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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
CommonDreams, April 6, 2026
Here is Donald Trumps Easter message to the world:
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 youll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Donald Trump and his partner in war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu, are jointly waging a war of murderous aggression against Iran, a nation of 90 million people. They are in the grip of three cascading pathologies. The first is personality: both are malignant narcissists. The second is the arrogance of power: men who possess the power to command nuclear annihilation and feel, in consequence, no restraint. The third, and most dangerous of all, is religious delusion: two men who believe, and are told daily by those around them, that they are messiahs doing Gods work. Each pathology exacerbates the others, so that together they put the world in unprecedented danger.
The result is a glorification of violence not seen since the Nazi leaders. The question is whether the worlds few grownupsresponsible national leaders who remain committed to international law and are willing to say socan restrain them. It will not be easy, but they must try.
Let us start with the underlying psychological disorder. Malignant narcissism is a clinical term, not an insult. The social psychologist Erich Fromm coined the phrase in 1964 to describe Adolf Hitler, as a merger of pathological grandiosity, psychopathy, paranoia, and antisocial personality into a single character structure. The malignant narcissist is not merely vain. He is structurally incapable of genuine empathy, constitutionally immune to guilt, and driven by paranoid conviction that enemies surround him and must be destroyed. Already back in 2017, psychologist John Garnter and many other professionals were warning of Trumps malignant narcissism.
When power faces no limit, the only remaining internal check is conscience. And the psychopath has no conscience.
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-trump-psychopaths-war-criminals
Kid Berwyn
(24,506 posts)Professor John Mearsheimer has stated precisely that the crimes now being committed by Trump and Netanyahu are the same crimes for which the Nazi leadership was hanged at Nuremberg: aggressive war, annexation of foreign territory, deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, and collective punishment. This is not rhetorical excess. These are legal categories. The Nuremberg Tribunal called the crime of aggression the supreme international crimethe one that contains within itself the accumulated evil of the wholebecause it is the crime that makes all the other crimes possible. These men have confessed to it, publicly, in speeches carried by international broadcasters.
malaise
(296,469 posts)And hes spewing more bullshit on my TV right now
Kid Berwyn
(24,506 posts)For Crazy Town can get even.
malaise
(296,469 posts)Seriously
in2herbs
(4,430 posts)video is said he has 6 fingers on one hand. W/in the past few days I've seen another video where Bibi's hands are outlined in white and his fingers look like frog webs.
Has any national or international media actually seen Bibi since the bombing of Iran?
Kid Berwyn
(24,506 posts)
the police after a few days.
From Doc Sachs:
Netanyahus Court: Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, and the Messianic Settlers
On the Israeli side, the inner court is composed of two figures whose radicalism is so extreme that they were considered political pariahs until Netanyahu used their votes to stay in power. Itamar Ben-Gvir, the National Security Minister, is an admirer of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was designated a terrorist organization. Bezalel Smotrich, the Finance Minister, draws his ideology from Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that Israels 1967 military victory was divinely mandated and that the settlement of Palestinian territory is the will of God. Together, they hold 20 seats in Netanyahus 67-seat coalition. They do not merely advise the prime minister, they share in his messianic beliefs and vision.
Ben-Gvir has used his control of the Israeli police to enable settler paramilitaries operating against Palestinians in the West Bank. He has consistently blocked ceasefire negotiations and has openly claimed credit for delaying them. He pushed for Jewish ritual rights on the Temple Mount in defiance of a status quo maintained for decades, a move Israeli security officials warned would lead directly to bloodshed. In August 2023 he declared: My right, and my wifes and my childrens right to get around on the roads in Judea and Samaria, is more important than the right to movement for Arabs. The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and Spain have all sanctioned him for inciting violence, yet the United States, under Marco Rubio, defended Ben-Gvir and criticized those sanctions.
Smotrich is the more methodical of the two: less theatrical and more dangerous. He has systematically transferred civilian governance of the West Bank from the Israeli military to his own ministry, channeling hundreds of millions of shekels to settler infrastructure while Palestinian Authority budgets are deliberately strangled. He has directed his office to formulate an operational plan for applying sovereignty over the West Bank. During the Iran war, he called for Israel to annex southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, declaring that the war needs to end with a different reality entirely. Smotrichs ideology draws on Kooks teaching that the settlement enterprise is not political but sacreda divine obligation that must be completed regardless of international law, Palestinian rights, or the opinion of the world. The 1967 borders, in this theology, are not a temporary military reality. They are Gods unfinished business.
The worlds grownups must try to stop the madness.
Neither Ben-Gvir nor Smotrich was anything more than a fringe extremist before Netanyahu legitimized them by bringing them into government and his inner court. He gave them power over Israeli society, and they gave him the religious-nationalist firepower to call his wars a divine mission.
Initech
(108,860 posts)And it can't come soon enough.
Kid Berwyn
(24,506 posts)They arent called NAZI for nothing.

Know your BFEE: Nazis couldnt win WWII, so they backed Bushes.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1547206
So much blackmail you need computer automation to track the leverage and expenses.

Initech
(108,860 posts)Getting flashbacks!
BigmanPigman
(55,235 posts)Hey, Leonardo, grab your paints and head on over for a group portrait.
Kid Berwyn
(24,506 posts)
Tongerlo Abbey Church
https://www.flemishmastersinsitu.com/en/venues/tongerlo-abbey-church
You are correct, the resemblance with the sordid collection of rotted grifters, money launderers and craven frauds and pedophile protectors surrounding the golden calf-ass Dimdonnie. What a coincidence.