Thursday, April 02, 2026
PMT: The Address to the Nation
Here's something I've noticed: if President Trump wants to announce something, he usually does it on Truth Social, not in an address to the nation. For example, last night he addressed the nation about the war in Iraq and said almost nothing that wasn't already said, mostly on Truth Social.
-- He said that the war in Iran would end "soon"
-- He said that the goals of that war would be achieved... but did not tell us what those goals are
-- He pretty much said that we aren't going to open the Strait of Hormuz, but he hopes someone else will do that
-- He complained about "Barack Hussein Obama."
Not much there.
I'm shocked, still, that the big news isn't about Congress's complete abrogation of their power to actually declare war. Sure, recent presidents have nudged that aside, usually citing some past approvals granted by Congress-- but this time, even that pretense has been abandoned.
That's a real Constitutional crisis, isn't it?
