There are moments when I have to ask whether Trump is mad or bad?
Then I saw his Easter message, which was this:
The answer to the question is that he is very clearly both.
That message is from a man detached from reality. That is what madness is.
It is also bad on so many levels.
The vindictiveness and hatred of so many people implicit in it is bad.
The language used is most definitely bad because of the sentiments it is trying to create.
As an action of a President, it is beyond bad.
And still, the UK is trying to get a deal with him.
But then, Labour is also rotten to its very core, as I have noted this morning.
This is the lens through which we now have to understand politics. Compassion and sanity have departed the scene. We are left with hatred, self-interest and gleeful cruelty.
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Although I see madness in his economic dealings, when I see something like this I find it to be more calculating to be honest – unfortunately some folk love this sort of stuff.
It’s fascism for sure.
Agree it’s calculated, red meat to core base – chilling.
The list of normative threat gets longer.
Manipulating one particular’s group’s need for collective conformity to enforce dominance and control.
Let’s not forget Hypatia.
What about Hypatia? That’s a pretty obscure comment.
Demos
for those who don’t know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
hope it helps
But what is the relevance?
Making comments whose meaning is not clear wastes my time, and can lead to being blocked
Warning duly given to Demos – whoever they might be.
Agreed. Trump is not mad in the shuffling down the street muttering to himself kind of way, he’s more akin to the madness of a Bond villain. Completely misguided, but well able to direct an effective organisation.
“Trump is not mad”, simply deluded and was never in touch with how ordinary people live.
As for “Radical left Lunatics”, Dan Goyal’s latest shows who, exactly is murdering all those school children:
https://dangoyal.substack.com/p/school-shootings-reveal-a-dark-side
75% of all murders are by w(s)hite supremacists, anti gov & right whinge. 75%.
&.. in the decade up to 2022.. ““96 % of incidents in which extremists killed someone were committed by people motivated by right-wing ideologies.”
Is Donald Trump in favour of dead school children? If not, when is he going to do something about the right whinge lunatics mudering them.
(in the bits I wrote – I made a mistake – I talked about “killings” – they weren’t they were premedidated murder).
Thanks
Apologies RM for not making the relevance clearer, and wasting your time.
The relevance is linked to Trump trying to stir -up ‘sentiments’ this is bad and dangerous.
Hypatia, ancient Greek wise-thinker, was torn apart by a by a riled-up mob – she had been discredited and a target of misinformation, her murder was politically motivated.
Thanks
I did not know her story
Hypatia of Alexandria was a mathematician. She was torn to pieces by a Christian mob instigated by an early Trump-like figure called St Cyril. He hated Hypatia
a) because she was a woman,
b) because she could out argue him
c) showed him up for the fraud and liar he always was.
d) she was not a Christian
(a film was made on the subject – I have not seen it because …I take no pleasure in such things).
Thanks Mike
Concise
These are dangerous times, and thank you for FtF, for providing facts and truth, in a climate of misinformation, and speaking truth to power.
Hypatia’s story serves as a warning.
I stumbled across this area of research by accident, it explains Hypatia and current times.
I was trying to understand what’s going on, why are people voting for policies and leaders who will harm them and their children? It simply didn’t make sense.
( At the time it was written it wasn’t clear how Covid would pan out, we know now Trump got re-elected).
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2020/11/01/authoritarianism/
Being aware of these past decades of descent into blatant political corruption and inhumane depravity displayed by populist leaders in the UK and US has been emotionally gruelling. These individuals must possess no conscience. I can not fathom how they seem to never tire of attacking the vulnerable and knowingly profiting from causing the deep suffering of so many others otherwise. I am so enraged by it and therein perpetually emotionally exhausted. As I am sure are others. This consequence of their actions is no doubt one of their cruel desires. To wear other people out and grind them down. In their twisted minds they probably believe this is a mark of winning the human race.
It’s hard to read that Easter message from Trump and not feel a kind of chill. It’s not just the bitterness — it’s the joy he seems to take in being bitter. That’s what makes it so unsettling. There’s a real difference between being angry and being gleeful about causing harm, and Trump often seems to cross that line without hesitation.
What worries me more is how many people find that kind of behaviour refreshing, or even admirable. There’s something about his cruelty that gets interpreted as “strength” by some — as if empathy were a weakness to be overcome rather than a human trait to protect. It says a lot about the political culture we’ve built that this sort of messaging can still work.
Whether Trump is unwell, malicious, or simply unbothered by the consequences of his words is in some ways beside the point. The effect is the same: it coarsens everything, invites hate, and pushes politics further away from anything resembling public service.
If the UK is serious about values like democracy, decency, and human rights, it should be distancing itself from this — not courting it.
Horrible!
