“I know all of you [fellow Republican leaders] and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."

~ Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted by Lucy Campbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/2

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions

"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn't belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/3

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump-needs-to-be-removed

"President Donald John Trump, madman constrained by only the morality of his own mind, TruthSocialed his genocidal intentions towards Iran on the most holy day of the Christian calendar."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/but-at-what-pentecost-tabs-mon-april

"The reality is that this president is mentally ill. The expletive-filled outrage shows a puerile, uncontrolled and vulgar behavior that will alienate many Americans and do nothing to affect the Iranian strategy, which is to tough it out.

There is no plan but bluster and hope."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/5

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/bombast-as-war-policy-it-wont-work

"He's seriously out of his mind. And the Iranians know it ...

The easiest explanation is the simplest: Trump is cornered, and he’s going stark-raving mad."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/6

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/final-thought-hes-seriously-out-of

"Regardless of the inspiration for Trump’s post, by itself it tells a very clear story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi posted: 'The American president has lost his mind.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/7

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-5-2026

"Imagine Joe Biden, or worse still, Barack Obama, saying that [i.e., praise be to Allah] 'in jest' and how Republicans would have responded. Trump is completely off the rails and Republicans are turning a blind eye, pretending it’s not happening."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/8

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-0b4

"Earlier this week, Trump’s 'spiritual advisor' Paula White-Cain compared him to Jesus. Trump, too, was 'betrayed and arrested and falsely accused,' she said. No one in the Republican Party seems to have believed they need to strenuously resist that characterization.

And so, we enter the new week with an unstable president at the helm in wartime."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/9

"For the moment we are all waiting to see just how mad Donald Trump is. Not how angry — we know that — but whether he is actually mentally deranged enough not only to announce he is going to commit war crimes, which he has done, but to then commit them, in a war of his own impulse against a country with which we were negotiating peace."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/10

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/but-what-if-its-a-tie

"Also, he seems to be hinting at the use of tactical nuclear weapons.

That is what we do now in the United States: Wait to see how bad it will be."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/11

"The horrible but undeniable fact right now is that America has a terrorist president. And the whole world knows it. But we still have a chance to show the world that he is an aberration, that we are not a terrorist nation. And we can do that by standing up for the values that have always defined us."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/12

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-in-chief

"In a healthy democracy, Trump would be impeached by the House and convicted and removed by the Senate, or replaced under the procedures of the 25th Amendment.

Will either remedy happen? Not likely, but that does not mean we should refrain from stating the obvious:"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/13

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-is-unfit-for-office-he-should

"No other president would remain in office for a week after issuing such lunatic, reckless statements. ...

Trump is unfit to hold the office of president, dangerously so. We should say so, preferably in words of one syllable."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/14

"The media is covering his social media threats as if he is simply moving a perfunctory deadline back 24 hours, from Monday to Tuesday, but what Trump is discussing is his own pledge to pointlessly commit war crimes against Iran’s civilians – who knows how many? Millions? Tens of millions? – by a certain time."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/15

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-threatens-war-crimes-iran

"That the American commander-in-chief is doing this in broad daylight is a scandal of monumental proportions."

#Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #media
/16

"Donald Trump spent today threatening and bullying and blaspheming the Iranians, trying to get them to give him an ending to his war that he can call a victory. The Iranians know something that Donald Trump does not know."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/17

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-going-to-punch-you-in-the-nose

"They have been smugglers and traders and storytellers which has given them a rich tradition that has carried them through centuries of invaders and bullies who killed far more of them than Trump’s missiles and bombers have. The Iranians know from their own very, very long history that they can outtalk and outwit and outwait him."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
/18

"That is how you get to this madness, a group of bored, bloodthirsty, boisterous men who mistake firepower for strength, and bluster for wisdom. They do not understand how force and diplomacy can work in tandem to serve our national interests."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/19

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-warrior-ethos

"They are slavish to the allure of simplistic stereotypes, where the ideal warrior is a man, usually of European descent, with bulging biceps and a sneering grin. That is why they continue to purge women and minorities from positions of leadership, why they disdain expertise in anything more complex than an explosion, why they ignore the obvious need for nuance or complexity."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/20

"Theirs is a simple, mythical world where whoever has the most and the biggest bombs is destined to win. As we are now seeing, reality does not bend to their delusions."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/21

"In the United States today, right-wing leaders claim divine providence is behind everything they do, from their destruction of the environment to their ever-expanding militarism. ...

America’s new warrior ethos, ripped more from video games than from real life, was on full display this week."

Edwin Eisendrath

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #WhiteChristianNationalism
/22

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-trump-perverts-the-holy-week

"We're now at the point where multiple lawmakers are calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked for the president of hte United States, following a day that was supposed to be peaceful, an Easter Sunday day that started off normal unti Donald Trump posted on Truth Social an unhinged message about Iran."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes #impeachment
/23

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/urgent-update-several-lawmakers-call

@wdlindsy

Are they on their phones, serially and continually, calling each member of the cabinet over and over until it sinks into their heads that they have to act and have to act fast, today?
Has anyone heard from the people who are the ones who actually have to apply the 25th?

We have no time left for political posturing.