On Iran
25th Amendment that Bitch TODAY.
President Donald Trump threatened to murder the Iranian civilization. Congress must return from recess immediately and remove him from office, send him to a cell.
The Iran situation is serious. Why, then, does this bitch treat it as if it were subject to his whims?
I know from conversations that America’s brave men and women in uniform want to be good and honorable. I fear they have grown so cynical about politics that they assume, quite wrongly, that they can ignore it as a clown show, because somewhere in their chain of command there is a patriot in control—a figure who will stop short of ordering hell to come to earth. But Mr. Trump has repeatedly promised to summon hell to earth. “Time is running out,” he posted on Saturday, “48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”
Our generals studied, planned, and prepared for this war. I worry they think this is about their Grand Strategy or geopolitical logic: ending the Iranian threat deprives China of a key ally, demonstrates our resolve to defend Taiwan, et cetera, et cetera. They should have paid more attention to Truth Social than the Atlantic Council.
Military ethicist Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin, formerly the Admiral James B. Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics at the Naval War College—who resigned to protest ex-Fox news host and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s restrictions on what could be taught there—identified what she calls the problem of the “unprincipled principal,” a phrase I think about every day.
The “principal” in the formulation is the civilian leadership: the commander-in-chief, the Secretary of Defense, the chain of authority above the uniformed military. But in 2026, that principal cannot be trusted to issue lawful or moral orders.
Our military can execute plans. Operation Epic Fury has seen our Air Force bomb targets across Iran—ballistic missile facilities, naval assets, and command infrastructure. But if, at the top of the chain of command, there is a president who demonstrates the inconstancy of a teenager on drugs, we cannot rely on that leadership to see anything through.
Consider the teenager. On a Tuesday, perhaps, he guzzles Robitussin, goes “robotripping.” On a Wednesday, he smokes Delta-8, fake weed. On a Thursday, gas station diet pills and Kratom. On Friday, hard liquor. Some prescription pills from a friend on a Saturday. On Sunday, school looms, and all his plans and homework are in shambles. That would be when he breaks out the bath salts. Many of us have endured such a classmate. We have such a temperament in the White House right now—except this president’s high is praise and adoration from the television set.
What does endless competence accomplish, when it is aimed by the aimless or evil?
“Operation Epic Fury”—which ought to have been the title of a canceled Power Rangers project (Operation Overdrive, Cosmic Fury, Dino Fury, Megaforce, Super Megaforce)—launched on February 28, 2026, the day after Oman’s foreign minister went on Face the Nation to declare that “a peace deal is within our reach,” that Iran had agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium and to full IAEA verification. Strikes began overnight.
I remain convinced that because this president is an asshole he wanted the war to begin before there could be any formal peace established, because he wanted the death, not an agreement. Mr. Trump claimed at the State of the Union that “we haven’t heard those secret words, ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon’”—which is a fucking lie. For decades, the Iranian regime has sworn off building a bomb; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa declaring nuclear weapons forbidden under Islamic law. Perhaps they were lying—but they certainly said it, repeatedly, and Mr. Trump knows it.
Mr. Trump’s stated objectives were to destroy Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, annihilate its navy, sever its proxy networks, ensure it never obtained a nuclear weapon. Since then, he added oil seizure to the objectives list, then dropped it; demanded the Strait of Hormuz be reopened, then told allies it was their problem; then said he was “considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil” if the Strait were not opened.
This villain posted “Praise be to Allah” on Easter Sunday—imagine if former President Barack Obama had done that. He pronounced, on Truth Social, that “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.” Imagine if any other leader jerked off to fantasies of war crimes in public, on Easter morning.
The International Committee of the Red Cross issued a statement: “Deliberate threats, whether in rhetoric or in action, against essential civilian infrastructure and nuclear facilities must not become the new norm in warfare.”
Asked about this on Monday, Mr. Trump said: “The war crime is allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
ABC News’s Rachel Scott asked Mr. Trump what, if anything, was off the table if no deal was reached. “If happens, it happens,” he said. “And if it doesn’t, we’re blowing up the whole country.” She asked what was off limits. “Very little,” he said.
