Trump’s most loyal supporters say he is “insane”

On Easter Sunday morning, while families across the country were gathering in churches, the President of the United States posted one of the most reckless messages any sitting president has ever published. He threatened to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges, infrastructure that 90 million civilians depend on to survive, signed the post "Praise be to Allah" to mock Islam on a Christian holy day, and used profanity in a direct threat of mass destruction. Amnesty International called it "revolting." International law experts confirmed it describes war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. He then drove to his golf course while the first American-born pope delivered an Easter message calling for peace.

Based on the events of 4-5-2026

The Breakdown:
 Trump posted a profanity-laced threat against Iran on Easter morning, threatening to destroy power plants and bridges
 He signed the threat "Praise be to Allah," mocking Islam on one of the holiest Christian holidays during Passover
 Amnesty International's secretary general called the threat "revolting" and warned of catastrophic civilian harm
 International law experts confirmed that targeting civilian infrastructure violates the Geneva Conventions
 Trump's shifting deadlines moved from 48 hours on April 4th to Tuesday, then Tuesday at 8 PM Eastern
 Trump told ABC News "If it happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country"
 He told The Hill he is not ruling out sending ground troops into Iran
 He told Fox News he is "considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil"
 Trump did not attend any of the three Easter services at St. John's Episcopal Church, the Church of the Presidents
 He instead drove to Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia on Easter morning
 Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, called for peace from St. Peter's Basilica: "Let those who have weapons lay them down"
 When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth framed the war in religious terms, Pope Leo warned the theology is dangerous and wrong
 Multiple cabinet departments posted explicitly Christian messages on official government accounts
 Senator Chris Murphy called on Cabinet members to consult constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment
 Senator Bernie Sanders called Trump's post "the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual"
 Marjorie Taylor Greene called Trump "insane," his administration "complicit," and his actions "evil"
 Former White House counsel Ty Cobb said the president is "clearly insane" and questioned why the 25th Amendment has not been invoked
 Anthony Scaramucci, former Trump Communications Director, called for his removal
 Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh posted: "25th Amendment. Now."
 The 25th Amendment trended on X for most of the day
 April 5th marks the one-year anniversary of Heather's first resistance post on Facebook

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Transcript

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I'm Heather Claney Reese, and you're listening to Hope for America, where every day I bring you the truth about our politics, our country, and the forces trying to destroy them. Together, we cut through the noise, expose the lies, and stay focused on what really matters, fighting for the survival of our country. At 8:30 in the morning, Donald Trump began his fourth consecutive day, hidden from the public view, locked inside the White House, by posting one of the most disturbing and reckless messages any sitting president has ever posted for the world to see. While so many across the country were preparing for a day centered around family reflection and renewal, the president of the United States was focused on something far more dangerous. Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the effin straight. Now he used the actual word there. You crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump, April 5th, 2026 at 8 03 AM Eastern Standard Time. That is a direct quote from the President of the United States posted on Easter Sunday morning on a day sacred to Christians during Passover in the middle of a war, he started threatening to destroy the civilian infrastructure that 90 million people depend on to survive, while using completely unhinged language that no other world leader would think to use. He is threatening power, water plants, and bridges, among other infrastructure that civilians depend on. The systems that keep hospitals running, water flowing, food distributed, and people alive. That is what he is threatening to destroy. And he signed it, praise be to Allah, using a phrase sacred to billions of Muslims to mock their faith on a threat of mass destruction and potentially unimaginable loss of life. On one of the holiest days on the Christian calendar, the Council on American Islamic Relations called it deranged mocking of Islam. There is no religion on earth that would look at that post and see anything other than a man who has no reverence for anything beyond himself. What Trump posted that morning is a threat to commit war crimes. Amnesty International's Secretary General called the threat revolting and said she was running out of language to denounce and condemn what is happening. She warned that Iranian civilians will be the first to suffer, and I quote, no heat, no electricity, no water, no capacity to move or to flee, and all that it means for their right to life. And Amnesty International has laid out in detail exactly what happens when you destroy a country's power grid. Water pumping stations stop functioning, clean water becomes scarce, hospitals lose electricity, life support machines shut down, including those for our precious babies and NICUs. Food production and distribution networks collapse and businesses close. International law experts cited by NPR and PolitiFact have confirmed that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure violates the Geneva Conventions and the protocols governing armed conflict. Politifact rated the war crimes assessment mostly true, noting that the only reason prosecution is unlikely is that neither the United States nor Iran is a member of the International Criminal Court. And the deadlines he keeps setting tell their own story. On April 4th, he posted that Iran had 48 hours, which would have been Monday. And then on Sunday, he moved it to