President Joe Biden Must Avoid Becoming President Joe Chump

Isaac Newton Farris Jr
7 min readApr 11, 2024

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word chump as a person who is easily tricked, last week a Middle East action noted in mainstream media but barely discussed, took place, and based on President Joe Biden’s reaction to it some might think he is beginning to look like President Joe Chump.

On April 1st, April Fool’s Day Israel did a foolish but calculated thing when it bombed Iran’s embassy complex in Syria, the bomb killed seven Iranian military advisers among them was Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a popular senior commander in the Quds Force, Iran’s elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to Iran’s ambassador to Syria Hossein Akbari, “ This is perhaps the first time that the Zionist regime allows itself to attack an official building of the Islamic Republic of Iran embassy, which had the flag of the Islamic Republic raised on top of it “.

In the past, Israel has carried out attacks on Iranian military installations or the hide-outs of Iranian-backed terrorists, but the April 1 bombing was the first time Israel has struck against Iranian diplomats. It is normal procedure…

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Isaac Newton Farris Jr
Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Written by Isaac Newton Farris Jr

Isaac Newton Farris Jr. is the nephew of Martin Luther King, Jr. and serves as Senior Fellow at the King Center.

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