Donald Trump still has seven-eighths of his second term left to leave his mark on the world as the “peacemaker” he promised to be in his inauguration speech – and thereby to bag that Nobel Peace Prize he so unsubtly keeps asking for. In the meantime, how about an interim assessment? Especially since he’s already offered his own.
“We’ve been very successful in settling wars,” the president boasted the other day. “You have India, Pakistan, you have Rwanda and the Congo.” Trump seemed especially proud of pacifying that African conflict as he imagines it, what with those “pretty rough weapons like machetes, heads chopped off.”