Tuesday. And a few hours later, he narrowed it down to Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. We are recording this on Tuesday. Hours before this deadline. So what he is doing is negotiating with himself and losing every round. Iran is openly mocking him. The world is watching a man with the most powerful military on earth issue ultimatums, break them, and then reset them, and then threaten mass destruction in between. All while the country he is threatening refuses to flinch. This is not strength. This is a man spiraling in public, and his deadlines are the proof. But beyond those shifting deadlines, in phone interviews, he escalated in ways that tell the bigger picture. He is a danger to every person living on this planet. He told ABC News, if it happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country. He said very little is off limits. He told the Hill he is not ruling out sending ground troops into Iran, and he told Fox News he is considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil. This is a 79-year-old man with access to nuclear codes talking about an entire country of 90 million people as if it were a building he's decided to demolish. And what makes this day different from every other day that has felt like the worst is that all of it is happening at once, the profanity, the mocking of Islam on a threat of mass destruction, the war crimes laid out in plain language on social media, the shifting of deadlines that even Iran won't take seriously. I have shared about dangerous moments before, but I have never seen a single morning where every element, the cruelty, the instability, the blasphemy, the indifference to human life, and the complete absence of any reinforce of any restraining force around him converge like this. There is no one stopping him. And that is what I feel the most in the moment. The President of the United States did not attend a single one of the three Easter services held at St. John's Episcopal Church, the church known as Church of the Presidents, which has been attended by every president since its construction in 1816. Instead, according to pool reporters, he took a ceremoniously slow motorcade tour around Memorial Circle near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, where he wants to build an arch honoring himself. And then he stopped at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. That was on Easter morning while families across the country were gathering in churches. The president of the United States was threatening to bomb a country, driving to his golf course, and calling into Fox News for a 15-minute phone interview about his war. He didn't go to church. He went to worship himself instead. We are continuing to see the perversion of truth. The president says, does, or pretends to do one thing, and we can see what's really happening with our own eyes. And then his fixer team of wordsmiths tell us the opposite. April 4th, Trump's communication director posted on X There has never been a president who has worked harder for the American people than President Trump. On Easter weekend, he has been working nonstop in the White House and the Oval Office. God bless him. That post got 2.4 million views. And yet on Easter Sunday, Reuters photographer Nathan Howard captured Trump returning to the White House from his golf course, an odd tour of DC. In the picture, you can see Trump in his MAGA-style white cap, shuffling slowly towards the entrance, looking every one of his 79 years. He looked diminished and artificially aged. Not like a man who was sitting in the Oval Office, though, because he wasn't. He does not look like a man who has been working nonstop. He looks like a man who is not well. The communications director told us one thing, the cameras told us something completely different, and they covered the truth. And this comes after days of Trump being unusually out of public eye. We deserve to know the truth about the condition of the man who holds the power to send our children and grandchildren to war and who can launch nuclear weapons. And while our president was cursing on social media and driving to his golf course, the first American-born Pope in history was standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, delivering his first Easter message to the world. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Privost in Chicago, looked out at thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square and said something that could not have been more different from what came out of the White House that morning. Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue, not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them. He warned against what he is calling an ever-increasing globalization of indifference, borrowing the phrase from Pope Francis, who delivered his final words to the world from that same balcony exactly one year before. He said Easter's victory was won not through force but through nonviolence, through trust and sacrifice and dialogue. Earlier this week, he told journalists he hoped Trump was looking for an off-ramp. And when Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth tried to frame this war in religious terms as if God endorses bringing violence upon evildoers, Pope Leo made clear that this theology is dangerous and wrong. Trump and his enablers are trying to turn this into a religious crusade, while one of the most respected religious leaders in the world, the Pope, was warning against it. Two men, two messages on Easter morning. One called for peace, dialogue, and encounter. The other dropped an F-bomb and threatened to destroy a nation's ability to keep its hospitals running. And it wasn't just Trump's personal post. Multiple cabinet departments used their official government accounts to post explicitly Christian messages. The Associated Press noted that while previous presidents have issued Easter statements, the overall tradition has been to honor the constitutional separation of church and state. And this administration went a step further than any before, which is of the utmost importance because this country was built on the premise of freedom of religion and that separation. This country is home to many who practice different religions or no religion at all. And that too matters because the government is not supposed to elevate one belief system above all others. None of this is surprising. Because this is the same government mocking Islam in the president's own words