The Madness of Wannabe King Trump

And He Has Nuclear Weapons

Bill Astore / Bracing News

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” — President Donald J Trump

(April 7, 2026) — My first thought, after the predictable “Trump is truly crazy” reaction, was to imagine if President Barack Hussein Obama (Trump loves including the middle name) had given praise to Allah on the holiest day (Easter) on the Christian calendar. Republicans would have impeached and/or drawn and quartered him just for that. But I suppose cultists will claim Trump is playing four-dimensional chess here. (Perhaps he is, if you consider Trump as king and everyone else in America as his expendable pawns.)

Whether because he’s unfit for office (that “Truth Social” message above should be cited as proof) under the 25th amendment or prosecuting an unlawful and unconstitutional war and thus impeachable under the Constitution, or both, surely Trump should be removed as president. (Not that I’m looking forward to President JD Vance, mind you.)

A movie I saw a long time ago, The Madness of King George (1994), comes to mind here. Systems, courtiers, parliament, flunkies, Congress, whatever their names or offices, have a remarkable ability to ignore or explain away madness in the cause of preserving or elevating their own power.

But King George III didn’t have nuclear weapons. And he was a real king.