“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped 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”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414
“Praise be to Allah.” ???? Just two days ago, Trump gave glory to God in posting about his ultimatum to Iran over the Hormuz Strait. Either he can’t make up his mind which god he worships or else he’s covering all the bases. Which god does he actually represent? Certainly not Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, who teaches us to love our enemies, not kill them.
I am not a psychologist but I can read into this. Things are going horribly wrong and Donald Trump is at his wit’s end, pulling his hair out, over this Iran debacle which he foolishly injected himself and America into. No, wait! Let’s make that, himself and the United States1, not America, because the two no longer are synonymous. The vast majority of America is against this conflict and wants him to pull out–win or lose. Just get out!
Back to the point.
No one, including US presidents who can do whatever they want, who have no restraints placed on their power and will except their own mind, would talk like that if things were going their way. If Trump was getting everything he wanted out of this war to destroy Iran for the sake of Israel and Bibi Netanyahu, then he would not make threats and demands in such strident and crass language. These are not the words of a diplomat making attempts to resolve a critical situation. Instead, they reflect an understanding in his soul that his wants and desires are being thwarted and that his vision of a speedy victory of accomplishment is rapidly receding into the rear-view mirror. They are the words of a passionate madman, an extremely dangerous madman, and all of us should be concerned because of, not so much the words themselves, but the irrational, incoherent actions, orders, and consequences which they foretell, a potential Armageddon, so to speak. If you think I’m being too hard on the man, see these responses from far more prominent and powerful persons than I will ever be.
Consider one of these Armageddon scenarios, as mentioned in Ryan McMaken’s thoughtful article on Lew Rockwell.
“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.’” — Martin van Creveld, a prominent Israeli military historian who spoke these words in 2003.
In layman’s terms, this is called the Samson Option.
“Strategic literature has long discussed what is sometimes referred to as the “Samson Option” — the idea that Israel could resort to nuclear weapons if faced with defeat. Whether or not such a doctrine formally exists, the logic behind it is clear. If a state genuinely believes its existence is threatened, the pressure to escalate dramatically becomes far greater.”
In van Creveld’s quote above, he referenced Moshe Dayan. “Israel must be like a mad dog…” Today, we can clearly see that Donald Trump is talking and acting like a mad person, virtually foaming at the mouth in his insane remarks and, considering the close relationship he has with the string-pullers who support and back Israel, it is not far-fetched to expect that the world will soon be bitten and savaged by this “mad dog” mentality. In the real world, rabies (the official term) is treated by a vaccine before the symptoms appear. In the political world, especially one in which Congress refuses to act as any kind of restraint on Trump’s behavior, it may be too late to “inoculate” the victim, which only leaves two options: remove him from office via the 25th Amendment or allow him to continue “biting” in a furious rage until everyone who is affected (the entire world) meets a logical, horrible end.
It’s the end of the world as we knew it and tomorrow will not be the same as yesterday.
Clearly, the most obvious rational move would be for JD Vance and Trump’s cabinet members to declare him unfit to rule and depose him with the assent of Congress. In this, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth would also have to be shown the door, shaking up the entire power structure and ushering in a new dynamic which might, actually might, restore a sense of balance to foreign policy.
However, being that this is Washington, DC, all bets are off and there is nothing to do except make noise, hope for the best, and wait to see what comes out of it.
- Defined as the entire government structure, the military-industrial complex, the mass media, the neo-con warmongers like Lindsey Graham, the major banks and money-changers, and the sycophantic, delusional believers in Christian Zionism. ↩︎
Poor Roger's Almanac 
I think Martin van Creveld is right. Sooner or later, it goes there.
A POKE IN THE EYE!
I am not a Trump fan, nor of the biblically seditious Constitution that made it possible for him to become America’s “leader,” nor of the never-ending, unbiblical, international bankers’ wars of aggression that America is always embroiled in.
That said and albeit I think it was stupid of Trump to say it (like much of what Trump says), I can imagine that his statement “Praise be to Allah!” was meant as a “poke in the eye” to the Iranians.
If anything else, hopefully it will be a wake-up call to today’s alleged Christians who fawn at his feet, despite his other biblical abominations. Case in point, his appointing six sodomites and lesbians (whom, in Leviticus 20:13 & Romans 1:26-32, God identifies as capital criminals*) to his team:
· Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary, the hedge fund manager the highest-ranking openly sodomite official in US history.
· Richard Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s ambassador to Germany and then director of national intelligence during his first term.
· Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.
· Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
· Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.
· Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.
*For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) apply and should be implemented as the law of the land, see free online book “Law & Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant” at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/law-kingdomFrame.html
Then “A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.”
If Trump meant that as an insult to the Iranians (Shia), then it can also be construed as an insult to other Muslims who are of the Sunni persuasion, including the GCC countries who are getting beaten up by Iran. When push comes to shove, are they going to side with someone who makes fun of their religious beliefs or someone who follows the same god but from a different viewpoint?
No telling about that because politics makes strange bedfellows, but Trump ought to be informed that he may have just made a huge error.
I hope not, but the possibility is rearing its ugly head and daring us to look it straight in the eye.
Of course, I have no way of knowing, but I sure wouldn’t past Trump to have not thought it through as you have. It’s pretty much his modus operandi to, sooner or later, offend everyone involved with him.