For an Easter message its a bit thin on spiritual content…
I include three links to recent articles that explore the theme of Trump as “chosen by God”, including one from Fox News. (caution, this article may contain nuts)
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/inside-donald-trumps-relationship-god-his-own-words
Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-suggests-anointed-by-god
& NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/opinion/trump-god-evangelicals-anointed.html
Originally, US evangelicals believed Trump was “chosen/anointed” by God to liberate America from Satan and the “liberals”, much like the pagan king Cyrus was God’s anointed to liberate Israel from captivity in Babylon. Trump didn’t need to be “righteous” or moral or Christian to be chosen in that way, so his character flaws, while regrettable, were not fatal.
But since the assassination attempt, which he says, changed him, Trump has claimed to be spiritual, to have Christian faith, so that excuse doesn’t work any more. He has to walk the talk, he is no longer a pagan Cyrus, but proclaims himself a follower of Jesus, and millions believe him to be so.
Yet around half of US evangelicals still believe him to be chosen/anointed by God. I wonder how THEY rate his Easter message?
Trump’s support is particularly strong amongst Pentecostals/Charismatics, where powerful leaders may use “prophetic” utterances to bolster his authority, and demand that their words are accepted as authoritative and true. You disagree with them at your peril.
If Trump is indeed, slipping into megalomania and mental/spiritual darkness, then I would expect to see him starting to talk about himself not just as “chosen”, but as a Messiah (or even “the” Messiah. Whether America’s evangelicals will make a further adjustment to excuse even that behaviour, remains to be seen.
They tolerated slavery and outright racism for long enough, so I suppose tolerating Trump won’t be impossible, even if he behaves more like an antichrist than an anointed one.
My prayer is that as soon as possible, Trump is able to leave the White House, peacefully, retire to Mar-a-Lago, or somewhere a bit higher above sea level, and focus on his mental health and his spiritual life. Later this week would not be too soon.
Presumably these “folk” are America’s “key voters”.
A message full of vitriol and hatred, about as un-Christian as it is possible to get, supposedly to celebrate one of the most important days in the Christian calendar.
And yet he is unquestioningly supported by America’s Evangelical Christians, who seem to have not a Christian bone in their collective bodies. I’m not religious but at least the Pope tried to practice what he preached. If there is a God, I hope the Pope is having a word with him about Trump’s loathsome gang.
And J D Vance…
I console myself with the thought that Vance doesn’t engender such adoration from MAGA supporters as Trump although he is just as nasty as the ‘chosen one’.
God knows, what anyone sees in Trump; he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Well, maybe one – advanced age.
Three if you count high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
The Easter greeting is par for the course from a convicted criminal.
that message, as vindictive as it is, uses the language of an immature dolt –
Legal commentator David Allen Green has posted in a similar vein this morning:-
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-the-trump-administrations-shock-and-awe-approach-has-resulted-in-its-litigation-being-shockingly-awful/
One expects a country’s government to look after its own interests first but I do not recall such wicked behaviour from a supposed first world country in my seventy years.
Yesterday I read excerpts from the ChatGPT answers to your questions about religion/the gospels to my wife, and then I read her Trump’s Easter message. First, she couldn’t believe the content of his message (until I showed it to her). Then we both discussed how in God’s name ANYONE who calls themselves a Christian can support Trump – but we know that millions do – because what he says and does is so far removed from anything related to the teaching of Christ than can be imagined in a million years. But then we know that the teaching of Christ are not what drives many people who are on the religious right in the US.
Personally, I’d suggest that those of a religious bent who support Trump need to seriously consider whether they haven’t put Lucifer into the White House. And on a related point, I know that there’s been chatter on X that as JD Vance was one of the last people to have an audience with the Pope maybe he poisoned him. That’s a bit far fetched, I think. More likely is that when Vance sat there grinning the Pope realised he was in the company of one of Lucifer’s disciples and the shock of that realisation – that the most powerful country in the world is now under the control of the Devil – was just too much.
I couldn’t possibly comment
Yes-but, what if we’re all wrong?
I hear the sound of victory…Haga Waka Packa, victory, victory, victory.
Ya see! It’s catching.
All of the above?
I’m not an expert in mental health but I think we’ve long seen he’s a sociopath who simply lives in his own world, where he is not just a king but a very popular one.
He’s also a vicious c*** as some of his personalised attacks have shown.
He also had a very privileged upbringing that skews his moral compass hugely.
I’ve read many opinions that he’s suffering from dementia. Could be.
But, just like his suddenly-invisible South African nazi buddy, I just have this hunch that Donald is, at best, mid-nineties IQ and is very jealous of those of us (i.e. most of the world) who are smarter than he is.
If it’s not too late to add further to the mention of Hypatia, see https://hypatia-trust.org.uk/about.
The Hypatia Trust is based in Penzance, founded in part to publicise the role of women in science.
I like that…