It’s sometimes useful to remind yourself what things might have been like if Donald Trump had actually won the 2020 election.
Over the weekend, the former President provided a glimpse into how he may have handled on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine — and it is a doozy. According to audio obtained by The Washington Post, Trump told a group of Republican donors in New Orleans that the United States should paint Chinese flags on its F-22 planes and then use those planes to bomb Russia. “And then we say, ‘China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it,’ and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch,” Trump concluded. Uh, what? The naivete here is massive. (And that’s just the start of the problem.) Does Trump really think that the Russians would be so easily fooled? That painting a Chinese flag on our airplanes is a significant enough ruse to fool the Russians? What’s even worse than Trump’s seeming belief that this, um, plan would work is what would happen if it did.
