Trump's Words Offend Me Deeply

I usually try to temper what I write so not too be too depressing, and not simply repeat all the things Trump is doing, day in and day out. That’s exhausing and distracting for all of us. But today I can’t not write about what happened over the weekend and refuse not to write about it simply because so many other are. It’s incredibly offensive and important to acknowledge.

Trump’s latest social posts are completely unhinged, and the tone of them make a number of observers sense that he did not write them.

On East Sunday, Trump wrote that “all Hell will reign down” on the Iranians unless they met a deadline of Monday to make concessions or open up the Strait of Hormuz to ship traffic, adding, “Glory be to GOD!”

No other American president has talked so aggressively, so openly about committing potential war crimes, historians and legal experts say. That he may not have written them points to the possibility of his continuing mental decline, and that others feel he needs to be tougher in his posts, oddly enough. To me, these new words have a sharp edge unlike his usual missives.

From Heather Cox Richardson: The post appears to be threatening to commit war crimes by attacking civilian infrastructure, and it appears to suggest Trump is considering using tactical nuclear weapons. He emphasized the production of such weapons in his first administration. He seemed to encourage this interpretation in an interview with Rachel Scott of ABC News today. She said Trump “told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with ‘very little’ off the table. ‘If [it] happens, it happens. And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country,’ he said. I asked if there’s anything off limits. ‘Very little,’ he said.”

Senator Chris Murphy, who said these posts are “completely, utterly unhinged. He’s already killed thousands. He’s going to kill thousands more,” is among some lawmakers once again bringing up the 25th Ammendment. It is a process through which a majority of the Cabinet and the Vice President, or another body Congress designates, can remove a president deemed “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

As far back as January, Trump said, “I don’t need international law.” When asked whether there was any limit on his global powers, he said, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality.”

Of which he has none.

But sadly, the 25th Ammendment will not be activated because most of Trump’s cabinet would not want to. They have too much at stake in how things are right now to rock the boat. I wish there were another way; the founders never anticipated a Trump, or social media.

In a breath of fresh air, Pope Leo spoke out against the war, and, without naming them, he lambasted Trump and Hegseth. In his Easter address, he said: “Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent,” Leo said. “Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people. Indifferent to the repercussions of hatred and division that conflicts sow. Indifferent to the economic and social consequences they produce, which we all feel.”

Trump is desperate, no one will help him out of the mess he has put himself in. And the Epstein files, which may implicate him (although he has not been accused of anything and claims innocence), are still looming. We wait to see what he will do with all his threats towards Iran and the constantly moving deadlines to comply. They may empty threats with nothing behind them, they may be threats timed to correspond to the stock market.

But they are crazy and not normal. His words deeply offend me as an American and a human being.

Thanks for being here, see you tomorrow. Hang in there, stay focused and stay together. We can beat this.