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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s obscene and vile Easter-weekend posts on social media, two questions come to mind: Are any senior U.S. military officers preparing to resist unlawful orders? Are any Cabinet secretaries or GOP legislators weighing whether it’s worth the shame and career suicide to continue bootlicking an unhinged war criminal?

The posts were, even by Trump standards, off-the-charts batshit crazy. First, on Saturday:

Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!

Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!

Then on Sunday morning:

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.

First, what kind of president, politician, or person talks or writes like this? Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.

Second, deliberately blowing up bridges, electric power plants, and other civilian targets would clearly violate the laws of war and various international treaties. At a news conference Monday, devoted mainly to the successful rescue of two downed U.S. pilots in Iran, Trump was asked whether it bothered him to commit war crimes. Trump asked what paper the reporter represented. When the reporter said “the New York Times,” Trump said that the paper’s circulation was way down (not true) and bitterly recalled that it had predicted he would lose the election. He then said, “We’re never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon”—which evaded the issue of........

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