Well, Here We All Are, Carrying on Like Our President Didn’t Just Fantasize About Committing Genocide

For weeks now, the Trump administration’s been openly lusting for Iran to surrender in a war that began for some unknown reason that no one in the MAGAsphere can actually articulate. But on Tuesday, Trump pretty much topped the running Hague Hall of Shame with a new promise of mass annihilation on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” 

What. The. Fuck? And I thought it couldn’t get worse than Sunday’s maniacal Easter rant!!?

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— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 7, 2026

Hours after the Truth Social post, Fox News anchor Bret Baier said that over the phone, Trump doubled down on his threat. “He called, he said, ‘8 p.m. is happening. If we get to that point, there is going to be an attack like they have not seen.’” 

Well, cool. 

Currently, GOP lawmakers are keeping their heads down about the president’s casually premeditated genocide. Meanwhile, a growing list of Dems are calling for his immediate impeachment, or for Vice President JD Vance to get going on invoking the 25th Amendment.

At the time of writing, over 50 House Dems and at least two Senate Dems, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), have called for Trump’s removal. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)—and former die-hard Trump loyalist—even tweeted: “25TH AMENDMENT!!!…This is evil and madness.” 

Members of Congress calling for invocation of the 25th Amendment, a thread 🧵:

— Julian Andreone (@JulianAndreone) April 7, 2026

But it’s mostly been crickets from Republicans. “I don’t think we’re talking about ending a civilization,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-New York) told CNN. “[Trump] just means the bridges and the infrastructure…He’s not talking about obliterating innocent people.” Yes, clearly. That’s exactly what saying “a whole civilization will die tonight” means.

The 25th Amendment, which was added to the Constitution in 1967, authorizes the vice president, along with a Cabinet majority or another majority of lawmakers, to deem the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” and thus remove him. But for that to happen, Vance would have to usurp the MAGA Daddy he aches to get a gold star from. So…highly unlikely. 

For more than four weeks, Iran’s strategic response to the war has been to disrupt U.S. energy prices by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway through which about a fifth of the world’s oil flows. This especially sent Trump into scorched-earth mode—like on Wednesday, when he promised in a deranged rant that he’d bomb the country back into “the Stone Ages.” On Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) addressed this, saying he hopes that the president was just “blustering.” “I do not want to see that.” Well, us fucking neither, Ron.

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