Hitchcock would have loved Trump’s MacGuffin to launch Iran war if it were a movie, not a real life catastrophe

Hitchcock would have loved Trump’s MacGuffin to launch Iran war if it were a movie, not a real life catastrophe

Movie buffs, especially fans of suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, know what a MacGuffin is: a plot device in the form of a simply made up desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues in furtherance of making a thrilling, suspenseful movie. For Hitchcock it was the plans for the airplane engine (39 Steps) or the uranium ore stored in vintage wine bottles (Notorious). Everyone knows the most famous MacGuffin in filmdom, the black bird that drove the narrative in John Huston's Maltese Falcon.

But neither Huston nor Hitchcock could have come up with a more bizarre MacGuffin for America's senseless real life war blowing up the Middle East and possibly the world economy than Trump’s MacGuffin, an imminent Iranian nuke.

Since Iran posed no threat whatsoever to the Homeland over 6,000 miles away, Trump simply made up the fiction that Iran was a couple weeks away from building a bomb, and more ominously, could detonate it over America as well.

No matter that Iran has never built a bomb, pleaded never to build a bomb, and was in full compliance with Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal which guaranteed they’d never build one. No matter that Trump sabotaged Obama’s nuclear agreement to prepare for the day he could attack Iran to prevent its building and detonating a bomb that his entire intelligence community determined was preposterous.

Hitchcock’s Macguffins worked perfectly to create some of the most suspenseful, thrilling and scary movies in filmdom. But Trump’s MacGuffin backfired spectacularly, killing thousands in Iran and neighboring countries, choking off 20% of the world’s oil supply, damaging all 13 US Gulf States bases and turning Trump into the biggest loser in US military history. And to hammer a nail into Trump’s defeat he has no way out of the impending global catastrophe he started with his cockamamie MacGuffin.

And up in Celluloid Heaven, Hitchcock might be muttering: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I've created 57 MacGuffins for my 57 films, but none compares to Trump’s Mother of All MacGuffins....Iran’s imaginary nuke.”

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