Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Bringing out the crazy

If you think the current occupant’s letter to the Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Store is the height of crazy, you haven’t read the letter to the Belarusian president (read: dictator ) Alexander Lukashenko offering a seat on the occupant’s as yet imaginary Board of Peace. The letter begins:

It is my Great Honor to invite you, as President of the Republic of Belarus, to join me in a critically Historic and Magnificent effort to solidify Peace in the Middle East and, at the same time, to embark on a bold new approach to resolving Global Conflict!
The cost of a permanent seat on the board of this ersatz United Nations, a cost not mentioned in the letter: $1 billion. And Vladimir Putin has been invited.

Seeing the letter itself (I’ve found photographs only on X and Instagram) really brings out the crazy. I found myself most unnerved by the all-caps first-name-only signature, followed by a jumbo-sized full signature. We are long, long past Twenty-fifth Amendment time.

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