Zeteo political correspondent Asawin Suebsaeng says a U.S. president bragging about mass-killing other nation’s populations and idly discussing demolishing a whole island “just for fun” is not okay.
The Trump administration is doing it its ‘best Ted Bundy impersonation,’ said Suebsaeng, citing President Donald Trump saying “We totally demolished Kharg Island, but we may hit it a few more times just for fun” to NBC News on Saturday in reference to his recent bombing of Iran’s oil-export hub.
“The prosecution of Trump’s war has been a massive, blood-caked scandal and crime,” said Suebsaeng. “Beyond the moral and practical abomination of the operation, the president and ruling party dove backwards into this without even the appearance of a clear mission or plan, and tried to sell the American people a pack of lies to justify the war. And as the bodies pile up, the White House is propagandizing about carnage as if it were nothing but a violent, nihilistic video game. The casual talk of mass-death and the meme-ification of a regional bloodbath underscore the advanced depravity that drives Trump administration policies, at home and abroad.”
And, yes, Trump indeed quoted the Zodiac Killer, who famously said “I like killing people because it is so much fun.” But it’s not just “one Mad King doing Mad King brain-rot,” warned Suebsaeng. His advisers are happy to join the “fun.”
“Death and destruction from the sky all day long,” former Fox host and current defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said at a March press briefing early this month. He also said Friday that he would allow “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” in what Suebsaeng considered “an apparent call to violate international law so that Americans may slaughter more freely.”
Even former House speaker and Trump advisor Newt Gingrich got in on the violence, posting on X that “Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck (strait of Hormuz) forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks.”
“To be fair, what Gingrich is proposing would less resemble serial-killing, and more closely resemble mass murder,” said Suebsaeng, “but tomato-toMurder, as the idiom goes.”
“To get serious again for a moment: the fate of the world is very much on the line, and the morally vacant gang running the US government and its blundering, ‘Fox-and-Friends’-ified war machine is waging its military onslaught as if it were directing a crudely improvised snuff film. It is easy to get numb to Team Trump’s artery-spray of corruption and bloodlust,” Suebsaeng added. “Don’t. None of this is okay.”
