Now you might have to be of a certain vintage to recognise the two films referenced in the title. The only word missing is 'whisky'.
There are two films which have the Scottish Isles as their backdrop the 1949 Ealing Comedy 'Whisky Galore' and the 1983 film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam 'Local Hero'
It's been a long time since I saw either of them but Donald Trump's avaricious appetite for Greenland brought them to mind.
If you can source these two films from You Tube or elsewhere I recommend them both for your time in trying to understand the President of America's obsession in turning Greenland into the 51st State.
I'm not as concerned about the tariffs as I am about this obnoxious baboon blustering in and taking sovereign territory. Trump has become emboldened by the actions of Netanyahu. We know that he's 'pissed' that he didn't get the Nobel Peace prize but I'm expecting him to say that Hamas are lying under the frozen tundra and they have to be wiped out.
Now the Israeli Genocide of Gaza has shifted the collective unconsious. Everybody is on tenterhooks. It feels like it's going to go off World War III at any moment. The collective psyche is fractured and the gung ho President is making war like noises.
Now I have been a big critic of the orange man baby but for the purposes of this blog I am going to have to arrest judgement for awhile and try and conjure up some understanding around the wounded whale.
He is a wounded mammal! He is guilty by association with Jeffrey Epstein. He might not have actually taken part in kiddy fiddling but the widely distributed pictures suggest otherwise. Here we have a 79 year old soon to be 80 year old President who took great pleasure in mocking sleepy Joe Biden. He's going the same way!
He must have a fractured psyche! He is in such denial about his friendship with Epstein that he's blaming everybody else. "It's the Democrats, they did it"
Now he's drunk on the success of Venezuela! The blood lust is in his nostrils. He feels compelled to keep the lunacy going. It's going to be Greenland next. Then Panama.
If the World is dealing with a wounded whale then should we, if we want to avoid World War III, should we withdraw the harpoons and let him go and play in the deep end.
What have Whisky Galore and Local Hero got to do with this? Let us not forget that Trump's mother was Scottish. She was born and brought up on the Hebridean Island of Lewis. Born in Tong, a few miles from the main town of Stornoway.
You know what I am going to suggest next?!
Before the wounded whale has the opportunity to make a move on Greenland, a deputation is sent there from Scotland, led by SNP leader John Swinney and made up of local heroes from the Isle of Lewis bearing whisky, shortbread, golf balls, golf clubs, haggis and anything else that would be legal to bribe the man baby with.
The Scottish deputation need to meet Donald Trump in Nuuk, the Capital of Greenland and they need to persuade him in a swirl of bagpipes to cease and desist. "What would your mother Mary Anne Macleod say Donald?"
He has infantilised himself in the eyes of the world but the Scottish deputation need to infantilise him further. John Swinney might have to smack his legs like his mother might have done when Donald J Trump was an even bigger toddler than he is now.
It is the only chance to avert WWIII! Who knows we might get another piece of classic cinema out of the story!
