SUMMARY: Trump is jonsing so badly for a Nobel Peace Prize that he can practically taste it. He’s pulled out all of the stops! He’s hosted two summits to bring peace in Ukraine in one week! He met with Putin in Alaska and Zelenskyy and European leaders in DC. To his narcissistic mind, he’s gone through all the steps necessary to warrant the peace prize: he’s held peace summits, he’s made vague promises, and talked about how difficult it all is. What more could a self-absorbed person do?

KEY WORDS: Trump, Narcissism, Nobel Peace Prize, Putin, Zelenskyy, Ukraine, Russia, Peace Summits, Cosplay, NATO

COMMENT: What do you think it will take to bring about peace in Ukraine? What are your thoughts on Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. Trump’s Vacuous Narcissism
    1. The Hannity Interview
    2. The Norwegian Finance Minister Phone Call
    3. Terms of Agreement without Ukraine Agreement
  2. The DC Summit with Ukraine and NATO Allies
  3. Image Attribution

Nothing demonstrates the cosplay-ness of the Grifter and the Griftits as Trump’s fawning pursuit of the Noble Piece Price — probably thinks Noble is Epstein’s last 14 year-old. The Felon’s laughable attempts at world diplomacy in “negotiating” a peace in Ukraine were on full display during Trump’s two summit meetings, one with Pubin in Alaska and the other with Zelenskyy and NATO friends in DC.

For all the pomp and circumstantial stances in Alaska and frantic impromptu ad hoc news gaggles in DC, all Trump is doing is pulling shit out of his ass and claiming it is a miracle. No, Donnie, we are all full of shit, it is just that few of us brag about it on the world stage.

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What Now Trump?

But, that is what a narcissist does. Narcissists have no depth, no detail, no sense of gravitas. All they have are appearances, facades, fronts. A great test for narcissism is to ask about a recent vacation, party, or other significant event in their lives. If the answer is heavy on words like wonderful, perfect, great, everyone is saying so, and big men with tears in their eyes asking how I did it, then you know you’re dealing with a narcissist. They can’t tell you why something is great or not, they can only assure that it is great because everything a narcissist does is great just because they participated. They don’t need any other reason than that and neither do you!

Trump’s Vacuous Narcissism

The Hannity Interview

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Trump Believes His Own Bullshit

The key piece of evidence that this was a vapid spectacularly unproductive meeting, I mean, other than it ended early before the the traditional rubber chicken lunch could be choked down by the participants, was Trump’s statement to Hannity afterwards, “as far as I’m concerned, there’s no deal until there’s a deal.” What? It sounds tough and insightful, but like all of the Clown’s statements, it is meaningless. It is just so much fluff. The cotton candy of statecraft.

Trump’s key assessment, they “did make a lot of progress.” Really? As in, what exactly? If there was progress, you should be able to describe it, right? You should have something you can say about it, some detail you can cite, right? But, no. We get nothing other than a statement completely devoid of details.

Another empty comment from Trump that fills space and, maybe, sounds good to the casual observer, “I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great.” It’s a ten because they got along so great yet Pubin left early? Absolutely nothing there.

If you need any other evidence of Trump’s utter vacuousness, here’s an outtake from Hannity’s interview:

HANNITY: So you said before the interview, you said, in two minutes, I will know.

I watched very closely when you met him on the red carpet after both your planes landed. What vibe did you get in two minutes?

TRUMP: Well, I always had a great relationship with President Putin, and we would have done great things together in terms of their land is incredible, their — the rare earth, the oil, gas, everything, it’s incredible. It’s the largest piece of land in the world as a nation by far.

I think they have 11 time zones, if you can believe it. That’s big stuff. But we would have done a lot of great things. But we had the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which stopped us from doing that. We would have had — we would have done so great.

But we had the greatest, one of the great hoaxes. I mean, there were others, like the election itself, as you know, as you covered better than anyone. But it was a rigged election and a horrible thing that took place in 2020. But we would have had a great relationship.

