Trump’s Nobel, Grok’s insults to Erdoğan, and Öcalan’s Post-National Vision

Grok insulted Atatürk, then Erdoğan, and is now under investigation. Öcalan released a historic video on why the PKK is disbanding. And who would be shocked if Trump got the Nobel—that’s the tragedy.

The day began with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—also a war criminal and indicted genocide enabler at the ICJ—handing Donald Trump, the president of the United States and an indicted authoritarian who suppresses free speech, persecutes academics, and unlawfully detains and deports migrants and asylum seekers, a letter addressed to the Nobel Committee. In it, Netanyahu endorses Trump as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel letter exchange took place during this White House dinner. Src: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump thanked Netanyahu and said he was flattered by such an endorsement, “especially coming from you.”

The parody we inhabit as daily reality takes a darker turn, if only briefly, when you’re reminded—my close friend visiting from the US undertook this grim task—that the head of NATO, Mark Rutte, recently referred to Trump as “Daddy.” Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to be bending over backwards to preserve his closeness with Trump, even …