Bulwark Takes - Trump’s Easter Post Has Lawmakers Questioning His Sanity

Episode Date: April 5, 2026

Tim Miller takes on Donald Trump’s Easter morning threats to bomb Iran’s bridges, power grid, and energy infrastructure—and his claim he could “blow everything up” if a deal isn’t reached.

Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the bulwark here. Happy Easter, Hoppy Easter. For those of you who watched my stream last week, you can still go watch the tape if you haven't yet. I bimbified myself to answer the poll question. My daughter was very happy that the Easter bunny came this morning. So I appreciate the poll feedback on whether the Easter bunny should come or not, if you get my drift. She's a happy girl this morning. Hopped up on sugar.

I wanted to run through some news items because there's just too much out there to ignore for the morning. Obviously, we're going to focus on the deranged, deranged Easter morning post from the president of the United States. I do just want to highlight the good news from the ex-fill of the airman who was shot down over Iran. It's going to make for a crazy movie someday. Apparently, we managed to build an air strip inside Iran. the pilot evaded capture for, I believe, something around five miles. He climbed a mountain, activated his homing beacon. U.S. forces had to fire on a bunch of Iranian forces that were chasing him, tracking him.

Then we got them out. There were some problems getting them out. We end up having to set a second group in. they exfiltrated him. We'd blow up our own equipment, which is pretty expensive. But thank God, the airmen is alive. More from this from Hurtling on just how complicated a plan like this is

in the next 24 hours. But I did want to mention it before we got to the dark parts of the news. So Trump this morning posts on social media, Donald Trump bleats this. Tuesday will be. power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise B to Allah, President Donald Trump. There's a lot of people who did not believe it was real initially for good reason, because it is insane.

Chris Murphy Center from Connecticut posted that's 25th Amendment proceedings should be beginning as a result of this tweet. in case there are any questions about, you know, lucidity, whether somebody took his phone. The president talked to Trey Yankst at Fox News as well on the phone. I want to play a little bit of Trey describing what happened on his phone call with the president. I just spoke with President Trump for 15 minutes. He gave me some new details on the negotiations behind the scenes with the Iranians. And what's going to happen if Iran does not make a good faith deal? The president tells me if they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.

The president went on to say you're going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country. Now, I asked him about the possibility of an agreement with the Iranians. He says those who are negotiating on behalf of Iran have been granted amnesty at this time so they can continue the talks. And the president tells me he thinks he'll be able to get a deal by tomorrow. He says, I think there's a good chance tomorrow. They're negotiating now. You can hear he reiterated the plan to bomb Iran to hell, bomb their energy production facilities, bomb bridges, make a country of 90-some-odd million people uninhabitable. That's the plan that the president is pushing forth.

It's truly deranged, obviously, for a number of reasons. You know, in 2022, it was the United States that was talking about how. how Russia's targeting of energy grids in Ukraine was a war crime. I'm going to pull up this story. Pentagon on Wednesday slammed Russia's barrage of missile strikes across Ukrainian cities and said that Moscow is deliberate targeting of energy infrastructure is a war crime. This was Mark Millie commenting about this in 2022. The deliberate targeting of civilian power grid causing excessive collateral damage

and unnecessary suffering on the civilian population is a war crime. So this is the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs just. about three and a half years ago now, talking about how the thing that our current president is planning to do is a war crime. So if we go forward with this, the United States will have officially, if it had not already happened, become Russia, become the ones that do not care about international law are happy to commit war crimes. The other elements to this obviously are like in addition to, even if you are in the Pete Hegseth camp of thinking war crimes are cool, like the results of this, who the hell knows?

Even if Iran was to come to the table. And Trump says there, I don't know why we believe him, but he says that he thinks he might be able to get a deal, even if he is to get a deal, if it comes after an attack of that nature. And what you're going to do is create untold numbers of refugees, the refugee crisis spilling out into your, Europe into other parts of the Middle East.

Terror attacks, you know, coming back on us, certainly. The possibility of that would be increased. The risk of that would be increased. Retaliation, retaliatory attacks. And we're already seeing Iran make these kinds of attacks on the infrastructure of other countries. Qatar's water salination plant was attacked last night. Bahrain had an energy facility that was hit.

