Has Trump Lost It—Or Have His Critics?

Trump’s Truth Social post on Sunday morning generated a wave of responses on X accusing him of having lost his mind, or of committing war crimes, or both.

Steven Beschloss, for example, said it was the post of a “deeply unwell man” who should be removed from power.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now. pic.twitter.com/kNM0GI4SCo

E. Michael Jones wrote that the language of the post was itself grounds for impeachment and said that “no head of state in his right mind” would talk that way.

Charles Haywood said it was starting to give off “strong Caligula vibes”.

Others pushed the criticism further, arguing that Trump’s threat to hit Iranian power plants and bridges was not just rash but criminal. Marjorie Taylor Greene said this was not what Trump promised voters in 2024, called the war unprovoked, and said Christians in the administration should be trying to stop him.

What Trump’s Critics Get Wrong

The criticism that this is some shocking deviation from what Trump campaigned on is weak.

Michael Tracey made that point in response to Greene, arguing that she was in fact getting precisely what she voted for in 2024.

He linked back to a September 2024 speech in which Trump threatened to blow Iran to “smithereens”.

We may disagree with Tracey’s use of “deranged,” but he is right on the more important point: Trump has been consistent for a long time on the central issue of not allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. The White House lists 74 examples of Trump hammering this point, from 2011 to 2026, including multiple times during the 2024 campaign, e.g.,

“Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons are the greatest single threat to our country, but to the entire world.” (11/3/24)

“I would have been very good to Iran. They — I had to have one thing, no nuclear weapons. You can’t have nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapons are the greatest danger to our country going forward, to the world going forward.” (10/29/24)

“And all I wanted was Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon … That’s all I wanted. Very simple. You can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (10/28/24)

“We don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” (10/23/24)

“I didn’t want much. I wanted Iran to be very successful. I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon.” (10/16/24)

“You can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.” (10/14/24)

“I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple.” (10/10/24)

“I only wanted one thing. You can’t have a nuclear weapon. You cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.” (10/7/24)

“No, they can’t have nukes. No, they can’t have nukes.” (10/7/24)

“They can’t have a nuclear weapon — and now they’re very close to having one and it’s very dangerous for the world, very dangerous for the world … The biggest problem today, in my opinion, the biggest risk is the nuclear weapons.” (10/1/24)

“All I want them to do is not have a nuclear weapon. They can’t have a nuclear weapon.” (9/30/24)

“The only thing is [Iran] cannot have nuclear weapons.” (9/26/24)

“I wanted one thing from Iran — no nuclear weapon. I didn’t want much — no nuclear weapon. And now they’re very close to getting it, and you can’t let that happen.” (9/19/24)

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-04-06/has-trump-lost-it-or-have-his-critics

06 April 2026

22:08 GMT

Iranian forces have conducted a series of strikes against US and Israeli targets across the region, according to Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s top joint military command.

Key operations allegedly included IRGC Navy striking the Israeli container ship SDN 7 with a cruise missile; the US amphibious assault ship LHA-7 coming under heavy fire and retreating deep into the Indian Ocean, and precision ballistic missile hits on sites in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Be’er Sheva, and Petah Tikva, and attacks on the US Al-Adairi Base in Kuwait.

“The reckless threats and baseless rhetoric of the US president, resulting from repeated military failures, will not affect the continued offensive operations of Islamic fighters against American and Israeli targets, nor erase the humiliation of the US in West Asia,” he said, as cited by Press TV.

21:53 GMT

President Trump suggested that the US could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the Strait of Hormuz – a strategy currently employed by Iran as it continues to control the key energy shipping chokepoint.

“I’d rather do that than let them have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner,” Trump said during a White House press conference earlier on Monday.

“We won, OK? They are militarily defeated. The only thing they have is the psychology of ‘oh, we’re going to drop a couple of mines in the water,’” he added.

“We have a concept where we’ll charge tolls.” However, when asked about peace agreement conditions, Trump said that any deal must include “free traffic of oil.”

21:46 GMT

European Council President Antonio Costa has warned Tehran against retaliatory attacks on regional energy infrastructure, claiming that the Iranian civilian population would be the “main victim of a widening of the military campaign.”

“After five weeks of war in the Middle East, it is clear that only a diplomatic solution will settle its root causes. Any targeting of civilian infrastructure, namely energy facilities, is illegal and unacceptable,” he said, without mentioning the ongoing US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

“As I stressed in my recent call with the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, the European Union urges Iran to immediately put an end to its attacks against countries in the region and to allow for the reestablishment of full freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz,” he added.

They Lied to You About AI (This Study Proves It)

Vishal Sikka, former Infosys CEO, Oracle board member, and Stanford PhD who studied under John McCarthy (the man who coined "artificial intelligence"), together with his son, published a paper proving fundamental limits of current AI agents and LLMs.

Using settled computational complexity theory from the 1960s, they show why transformer-based models hit a hard ceiling on computation per token due to self-attention, why hallucinations are mathematically unavoidable for certain tasks, and what this means for agentic AI in 2026.

