On Easter, Trump posted to his favorite social media site a threat to take place on Tuesday. He said he was going to bomb Iran’s infrastructure, and he threw in a cute little “Praise Allah” for good measure. Real asshole behavior, especially on Easter.

Today is Tuesday, and Trump started the day with threatening open genocide and more war crimes. Destroying infrastructure that primarily hurts civilians and non-combatants is a war crime, after all. Trump’s exact words: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

For a little while today, I wondered if that meant he was going to nuke Iran. He’s always wanted to use nukes, and has openly said that we should use them. Would people be stupid enough to do it if he told them to? How bad could this get?

Thankfully, predictably, Trump backed down and extended his threat out 2 weeks. Terms have been floating around that the Strait of Hormuz will open, and Iran and Oman will split $2M per ship through the strait.

The best case scenario now is that the deal goes through, which is abysmal but better than the end of the world. A few weeks ago, the Strait of Hormuz was international waters, free for all to use. Now it belongs to Iran. The US spent the lives of good servicemen, billions of dollars, and gained absolutely nothing.

Trump Always Chickens Out. In this case… good!

It should be clear to everyone that Trump should not be President. He has made things worse. Even Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Alex Jones spoke out against Trump today. Trump’s crazier than the craziest people.

A Texas republican publicly spoke out against Trump’s threat of genocide. That’s good. Some number of Democrats called for Trump’s removal, either through impeachment or through the 25th Amendment.

Some buzz on social media around the 25th Amendment was that it’s harder than impeachment, since impeachment just requires a majority of the House and then 2/3 of Senate. The 25th requires the VP, members of the cabinet, 67 votes from the Senate, a 4 leaf clover, and maybe a doctor’s note or something. I’m making a little bit of a joke of it, but the point is that it is harder to remove the president via the 25th Amendment.

I didn’t see people talking about the different requirement for the 25th versus impeachment. Impeachment is generally a legal case. The target of impeachment did some illegal thing, The House acts as a grand jury, and then the trial takes place in the Senate. It’s a legal proceeding, whereas the 25th is about whether or not the President is fit hold office, both physically and mentally.

Things Trump has said make me believe that he is not fit for office, so the 25th probably applies. As for impeachment, is it legal for the President to threaten genocide? Is it legal for him to usurp the powers of the purse and the war powers from Congress and do what he’s done in Venezuela and Iran?

This Congress is the least capable legislative body in our history. And if they don’t do something after what happened today, it will continue to show Trump that he can do whatever he wants, because the government body that is supposed to provide checks and balances is unwilling to rein him in, even when he does the unforgiveable.