Donald Trump and maga Republicans make false claims about "peacmaking" while Trump he creates chaos in America

Alaskana were buzzing (with mixed reactions) when Donald Trump announced he would meet (evil 👿 ) Russian President Vladimir Putin somewhere in the state on Friday August 15, 2025. 

While expressing cautious optimism that they might reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, (turned out to be a failed effort👎), Sen. Dan Sullivan falsely pointed to fake efforts about how Trump has created “peace in so many other areas of the world.”❓😕😲

But, in here in America, Trump has condoned violence by his supporters while promoting intense hatred of his political opponents and immigrants who are in the country illegally.

During the interview on Alaska’s News Source, wrong minded Sullivan mentioned the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. He correctly noted that war has been going on for decades.

In typical narcissistic fashion, Trump wanted all the credit for ending it. But he lied.🤢

“Many Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to ‘TRUMP,” he posted on social media.🤥

But as a former Commander of U.S. Army Europe, Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) knows the history of that war and the efforts to end it. “Conflicts end because of patience, persistence, and luck — not one man’s showmanship,” he wrote on the Bulwark.

With the war in Ukraine, Trump has been all showman since before last year’s election. He repeatedly claimed Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine in 2022, if he was president then. And promised to end the war his first day in office. Trump failed.

A month after returning to the White House, he blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war. 

Now he’s prepared to accuse Zelensky of not wanting peace because he rejected the land swaps that Trump expects to part of any agreement.

Sullivan understands any land swap would be like rewarding a violent criminal. Two years ago, he insisted it’s in America’s “interest to continue to support the Ukrainians to restore their territorial integrity.”

Here at home, Trump concocted a new definition of the Russian invasion to justify the “largest domestic deportation operation in America history.” 

In a flagrant lie, he accused the prior administration of letting in “647,572 migrant criminals … to rape, pillage, plunder and kill” Americans.

But, tragically horrible, most of the illegal immigrants who have been detained by ICE had no criminal record. 

When that triggered protests in Los Angeles, Trump grossly exaggerated the violence that occurred to justify sending in the National Guard and U.S. Marines.

This week, he ordered the National Guard to take control of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Reading from a prepared statement, he claimed it’s “been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.”

Nevermind that the crime rate is at a 30-year low. On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned several hundred of his supporters who violently attacked Capitol Police officers while Congress was certifying the 2020, election (which he still can’t admit he lost).

Trump rewarded Jared Wise, a former FBI agent, with a pardon and a senior adviser job in the Department of Justice. During his trial in January, bodycam footage shown to the jury revealed he yelled “Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!” after a police officer was knocked to the ground.

And while he hails the insurrectionists as “unbelievable patriots,” he’s referred to anyone not aligned with his divisive agenda as “communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs” who “lie and steal and cheat on elections.”

Four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan took the opposite approach to matters of peace at home and abroad.

Recognizing that millions of illegal immigrants were “productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force,” he worked with members of both parties to pass landmark immigration reform.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a reminder of the Cold War conflict Reagan faced during his presidency. Unlike Trump, he countered Soviet aggression by strengthening our alliances. And led with the philosophy that “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.”

Domestic tranquility relies on that same profound truth. But as former Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, Trump doesn’t “even pretend” he’s trying to unite Americans. He deliberately seeks to divide us.

That’s why Sullivan’s praise of Trump as a peacemaker rings hollow. And as long as he’s president, America will never be great.

• Rich Moniak is a Juneau resident and retired civil engineer with more than 25 years of experience working in the public sector. Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. 

Donald Trump's paranoia

Trump’s World- Donald Trump believes there's a coup. He's freaked by The New York Times, "anonymous" opinion and he's seeing "enemies everywhere", reports Gabriel Sherman* in Vanity Fair.

With "Anonymous" still on the loose and the “administrative state” unchecked, the last person Trump trusts is Stephen Miller (OMG - that's Joseph Goebbels reincarnated or Bela Lagosse's ghost).

As Hurricane Florence (September 2018) bears down on the Carolinas, Donald Trump’s West Wing is still struggling to recover from yet another deluge of horrible news.

On September 11, Bob Woodward’s publisher Simon & Schuster announced that Woodward’s new book, Fear, has sold more than 750,000 copies and is on its way to a ninth printing. A CNN poll released this week showed Trump’s approval rating plummeting to 36 percent. 

With the midterm elections less than two months away, the West Wing is girding for Republicans to lose the House and even the Senate, sources said. 

Ivanka Trump is even worried about impeachment, a source close to her told me. “It’s just horrible,” a former White House official said.

As the parade of former allies and employees who’ve turned on him gets longer, Trump is increasingly embittered. 

According to sources, Trump has been furious at former economic adviser Gary Cohn and staff secretary Rob Porter, for their apparent cooperation with Woodward’s book. 

“Trump thinks he took Gary in and gave him a job when he was going nowhere at Goldman,” a Trump adviser told me. According to the adviser, Trump let it be known to Cohn and Porter that he would attack them publicly if they didn’t disavow the book. (On Tuesday, they both did.) “The president has had it,” a former West Wing official said. “When books like this come out, he tends to shut down and calls up people he sees on TV saying good things about him.”

But Trump’s anger over Woodward’s book is dwarfed by his continuing fixation on the anonymous New York Times op-ed. 

Sources told Gabriel Sherman that Trump is “obsessed,” “lathered,” and “freaked out” that the leaker is still in his midst. 

His son Don Jr. has told people he’s worried Trump isn’t sleeping because of it, a source said. 

Meetings have been derailed by Trump’s suspicion. “If you look at him the wrong way, he’ll spend the next hour thinking you wrote it,” a Republican close to the White House said. Much of what’s fueling Trump’s paranoia is that he has no clear way to identify the author. One adviser said Trump has instructed aides to call the anonymous author a “coward” in public to shame him or her. “He’s going to continue to shame this person,” a person close to Trump said. “The author will break under pressure or will eventually say, ‘fuck it, it’s me.’” Plans to administer polygraph tests to staff have seemingly died. “Nobody knows who it is,” a former official said.

Besides family, one of the only people Trump continues to trust is Stephen Miller. “The op-ed has validated Miller’s view, which was also Steve Bannon’s, that there’s an ‘administrative state’ out to get Trump,” a Republican close to the White House said. “There is a coup, and it’s not slow-rolling or concealed,” Bannon told me. “Trump believes there’s a coup,” a person familiar with his thinking said. Trump’s relationship with Secretary of Defense James Mattis, which was already strained, has become almost nonexistent, a former official said.

The West Wing is bracing for the climate to worsen. The increasing likelihood that Democrats will make big gains in the midterms is frustrating the White House’s efforts to get nominations confirmed in the Senate. 

According to a source, Johnny DeStefano,who’s in charge of personnel, has complained that Mitch McConnell’s staff will only focus on confirming judges before the midterms, leaving many important appointments, such as ones in the Export-Import Bank, unfilled. 

Ivanka and Jared Kushner, meanwhile, continue to agitate for Trump to replace Chief of Staff John Kelly with a more pliable manager. 

Ivanka recently asked a friend about Republican political adviser and former lobbyist Wayne Berman, a source briefed on the conversation said. 

Another name Ivanka has discussed is former federal prosecutor Matt Whitaker, who’s serving as Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s chief of staff (Axios reported Whitaker is also a candidate to replace White House counsel Don McGahn).