formal end—with the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay on the 2nd of September, 1945.

So this is a time of commemoration, and in this time, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, issued a very strange post about the event on the 8th of May. He wrote:

Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II. I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I. We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything—That’s because we don’t have leaders anymore, that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!

Now, that post was such a perfect crystallization of the Trump style: bombast, boast, all of it making Trump himself the center of a story that he had nothing whatsoever to do with. The statement is unwise and unattractive in all kinds of other ways too. It denigrates the sacrifices and heroism of others. And it turns the tragedy and horror of war into a triumphant narrative that was completely alien to almost all the people who experienced it as nothing but a tale of suffering and waste and cruelty and misery."

Your - https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-david-frum-show-the-most-corrupt-presidency-in-american-history/682720/

It's called 'feeding your frenzy for nationalism' isn't it, Donald. All wannabe strongmen do it.
So far you are failing in America, but it takes real effort to build a Kingship, doesn't it Donald.