Trump’s “address” to the nation yesterday — if anything from the master of the word salad can legitimately be called an “address” — is a frightening look into the Trumpian mind — if it can be called a “mind.” Here are five takeaways, according to The New York Times. From shifting blame, to abandoning our allies to solve the problem of the Strait of Hormuz themselves (a problem, obviously, that we created), to effectively celebrating bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age” — such attacks on vital infrastructure being clearly a war crime — place him well within the ranks of history’s most notorious evildoers. He has effectively turned us into an evil nation. The only thing saving us from worse is his and his minions’ relative ineffectiveness, and the resistance of much, though not all, of the judiciary.
We are waging an unnecessary and unjust war and celebrating the destructiveness and viciousness of our killing spree in the process. The Republican Congress sits on its hands while it should be bringing impeachment. The Cabinet cheerleads the mad dictator while it should be invoking the 25th Amendment.
How will we as a nation recover from this mad evil perpetrated in our name?
Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 
Gary, it’s horrible to know that the most destructive weapons in the world are in the hands of this morally bankrupt, cognitively impaired person. The fact that the Congress has refused to consider a War Powers action in the face of this expanding unlimited and immoral war is a Constitutional travesty as well as a moral catastrophe. From their public comments and statements, Trump and Hegseth look at this as a video game, not a matter of civilian lives, US military lives, and untold economic damage to the whole world. And to imagine that Trump is now demanding $1.5 trillion in “war budget” funds for the Pentagon, with open threats against Medicare and Medicaid as the consequence. Atrocious!