“Impeach the guy!” Trump blasted over vulgar Easter morning tirade

[0:00] Donald Trump isn't exactly known for his laser focus or attention to detail, [0:04] but the past week has taken his, we'll call it rhetorical weaving, to a new level. [0:10] The central question we're all trying to figure out tonight is when exactly Trump plans to escalate [0:15] his war with Iran and start potentially targeting civilian infrastructure like bridges and power [0:20] plants. Let's first listen to what he said Wednesday during his primetime address, [0:24] which honestly feels like a month ago now. [0:27] We are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. [0:36] We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. [0:41] We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. [0:46] OK, so two to three weeks, but not so fast, because yesterday, two to three weeks became [0:53] 48 hours when Trump posted that, quote, all hell will rain down on them. [0:59] So that would be 48 hours. [1:01] Monday, right? [1:03] Wrong, because this morning we got this historically unhinged post that we have been dissecting [1:09] all day long on this network and all the others in between the profanity. [1:13] You might have missed that Trump again shifted his timeline back to Tuesday, [1:17] and he must have realized that he wasn't exactly being clear because a little while later he posted [1:22] this very helpful clarification, quote, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern time. [1:27] But missing from that post was any sense of what exactly will happen on Tuesday. [1:32] At 8 p.m. Eastern time, a White House official finally confirmed to MSNOW that that was [1:37] Trump's new deadline for Iran to make a deal. [1:41] We'll see how long until Trump changes it all again. [1:45] Joining us now, Dean Obadala, host of the Dean Obadala show on Sirius XM and Peter Beinart, [1:51] MSNOW political analyst and author of the Beinart Notebook on Substack. [1:55] It's great to have both of you guys. [1:56] Thanks for joining us tonight. [1:57] So, Peter, you know, I totally understand if you can't keep track. [2:02] The math that I just laid out there. [2:04] But do you think something is actually going to happen by 8 p.m. on Tuesday? [2:11] I doubt it. [2:11] I think one of the what's striking is how weak Donald Trump looks. [2:14] I mean, it's really remarkable. [2:16] I actually think this is the weakest I have ever seen an American president ever look on [2:21] on the stage. [2:22] Right. [2:23] I mean, America's done terrible, terrible things in many, many cases. [2:26] But generally, because America had overwhelming power, it could afford to speak softly. [2:31] Right. [2:31] And it. [2:32] People were afraid of it. [2:34] Although Donald Trump has committed war crime after war crime, it's clear the Iranians are [2:38] not actually afraid. [2:39] The Iranians have done something that Donald Trump should have anticipated by closing the [2:43] Straits of Hormuz that he hasn't. [2:45] And he has no way of dealing with that. [2:47] And so now he's like the bully who's basically saying, I'm going to beat you up tomorrow. [2:50] OK, well, the next day I'm going to beat you up. [2:52] Right. [2:53] Everybody can see through this. [2:54] This is actually, I think, a really remarkable historical moment in American history in which [3:01] the Iranians are calling Donald Trump. [3:02] This is a realist bluff. [3:03] And America is looking weak. [3:07] Dean, we had some examples of lawmakers, Democratic lawmakers being asked about whether they would [3:14] be willing to fund Donald Trump's work. [3:16] We play that. [3:20] They have more than enough resources, as far as we can tell, in order to do what is necessary [3:26] at the same period of time. [3:28] Congress has to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. [3:31] The cost of living in this country is out of control. [3:33] No, I'm not supporting new funding. [3:35] The answer for every Democrat should be. [3:36] Absolutely. [3:37] No. [3:38] Absolutely. [3:39] No. [3:42] It's pretty striking that Donald Trump is asking for more money for this war, both in [3:47] this supplemental as well as in the White House budget that came out on Friday, where [3:51] he's asking for one point five trillion dollars in funding for defense, meanwhile cutting [3:56] a slew of domestic policy programs, health care, education, WIC, a bunch of other things. [4:04] I guess my question is, what do you think they are thinking? [4:07] Like, I don't understand. [4:08] They're already raising gas prices. [4:09] Right. [4:10] Why would you make, why would you hand this argument on a platter to Democrats, that they [4:11] just want to, you know, take your money and send it away to bombs? [4:12] Because Donald Trump doesn't care. [4:13] He doesn't think anything through. [4:14] Look at the, by the way, on Wednesday in his speech, he literally said, we don't care about [4:15] the Strait of Hormuz. [4:16] He literally, his exact words were, we don't need it. [4:17] And today, he's like, open the effing Strait of