But we did amazingly well considering. He would look and see what happened. He would think we’re crazy with the made-up Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

So we had something very important. And we had a very good meeting today. But we will see. I mean, it’s — you have to get a deal. We agreed on a lot of points. I want to see people stop dying in Ukraine, and that’s what’s happening. We’re losing 5,000, 6,000, 7,000. They’re Russians, mostly Russians, and they’re Ukrainian soldiers.

There’s some people dying in cities and towns where they’re trying to blow up missile manufacturers and other things in some cities. I don’t know if you know what’s going on there, but there are a lot of people dying. And if we can end that war, it would be very good.

And I was very happy to hear him say, if I was president, that war would have never happened.

The Norwegian Finance Minister Phone Call

It was clear in the proceedings of the Perfect Ukraine Piece Summit starring Pubin in Alaska that Trump had absolutely no idea of how to negotiate a peace or even a piece. Pubin didn’t put out, after all… at least, not that we know of. All Trump knows is that presidents who hold peace summits get Nobel Peace Prizes, so, in his mind, he should get a Noble Piece Price because he’s held SEVEN piece summits and cured seven wars.

In one of his early morning panic attacks about getting the same award as Obama did, he made an unscheduled called to Norwegian Finance Minister to discuss tariffs, as one does, and caught the minister walking down the street. Of course, he brought up getting the Piece Price first, meaning that getting the prize is the price of lowering tariffs. It is all blurt, bluff, and bluster to the Grifter.

Terms of Agreement without Ukraine Agreement

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Trump and MAGA Divisiveness Caused Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

Further evidence of his lack of diplomatic chops, Trump broadcast the terms that he “negotiated” with Pubin at the Big Beautiful Perfect Piece Summit. First, Crimea is off the table. It is now a permanent part of Russia as far as US foreign policy is concerned, I mean as far as anything is a permanent decision with the TACO Stain. And second, Ukraine could give up on its NATO dreams. Joining NATO is the only meaningful security guarantee that is open to Ukraine. Any promises made by Trump or our NATO allies for that matter guaranteeing security and border stability are not worth the fetid breath it took to send them out over the social media ethernet.

Okay, so maybe the Caricature of a Human didn’t do so well with Pubin. Maybe Pubin intimidates him with his charm and kompromat. Maybe the Blunderer did better with a friendlier audience of European heads of state in DC.

The DC Summit with Ukraine and NATO Allies

As the BBC described it:

Despite optimistic words by Trump and some more lukewarm assessments from his European partners, by Monday evening there were no concrete commitments to security guarantees or steps towards a peace deal.

Trump’s optimistic words aren’t going to get it done, no matter how much Pubin wants his illegal land grab legitimized. And then, there was the hot-mic moment of Trump telling Macron that Pubin wants to get it done for him. “As crazy as that sounds,” he added. It sounds crazy all right. A Real Politik player like Pubin doesn’t do peace as a special favor even if it is for his specialest useful idiot.

Even though Trump was vague, he did commit the US to participating in security guarantees, social mediaing the hodgepodge, “would be provided by the various European Countries, with a coordination with the United States of America.” The problem is that you can’t trust Trump. And, his statements are so vague as to be meaningless.

Worse, he’s willing to scuttle everything if it means preventing any other leader horning in on his rightful claim to the Noble Piece Price. It is a trilateral meeting between Zelenskyy, Pubin, and his highness and NOT a quadrilateral meeting involving no European leader, no matter what that pipsqueak, Macron, says.

It is clear that Trump doesn’t have the slightest inkling of how to actually negotiate anything and can’t be trusted to keep his word about whatever you may think he has agreed to. He’s a narcissist. Whatever he says is true is true. We are all mere minor characters in his farcical egodrama, and our understandings of the world just don’t matter.

All of his antics on the red carpet in Alaska and at the White House with Europe’s leaders don’t amount to much of anything other than someone trying to create the illusion of serious work. Unfortunately, Trump has garnered a position this time around that requires world leaders to cosplay taking him seriously. Hopefully, that is all they are doing, pretending, and not relying on anything the Fraud-in-Chief actually says he’ll do.

Image Attribution

This image was found on Jeremiah Schultz Flickr Page.