Michael Cohen - Easier Said Than Drilled

Benjamin Franklin had a knack for slicing through bullshit with surgical precision. “A well done is better than well said,” he wrote; colonial shorthand for put up or shut up. If Franklin were alive today, he wouldn’t need a quill. He’d need a laugh track and a stiff drink, because Donald Trump has turned well said into a performance art, entirely divorced from well done.

We’ve heard this soundtrack before. To name just a few; Trump said he’d end the Russia–Ukraine war in 24 hours. He didn’t. He said Israeli hostages would be home before he even took office. They weren’t. He promised to fix the economy in his first 100 days; an arbitrary deadline he loves because it sounds impressive, even when it’s meaningless. Now add another whopper to the ever-growing pile: Trump wants $100 billion in oil investment poured into Venezuela, a country whose own oil executives politely described as “uninvestable.”

Let that word sink in. Uninvestable. That’s not a partisan insult. That’s not a Democrat talking point. That’s ExxonMobil’s CEO, Darren Woods, sitting in the White House, explaining; carefully, diplomatically, and with corporate understatement, that his company has had its assets seized twice in Venezuela. And no, they’re not rushing back for a third round of economic Russian roulette.

But Trump, undeterred by reality as always, announced that after a January 3rd raid that seized Nicolás Maduro, the United States would “unleash” Venezuela’s oil. He promised lower energy prices. He told oil executives, essentially, Don’t worry about Venezuela; you’re dealing with me. Which should terrify any serious business leader, because if there’s one thing Wall Street understands, it’s that Trump’s word is not collateral.

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