Hormuz. [4:18] Like, what has happened? [4:19] And I love the praise to Allah type of thing. [4:20] I wish he said, praise to Obi Dalla. [4:21] I don't know. [4:22] I don't know. [4:23] I don't know. [4:24] I don't know. [4:25] I don't know. [4:26] I wish he said, praise to Obi Dalla, which I would have liked a lot. [4:27] Oh my God. [4:28] Next time. [4:29] Next time. [4:30] We wanted him to promote your serious exemption. [4:31] Thank you, Antonia. [4:32] That was very nice. [4:33] But look, he's, well, amen to me. [4:34] Maybe he's actually Muslim. [4:35] I mean, we never thought about it. [4:36] He's had three wives. [4:37] He doesn't drink alcohol. [4:38] Who knows? [4:39] He could convert. [4:40] Maybe he converted. [4:41] Maybe he could. [4:42] We don't want him. [4:43] We don't want him. [4:44] We don't want him. [4:45] We don't want him. [4:46] We don't want him. [4:47] We don't want him. [4:48] We don't want him. [4:49] We don't want him. [4:50] We don't want him. [4:51] We don't want him. [4:52] Maybe he converted. [4:53] Maybe he converted. [4:54] Maybe he converted. [4:55] Maybe he converted. [4:56] Maybe he converted. [4:57] Maybe he converted. [4:58] Maybe he converted. [4:59] We don't want him. [5:00] We don't want him. [5:01] He sure rejected Jesus today. [5:02] Democrats have a chance. [5:03] I like Ro Khanna. [5:04] They are saying, definitively, no money. [5:05] But what Democrats should be saying is, we're going to impeach and remove you. [5:07] That's what they should be saying. [5:08] This is not an excursion. [5:09] This is a six-week war. [5:11] In his speech on Wednesday, he said it was a war because he compared it to other wars. [5:14] He goes, you have to have patience. [5:16] Look at World War II. [5:17] How long did that talk? [5:18] Look at the Iraq war. [5:19] How long? [5:20] We were at war for six weeks. [5:21] It's not illegal. [5:22] If this is not grounds to impeach a president, I don't care about how many votes you have [5:26] in the Senate. [5:27] Your job by the Constitution is to hold the president accountable. [5:30] That's why you're in Congress. [5:31] High crimes and misdemeanors. [5:33] This has to be. [5:34] The Americans are dead. [5:35] Billions of dollars are spent. [5:36] Take the vote. [5:37] Impeach the guy. [5:38] I don't care what happens in the Senate. [5:39] Do your job. [5:40] So, Peter, I wanted to share with you this reporting from The Wall Street Journal that [5:43] the top aides advising Trump to blast Iran's infrastructure are fair game. [5:49] There's a part that reads, top aides have privately made the case to President Trump [5:52] in recent days that Iran's power-generating facilities and bridges are legitimate military [5:56] targets because destroying them could cripple the country's missile and nuclear programs, [6:00] officials say. [6:02] It's kind of disturbing to hear that being reported, I mean, if it is true that that's [6:07] the kind of advice President Trump is getting, because he's not a person who is familiar [6:10] with international law. [6:11] And we just kind of—I don't think most of our viewers understand that, you know, [6:15] if you're outside of America and you are looking at, like, where the Pentagon is, which [6:18] is like a half a mile away from Pentagon City Mall. [6:21] Or you have I-95, or you have an Army recruiting center here in Times Square. [6:26] The idea that, you know, civilian infrastructure is embedded in all parts of—sorry, military [6:32] infrastructure is embedded in all parts of civil society in this country. [6:36] But the idea that the Pentagon would be advising the president—and we don't know if it's [6:40] military officers or not—that it is fair game to go after that just is frightening [6:45] and terrifying that our country would be embarking on this level of international violations. [6:51] Yeah, I mean, what I would like to hear Democrats answer is, do you think Donald Trump is committing [6:56] war crimes? [6:57] I mean, because he's not shy about it, right? [6:59] He screams that he's committing war crimes. [7:02] And if he is committing war crimes, do you think he should be prosecuted at the International [7:05] Criminal Court, like we supported the prosecution of Vladimir Putin? [7:08] Of course he should, right? [7:11] These are war crimes everybody associated with targeting civilian infrastructure in [7:15] a war that was illegal against a country that posed no imminent threat—no threat at all, [7:20] actually—to the United States. [7:22] Democrats should take the position that we should—those people should be prosecuted [7:25] at the International Criminal Court as war criminals, because they are war criminals. [7:28] Hey, a quick thing. [7:30] Two Russian generals have been charged by the International Criminal Court for targeting [7:34] civilian structures in Ukraine and for causing huge civilian, you know, hardship. [7:40] And that's exactly what they're doing. [7:41] It's the exact same thing. [7:43] I think that's not a very politically palatable idea, though, in terms of the ICC and the [7:49] American