Издател БЛАЖЕНСТВО ЕООД
When a politician says he met someone “through friendly channels,” it sounds innocent—until it turns out that the friend is linked to an American political dynasty and the conversation to energy and sanctions. From that moment on, the word “friendship” ceases to be personal. It becomes a screen behind which anything can be hidden: influence, mediation, the trade in access.
When a meeting without a protocol triggers a storm of commentary, it is rarely because of the conversation itself. Usually, it speaks to something deeper — the need to appear significant when one’s significance has long since leaked through the cracks of politics. That was the case with Boyko Borissov’s visit to Donald Trump Jr. — a meeting that officially never existed but somehow became political capital, valued in dozens of hours of media coverage and hundreds of thousands of views online.
In a small country that loves to believe it is big—and even more, that it matters to the world—a former prime minister boasted that he had spoken with the heir of America’s loudest political family. It took no more than a smile before the cameras for a whole legend to be born—or perhaps only the shadow of one. They say history loves repetitions; in Bulgaria, they usually arrive at press conferences, accompanied by lines such as: “I didn’t go to Donald Trump, I went to his son, who’s just the child of a friend.” From that point on, imagination takes the baton, and reality hurries to catch up with a fairy tale stalled at the traffic light between truth and PR.
