By Walt Zlotow
Movie buffs, especially fans of suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, know what a MacGuffin is: a plot device in the form of a simply made up desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues in furtherance of making a thrilling, suspenseful movie. For Hitchcock it was the plans for the airplane engine (39 Steps) or the uranium ore stored in vintage wine bottles (Notorious). Everyone knows the most famous MacGuffin in filmdom, the black bird that drove the narrative in John Huston’s Maltese Falcon.
But neither Huston nor Hitchcock could have come up with a more bizarre MacGuffin for America’s senseless real life war blowing up the Middle East and possibly the world economy than Trump’s MacGuffin, an imminent Iranian nuke.
Since Iran posed no threat whatsoever to the Homeland over 6,000 miles away, Trump simply made up the fiction that Iran was a couple weeks away from building a bomb, and more ominously, could detonate it over America as well.
No matter that Iran has never built a bomb, pleaded never to build a bomb, and was in full compliance with Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal which guaranteed they’d never build one. No matter that Trump sabotaged Obama’s nuclear agreement to prepare for the day he could attack Iran to prevent its building and detonating a bomb that his entire intelligence community determined was preposterous.
Hitchcock’s Macguffins worked perfectly to create some of the most suspenseful, thrilling and scary movies in filmdom. But Trump’s MacGuffin backfired spectacularly, killing thousands in Iran and neighboring countries, choking off 20% of the world’s oil supply, damaging all 13 US Gulf States bases and turning Trump into the biggest loser in US military history. And to hammer a nail into Trump’s defeat he has no way out of the impending global catastrophe he started with his cockamamie MacGuffin.
And up in Celluloid Heaven, Hitchcock might be muttering:
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I’ve created 57 MacGuffins for my 57 films, but none compares to Trump’s Mother of All MacGuffins… Iran’s imaginary nuke.”
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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Makes perfect sense; a man whose relationship with life at large is primarily based on fictions and fantasies can’t be expected to inhabit the hard-nosed world of reality, whether on a domestic, national or international level. More the pity for the rest of us that this lunatic has been given the capacity to inflict his phantasms globally.
The PPOTUS (Pederast Protector of the Undemocratic Sewer) is a serial failure in life; everything he touches turns to manure.
Now TACO Trumpery is working for Butcher Bibi, the POTUS in absentia, while TACO remains locked in his pipedreams of greatness in his own lunchtime of MacDonald burgers and Pepsi Cola, raging against a world that has lost faith in American democracy because the Republican Party has corrupted the strange American voluntary voting system in every way they can imagine.
Back to the Mar el Lago golf course TACO, Bibi is in charge and merely needs your rubber stamp for his policies …..
Wasn’t the two weeks to nuclear weapons a Netanyahu fantasy to start with and Trump is the only fool to have swallowed it hook line and sinker?
And N.E.C. Trump’s drink of choice is Diet Coke not Pepsi.
There is no heaven or hell – just purgatory which has hosted both on Earth since civilisation began.
@ Kerri: Thank you for the edit. Diet Coke is required.