The Bulwark: Trump's Easter Post Has Lawmakers Questioning His Sanity

[marmar]

Apr 5, 2026 Bulwark Takes

Tim Miller takes on Donald Trump’s Easter morning threats to bomb Iran’s bridges, power grid, and energy infrastructure—and his claim he could “blow everything up” if a deal isn’t reached.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. My father used the same MO when he wanted to get what we wouldn't give him.

He'd holler. He'd swear. He suggested that bad things would happen to us (his adult children) if we didn't give in.

The motivation was fear. Not of physical abuse. But more like J.R. Ewing revenge. Maybe we'd be left out of his Will and stuff.

Let me tell y'all that, with the exception of my sister (the Golden Child), none of us were swayed, although we had an understanding of "Don't get Dad mad" as he could be rather unpleasant.

And at the end, all of us (including the Golden Child) were left out of his Will.

And it was worth it.

[CousinIT]

2. BUT....

...they're STILL not going to do anything about it!

[Ocelot II]

3. *Questioning* his sanity? There's no question at all. There hasn't been for a long time.

He's as mad as a box of frogs and that's nothing new; he's just getting crazier. It's been obvious since his first term that that boy ain't right. And now he's just flagrantly and spectacularly nuts and the media are just starting to suggest that he seems a tad odd, maybe a little too eccentric for a man in his august position, and maybe he should settle down a bit. His toadies in the cabinet cringe at the very thought of the 25th Amendment, though they must realize that he's nuttier than squirrel shit, because if #25 is invoked and the spectacularly insane president is taken away by the men with the nets, they will lose their jobs tout suite because Shady Vance will want his own toadies. The invertebrate GOP Congress also knows full well that Trump ought to be on a Thorazine drip, but they live in fear of mean tweets and the red-hatted Bubbas to whom they owe their cushy sinecures. So we're stuck with a guy who lives at the center of a Venn diagram of stupid, evil and insane. The only salvation may come from the fact that he's not only stupid, evil and insane but also old, fat and infirm. Here's to cholesterol or rickety airstairs or a slippery bathtub.