“For me, the crystallization of this perilous past year is the juxtaposition of Pete Hegseth literally powdering his nose (as reported by The New York Times), before meeting with Ukrainian leadership in Europe earlier this year - after taking it upon himself to slow Pentagon military aid and intelligence sharing to the embattled and brave war-torn nation.

As Trump spends a lavish and long holiday in Palm Beach pretending he is General Eisenhower - while real men and women fight and die in the frozen trenches of the frontlines in Ukraine, where their brave battle for democracy and our current lack of support illustrates just how far America has fallen.

Our political and pro-Trump military leadership is not only an embarrassment, it’s an insult to so many who have sacrificed on behalf of this once mighty nation.

We are not only dishonoring ourselves, we are turning our backs on the values so many have fought and died for over two and a half centuries.

We must not descend further into this abyss.

Trump and his Cabinet are criminals. Their dereliction of duty and fealty to one man -over upholding the U.S. Constitution - is worthy of an exile to Elba for all involved.

The fact that Trump didn’t even bother to fly back to the White House to oversee his middle of the night regime change commando raid/arrest and extraction of President Maduro of Venezuela, but just basked in his ‘Commander-in-Chief’ status from the musty Palmetto Room at Mar-a-Lago tells you all you need to know about the Temu Teddy Roosevelt and his band of buccaneers.

This is a POTUS who with a straight face uttered the words ‘Donroe Doctrine’ before taking his place behind the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General ’Razin’ Caine (a man with a sobriquet so irresistible to toxically-masculine clowns like Hegseth and Trump, it is the only way they now refer to him), then nodded out like he had just crawled from an opium den into the bright morning sun.” noelcasler.substack.com…