Nobody puts "Daddy" in a corner

Nobody puts “Daddy” in a corner
But even at NATO, Trump still can't get no respect

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published June 26, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) According to Donald Trump, it was a “great victory.”

He took to the stage Wednesday, before leaving the NATO summit in the Hague, and compared the U.S. military’s recent attack on three nuclear facilities in Iran to dropping the atom bomb on Japan, which ended World War II.

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Meanwhile, to placate Trump’s fragile ego at the summit, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte surprised everyone by calling him “Daddy.” Trump loved it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio laughed at it and some of us just wondered how things have gone so wrong.

Trump now says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Iran, and he blames the media for not acknowledging how thoroughly he bombed them. He first claimed the airstrikes completely “obliterated” the three facilities. During the summit, he said he had set back Iran’s uranium enrichment project “for decades,” though according to several published reports and an early battle damage assessment from the U.S. Central Command, the bombs may have only set the program back by a few months.

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Trump has accused CNN and everyone else who reported those findings to be purveyors of “fake news,” saying they had impugned the reputation of the “great pilots” who bombed Iran. This latest combination of vanity whining and braggadocio bombast was greeted from Congress, members of his staff, reporters and members of the general public with mostly wide, tired stares.

I’ve seen those before. They’re called the “Thousand Yard Stare” — that blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who’ve become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. ......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/26/nobody-puts-daddy-in-a-corner/