Over the weekend we asked ourselves if Donald’s special envoy to the Middle East and Russia was an aspirin tablet or a hockey puck. But we forgot to answer the question.
He obvi is a hockey puck, a pre-stoicism disciple Charlie Croker type.
Steven, a Bronx native who migrated to Long Island, is not a biscuit in the put-down sense Don Rickles used the hard round disk1. He is an icon of Veblen’s version of invidious distinction. His father made ladies’ coats, his youngest son overdosed in California.
That Steven knows almost zero about Russia and Ukraine is besides the point. His second son, Zach, is co-founder of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a venture backed by Donald’s family that describes itself as a sort of crypto banking platform, launched in October 2024, and the third, Alex, runs the family real estate development company, Witkoff Group.
Worshippers can’t believe Donald could make a mistake — that is, until he sent sycophant Steve Witkoff to deal with Putin. — The Herald Sun, March 24, 2025
Interviewing Steven on FoxNews, Shannon Bream challenged him: Are people wrong to characterize Putin as a tyrant? Someone whose political opponents tend to disappear or die?
“I think, in my 68 years on this earth, I’ve never, ever seen a situation where there isn’t two sides to a story. It’s just never as black and white as people want to portray. So, there are grievances on both sides.” — Steven
White House National Security Adviser Mike said on Sunday that Team USA is talking through a range of confidence-building measures aimed at ending the war, including on the future of Ukrainian children taken into Russia.
Asked about the goals for the broader negotiations, Waltz said that after a Black Sea ceasefire was agreed, "we'll talk the line of control, which is the actual front lines".
"And that gets into the details of verification mechanisms, peacekeeping, freezing the lines where they are," Waltz said. "And then of course, the broader and permanent peace."
Thanks to Donald, Steven and Mike, we’ve gone from endless stalement to endless bullshit about ending the stalemate.
Don, btw, was also born in the Bronx.