“I deserved an award from some group semi-adjacent to you, but since I didn’t get it, you have to appease me personally with something else. And that will actually be good for America, because I am president of that country. Basically what I’m saying is that my personal feelings dictate global politics as long as there’s some vague pretense of a connection that I can make between the two unrelated things. Or not, I’m doing you a favor here by inventing such a connection.”