Donald Trump is a sober Robert Baratheon. Baratheon was a notorious drunk in first season of “Games of Thrones,” back when the show was great again, unlike the Donald, who doesn’t touch the stuff. Good King Robert ended the Targaryen Dynasty by leading a rebellion with his good friend Ned Stark, and his rule was full of jousting tournaments and big banquets. Yeats said, “the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Donald Trump is like King Robert, neither the best nor the worst. They fall somewhere in the middle, unlike Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. Snow lacked all conviction about Dany until she burned King’s Landing to a crisp. And by then, it was too late. Our president is passionate about some things. He wants to build a great wall, of course, but as we found in “Game of Thrones,” walls sometimes fall down. He has enough sense about him, though, to bring some perspective to those full of passionate intensity, like John BoltonJohn Robert BoltonTrump: ‘I will not let Iran have nuclear weapons’ Rocket attack hits Baghdad’s Green Zone amid escalating tensions: reports Trump: War would ‘be the official end of Iran’ MORE…. Read full this story
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