Covers: fixed compute budget per response, solving vs verifying problems, Time Hierarchy Theorem implications, why longer agent chains compound errors, and the gap between hype and architecture reality.

Paper: "Hallucination Stations: On Some Basic Limitations of Transformer-Based Language Models" by Vishal Sikka & Varin Sikka

Keywords: AI agent limits 2026, LLM computational ceiling, transformer architecture constraints, why AI agents hallucinate, autonomous AI reliability, Vishal Sikka AI paper, AGI promises vs reality

https://youtu.be/AIYQp1n51ZI

Iran’s roads and urban development minister, Farzaneh Sadegh, has reportedly inspected the damaged B1 bridge in Karaj following US and Israeli strikes last week. She stated that attacks the “enemy” claimed were meant “to help the Iranian people” instead hit vital infrastructure used by ordinary citizens every day.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2041226536041197926

Middle East is ‘on fire’ – Kremlin

Russia had warned about the “dangerous” consequences of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

The US-Israeli war against Iran has set the Middle East “on fire,” reflecting Russia’s warning about the dangerous consequences of the move, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

On Sunday, US President Donald Trump escalated the tensions by issuing an expletive-laden demand to Tehran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, which has remained effectively shut since the conflict began on February 28.

“Open the f**king strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell,” he wrote on social media, threatening to demolish the Iranian power plants and bridges if it doesn’t happen by Tuesday. Tehran maintains that the key waterway is only closed for oil shipments by the US and its allies.

When asked by journalists about Trump’s rant on Monday, Peskov said that “we have seen those statements, but we prefer not to comment on them.”

The spokesman stressed that “tensions continue to escalate, with basically the entire region on fire.”

“These are all dangerous and very negative consequences of the aggression unleashed against Iran. The geography of the conflict has expanded, and now we see the results, including the very negative repercussions for the global economy,” he said.

Over the past month, Iran has been responding to strikes by Washington and West Jerusalem by hitting Israel and the Gulf States, who are allied with the US, with missiles and drones. The IDF has also launched a military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the Iraqi militias have attacked American bases in their country and the Houthis in Yemen have targeted Israel with explosive-laden UAVs.

The war has also triggered a global energy shock, sending oil and gas prices surging and pushing fuel costs higher for consumers worldwide.

Russia had “warned from the start that such consequences were inevitable,” Peskov added.

Axios said on Sunday that the US, Iran, and regional mediators have been discussing terms for a potential 45-day ceasefire in the conflict. Tehran has denied holding any talks with Washington.

https://www.rt.com/news/637471-iran-us-israel-peskov/

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ROTHSCHILD WORLD ORDER

"NOT ALL CONSPIRACIES ARE THEORIES"

There is a plan for the world - a New World Order - devised by a British/American/European financial elite of immense wealth and power, with centuries-old historical roots.

This oligarchy controls the politicians, the courts, the educational institutions, the food, the natural resources, the foreign policies, the economies and the money of most nations. And, they control the major media, which is why we know nothing about them.

Modern democracy, as we know it, is less than 250 years old. For most of history, except for this brief period, the world has been ruled by powerful elites who wielded absolute power over their societies, controlled the wealth and resources of their known world, and dominated their people by force. The New World Order cabal plans to restore this model of totalitarian rule on a global scale.

The endgame will be a one-world government presiding over the earth for the benefit of global oligarchs and their superclass functionaries, leaving the mass of humanity as serfs, to serve the elite, while suffering impoverishment and immiseration. The plan includes scientifically engineered global population reduction (viruses/vaccines/genetically-modified food), cutting the world's population to less than one billion, leaving the earth's resources for the exclusive use of this global oligarchy.

This conspiracy to impose a global totalitarian society has been shrouded in almost total secrecy. To begin to understand the elite's endgame, we must learn about the plan's origins and development, and about the individuals, organizations, and institutions that fund, control, and benefit from it. This website may be a helpful guide on a journey to discover what the global elite have in store for future generations.

"We are ruled, though it may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure, largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financial system, extended their influence over the political system, the educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks and other institutions which shape and change the course of society and modern human history."

Andrew Gavin Marshall

"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either"

columnist Edward Zehr

"The master planners devised the strategy of a merger - a Great Merger - among nations.

But before such a merger can be consummated, and the United States becomes just another province in a New World Order, there must at least be the semblance of parity among the senior partners in the deal. How does one make the nations of the world more nearly equal? The Insiders determined that a two-prong approach was needed; use American money and know-how to build up your competitors, while at the same time use every devious strategy you can devise to weaken and impoverish this country. The goal is not to bankrupt the United States. Rather, it is to reduce our productive might, and therefore our standard of living, to the meager subsistence level of the socialized nations of the world.

The plan is not to bring the standard of living in less developed countries up to our level, but to bring ours down to meet theirs coming up… It is your standard of living which must be sacrificed on the altar of the New World Order."