So the potential for this to just spiral in ways that are that are unpredictable but horrifying is pretty large. The president goes forward with us. We should mention that he has made this threat several times already. We're now in our, I think, fourth 48-hour period. I did a video yesterday with Sarah where he was threatening 48 hours. just some quick math though that would have taken us to Monday so now he's kind of extended the deadline another 24 hours so you know who knows maybe this is empty threats um but you know i i think that the scale of the alarm is real uh and the potential for Donald Trump to feel backed into a corner and forced to do something like this I think it's pretty high and you know I

Again, the fact that we rescued these pilots that were down to Iran is such an amazing story and such a tribute to our military and the skilled people that are on the operation side of our Department of War. The problem is not on the operation side. We obviously have a very capable military. Unfortunately, they're led by clowns and buffets. And so you get concerned that Trump sees something as successful as this. mission to, you know, get the airman out of Iran. And that emboldens him again, like the Venezuelan op emboldened him to say, hey, okay, well, shit, we can go try more stuff. Maybe we can go into Ishfahan to, you know, get the facile material, right? Like, who knows exactly what comes next? But I do think

that there is an emboldening element to this. One other thing I do want to mention, I don't, this is not conspiracy land. If you, if you are, following a content creator or a YouTube feed that was giving you, is Trump dead content over the past four days? You should think twice about where you're getting your information. Okay, Donald Trump is not dead. He's an old man, though. And we're in the middle of war.

That's pretty noteworthy that they called a lid yesterday on public statements at 11 a.m. And Trump hasn't been in public since midweek. I mean, we're taping this right now Sunday morning. You know, maybe we'll see him out today. He's such a faithful Christian. I'm sure we'll see him at Easter Mass, right? Won't we see him at Easter Mass? We'll see.

That'll be an interesting thing to wonder. Will Trump have, did Trump go to Easter Mass this morning? So, you know, maybe we'll see him. But there is, I think, reason to, you know, wonder about the mental status of a president who is not making, who is often out a lot, by the way, and now is not making statements in public. He's doing phone calls for, you know, three, four days at a time. And he's posting to a social media feed just absolutely wheels off lunacy about sending Iran back to hell for an objective that's still unclear.

Like, why would we do that? Like the objective, I guess, for sending them back to hell is opening the straight. That's what he says. The objective now is open the straight or we're going to send you back to hell, you're fucking lunatic. It's the president's statement. It's like, well, the straight opening wasn't even part of the, one of the goals a week or two ago. Like, we were just totally moving the goalposts all over the place. I thought the only point here was to eliminate their ICBMs and eliminate their Navy and their Air Force and go after their nuclear capabilities.

Like, now they have to open the straight. So, like, you don't know what he's doing. He's making apocalyptic threats and he's not out in public. That's a pretty concerning. combination for me. Last thing is just worth mentioning about his post this morning, the ending with praise be to Allah.

I can understand why some on the right like that. It's a troll. It's obviously a troll. And the Iranians have been trolling us. They've been doing the little Lego motion videos, making fun of Trump and Hegsef. And so it's a trollback insulting their faith and their religion.

And he's basically saying, kind of, hey, we're going to bomb the fuck out of you. Praise be to Allah, good luck in the afterlife. And I think that it is gross and inappropriate for a president of a pluralistic society with a lot of Muslims in this country, peaceful Muslims live in this country. I don't know that their faith needs to be part of a troll that our president is doing against the Iranians as part of the war of joints that he started. I don't think that that's right.

I think that's a wrong message to a lot of people who are Americans in this country. And then also, as I just mentioned earlier, I just think it increases the risks of retaliation. It's the type of thing that radicalizes somebody. And also, it's not really in the Easter spirit, I guess I should just say. So that's that. We'll keep an eye on all this. I'm going to go out to the Easter parade here in New Orleans. with my daughter. So we'll see what the news brings. If there's something that we need to talk

about, we'll be back Sunday evening. And if not, I'll see you back here tomorrow with Bill Crystal. I appreciate you all very much. Happy Easter. Peace. We'll see y'all soon. Subscribe to the feed.