THE Central Intelligence Agency is debating who will tell Trump that opening up a third front on as many continents is a bit risky.
National security officers are anxiously brainstorming how to inform the president that kidnapping the Venezuelan president, invading Greenland and striking Iran simultaneously is perhaps too much in a way that will register.
CIA director Norman Steele said: “Even when we were adventurously anti-Communist it was one at a time. All at the same time? I know he’s not Gen Z but is this ADHD?
“We’re in a post-bullshit-ideas era. Using sock puppets to explain geopolitical tensions would’ve been unthinkable, even during the George W Bush presidency, but we’ve strayed far from that shining era of intellectualism.”
Security chief Stephen Malley said: “We need to tell Trump that three wars at once is two wars too many. And that’s not counting the ongoing war on any US city that elected a Democrat.
“I’ve set an intern to condense millennia of military history into a four-word slogan that fits on a baseball cap, and we’ve got ‘too much war bad’, ‘one war at once’ and ‘is Iran your problem?’ None feels quite there.
“It’s already on fire. Can we just tell him we bombed the baddies, like we did with Nigeria on Christmas Day? He seemed happy with that.”