Guest post by Jonathan Gallant

In retrospect, it is lamentable that the US labored under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the early 1940s.  Think of how glorious things might have been if, instead, the US of 1941 had had a president with all the qualities of its present chief executive, Donald H.Trump.  Let us imagine such a scenario.

  In 1940, our ideal President would have campaigned for America First, against entanglement with European affairs, and against Lend-Lease and all the various rip-offs that Winston Churchill had been able to extract from the US under FDR’s presidency.  Our candidate explained that there would have been no war at all if he had been President in 1939; and he insisted that he would end the war (which Poland had started) in 24 hours once he was elected.

  After assuming office in January of 1941, our ideal President invited both leaders of the Axis powers to a summit meeting with him to discuss Peace, and to restore friendly relations with the US.  The summit meeting was held at a US installation in formally neutral Iceland.  After US soldiers laid out a long red carpet for Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, our President in person cordially welcomed them both, and led them past posters that proclaimed “the Pursuit of Peace”.   After a brief meeting with no tangible outcome, the three leaders held a short joint press conference to praise each other.

  Later, an advisor to the US President announced that a Peace deal based on “land swaps” was imminent.  The German Foreign Office then issued a summary of the “land swap” deal.  It called for the US and Great Britain to officially recognize German annexation of Czechoslovakia and the western half of Poland; and to recognize German occupation and administration of Yugoslavia, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, not to mention northern France.  In return, the Third Reich would issue a paper affirming that the German Reich would not, in future, lay claim to the North Pole, the South Pole, or the Himalaya mountain range—unless it was forced to do so by urgent, legitimate security concerns.

   Next, our US President thanked the Third Reich for its pursuit of Peace, and hinted that a ceasefire with Britain might expedite further negotiations.  He added that it would take a lot of time to consider the details of this complex suggestion, so he wouldn’t mention it again for a year or two, or maybe five.  The German dictator thanked our President for his proposal, and confided that it would be examined at length by himself together with his colleagues Herr Himmler, Herr Goering, Herr Goebbels, and Herr Ribbentrop.  And then, the Reich Führer added that he, speaking personally as Adolf Hitler, would now nominate the US President for a Nobel Peace Prize.