Trump’s Easter Sunday Morning Message, so “Heartwarming”
The quotes have been confirmed…
On Easter Sunday morning — Christianity’s holiest day — the President of the United States woke up and posted this on social media:
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Read that again. Slowly. Let every word land.
That is not a statement from a stable, serious leader of the most powerful nation on Earth. That is a profanity-laced, war crime threat — signed with full name and title — posted on Easter morning, capped off with a religious flourish from Islam that, given the context of threatening to annihilate a Muslim nation’s civilian infrastructure, can only be described as contemptuous and deeply offensive.
This is who is in charge of American foreign policy. This is who controls the nuclear codes.
Let’s be precise about what “Power Plant Day” and “Bridge Day” actually mean.
A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that attacking such infrastructure is banned under international law, noting that even if specific civilian infrastructure qualified as a military objective, an attack would still be prohibited if it risks excessive incidental civilian harm.
Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called it a “textbook war crime.” Legal scholars, military law professors, and international analysts have said the same. Rachel VanLandingham, a Southwestern Law School professor who served as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Air Force, warned that civilians are likely to die if power is cut to hospitals and water treatment plants.
And Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard put it simply: “Iranian civilians will be the first to suffer from the destruction of power plants and bridges. No heat, no electricity, no water, no capacity to move or to flee, and all that it means for their right to life.”
This is what Trump is threatening. Not military targets. Civilian survival infrastructure. The same category of strikes the United States has condemned Russia for carrying out against Ukraine for years.
And he didn’t stop there.
At a White House press conference the following day, Trump doubled down: “Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again. I mean complete demolition by 12 o’clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to.”
When asked directly whether he was concerned that strikes on civilian infrastructure would amount to war crimes under international law, Trump said he wasn’t worried.
He is not worried about committing war crimes. The President of the United States said that out loud, to reporters, on the record.
Now let’s talk about the context in which this is happening.
Trump has flip-flopped on his messaging for days — demanding Iran open the strait, then telling allies it’s up to them to open it, then threatening annihilation. His position on the war constantly shifts, and it appears he has started a war that he has no idea how to end despite being desperate to do so.
The new goal of freeing traffic in the Strait of Hormuz leaves the Iranians rather than the U.S. in control of the terms of declaring victory. In other words, Trump started a war, has no exit strategy, and is now threatening to commit internationally recognized war crimes — against civilian populations — to save face.
Every time an American diplomat raises Russian atrocities in Ukraine, or Chinese threats to Taiwan, they will now be met with a single retort: Remember Iran? Trump has handed that argument to every authoritarian government on the planet, permanently.
And the “Praise be to Allah” sign-off?
Even Tucker Carlson — who campaigned for Trump in 2024 — ripped into the president over the Easter post, criticizing it as mockery of religion.
Two of the world’s most recognizable Christian leaders used their Easter messages to call for an end to the war in Iran. In his first Easter Mass at the Vatican, Pope Leo urged: “Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace!”
The Pope called for peace on Easter. Trump threatened to obliterate civilian power grids and ended the post with a religious taunt.
Hours after his profanity-laced tirade, perhaps realizing the optics, the White House posted a video of an artist painting an image of Jesus Christ. The same administration. The same Easter morning. A war crime threat followed by a Jesus painting. No self-awareness. No shame.
This man is not playing chess. He is not executing a sophisticated geopolitical strategy. He is a cornered, flailing president who started a war he has no plan to finish, whose approval rating is cratering, whose allies have abandoned him, and who is now threatening to destroy the drinking water and electricity of millions of civilians — on Easter Sunday — because he cannot figure out how to get out of the box canyon he triumphantly galloped into.
American troops are in harm’s way. Gas prices are spiking. The global economy is destabilizing. And the Commander in Chief is posting unhinged war crime threats between watching cable news and showing reporters photos of his ballroom.
This is the emergency. It is happening right now. And the people with the constitutional authority to stop it are doing nothing.
