It’s entirely possible that, in the midst of all of the chaos of the past ten months, I’ve missed (or misinterpreted) a news item or two. But something just seems off in this recent series of White House actions and proclamations. Bear with me, please, and see if you agree.

First: Throughout his 2024 campaign and the first ten months of his second term, Donald Trump has consistently come down hard on immigration policy. We all know this from his increasingly vicious rants about the alleged hordes of “murderers and rapists” pouring across our borders like so many lemmings, and from the photo ops of Kristi Noem and her ICE-Cadets.

Second: Trump has made no secret of his virulent racism and xenophobia, going so far as to invent a genocide against White South Africans in order to fast-track their applications for asylum, while barring all but a handful of others from predominantly non-White-populated countries.

Third: Since last week’s tragic shooting of two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C., by a citizen of Afghanistan legally in the U.S., Trump has declared that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” [Rebecca Falconer, Axios, November 28, 2025], thereby punishing tens of thousands of deserving, at-risk people for the heinous act of one man.

NOTE: I have no idea how you “permanently pause” something, but in Trump’s world, it seems that even time bends to his will.

Fourth: In his war against drugs — while certainly a worthy effort on its face — Trump has had no fewer than 83 people blown to pieces in 21 strikes against boats suspected of carrying illegal drugs from Venezuela to the United States through international waters. In a presentation to the United Nations on September 23rd of this year, he offered this warning:

“To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence.” [Reuters, September 23, 2025.]

No search and seizure; no due process of law. Just . . . KABOOM!

Now, hold onto your hats, because this is where it goes completely off the rails.

Fifth: Yesterday, November 28th, Trump announced that he will pardon the ex-president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who just last year was convicted of drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court of law. Hernandez was found guilty in March 2024 of “conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.” [Nadine Yousif, BBC, November 28, 2025.]

He had been extradited to the U.S. in 2022 to stand trial for “running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US.” [Id.]

“Hundreds of tons of cocaine.” Not just a little boatful.

The Hernandez case was a perfect example of a successful, legally-executed battle in a war against drugs . . . except that it took place during the . . . dare I say the name? . . . Biden administration. Which was all Trump needed to convince him that Hernandez had been “treated very harshly and unfairly.” [Id.]

Do you see what I mean about inconsistency? What could possibly be his rationale?

So I read on, and suddenly it became clear. Because in the same post it was reported:

“ . . . Trump also said he supported conservative candidate Tito Asfura in the upcoming general election in the Central American country [Honduras] on Sunday. . . . Trump in his post on Friday called Asfura a candidate that is ‘standing up for democracy’ and fighting against Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration has accused Maduro . . . of being the leader of a drugs [sic] cartel” allegedly taking over Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. [Id.] [Bold emphasis is mine.]

And we all know what Trump has been up to in Venezuela, don’t we?

What I’d like to know is how — even in Trump’s twisted thought processes — he can, in one breath, rage against foreign interference in U.S. elections, and then turn around and attempt to do exactly that to another country.

And how is it acceptable, while proclaiming a war against drugs coming to the United States from one country, to pardon a convicted drug lord from another country, simply because that drug lord might be useful to you in pursuing your vendetta against the first, oil-rich, country?

Oh, did I not mention the oil? Because that’s what it’s really about, you know: this obsession with Venezuela. It’s their vast oil resources. The drugs are simply the convenient justification for a threatened invasion, which in turn is meant to pressure Venezuela into what would no doubt be a very lucrative (for Trump) arrangement.

In Trump’s universe, it’s not hypocrisy; it’s “The Art of the Deal.”

And behind every false word and every cruel act, that’s all that matters to him.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/29/25