Today’s Headache: The Donald’s Ego.

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa  

President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia

Clearly, judging by the public persona he began to construct for himself starting in 1987 when Donald Trump published a book entitled, “The Art of the Deal,” he saw himself an artist and just the other day publicly boasted that he never makes a bad deal.

Then, in 2004, he began producing and starring in his own TV program called “The Apprentice.” It lasted 14 seasons, over 11 years in nearly 200 episodes until 2015, when he shut it own in order to launch his run for the the presidency.

At that time, I, never having watched his show, bought his book and was sorely disappointed, a book I never finished because it turned out to be a boring series of reports on his deals, but not one sentence on the art and technique of deal-making.

He also in his first term was exposed as a conman, a salesman, but also an ignoramus to think his son-in-law was capable of designing a peace plan that he touted as “The Deal of the Century” that went nowhere. There is a touch of P.T. Barnum in him. He not only built Trump Tower in Manhattan, in order to compete with Las Vegas he built not one but three gambling casino-hotels in Atlantic City: Trump Plaza, Trump Taj Mahal, and the Trump Castle, later renamed Trump Marina.

And now his ego has made him a headache of the Jewish state. I wish I had a shekel for every time he has spoken the word “deal” over the last month, claiming, inter alia, how much the Iranians want a deal.

But no one wants a deal more than The Donald, his nickname in Manhattan’s “café society” before he became a public figure. He sees himself as an artist of deal-making.

And now in pursuit of the Trump Peace Deal, he forbade Israel, like a good antisemite (if unintentionally) from striking back when hit. And why? Because the Iranians demand that Hezballah must be part of any deal. Israel must be ordered not to strike back and the Donald agreed because he believes he is on the verge of a deal with Iran aborted because Israel is striking back as it is entitled to. The Donald was also reported to have sworn like a ill-mannered Mafiosi at Israel’s prime minister in a telephone call, tongue-lashing him and saying how everybody hates him now.

It appears that his ugly insults of the Israeli prime minister were his way of letting off the steam of his frustration at the Iranians for never making a deal. This time it was Israel’s fault for planning to bomb Hezballah in Beirut that he believes caused the Iranians to break off negotiations.

He absolutely does not want to use military force because that means the failure of his artistry. He must have his deal!

He also was reported to have said he had a very good phone call with Hezballah and they agreed that all the shooting would stop. “Israel will not attack them and they will not attack Israel.”

I think within three hours Hezballah was back in the business of launching drones to kill Jews, smash their property, terrify them, disrupt their lives in the Startup Nation that they so murderously envy.

He also exposed himself as ignorant of Israel’s need and right to bomb and wreck whatever Israel chooses in order to destroy Hezballah. He talked of Israel not sending troops in Beirut? Who in Israel is calling for that? Israel wants to bomb whatever belongs to Hezballah, when I wish Israel would also bomb the Shiite mosques, source of the “ideas” these Shiite Jew-killers use to justify their barbaric cruelty.

The Iranians said they were breaking off negotiations because Israel continues to retaliate for their aggression. You see, in Islam, it is right and good to attack Jews who have no right to strike back. In historic Tunis, a Jew was at least once punished for doing that by having his right hand nailed to a synagogue door and his face smeared with honey to attract stinging insects, and left there to die.

I myself saw the Muslim attitude toward Jews in practice in Yemen 35 years ago, a country in which every man walks around with either a jambiya dagger stuck in his sash, or pistol or AK-47, if he can afford one. Except for the Jews. At that time, the community numbered around 2,000. Unlike the Muslims, the Jews were not allowed to have weapons. They were not allowed to build a synagogue. All communal prayer was conducted in people’s homes.

This is a dimension of the violence against Israel that the Donald surely knows little of. His demand last week was that all Arab states should become members in the Abraham Accords, including Iran, which is like asking them to stop being Muslims whose culture is riddled with Jew-hatred. The Muslims have been persecuting, “oppressing and humiliating,” Jews as per the Koran, every day for the last fourteen centuries of Islam. Muslims look upon a free and independent Israel as a rebellion against this command. The Jews have no right to live free of Islam’s tyranny; that is a violation of sharia law.

The Donald’s dragging out of negotiations and ceasefires with these Iranians who will never keep their word to infidels is the result of his inability to surrender his obsession with making the greatest deal in his life. Launching the military to target the regime in Teheran and victoriously will result in praise for the military and not for The Donald, the greatest negotiator in history.

The other day, Israel’s prime minister announced that he ordered the IDF to strike Hezballah targets in Dahiya, Hezbollah’s neighborhood in Beirut, and cited Hezballah’s endless violations of the ceasefire as the justification for doing so.

But then Iran huffed and puffed that it was breaking off negotiations, so The Donald ordered the prime minister, using that ugly and disgusting insulting language, to cancel the order and he did.

Trump himself said he had a very good phone call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, but he also he had a “very good call with Hezballah.”

This moral equivalence is revolting. The Donald is a conman/hustler who seems to lack all sense that you don’t talk about Hezballah this way, the cult that murdered 241 US men in uniform in 1983. The concept of good must never be attached to them. These are the Muslim maniacs who in Israel’s first Lebanon War patented the technique of suicide bombing that drove the IDF out of Lebanon after fifteen years.

The 241 American servicemen were asleep in their barracks in Beirut on a peace-keeping mission when a truck packed with explosives was driven into the lobby by a grinning Shiite Muslim who pressed the button and blew up the whole three-story building, pancaking the floors, crushing to death the American Marines and other American servicemen in their beds.

This cult also produced the kind of men who flew those two airliners into the World Trade Center on 9-11, likely grinning in anticipation of raping virgins in paradise for all eternity.

What Trump is doing now by refusing to destroy that regime is sinful. The virtuous policy is to be as merciless to the regime as the Allies were to the Nazi and Japanese regimes in 1945. No negotiations brought an end to that war, only brute force.

Destroying the ayatollahs could also be a major catalyst to the beleaguered liberal democracies to gird their loins and go to war against the Muslims in their countries, that is, to do whatever works to push back against their penetration of their societies. There are signs the British are coming to that point; the Germans have also voiced a plan to return over 700,000 Syrian refugees to their home country among the million a decade ago that foolish woman Angela Merkel welcomed into Deutschland, though Syria’s response is revealing. Syria’s FM Assad al-Shaibani said, “We categorically reject any attempts at force deportation. Syrians in Germany are a strategic asset.”

Interesting choice of a military term out of the mouth of a Muslim potentate whose religion is nothing but jihad, a crusade to conquer infidels and make them submit to Islam as the only correct religion, whose very name means “submission.”

That is the goal of the jihad. Destroying the Iranian rule of the ayatollahs should be America’s goal.

PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com and israelnewstalkradio.com