Donald Trump, the reality TV maestro, has never met a spotlight he didn’t love. Presidency is temporary. Showmanship is permanent. So, when he unveiled his grand “Middle East Peace Plan” in Sharm El-Sheikh, it was less a diplomatic summit and more a glittering episode of The Apprentice: Geopolitics Edition.
World leaders, unable to resist an RSVP from the impresario himself, turned up to clap like trained seals. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif didn’t just attend; he slathered Trump’s ego with syrupy praise so thick it made Dutch dearie Mark Rutte’s gushing texts look restrained.
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India’s Narendra Modi stayed home but lobbed compliments via social media, dispatching a junior minister to ensure Trump’s feathers remained unruffled.
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