Trump’s Digital Jihad
When the lights go out in Tehran, incubators stop. The “Hell” Trump promises is reserved for infants and the elderly in darkened, silent hospital wards.
There is a particular brand of spiritual and strategic rot that manifests when a man mistakes the Resurrected Christ for a marketing gimmick and the United States military for a personal wrecking crew. On the holiest morning of the Christian calendar, a day dedicated to the triumph of life over death, President Donald Trump chose to belch a profanity-laden ultimatum into the digital ether, effectively offering a blood sacrifice of civilian infrastructure to the altar of his own ego. To scream “Open the fuckin’ Strait”1 on Easter Sunday is not merely a lapse in presidential decorum, it is a profound theological and moral obscenity. It is a mockery of the very faith he cynically dons like a cheap campaign hat. While millions of Americans, and indeed, over a million Iranian Christians, gathered to celebrate the Prince of Peace, the U. S., Commander-in-Chief was busy drafting a hit list for “Power Plant Day.”
The President speaks of blowing up bridges and power plants with the giddy, sociop…
