Musings (special edition!):
•The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 17). He has:
Sought to re-name Penn Station in New York City to “Trump Station” and Dulles International Airport to “Trump International Airport”;
Floated the possibility of a fourth term in office;
Threatened to block the opening of a bridge between Detroit (U.S.) and Windsor (Canada) if Canada does not allow half ownership of the bridge and give the U.S. compensation for its costs in the construction;
Signed an executive order directing the Department of Energy to buy electricity mainly from coal-powered plants;
Warned Republicans who voted against Canadian tariffs that they will “suffer the consequences” in the 2026 mid-term election;
Refused to invite two Democratic state governors to the National Governors Association annual meeting because they were “not worthy of being there”;
Called the Republican governor of Oklahoma a “RINO (Republican In Name Only)” for not blasting Democratic governors at the NGA meeting;
Kicked reporters out of a breakfast meeting of governors so that the officials could speak “candidly”;
Signed an executive order increasing the production of glyphosate-based herbicides;
Asked the Congress to pay him billions of dollars because he had been “hurt” by the Department of Justice’s investigation and leaking of his tax returns, the amount to be settled by his appointees;
Offered a Medal of Freedom to the goalie of the men’s Olympic hockey team – but not to the goalie of the women’s team;
Promised to resume his “big beautiful wall” on the southern border, starting at the Big Bend National Park in west Texas;
Made another military strike on Iran on the pretext that Tehran was again developing nuclear weapons;
Raised the idea of a “friendly take-over” of Cuba;
Authorized military strikes on six other countries (Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, and Venezuela);
Directed the U.S. Navy to protect oil tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz; and
Threaten to cut ties with Spain which refused to allow U.S. military aircraft to use its military air bases.
•Ah, well, the fat is in the fire, as they used to say when an undesirable event occurred.
Donald Trump, the man who would be king, has finally found the war he has searched for all his life.
The man who would be king has executed his war by ignoring the War Powers Act, which the Congress enacted decades ago, obliging the president to seek permission from the Congress to proceed and to supply an end time to the war.
More importantly, the man who would be king has executed his war by ignoring the U.S. Constitution, which states definitively that only the Congress can call for war.
No matter. The man who would be King knows best, don’t you know? And We the People will just have to lump it.
•You, dear reader, might wonder if The Chas is on the side of Iran in this bloody affair. Iran has been a theocratic state since 1979; as such, the religious leadership has slaughtered millions of its citizens who have not practiced Islam as the leadership thinks they should have.
The Chas definitely opposes theocratic states of all stripes, and Iran is high on the no-no list. Nevertheless, he views this war – conducted by a person who has no more of a conscience than all of the Ayatollahs put together – as wholly unnecessary and prefers the diplomacy route. The man who would be king, aided and abetted by another despot (leader of the illegal state of Israel), is content to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
When will it end? The man who would be king is optimistic. He says “four or five months.” One astute person who has studied the prophesies of the 16th-Century seer, Nostradamus, has put the end at seven months. The Chas suggests the end will come either when there is nothing left to bomb or when the man who would be king is removed from office and locked up.
Call me a “negativist” if you will, dear reader, but I prefer to be called a realist, given the nature of the principal actors in this drama.
Just a thought.