I thought I had written briefly about this before, but apparently not. When I first read the allegation that Trump handed a written invoice to Angela Merkel for NATO protection I couldn’t believe it. And I’m not saying that in the usual Trumpian sense of I do believe it because this is Donald Trump, but in a sane world I wouldn’t believe it. I actually couldn’t believe that even Donald Trump would do something so stupid.
My initial thought was that we’d know it was true by the German response. The White House, of course, denied it, but that means nothing. I didn’t think the Germans would confirm it. My own thought was that they would confirm it by pointedly not denying it. I’m not sure there has yet been any official German response but it is nonethless beginning to look like it’s true.
We need a new word. “Absurd” simply doesn’t do the job, and I don’t think there’s another that comes close to fitting the bill. Note, however, that this hyper-absurdity has drawn little notice in the mainstream. That may be because the absurdities are coming so fast and furious that you can’t keep up.
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