Americans are paying a record high $4.95 for a carton of eggs, only now we have a president who sides with a dictator and invader over the freely elected defender of his country and calls the elected defender a dictator and invader.

Let’s review the facts in this case, a wholly despicable process to these presidents, both Russian and American.

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, resulting in the estimated killing of 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers and at least 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the Associated Press. President Joe Biden subsequently rallied NATO to condemn Russian aggression.

This month, Donald Trump’s vice president lectured NATO countries in Europe while the president directed American delegates to meet with the Russians in Saudi Arabia to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine. When Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he refused to bind his country to decisions resulting from talks without Ukraine’s participation, Trump went on the offensive.

“Today I heard, ‘Oh well, we weren’t invited,’” the president said this week. “Well, you been there for three years. You should’ve ended it after three years. You should’ve never started it. You could’ve made a deal.”

“You should’ve never started it.”

Think about that statement for a moment.

Think about that, America.

In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell writes, “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements.”

In Trump’s case, when Zelensky objected to talks in Saudi Arabia without the participation of Ukraine, the American president described the defender of his country against a naked act of Russian aggression as the one who started the war. In addition, Trump aped a favorite infamous Russian talking point by noting that the Ukranian President “refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls … A Dictator without Elections.” For the record, under siege by the Nazis, Winston Churchill postponed elections until after WWII.

Also – and this goes without saying – Russian Dictator Putin – the man who ordered the imperial invasion of Ukraine – has propped up his regime for a quarter of a century with fake elections – a documented fact.

But that’s our president, who occupies – in Zelensky’s words – a “disinformation space,” will consistently contradict facts – to the point of altering “defender” to “attacker,” and “elected president” to “dictator” and trample on the law, if it better enables his ongoing kowtow to power.

What is international law when Trump denies the results of an American election, and pardons his own rabid supporters from stampeding the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021, an assault resulting in the death of a New Jersey police officer?

In the lead up to the 2024 election, Trump’s backers complained about the price of eggs. According to ABC News, “Polls before and after the election showed the economy and inflation were the most important issues for a plurality of voters, while around 7 in 10 said they were ‘very concerned’ about food prices. Both President Donald Trump and Vance regularly pledged to reduce the cost of everyday items, like eggs, if elected.”

Now, egg prices are even higher than before the election – a record high, in fact – as the president lamely blames his predecessor, Biden, and holds talks in Saudi Arabia with Russia without inviting Ukraine. But in the disinformation space of Trump and his followers, he’s doing great, for after all, the powerful can break a few eggs in the process of expanding power, especially if it suits Vladmir Putin.