The Nobel Prize for Trump, or how to deal with a megalomaniac

The first people to understand that to deal with a megalomaniac you have to soap him up were those at the Foreign Office. And that's why the premier Starmer waited until he was sitting with Trump in the Oval Office to present him, in front of the cameras, an envelope containing a letter from King Charles III inviting him to England. Trump reacted like Pavlov's dog and immediately showed the letter to the journalists.

Perhaps you are embarrassed to see how they suck up to him, but he is not, because his entire life has been an exercise in displaying vanity as a demonstration of power.

Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, was even clumsier. Instead of a letter, they sent him a text message praising him to the skies. Trump wasted no time in making him ignore it, and Rutte turned him intoDaddy Donald.

But now Netanyahu has surpassed them both, because he has given him an envelope containing the Israeli petition for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, accompanying the gesture with the phrase "it is well deserved and you should have it."

Perhaps you are outraged to see how a politician like Netanyahu, with his hands stained with the blood of more than 50,000 people, talks about giving the Nobel Peace Prize to another who delights in videos showing Gaza turned into a resort town, opening prisons with alligators, or sending them. But not them, because in the world of propaganda, for those convinced that it is now in fashion, it is essential to disguise the ridiculous as solemn, pay a cult of personality, and show absolute allegiance to the leader. A signature in support of the petition as a sign of gratitude would be patriotic.