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The United States is now at war with Iran.
A single person - Donald J. Trump - has released the dogs of war on one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and done it without the consent of Congress, our allies, or even a clear explanation to the American people.
Anyone who has doubted Trump's intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused.
- Robert Reich, AlterNet, June 22, 2025
The last person in the world I want to write about, or even think about, is Donald Trump, Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc on the United States and the rest of the world. He has threatened the sovereignty of my country - Canada. He is a scourge to humanity. He is in our face every single day. The man is totally unhinged and he is in control of the most powerful country in the world. It is indeed a tragedy that this convicted felon was returned to the Oval Office.
I am writing this because I cannot stand idly by. I must make my voice heard peacefully, as should all people who support democracy and the rule of law. No one knows how this chaos will end, but it has to play itself out.
Trump took an oath of office and swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States. He has violated his oath of office and should be impeached for a third time. Republicans, who respect the rule of law, should be calling him out. Instead, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Ted Cruise are standing behind this despot. They stand behind him as he makes the world a more dangerous place by bombing Iran, demonizing hard-working immigrants and cutting foreign aid. His cruelty is unparalleled for an American president. His behaviour is that of a petulant child.
Mary Trump, the president's psychologist niece, and one of his fiercest detractors. has suggested that her uncle ordered a missile attack on Iran in part because his "fragile ego" was still hurting from being called TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) by critics. She said that he felt so humiliated that he launched a military operation that could entangle the United States into a Middle East. He wanted to appear tough and decisive.
In her The Good in Us newsletter, Mary Trump wrote the following:
It is long past time that we stop imputing some deeper or reasonable motives to Donald Trump. Despite being depraved and cruel, much like his cohort Benjamin Netanyahu, he is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud.
If Mary is right, then Americans and the rest of humanity are subject to the whims of a leader who shows all the signs of malignant narcissism. His behaviour is becoming more and more erratic and unpredictable. He should be nowhere near the nuclear button because he is a sick man. He probably has some form of dementia, which is only going to get worse as it progresses. Section 4 of the 25th amendment may have to be invoked. It reads as follows:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Sooner or later (I hope sooner), Republicans and Fox News are going to have to admit that the emperor wears no clothes. They are going to have to admit that Trump is unable to "discharge the powers and duties of his office."
- Joanne
