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Trump Is in His Own Universe—but He’s Still Wrecking Ours

Give the man a second opportunity to address the nation, and it’s entirely possible he could throw the whole world into a Great Depression.

Donald Trump departs following a prime-time address to the nation in the Cross Hall of the White House, on April 1, 2026.

Earlier this week, a panicked would-be Führer Trump, looking for an exit ramp to a war he should never have started, threatened to blow up Iran’s oil wells, water desalination plants, and power generation infrastructure unless the Iranians ceded immediately to American demands.

The United States, Trump announced on social media, would wrap up its “lovely stay” in the region with an orgy of violence that, experts noted, would surely constitute a serious war crime. His fetid words, so dismissive of the lives lost and the broader pain caused by saturation bombing, are worth quoting in full. “We will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched.’”

In his live address to the nation on Wednesday, Trump repeatedly tried to convince the American public that a war which the Iranians show no sign of having lost—and which, by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is crippling the global economy and risks diluting Americans’ purchasing power through years of high inflation—has actually already been won, and won in a nature unprecedented in human history. “We are unstoppable as a military force,” Trump crowed. The rest of the world “can’t believe the brilliance of the United States military.”

If by that, Trump—who had spent his morning scowling at the Supreme Court justices as they heard arguments in the case that the MAGA leader hoped will end birthright citizenship—meant that every European ally has said “thanks........

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