and using official federal channels to promote Christianity. That is not religious liberty. That is state-sponsored religion. And it is exactly the kind of thing the founders wrote the First Amendment to prevent. Aside from Trump's unforgivable messages, something else happened that day. The cracks widened more than we've seen before. Democratic lawmakers responded with a level of alarm that would have been unthinkable even a few months ago. Senators Chris Murphy, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, and Tim Kaine all condemned Trump's post in explicit terms, with Murphy calling on cabinet members to consult constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment, and Sanders calling it the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Representative Becca Ballant, Yasiman Ansari, and Maxine Dexter followed with Ansari's call to invoke the 25th Amendment, shared by the verified House Oversight Democrats account. What Ballant said struck me most because it named a thing so many of us have been thinking. It is something that is such an indication to me that my Republican colleagues have accepted for themselves that there's no bottom. They will continue to support this man regardless of how unhinged and unfit he is for office. And here's where it gets even more significant, because it wasn't just Democrats saying this. Margie Taylor Green, once one of Trump's most loyal defenders before leaving Congress, posted this on X. On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshiping the president and intervene in Trump's madness. I know all of you and him, and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. She went on to say, I'm not defending Iran, but let's be honest about all of this. The strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades. She said, Our president is not a Christian, and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. And she ended with this This is not making America great again. This is evil. There are a few things I agree with Margie Taylor Green about. I don't think she's in it for the right reasons. But we do need to acknowledge that she's speaking out. Because this is the woman who once followed Trump into every fight, who built her entire political identity around loyalty to Donald Trump. And she is now calling him insane, calling his administration complicit and calling his actions evil. And when you've lost Margie Taylor Greene on the question of whether you have gone too far, you're in a category of recklessness that has no modern precedent in American politics. Ty Cobb, who served as the White House counsel during Trump's first term, said on national television that the president is clearly insane and questioned why the cabinet has not invoked the 25th Amendment. He said, given the fact that the Cabinet will not invoke the 25th Amendment for a man who is clearly insane, and then he continued, this war highlights that, and these screeds that come out nightly at 2 a.m. or 4 a.m., it highlights the level of his insanity and depravity. Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's own former White House communications director, also called for his removal. Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh posted simply, 25th Amendment now. Joe Kent, the former Trump ally who resigned from the administration in March, specifically over the Iran War, urged his followers to contact the White House and their lawmakers to oppose sending ground troops. Scott McConnell, the co-founder of the American Conservative magazine, called on Vice President J.D. Vance to announce his support for the 25th Amendment transition, appoint a bipartisan vice president, and then commit to not running in 2028. Mary Trump, the president's own niece, wrote, It's not that Donald sent this as awful as it is. It's that nobody felt they could stop him, or worse, nobody thought they should. Former White House correspondent John Harwood wrote, The 25th Amendment was written for precisely this situation. Trump cannot think clearly. He cannot function effectively as president. Unfortunately, Republican Party leaders are weak, low character people unwilling to even try acting honorably. The 25th Amendment was trending on X for most of the day and on prediction markets. The probability of it being invoked had climbed significantly since the war began. Those are not just words anymore. The people closest to this president, the people who built their careers defending him, are telling us he has lost control. That is the weight of this day. And many of us felt it in our homes. I was pouring coffee when I first saw the post that morning. I'd gotten up early to get the house ready because my youngest daughter was having friends over. In our home, Easter is about family and friends. And the first thing I saw on my phone, standing in my kitchen with a coffee pot in my hand, was the president of the United States threatening mass destruction. And my first thought before the anger and before the heartbreak was the quiet hope that maybe someone in that building had told him just to be calm, just to, just that day. You know, just give the American people one day. Because later I would see so many other people had been thinking the exact same thing. Let us wake up to peace for a day. Give us one day where the president doesn't do something cruel and dangerous. One day where we can sit with our families without checking our phones to see if he's escalated a war. One day without the knot in our stomachs. But he couldn't do that. He couldn't even give us one day. He didn't listen. You know, even if we hoped that someone would tell him that, he clearly didn't listen to them or he doesn't care, or no one told him. Because this is what he does. He takes the moments that are supposed to belong to us, our holidays, our mornings, our peace, and he fills them with chaos and cruelty until there's no room left for anything else. And our exhaustion is the strategy. He and his enablers want us too tired to react, too overwhelmed to organize, and too numb to feel the weight of what is happening all around us and to our country. And after I saw that post, I turned on the news, hoping it would be taken seriously and shared as breaking news. And it was covered to some degree, but not in any serious way. Instead, it was treated like an everyday occurrence, like the president was negotiating a normal moment of diplomacy. But what struck with me in that moment was that the news had to