This week in the saga

Tuesday is the best day of his second term and it lasts eight hours. At half past eleven he tells the late night hosts they are next; at ten past two the network settles the lawsuit for sixteen million; at ten past seven the Philippines opens its market; and at twelve minutes past midnight, still Tuesday to him, Japan agrees to five hundred and fifty billion dollars of investment at his direction and he calls it perhaps the largest deal ever made. Thursday the wrestler dies — MAGA all the way, strong, tough, smart, but with the biggest heart — and the page goes quiet for one panel. Then Monday, from Scotland, two countries he has never governed stop shooting because he telephoned them, and he gives himself the title the chapter has been circling: the President of Peace. He is not wrong about the ceasefire. He is not the one who has to keep it.