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2. This is Trump's Strawberry Incident
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 07:37 AM
Wednesday

The only thing missing is the ball bearings.

For the younger folks:

The "strawberry incident" most famously refers to the iconic, paranoid meltdown scene in Herman Wouk’s classic naval novel and its 1954 film adaptation, The Caine Mutiny, where an obsessed Captain Queeg interrogates his crew over a quart of missing strawberries.

The Caine Mutiny Incident In both the book and the movie, Captain Queeg—a deeply unstable commander—discovers that a quart of frozen strawberries from the ship's icebox was consumed without his permission. He halts regular operations to conduct an obsessive, paranoid investigation to find out who ate them. During a military trial, this bizarre obsession becomes the focal point that proves to the court-martial that Queeg is unfit for command.

The movie is well worth watching. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize.

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