So please give generously (ideally using those big checks — or cheques, if you will — that they used to brandish when schools and hospitals raised large sums of money).
The Board of Peace seems like such an exciting opportunity to potentially sit alongside such noted lovers of peace as Russia’s Vladimir Putin (invited), Belarus’ Aleksandr Lukashenko (accepted), and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu (who said he’ll join) as well as Trump himself, who so loves peace that he now has a Nobel Peace Prize, albeit with someone else’s name on it.
And who could question its motives? At the launch event for the Board of Peace, Trump said the world is “richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago.” Wise words.
There are, however, questions to be asked. For example, what language will its meetings be conducted in? English, of course! As Trump made clear in his speech at Davos (which I will never not confuse with Davros, leader of the Daleks in the TV show “Doctor Who”), without the U.S. getting involved in World War II, Europeans would be speaking German now, which would have come as something of a surprise to locals in *checks notes* Switzerland.
Now I know what you’re thinking: Can individuals even be part of the Board of Peace? It’s unclear, but we all know that if Trump sees a chance to make some money by signing up wealthy people, he’ll seize it faster than you can say “Iceland.” There’s no way that Gianni Infantino, full-time administrator of the Donald Trump Fan Club and sometime head of football governing body FIFA, hasn’t already been in touch about joining.
At the time of writing, Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, and the shark from “Jaws” had yet to respond to their invitations to join the board, perhaps because they are waiting on a venue for its meetings — the options being (in ascending order of scariness) a haunted castle, the Death Star and Mar-a-Lago.