Renversé à Versailles

I still can't get over the OAFPOTUS being the only person in the room who failed to grasp the significance of signing a humiliating treaty in Versailles. Even the Germans were laughing at us.

• Andrew Sullivan calls it "America's Suez moment," another historical allusion that would sail over the empty heads in the West Wing.
• Glenn Kessler says the person making the best case against the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran is...hisself.
• As for how much angina the OAFPOTUS's volte-face has caused Israel's government, Jeff Maurer can only muse that the OAFPOTUS "being a capricious moron might be the most predictable development in the history of warfare."
• Through the usual combination of incompetence and hostility to science, not to mention the late unpleasantness they started in Iran, the OAFPOTUS and his droogs are doing more to champion renewable energy than any previous administration. (This is the opposite of their intentions, of course.)
• Through the usual combination of incompetence and hostility to poor and brown people, the OAFPOTUS's droogs have cut off food aid for nearly 800,000 children because that's what Republicans do when they can.
• Here in Chicago, Alder Brendan Reilly (42nd) has formally proposed designating the 300 block of North Wabash Drive "Barack Hussein Obama Way," in part because 333 N Wabash Ave is the official address of OAFPOTUS Tower.
• Officially, this designation would recognize today's opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, of course. There can't possibly be any other reason for it.
• That stretch of Wabash leads north from the Chicago River, which we turn green on purpose on St Paddy's Day, unlike the Washington Monument Reflecting Pool, which the OAFPOTUS turned green because he and his droogs don't understand biology. Or how to paint a pool, for that matter.
• The Major Oak, a tree believed to have lived in Nottinghamshire for 1,200 years, has died, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
• Former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham (Lab.) yesterday won the by-election to represent the northern English constituency of Makerfield, placing his butt firmly on a bench in Commons from which he will almost certainly challenge Sir Keir Starmer (Lab.-Holborn & St Pancras) for leadership. Burnham will probably win, too.
• Bruce Schneier frets that "we have opened the AI Pandora's box" with the launch of Anthropic's Fable model.

And I'm happy to report that US Coast Guard helicopter C6527, which buzzed my building twice this morning, has landed safely at Waukegan. The sightseeing training flight included a tour of downtown Milwaukee as well as the preceeding aerial survey of Wrigley Field and the Chicago Loop. I will leave figuring the cost of a 2-hour flight in a MH-65D helicopter as an exercise for the reader.