“How often did the little boy cry wolf when the villagers stopped coming to his assistance?”
“What in the world….”
“I remember twice.”
“Oh for Pete’s sake.”
“Well even if you double it, it’s four times and the fifth time when the wolf finally came the villagers did not come to assist him.”
“The version of this Aesop’s tale, one of five, that I heard is that the wolf did not eat the boy but the sheep. But what made you think of this….”
“President Trump threatened Iran five times, and five times he …”
“Granted an extension for Iran to make a deal – a deal a la Trump….”
“I plead to the Iranian Supreme Leader to announce Trump day to be celebrated each year….”
“On 28 February when the Supreme Leader’s father and predecessor, I think mother, and sister and her family, wife, and daughter were killed by the US/Israel….”
“No.”
“What about the day he was selected as the Supreme Leader?”
“Nope.”
“I mean this is the most insane suggestion you have ever made and if I recall you suggested that Bajwa be granted yet another extension….”
“Hey don’t put me in a hot soup, anyway the Iranians’ need to celebrate Trump Day is because he allowed the country to come out of the shackles that successive US presidents, from 1979 onwards, had placed on the country and…wait….and allowed a source of income that will keep on giving to the Iranians both in terms of money and global influence…I am referring to the strait of Hormuz and….”
“That was inadvertent, President Trump did not intend that.”
“Hey the apple falling on the great scientist Newton was also inadvertent and that led to the discovery of gravity.”
“True, then there was microbiologist Alexander Fleming who accidentally left a petri dish uncovered, and noticed the mould that killed surrounding bacteria and viola! The world got antibiotics….”
“But the Iranians are angered at Trump and I don’t think they would like to call it Trump day.”
“How about Hegseth….”
“Less so.”
“I have it, how about Shehbaz Sharif day?”
“Another Pakistani had much greater input…..”
“Agreed and I nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize….”
“President Trump will be angry.”
“You win some, you lose some.”
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