On August 2025, the world was treated to a bizarre transmogrification of William Shakespeare’s (1556) classic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The public broadcast of our contextually analogous reprise of Shakespeare’s carnivalesque offering, featuring players wearing animal heads, evokes theatrical fantasy and has been thematically matched by two official heads of State, wearing business suits as functional theatrical costumes
A notable distinction with our construed version, notably performed before the entire world and entered into recorded history, was that it was not an instance of theatrical diversion, but performed by two heads of mutually enemy states; in fact, the travesty was sufficiently unsuitable as to justify the adornment of the classic 1556 play’s animal heads. The internationally broadcast event, sadly, revealed itself as stereotypical of the systemic ignorance and monomaniacal perspective of our singular Chief Executive, Donald J. Trump, and, by contrast, the cunning and psychopathic persona of the Russian autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin.
The functional co-star in our tawdry drama, Russia’s autocratic oligarch, who hubristically orchestrated an unjust, full-scale, aggressive invasion of democratic Ukraine, February 2022, continuing his unlawful imperial drive for expansion, begun in 20i4 with its immoral conquest of Crimea. Putin’s ongoing aggressive war is, notably, the biggest European war since World War 2.
History will record a ubiquitous World response evincing shock and disapproval at Russia’s (Putin’s) unprovoked incursion into Ukraine, and responsively furnished financial and military assistance (principally by the United States, and by Europe and NATO), to the beleaguered nation. Putin’s hubristic boast that he would conquer Ukraine in three days proved to be empirically delusional; the hard-fought and bloody war has, in fact, persisted for more than three years. Among Trump’s egoistic boasts was that he would end the war in the first week of his Presidency; however, akin to the totality of his universal “snake oil” representations, he was characteristically and predictably impotent.
Donald Trump, a proclaimed and neurotically motivated future dictator, had enjoyed a long period of delusional “bromance” with the psychopathic dictator and often referred favorably to him, most especially, relative, his admirable political acumen and acquisition of unparalleled authority; not uncommonly assisted by having his detractors murdered. It is our confident perception that, sadly, by such farcical theatrical presentation, had the wileyPutin easily won the devoted admiration and high praise of the egocentric Trump by feigning praise and officious respect.
To the contrary, the television and newspaper media often reported on the unfriendly and imperial attitude towards Zelinsky, the young and admirably indefatigible democratically elected President of Ukraine, our ally, including a televised, inappropriate “dressing down, with the aid of the loyal and obnoxious persona of the exotic vice-President. This is notably and implausibly to be inexplicably compared with Trump’s many reverenced and intimately friendly interactions with the murderous and wily autocrat, Putin.
Our contextually analogous,”Midsummer Night’s Dream,” raises its curtain at the public request by Donald Trump to negotiate a peace treaty between the aggressor, Russia, and the wrongly attacked Ukraine by an official meeting with Putin, without the presence of Zelinsky, of Ukraine. The tragic comedy reaches its ultimate zenith with Trump’s exclusive invitation to Putin to meet on American soil (Alaska), again, without the presence of Ukraine’s President Zelensky.
The tragic-comedy is epitomized by the exalted view of the magnificent red carpet treatment of the autocratic wrongdoer thereby affording the villainous Putin a faux public affirmation of recognized rectitude. The reductive ignorance and lack of discernment of Donald J.Trump, consistent with his daily modus operandi, this hot, Summer August, results in a visible public victory to the tyrant, by his demonstrated affirmation and recognition by the incapable and irresponsible Trump; a comedy of national dissonance amounting to a tragic and ironic reprise of Shakjespear’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
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