What better dodge is there for draft-dodger Donald Trump than to get elected as the “peace president,” promise an end to forever foreign wars, then hype the founding of a “Board of Peace” while contriving to slap his name on the United States Institute of Peace.

The president delivered the opening address at the renamed The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace on Feb. 22.

“What we’re doing is very simple,” Trump said. “Peace. It’s called the Board of Peace, and it’s all about an easy word to say but a hard word to produce. Peace. But we’re going to produce it, and we’ve been doing a really good job.”

He claimed to have settled eight wars.

“And, I think, a ninth to come,” he added.

He noted that he had named his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and real estate developer Steve Witkoff as “envoys of peace.”

“People like them both,” Trump said. “Iran is a hotspot right now… and they have a good relationship with the representatives of Iran. And good talks are being had.”

Six days later, on Saturday morning, the self-proclaimed “President of Peace” launched a major war against Iran.

“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties; that often happens in war,” Trump said........

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