Gary Allen in his book "The Rockefeller File"

"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."

Carroll Quigley in his book "Tragedy and Hope"

Chris Pratt from his movie "Deception"

https://www.realworldorder.net/

His Majesty's head-chopper: Syria's MI6-backed president bows to King Charles

Ahmed al-Sharaa's Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria.

When Syria's "interim" leader Ahmed al-Sharaa touched down in London on March 31, he was given a much warmer welcome than many once thought possible. As the longtime leader of Syria's Al-Qaeda branch, the US had been offering a $10 million bounty for information on his location just 15 months prior. Yet here was Al-Sharaa, proudly posing for photo ops with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

British intelligence had been working towards this day for almost two decades. The path for al-Sharaa's rule was cleared by MI6 after years of mentoring under Jonathan Powell, who now serves as National Security Advisor to Starmer. The time had come for Britain to formally anoint its Syrian puppet.

The ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz's closure, were reportedly at the top of Starmer and al-Sharaa's agenda. The British premier praised his counterpart's supposed success in battling ISIS, while al-Sharaa thanked London for its assistance in pushing for sanctions on Syria's ruined economy to be lifted. The pair have enjoyed warm relations since al-Sharaa's seizure of power in December 2024, which Starmer publicly celebrated as a golden opportunity for London to "play a more present and consistent role throughout the region."

Ever since, the British have systematically steered Damascus' self-appointed government towards recognition and welcome by Western states. In May 2025, as al-Sharaa's death squads massacred Alawites and other ethnic and religious minorities, US President Donald Trump received his Syrian counterpart in the oval office, where he gifted him a bottle of Trump-branded cologne. The BBC acknowledged this development would have been "unthinkable just months ago."

Al-Sharaa took the next steps in January 2026, when he signed an unpopular US-brokered accord with Israel, which former Syrian President Bashar Assad had steadfastly refused to endorse for decades.

The impacts of the deal were immediately visible. As Al-Sharaa's forces swept through Kurdish territory in north east Syria, the Kurds' erstwhile Israeli backers refused to intervene, and US envoy Tom Barrack publicly declared that the American partnership with the Kurds had "expired."

Within weeks, al-Sharaa's forces wrested control of the country's wheat and oil-producing areas, which had been under US-led occupation for years. Though Syria and Israel have yet to formally normalize relations, al-Sharaa describes relations between the countries as "good." Today, Syria's airspace and ground territory is routinely used by Israel and its Western sponsors to wage war on Iran.

Though the rapid transition took many by surprise, the campaign to re-establish Western control over Syria was actually set in motion years ago.

https://www.sott.net/article/505541-His-Majestys-head-chopper-Syrias-MI6-backed-president-bows-to-King-Charles

SNL cast member tries to explain her way out of getting fired from summer camp over pantsing 6-year-old boy, exposing his 'ding-a-ling'

"And so we were on a hike, and I was like, hey, Ollie, go look over there. It’s a hawk. And then I yanked his pants down. He wasn’t wearing underwear. His little ding-a-ling was out."

A recent video from Vanity Fair featuring cast members from Saturday Night Live showed one of the members, Chloe Fineman, attempting to explain how she got fired from being a summer camp counselor as a teenager for pantsing a 6-year-old boy, resulting in the boy’s privates being displayed.

In the video, titled "SNL Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other," Fineman asked her co-stars to guess what job she was fired from and later rehired. Revealing the answer, Fineman said, "I was fired as a camp counselor," she said, later adding, "I pantsed a boy."

One of her co-stars chimed in, "Oh honey, I think you’re on a list." Fineman said that the 6-year-old boy "wasn’t wearing underpants, and then a giant school bus drove by."

She said the young child "would lift my shirt all the time," and attempted to explain it off by saying, "it was a different time." She said, "he would be like, hey can I have a hug? And I’d go to hug him, and he’d, like, lift my shirt like a d*ck. And then I was like, I’m gonna get back at you."

"And so we were on a hike, and I was like, hey, Ollie, go look over there. It’s a hawk. And then I yanked his pants down. He wasn’t wearing underwear. His little ding-a-ling was out. And then these two twins were like, Ollie, I didn’t know you didn’t wear underwear. And then I was fired."

Vanity Fair appeared to have edited the video, cutting out parts of Fineman’s comments, including that the young boy was not wearing underwear, saying what age the boy was, that his "ding-a-ling" was exposed, and reactions from her cast members.

https://thepostmillennial.com/snl-cast-member-tries-to-explain-her-way-out-of-getting-fired-from-summer-camp-over-pantsing-6-year-old-boy-exposing-his-ding-a-ling

UK in Turmoil Over Kanye West Headlining Music Festival – Brands Are Withdrawing Sponsorships, and Home Office Wants to BAN Him

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp MP has written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to block rapper Kanye West from entering the UK ahead of Wireless Festival, over historic antisemitic comments.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2041117037980786748