blur the words the president used. Much like I did, not saying the actual word he said, they had to censor the president of the United States on Easter morning because what he said was not safe for viewers to see in its entirety. And I stood there and I felt something I can only describe as heartbreak. You know, I was angry, and then it went straight to just sadness, a deep kind of pain that comes from frustration and helplessness. And then I immediately recognized the assault fatigue I was feeling from what we were all being subjected to. Because if any other president in the history of this country had posted what Donald Trump posted that day, not even taking into account the religious significance of the weekend for those who celebrate, there would have been an instant and serious question about the president's fitness for office. Emergency meetings, wall-to-wall press coverage, calls from both parties. Instead, the news blurred the words, treated it like a strategy that he had that, you know, in his infinite wisdom, and moved on to the next segment. And we absorbed it. Because what choice do we have? Because there is another moment of uncertainty and chaos coming, and we've all been conditioned to just expect it and accept it. That day also marked the one-year anniversary of when I shared my first resistance post on Facebook. And that post quickly led to these nightly posts and these videos. I wasn't a political commentator. I was a travel writer and a family blogger for nearly two decades, who was so overwhelmed by what was happening in our government that I shut down for months after he won re-election. I didn't do anything online. I retreated back into my own world in a state of paralysis. And then I randomly found myself near the hands-off protest on April 5th, 2025. I saw people carrying signs, and my daughter and I decided to follow them. It was the first rally I had ever been to in my whole entire life. Maybe since junior high. Might have gone to one then. Um, and I came home and I shared a picture of a sign to my then abandoned Facebook page that said everything I was feeling. That post reached thousands of people and reminded me that there were so many other people feeling just like I was, and that we all have a place in this resistance. Travel writers, family bloggers, doctors, union workers, world leaders, stay-at-home moms, grandparents, every single one of us has a voice and needs to use it. Because when I thought back to one of my own favorite travel writers, which was Rick Steves, and how he has spoken out and used his voice in the resistance, I understood that there is no prerequisite for speaking out against a fascist takeover. As a travel writer, I knew that my job wasn't just to share pretty places. It was to talk about the deeper histories of the places I visited, the stories underneath the scenery. And I realized that if he could use his travel platform to talk about what was happening, I could use mine to do the same. I didn't intend to turn this into what it's become. I didn't anticipate spending all day, every single day watching, researching, trying to understand the full picture of what's happening to our country. But I'm so thankful that I did. One year later, our community just keeps growing. Since then, we have launched a Substack. We have been sharing videos of my posts, like I'm doing right here on YouTube and um and Facebook and Substack. I'm sharing them everywhere. And knowing that there are others that truly care about our country and who want better for future generations is the reason I'm here today. Doing this work, documenting the fall of our 250-year experiment as a warning for the future, or what I hold to be true, writing the story of her greatest comeback. I haven't missed a single night. And your support and paid memberships have enabled me to do this full time while keeping everything free for everybody. Not a single post or video or social shares behind a paywall. Because I believe that the truth should always be free for all to read. And maybe it's time for a reminder about who I write these posts for. Who I create these videos for. Because it's not for the Trump loyalists. I'm writing them for us, for you and for me. So we never forget our way, and so that we're armed with facts and not propaganda. These posts are our resistance. They're not for them. They're meant to remind us what it means to be an American and what our obligation is not just to each other, but to the world. And most importantly, their reminder that none of this is normal. And we cannot ever let ourselves think it is. We saw a new level of recklessness from Donald Trump that I hoped we never would. His danger to not just us, but the entire world has reached a level where we truly are on the brink of something catastrophic. And as much as we might have believed there were rational minds still advising him, we have to accept that he is not going to stop unless he has stopped through the 25th Amendment or impeachment. We as citizens of the United States must come together in whatever ways we can and demand that J.D. Vance immediately invoke the 25th Amendment. At the same time, we must also demand that Congress as a whole start impeachment proceedings. It doesn't matter that Republicans hold the majority. It doesn't matter that Vance has shown no willingness to act. We have to normalize demanding both loudly and without hesitation because the alternative is accepting that no one will stop him. We are on borrowed time. We can no longer afford to wait for the midterm elections. We are the ones creating history right now. And that history may include, for the first time ever, the use of impeachment or the 25th Amendment under circumstances like these. And even though this moment has never come before, history does tell us something else in this moment. Human beings have faced impossible moments before. And we're still here. Time and time again, our ancestors faced darkness and uncertainty, and they pushed through. Each and every one of us is here because of that and them. We are survivors of struggles we will never fully understand. We just have to remember that strength and use everything we have to protect what still remains. And like those who came before us, we will get through this too. That is why I still have hope for America, and you should too. And remember, no matter how dark the days get, I will be here every single day, and we will always have hope for America. I'll see you tomorrow.