"I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you."

Epic comeback.

Staring to look like a meeting in the oval office is an invitation to the woodshed, if the woodshed were also where one is stuck up for some “gratuities.” Some “thanks.” President Ramaphosa taking it in stride. I sense some aloha energy form that smiling, no worries face. He came prepared to disappoint.

Trump has invited all countries to come and negotiate the tariffs. Zelensky may have been the first to get the treatment, and second too but everyone who takes a trip to see the orange one gets shook like a grass skirt at a winter Hawaiian luau. brrrr? You get the drift.

Recall the awkward trip from the Canadian PM? Zelensky? Funny, it also looks so like Trump and Melania. No?

Too long at the fair.

South Africa - The purpose of the visit is to reset and revitalize bilateral relations between the two countries.

Trump Regime - Get the South Africa shake down material ready.

What a scene. They were treated to an ambush with great stacks of papers clipped together. Donny held them up as if to shame the man. The extra whiney voice. Made him watch an old video. Who ran the Audio Visual department? I believe it was assisted by Elon Musk who is likely to have told Trump about “white genocide” in the first place. One can imagine, the he, upon hearing of such a thing decided to become irate and get it fixed since the Ukraine war is too difficult. He’s not a diplomat. He’s a businessman and this is not a situation ever encountered in business. Tariffs. He can do tariffs. Badly, but it’s something he knows.

It’s been made perfectly clear the glowering fool expects gifts and he continues to defend the 400 million dollar plane he solicited till he got it. Clear as well is the incident is well known by all that might approach the greedy one. After the obnoxious display, the president of South Africa simply said it out loud. “I don’t have a plane to give you.” Did it embarrass the Trump? No, it disappointed and deflated him. All that effort to boss people into getting the peppers printed out. Highlighted. Clipped together. sigh. Now he has to talk boring tariffs.

The “white persecution” was spoken of and hopefully understood as, although criminal in nature, was more about economics or theft, rather than about killing due to racism.

Next up in big ticket Tom Foolery is the Golden Dome, something just like Netanyahu’s Iron dome that protects Israel from missiles. But retrofitted for our country. Wants to stuff it in the Big Beautiful Bill he can’t get passed. 175 billion? 25 down and the total price tag, a staggering Trillion.

…”Led by the Space Force's Vice Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Michael Guetlein. The project aims to intercept missiles launched from anywhere in the world, including from space, and is expected to be fully operational by the end of Trump's term.”

“The Iron Dome selectively protects populated areas from short-range threats in a country the size of New Jersey; Trump wants a space-based missile defense system capable of defending a country around 450 times larger, from advanced ballistic and hypersonic missiles.”

“The US administration has remained vague on its plans for developing the missile shield, which takes inspiration from Israel’s Iron Dome.”

Gotta feeling that the Mars project has landed flat so we need a different, a bigger program to get behind as a country. They keep trying to get a wave of popular support for some program or other. Again, Trump and Musk are salesmen looking to sell and sell. War is indeed a needer of things. So, no words to calm. No words of promise for peace. Negotiations are for sissies and a waste of time. Shut the door, build the dome.

I have no plane to give him either.

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