public and the concept of an American president. [7:50] And, you know, some of the— [7:52] Yeah. [7:53] Some of them are sending them off, even though, I agree, war crimes. [7:56] And I do think that there should be something politically to move the public, because this [8:01] can't be happening. [8:02] We can't condone this. [8:03] Yeah. [8:04] How much—how much of this, though, do you think is a repudiation of the World [8:08] War II postwar generation and the way they governed and the way that we had Nuremberg, [8:14] we had accountability, we set up an international system that benefited our economy and rule-of-law [8:21] pretty much around the world? [8:22] And I think that's what's going on. [8:23] I mean, Trump's been around the globe, bits and starts. [8:24] There were problems. [8:25] I'm not saying it's perfect. [8:26] But Trump seems like he came to age just detesting what had come, the change that was wrought [8:32] out of World War II. [8:33] Yeah. [8:34] Before Donald Trump, the United States was profoundly hypocritical, right? [8:38] We said—presidents said one thing, and then they often did something else, right? [8:42] It was only a few—you know, within a decade after Nuremberg, right, we also—we overturned—we [8:47] overthrew a democratically elected leader in Iran, right, and laid the groundwork for [8:51] WE WERE THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT [8:53] USED ATOMIC WEAPONS DURING WORLD [8:55] WAR II. [8:55] BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT [8:57] THE HYPOCRISY, RIGHT, AT LEAST [8:59] STATING YOU BELIEVED IN CERTAIN [9:00] PRINCIPLES THAT CREATED A SPACE [9:02] FOR AMERICANS TO ACTUALLY TRY TO [9:04] HOLD YOU TO ACCOUNT. [9:05] TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU CLAIM [9:06] TO BELIEVE IN THIS AND WE'RE [9:08] GOING TO TRY TO PUSH YOU. [9:09] THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STORY [9:11] OF AMERICA, THAT OUR IDEALS, WE [9:12] HAVEN'T LIVED UP TO OUR IDEALS, [9:14] BUT THE IDEALS HAVE GIVEN [9:15] SOMETHING TO AIM FOR. [9:16] WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT DONALD [9:21] TRUMP'S STANDARD FOR THE UNITED [9:23] STATES WHATSOEVER? [9:24] THE POPE ACTUALLY, PART OF HIS [9:26] MESSAGE IN THE LEAD-UP TO AND ON [9:28] EASTER MORNING WAS SORT OF NOT [9:30] VERY SUBTLY ABOUT THAT SORT OF [9:31] THE WAY IN WHICH PEOPLE ARE [9:33] BEING LIKE INNERED AND LULLED [9:34] INTO THINKING THAT THIS IS [9:36] NORMAL AND REMINDING PEOPLE THAT [9:37] YOU ACTUALLY CAN CALL THEM BACK [9:39] TO A HIGHER STANDARD OF SOME [9:40] KIND. [9:40] AND ONE THING, I MEAN, IT'S [9:42] NOT LIKE I'M SAYING THE [9:43] INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IS [9:44] GOING TO CHARGE DONALD TRUMP OR [9:45] OUR GENERALS. [9:46] THERE'S NOT JURISDICTION OVER [9:47] THEM, SO I DON'T SEE THAT [9:48] HAPPENING. [9:49] BUT DONALD TRUMP'S NOT EVEN [9:50] HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS [9:51] DOMESTIC CRIMES, LET ALONE [9:52] INTERNATIONAL CRIMES. [9:53] THE GUY ATTEMPTED A COUP AND [9:55] INSIDED A TERRORIST ATTACK. [9:56] HE WAS CHARGED WITH FELONIES FOR [9:57] TRYING TO DISENFRANCHISE [9:58] AMERICA'S OF THEIR VOTES. [9:59] AND THIS SUPREME COURT SAVED HIM [10:01] FROM ANSWERING IN A COURT OF [10:02] LAW. [10:03] SO I DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO [10:04] BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. [10:05] I THINK DEMOCRATS, THOUGH, CAN [10:07] TALK ABOUT IT. [10:07] SHOULD RUN ON A [10:08] POLITICAL STRATEGY. [10:09] I DON'T THINK IT'S THE ROLE OF [10:11] JOURNALISTS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT [10:12] WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S [10:13] RIGHT POLITICAL STRATEGY IS. [10:14] WE SHOULD ASK PEOPLE TO ANSWER [10:16] QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUTH AND [10:17] MORALITY BASED ON ONE SINGLE [10:18] STANDARD. [10:19] AND THEN DEMOCRATS ARE THE [10:20] POLITICIANS, RIGHT? [10:21] BUT I THINK THAT THE UNITED [10:22] STATES SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR [10:23] THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY CLEAR [10:24] ALL THE TIME THAT THE DEMOCRATIC [10:25] PARTY'S RIGHT POLITICAL [10:26] STRATEGY IS. [10:27] WE SHOULD ASK PEOPLE TO ANSWER [10:28] QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUTH AND [10:29] MORALITY BASED ON ONE SINGLE [10:30] STANDARD. [10:31] AND THEN DEMOCRATS ARE THE [10:32] POLITICIANS, RIGHT? [10:33] BUT I THINK THAT THE UNITED [10:34] STATES SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR [10:35] THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY CLEAR [10:36] TO ALMOST EVERYONE AROUND THE [10:37] WORLD, RIGHT? [10:38] THAT THE THINGS THE UNITED [10:39] STATES ARE DOING NOW WITH OUR [10:41] SUPPORT FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN [10:42] GAZA AND NOW IN IRAN ARE AS BAD [10:44] AS SOME OF THE WORST THINGS THAT [10:45] OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE DONE IN [10:46] RECENT DECADES. [10:47] AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE WILLING [10:48] TO SAY THAT.