Unfit for Office
Trump has always been incompetent.
In the midst of what should have been good faith negotiations with Iran, Donald Trump decided it was time to launch a surprise attack. He assassinated the 85-year-old Supreme Leader. A US Tomahawk missile destroyed a girls’ elementary school in Minab. At least 175 people died, most of them children. The US military called it a targeting mistake.
There is no such thing as a targeting mistake when you started the war.
Trump has never been in a fight. Not a real one. Those who have know something he doesn’t: the first casualty of any engagement is your plan. You don’t get to control what happens after you throw the first punch. You only get to decide whether to throw it.
He threw it anyway. Because that’s what he does. When the walls close in, he breaks something. The louder the crash, the better.
Trump’s life has been a long series of cons that made the wealthy realize they could play him like a fiddle. He is a senile malignant narcissist watching the empire crumble while lying about his part in that collapse.
On January 30, 2026, the Department of Justice released 3.5 million pages of Epstein documents, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos. The files included pornography. Names fell like dominoes — executives, politicians, academics, royals. Congress was reviewing unredacted files. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi. A CNN poll found nearly half of Americans believed Trump was actively covering up Epstein’s crimes.
Twenty-nine days later, he lit the Middle East on fire.
The official justification was that Iran was about to go nuclear. Trump claimed at the State of the Union — four days before the attack — that Iran had restarted its weapons program. The IAEA said otherwise. They found no evidence of an organized nuclear weapons program. None. And the attack itself was launched during active negotiations between Iran and the US — a fact the administration never adequately explained. It didn’t need to. The explanations kept changing anyway: nukes, missiles, proxies, oil, regime change. Pick one. Pick all of them. The story was never the point.
He didn’t need a reason. He needed noise.
None of this is new. None of it is hidden.
Trump has been unfit for public office since before he held any. The impulsivity is documented. The criminality is adjudicated — 34 felony counts, guilty on all of them, a conviction that still stands. The meanness is on tape, on Truth Social, in the public record going back decades. He is not a complicated man. He is a simple one — a bully with money who found a country willing to mistake cruelty for strength.
And yet here we are.
He retains the presidency not because Americans don’t see it. Most do. He retains it because the systems designed to stop a man like him were built by men who couldn’t imagine a man like him — or who could, and quietly approved. The Senate that could have removed him didn’t — twice. The Supreme Court handed him immunity, ruling in a 6-3 decision that a president is entitled to absolute immunity for official acts — what Justice Sotomayor called making the president “a king above the law.” The party that should have rejected him bent the knee and called it strategy.
To understand how we got here, follow the money. You always follow the money.
Just 300 billionaires poured an unprecedented $3 billion into the 2024 election — nearly one-fifth of all spending. Elon Musk alone contributed over $250 million. Miriam Adelson and Timothy Mellon each topped $100 million. Trump has since appointed more than a dozen billionaires to administration positions. The transaction was not subtle. It was not meant to be.
Trump does not hold power alone. He holds it because power was handed to him — by billionaires who saw in his chaos a useful shield for their own accumulation, by a Supreme Court that granted him immunity from consequence, by a Congress that traded its oversight function for committee assignments and campaign checks, by an executive apparatus that learned quickly that loyalty to one man was safer than loyalty to the Constitution.
This is not dysfunction. This is the system working as purchased.
The billionaire class did not back Trump despite his instability. They backed him because of it. An impulsive, incurious man in the Oval Office is the best friend money ever had. He doesn’t read the legislation. He doesn’t ask where the bodies are buried. He signs what’s put in front of him and takes credit for the weather. While the country watches the fireworks — the tweets, the tantrums, the wars — the transfer continues. Wealth upward. Risk downward. Always.
The three branches of government were designed as a check on exactly this. They are not checking anything. The Supreme Court made the president a king. The Senate made itself a rubber stamp. The House performs outrage for the cameras and does nothing. The separation of powers is a civics lesson that no longer describes a living reality.
Empires do not fall from the outside in. They rot from the inside out. The barbarians don’t breach the gates — they walk through them, because the men who were supposed to be guarding the gates sold the keys.
We are watching that happen. In real time. One targeting mistake at a time.
Published at dyingempire.org
Rot from the inside out, indeed.
The five-time draft dodger is sending other people's sons and daughters into his ego war. When they come home in coffins, he disgraces them by advertising his merch.
He's demolishing our institutions. He's deranged, desperate and dangerous. The people of Hungary have shown how to get rid of tyrants. Time for the American people to do the same.