Larry Johnson is reporting "shocking details of what is going on behind the scene at the White House [where] Donald Trump began exhibiting signs of early dementia in September 2025… He frequently confabulates, he routinely loses his temper and unleashes screaming rants, and he is incapable of doing critical thinking. [As a result] Trump's senior White House staff are behaving like children with an abusive, drug-addled father… i.e., they walk on egg shells fearful of saying anything that might ignite Trump's rage."

And the American public is beginning to pick up on the dysfunction. A broad understanding is developing among voters that the war against Iran undeniably has nothing to do with actual American national or security interests and has been covered by a tissue of scarcely credible lies and dissimulations to conceal the truth. This wide divide between truth and fiction has become clear to nearly everyone. And the actual source of the war, which is enabling and "helping" Israel to destroy Iran, has become increasingly evident to the public as well, as has the reality that the brutal war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controls both Trump and most of the US Congress.

Beyond his mental breakdown, Trump's foreign and domestic policies are characterized by their belligerency, full of threats directed against imaginary enemies, friends and allies unwilling to go to war for nothing, and anyone in the media or among the public who dares to criticize what comes out of the White House. That means that Trump is not only crazy he is a dangerous psychopath in his preferred interaction with political and social developments that he is supposed to be examining rationally to benefit the United States and the American people.

So what we Americans get is wars plus killing of fishermen in international waters as well as abductions and assassination of foreign politicians and even bombing school girls for no reasons at all. When he is on a roll, Trump is full of threats to "obliterate" foreign countries, and includes unconscionable diatribes against folks like the Roman Catholic Pope Leo for daring to ask for an end to wars and to seek peaceful coexistence among nations. After Trump posted an Artificial Intelligence picture of himself as Jesus, the Pope argued "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth." Trump responded by taking aim at the Pope on Truth Social with "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela… and I don't want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do… If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo's Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me…Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician."

The attack on the Pope was followed by a summoning of the Vatican's Washington based diplomatic top representative in the US Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon where he received a "bitter lecture" and warning that lest the Pope behaves there will be retaliation employing the superior military might of the United States. In January Pierre had been warned that the United States has the military power to do "whatever it wants" and that Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, "better take its side" over US interference in Latin America. Interestingly, on the night following Pierre's Pentagon visit there was a bomb threat directed against the Pope's brother in Illinois, perhaps intended to send a message! The good side of that Trumpean rant and the hateful behavior of his supporters, which has produced outrage not only among Catholics, might well be that Trump will lose his majority in Congress and could even be impeached, hopefully successfully this time around.

Trump is also outraging America's former loyal allies in NATO. One might argue reasonably that NATO has outlived its relevance but that is not the argument Trump is making. He wants NATO to fully support his illegal war of aggression in Iran and also ignore Israel's war crime of genocide in Gaza. Spain was the first country to deny use of its NATO airbases and its airspace to US warplanes transiting to attack Iran. England, the most loyal lapdog of all, has also turned non-cooperative with Prime Minister Keir Starmer denying use of British airbases in both the UK and Cyprus and declaring that he has had enough of Trump.