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Thursday, October 9

President Trump knows Ill Omens, the Escalator Ride was an Ill Omen.


In April 46 BCE, Julius Caesar celebrated a quadruple triumph, which became famous for its extravagance. The end of four wars was celebrated: the war in Gaul, the war in Egypt, the war against Pharnaces of Pontus and the war against king Juba of Numidia. This last war had in fact been a war against the last defenders of the Roman republic, Cato and Scipio. The triumphs are described by the great Greek historian Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165) in his History of the Civil Wars. Everyone in Rome was in attendance to cheer on Caesar. 

What is little known, or remembered, about that celebration, is that just as Caesar was to enter the coliseum, by way of the Temple of Fortuna, with those around him chanting "Io triumphe! ('Hurrah for the triumph!')" the axial  on his chariot snapped in two bringing his parade to a halt. Plutarch, the historian who left us this story, says that Caesar knew it was more than just an embarrassment, it was an ill omen of something bad to happen.  A few months later those who Caesar had belittled on his way up, would come together to assassinate him with chants "Caesar must die."  

Fast forward to September 25th, 2025, where President Trump is about to have his moment of celebration, able to speak to the United Nations fully empowered with his victories over the world leaders who had laughed at him six-years earlier.  As the elevator is moving with the cameras on President Trump and his wife Melania, the elevator stops.  Trump turns to the cameras, pissed as hell.  Now a famous picture.

What pissed Trump off so much wasn't the spectacle it created, but the omen of a stopped elevator, after all, he began his successful presidency back in 2015 on another famous escalator ride, as he came down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his presidency. A joke at the time to everyone but Trump.  Yes, President Trump has proved he is one of the smartest men on the planet, at least in the U.S.A.  He has everyone jumping when he says "jump."  Caesar too had everyone jumping to his command until that March 15 when it all came to an end, and the ides of March became a warning of all powerful men. 

Does this mean the death of President Trump, who has only begun to deliver the world he promised to us, the world where... well, I won't get into it politically, I've already said I support_Trump.  And I also said that one of the big three, that is to say: Trump, Putin, or Xi, won't be alive in 2030. So no predictions here other than Trump knows ill omens, and the United Nation escalator ride was an ill omen. 

That's all for now.  

~~ Eso Terry 

 

President Trump knows Ill Omens, the Escalator Ride was an Ill Omen.

In April 46 BCE, Julius Caesar celebrated a quadruple triumph, which became famous for its extravagance. The end of four wars was celebrat...

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