“Blowing up the whole country.” We must not be naïve about what that means. Approximately 90 million people. A genocide.
I fear the nuclear taboo erodes each time we threaten to cross that threshold. Russia, China, Pakistan, Israel—any nuclear power might, in a world where the American president says “very little” is off the table, start to fantasize about whom they want to nuke. Does an age of annihilation now loom?
Mr. Trump is surrounded by so-called prophets who fuel his God complex. Paula White-Cain, head of the White House Faith Office, who during an April 2nd Easter lunch at the White House stood beside the president and compared him to Jesus—“you were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our lord and savior showed us”—has declared, in a formulation she has repeated since the first impeachment, that “to say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.”
California megachurch pastor Greg Laurie—whose Harvest Christian Fellowship faces 23 federal lawsuits, consolidated in March 2026, alleging that a Harvest pastor carried out child sexual abuse on an “industrial scale” across a network of orphanages in Romania for a decade, and that Laurie and the church covered it up for 20 years despite repeated reports—linked the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to end-times gospel and told his audience that “as far as I can see, the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the rapture.”
I wish. I would be glad to see these freaks go to the Hale-Bopp comet or wherever they dream of, and leave the Earth the fuck alone.
Mr. Hegseth, that DUI hire, at a March 25 prayer service at the Pentagon, opened by praying: “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation.” He then continued: “Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.” At a press briefing, he recited Psalm 144—“Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle”—at reporters. He has held at least ten such prayer services at the Pentagon. He refers to Iranian military leadership as “mullahs, desperate and scrambling.” He has tattooed on his body the Crusader rallying cry Deus Vult (“God wills it”), the Jerusalem cross, and the Arabic word for infidel.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports receiving more than 200 complaints from service members across dozens of installations whose commanders have told them, in various formulations, that Mr. Trump has been “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” Thirty Democratic members of Congress have formally asked the Pentagon inspector general to investigate.
No less than Candace Owens and former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have sounded the alarm that Mr. Trump thinks himself a messiah. On Easter Sunday, Ms. Owens called his administration “satanic,” wrote that Mr. Trump is “deeply unwell and surrounded by religious fanatics who have convinced him that he is a messiah,” and demanded that Congress remove “the Mad King.”
Ms. Greene urged “everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian” to “fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.” She added: “I know all of you and him, and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”
Even if our servicemembers would, under no circumstances, obey an order to attack critical civilian infrastructure in Iran—whether out of humanitarian impulse, moral conviction, adherence to the rule of law, or fear of the Hague—the president declared an intention to do so, which means we still collect the moral stain even if we abstain from the act, and sully ourselves for nothing.
I hold no love or compassion for the Iranian regime. That authoritarian government massacred tens of thousands of its own people in the streets only a few months ago, and it has exported terror around the globe for 47 years. I would be glad to see it gone and replaced with secular leadership. But not like this. If it is acceptable for the Iranian people to be targeted and threatened by a United States president, what stops a future adversary from threatening me, or my neighbors?
In the lobby of a DC hotel, I was drinking and watching the news beside a suited older man drinking far more. Based on his demeanor and appearance, I held my tongue, having surmised that he might be a defense contractor of the most obsequious kind—the sort who will take any war because it pays him out. But during Mr. Trump’s disastrous, slurring prime-time address on Iran, he sneered, set his drink down, and said: “Jesus fucking Christ. Grow up. Just change the regime. Instead of whatever the hell this is.”
But the war gave the Islamic Republic a new Supreme Leader who looks exactly like the old one, except younger. Even war profiteers, then, have had their hopes dashed by this war.
Across America, men are receiving deployment orders, leaving home and boarding ships bound for the Middle East. To imagine they might fight and die under the orders of men high on bullshit, dissociated from reality, is unbearable.
Why is Congress on vacation? Why did they not come back to the District, immediately, when the threats of nuclear annihilation started? Why have Republicans decided to abstain from anything resembling leadership, and given over all their judgment to a man whose brain has failed? Mr. Trump should be removed from office today. Now. Before his 8 PM deadline. If everybody starts driving now, there is still time.