It seems that the ‘J’ in Donald J Trump may have been hiding a sacred revelation.
Posted at his Truth Social media platform, the President has now self-elevated himself to no less a figure than Jesus.
Beatifically cloaked, with ‘healing hands’ extended out to his suffering supplicants, we see not just the rapid promotion from posturing POTUS to proxy Pope - whom he has just excoriated by presidential bull - but to the manifestation of our very saviour here on troubled earth.
The visitation of death, destruction and fear across Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, Lebanon, the wider Middle East and the rest our affected planet by this latter-day ‘Jesus’ comes, of course, with no sense of Christian remorse, self-confession or due contrition.
Why would we earthly mortals expect any such mea culpa, or humble repentance, from a heavenly-sent president?
Trump’s ‘ascension’ from delusional psychopath and malignant narcissist to self-anointed Jesus marks confirmation not just of his own political end days, but of the potential end times he and his dark disciples could yet unleash on the world.
Taking us to the brink of Armageddon, the gathering fear is that, humiliated and defeated over his staggering miscalculation on Iran, Trump could lead us inexorably towards some terrifying nuclear wipeout as a last, face-saving ‘holy intervention’.
Head ‘apostle’ Pete Hegseth has also been proclaiming ‘heavenly direction’ in his Trumpian edict to bring down ‘God’s retribution’ on the 5000-year-old civilisation of Iran.
Joined at the ‘master’s table’ - in the war-planning room - has been the great angel of death himself, Netanyahu, still, remarkably, managing to evade arrest by committing even more genocidal crimes.
It was here in the Situation Room, no less, that we learned how Trump took the US to war, and of Netanyahu's his own fervent mission to ‘save Iran’ by bombing every part of it to bits. Sitting directly opposite the president like an equal within the inner war sanctum, Netanyahu had been specially ushered in to pitch his military proposals to Trump, all calculatingly presented and handed down as emergency measures from ‘Mount Mossad’.
Duly approved by Trump, and still ultimately backed by notable waverers in the room, we also learn that all such US warmongering information on Iran, and much more, is being dutifully passed back from the Trump circle to Netanyahu. Such is the deep, direct and shared extent of criminal responsibility.
How alarming to think that this cabal of crazies are sitting at the ‘heavenly heights’ of power, issuing such deathly directives in the name of God.
Iran has also duly defended the Pope over Trump’s attacks on him, and condemned his blasphemous bombast. And, indeed, what chasms separate Trump’s circle of vulgarity from any true understanding of the religious calls they spuriously invoke.
The intellectual gulf between Trump and Khameini, the spiritual leader he so wickedly assassinated, is of vast expanse. Trump worships only at the altar of Mammon, in the ‘study’ of monetary acquisition and transactional gain. He has no apparent concept of moral philosophy or compassionate thought.
For mass genocidaire and war crimes fugitive Netanyahu, the toppling of Tehran remains his continual holy grail - and stay-out-of-jail card. But, as Iran has shown - like the ships it still blocks through its strategically controlled Hormuz Strait - his ‘regime change’ plans shall not come to pass.
However, there may yet come another day of reckoning where even the impulsive, glory-seeking Trump realises that he has been religiously played by Netanyahu; that, for all its own agency and key part in the genocide of Gaza and mass slaughter across the Middle East, Israel itself was largely responsible for tempting and enticing the US into this catastrophic war on Iran.
Perhaps if the true costs of backing Israel - domestic electoral collapse, global economic crisis, and loss of US empire - ever finally dawns on the one-dimensional, impetuous Trump, he may move to smite Smotrich, Ben Givr and Netanyahu himself as the ‘Masada men’ who helped drive him towards political suicide.
In the mercurial mind of Trump, we can never be sure what kind of brooding mood or sense of injurious insult he may be harbouring of a day. From the use of ‘cognitive overload’ by “flooding the world with triggering absurdities” to the paranoid fear of public rejection, it can all turn on a momentary and dangerous whim.
Having taken late-panicked stock of the Jesus image and its calamitous fallout, including another measured rebuke from Pope Leo, Trump has been forced to delete the now infamous picture in an act of desperate self-preservation. But the damage has already been done, with growing hostility coming now even from his own MAGA Christian base.
Having further miscalculated the extent of Iranian resolve in the Islamabad ‘peace’ talks, Trump has now enacted yet another war crime, and violated the ceasefire, in trying to blockade the Hormuz Strait, sending the price of oil spiralling again, goading China and invoking the quiet wrath of his bewildered Gulf clients, who are all seeking the precise end to any maritime blockade in urgent defence of their betrayed and battered economies.
Who knows what kind of final apocalypse Donald ‘Jesus’ Trump may yet inflict upon the Middle East and the world at large. But his criminal sins against humanity are already duly recorded: from his key part in continuing the Gaza genocide, to the 165 Tehran schoolgirls he slaughtered with Tomahawk missiles; from the mass murder and carnage he’s let Netanyahu visit on Lebanon, to the pogrom terror he’s green-lighted across the West Bank.
Trump and Netanyahu between them have delivered nothing but death, destruction and human hardship. As the economic fallout of their war-driving madness feeds through, people around the world are literally paying the inflationary costs of their genocidal and psychotic aggressions.
Trump’s latest messianic pose is yet another dark portent of what lies ahead for all those afflicted places and populations, as well as an already eco-threatened planet.
Yet, omens of hopeful intervention still abound in the growing understanding of the emergency we face, in our own mounting resistance, and in our still common humanity:
“Despite all the madness, horror and killing, Trump’s genocidal threat provoked a display of deep-seated solidarity and compassion that defied decades of propaganda demonising the Iranian people as ‘animals’, ‘savages’ and ‘primitives’. Clearly, very few of us are willing to tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide. In these grim times, when it sometimes feels like humanity has completely lost its way, that is something to celebrate.”
Unlike the Jesus figure, Trump is preaching a gospel of unrestrained power, monetary greed and the deliverance of unholy terror. There remains much to trust in our faithful rejection of his criminal creed. But do we have any faith in those still with the immediate political, rather than divine, powers to stop him? Do pray, do hope, but, above all, keep doing all you devotedly can to resist.
