POTUS goes rogue (again, and this time it’s worse)
This morning at 8:06 EST, not even two days after Easter, US President Donald J. Trump posted online for all the world to read, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” His dire, bloodcurdling proclamation evoked worldwide condemnation even from America’s allies. Even Pope Leo XIV, himself an American, said Trump’s threat was “truly unacceptable” and violated international law. Many Americans across the political spectrum but especially Democrats called out for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the Presidency. If the Cabinet fails to act, then Congress must take up the gauntlet to forcibly remove a sitting president from power. No one expects the MAGA cult, however fractured, to compel any Republicans in power to honor their sworn Constitutional duties.
Yesterday Trump openly said he is “not at all concerned” about committing war crimes. He doesn’t “need international law” as he felt strongly his decisions as to what determines US interests is paramount over agreed legal frameworks with other countries. Trump expressed “God (is) on our side,” and spewed a most unprofessional and embarrassing public tirade of profanity for a man representing the Presidency a few days earlier. Now he threatens to annihilate one of Humanity’s most continuous ancient civilizations. Word is leaked many top military commanders find themselves in a moral and legal quandary. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, one of the most asleep, incompetent, and dangerous persons to ever hold the office, has recently been on yet another purge of top generals and admirals. No public reason was given, and some speculate with good reason those fired officers were reluctant to follow Hegseth’s orders.
Then a short time ago on this same Tuesday the 7th of April Trump announced he has stopped all further US attacks on Iran for two weeks. Iran has accepted or declared a ceasefire via Pakistan also for two weeks, despite initial declarations it would never agree to a ceasefire only to a permanent end to the war. What is the madman’s crazed agenda? There’s seemingly no exit strategy or clear military strategy, period, and certainly no understanding of consequences.
Pakistan is the negotiator between the two sides. Pakistan, however, is engaged in an ongoing war with Afghanistan and various Taliban factions on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border. It’s a conflict not really covered in the Western mainstream media. It’s bigger than “just” a border war. Pakistan also has a mutual self-defense treaty with Saudi Arabia and did warn Iran if Shi’a Iran continues all it attacks around the Middle East on other Muslim (Sunni) countries, Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state, would honor its treaty obligations.
Even so, Trump’s calculated theatrics appear to be those of a clever madman. He behaves far more psychopathic than psychotic. I am no doctor here, and the man’s behavior doesn’t need a medical diagnosis to behold. People keep saying he has dementia. Maybe! And he’s all over the place, sometimes on purpose. Some claimed Trump studied Black Magick techniques in stage manipulation back in the day, especially after the Republican primary debate when he waved Gov. Jeb Bush to fall asleep. Haven’t seen any evidence for such claims nor have I researched them greatly. I was exposed to some of the same techniques during various Train the Trainer type trainings over two decades ago, and, yes, exposed to Ceremonial Magick practices even earlier. I must add and emphasize my trainings back then focused on positive and constructive uses of the same energy that can be used, misused, or abused for both good or bad. And…is Trump truly deranged? Or is he a clever psychopath? Or both at his age?
Now what will Israel do? And the Kurds? And the Iranian people, themselves divided for and against their theocratic dictatorship of the Shi’a Persian mullahs? And the Turks? And the Sunni Arabs? And other Shi’a Arabs? And the Russians? The Chinese? The Indians? Pakistan? The Vatican? The Europeans? What of the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Syrian and Lebanese factions? Will any of them, each with their own agendas, wait out a two-week ceasefire between the USA and Iran?
There is no love lost for the hardline, murderous dictatorship in Tehran. Not for the mullahs and the ayatollahs. Not for their cultic stormtroopers the IRGC and the Basij militias. Being bombed into annihilation, back “into the stone ages” as Trump recently declared, is not a way to make friends with the common masses of Iran who seek to overthrow the regime that slaughtered some 30,000 to 50,000 people in the streets back in January and is still detaining and killing protesters as “traitors.”
This is a bloody damn mess. In a sense we are all culpable and must work together to remove authoritarians and authoritarianism as well as their predatory communist, fascist, and corporatocratic capitalist political and economic systems around the world. Here in the United States Trump and his acolytes must be impeached, removed from office, arrested, and put on trial for multiple counts of corruption, treason, and war crimes. The US Constitution is obsolete, broken, and in dire need of major reform. The basic framework still holds. “Still has good bones,” one could say. There are, however, so many issues our Founding Fathers could not envision we here in 21st Century America must address. A few of these includes addressing the Electoral College, gerrymandering,reconfiguring the Congress, guiding territories into statehood, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the lack of a clear, stated right to self-defense.
The nations of the world, both nation-states and stateless-nations, must find constructive and peaceful ways to grow up and work together for a more integrated, united planet. Our species is, what, at least 300,000 years old now? Maybe even a million years old by some radical recalculations? We keep pushing the number further back in time. Even if once thought to be only a few thousand years old is plenty of time, more than enough time, for us Homo sapiens to grow up and stop acting like violent gangs of adolescents bereft of parents. There aren’t any parents, and if there were, perhaps we killed them off ages ago like in those ancient myths. Come on, people. We cannot let the wars spreading out around the globe today morph into another world war. Such would be omnicide. Such would be our self-extinction.
All of this, ironically, during the 33-year cycle where Passover, Oestara, Easter, and Ramadan converge.
William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 7 April 2026
Shoreline/Seattle, WA
USA
Sources:
Adeosun, Adeola and Gabe Whisnant. “Accusations Over His Iran Threats,” Newsweek: Politics, April 2026. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-dismisses-war-crimes-claims-over-iran-threats-11789202
Ibrahim, Nur. “Did Trump say ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of Iran deadline?” Snopes: Fact Check, April 2026. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-iran-whole-civilization-die/
Winfield, Nicole. “Pope says Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is ‘truly unacceptable,’” Associated Press (AP): World News, April 2026. https://apnews.com/article/pope-leo-iran-trump-threat-unacceptable-332059536d7c4d6071c8f5abb35d8c8d
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