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If you don’t learn (from) history you are doomed to repeat it.
John Cusack just roasted Trump for signing his Iran deal in the one room on earth built for national humiliation: the Versailles hall where a defeated Germany surrendered in 1919.
Some humiliations you have to know history to even see. Which is exactly why Trump walked right into this one.
This week, Trump signed his 14-point agreement with Iran, the one his own party is calling a surrender, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, after a lobster-and-caviar dinner with Emmanuel Macron.
He treated it as a triumph. "I signed it in Versailles," he told reporters, beaming, as if the location were just a fancy backdrop.
It was not just a backdrop.
The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles is one of the most loaded rooms on earth.
It was there, in June 1919, that the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I by imposing crushing terms on a defeated Germany: stripped territory, staggering reparations, total national humiliation. The economic ruin and resentment that followed helped fuel the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, and set the stage for World War II. To this day, "Versailles" is shorthand for a great power being brought to its knees and made to sign.
John Cusack saw it instantly.
"It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies," Cusack wrote. "Trump is clueless as to what he just did."
And he was not alone. Critics across the political spectrum couldn't believe the optics.
The deal hands Iran sweeping sanctions relief, lifts the U.S. naval blockade so it can sell its oil again, and sets up a $300 billion reconstruction fund, all after Trump's expensive war and tough-guy threats failed to deliver the total victory he promised.
And he agreed to put his name to it in the single most famous monument to national humiliation in the Western world.
Whether Macron engineered the symbolism or simply let it happen, the message landed.
Observers are already calling it the "second surrender at Versailles." The mighty United States, climbing down on the world stage, in the exact room burned into public memory as the place where empires are forced to their knees.
That is the part Trump couldn't see. He strutted in believing the great dealmaker had done it again, and signed his name with a flourish, in the one location on the planet practically engineered to make him the loser at the table.
The great negotiator finally got his Versailles moment. He just ended up on the wrong side of the table.
John Cusack just roasted Trump for signing his Iran deal in the one room on earth built for national humiliation: the Versailles hall where a defeated Germany surrendered in 1919.
Some humiliations you have to know history to even see. Which is exactly why Trump walked right into this one.
This week, Trump signed his 14-point agreement with Iran, the one his own party is calling a surrender, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, after a lobster-and-caviar dinner with Emmanuel Macron.
He treated it as a triumph. "I signed it in Versailles," he told reporters, beaming, as if the location were just a fancy backdrop.
It was not just a backdrop.
The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles is one of the most loaded rooms on earth.
It was there, in June 1919, that the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I by imposing crushing terms on a defeated Germany: stripped territory, staggering reparations, total national humiliation. The economic ruin and resentment that followed helped fuel the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, and set the stage for World War II. To this day, "Versailles" is shorthand for a great power being brought to its knees and made to sign.
John Cusack saw it instantly.
"It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies," Cusack wrote. "Trump is clueless as to what he just did."
And he was not alone. Critics across the political spectrum couldn't believe the optics.
The deal hands Iran sweeping sanctions relief, lifts the U.S. naval blockade so it can sell its oil again, and sets up a $300 billion reconstruction fund, all after Trump's expensive war and tough-guy threats failed to deliver the total victory he promised.
And he agreed to put his name to it in the single most famous monument to national humiliation in the Western world.
Whether Macron engineered the symbolism or simply let it happen, the message landed.
Observers are already calling it the "second surrender at Versailles." The mighty United States, climbing down on the world stage, in the exact room burned into public memory as the place where empires are forced to their knees.
That is the part Trump couldn't see. He strutted in believing the great dealmaker had done it again, and signed his name with a flourish, in the one location on the planet practically engineered to make him the loser at the table.
The great negotiator finally got his Versailles moment. He just ended up on the wrong side of the table.
Hüsker Dü
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Many additional people have been arrested having to do with the disgraceful Vandalism of our beautiful Reflecting Pool. It hasn’t looked or worked like this since 1922, when it was originally built, but even then, it leaked badly, and didn’t work. Ours worked perfectly, including the mirror like finish, perfectly reflecting the two Great Monuments, which it never had before! What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly. We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible. What they have damaged does not even include the earlier killing of a large amount of grass which was, by far, the least of it. They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete. They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool. The Reflecting Pool was never so beautiful as it was just one week ago, even going back to 1922 when it opened. We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we will get it repaired, quickly, to an equal level of Beauty. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP