When words become weapons

On Easter morning, April 5, 2026, the President of the United States reached, not for diplomacy, but for the obscenity. His message to Iran, broadcast to the world in the language of a street brawl, read like a threat scrawled on a prison wall: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” The timing was grotesque. The phrasing is worse. The closing—“Praise be to Allah”—is a mockery draped in borrowed piety. It was not merely undignified. It was incendiary. Nine days earlier, before an audience of global investors, he turned his fire on an ally. Speaking of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he boasted: “He didn’t think he’d be kissing my ass… but now […]