{"id":58599,"date":"2026-04-07T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58599"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:17:26","slug":"william-astore-trump-threatens-mass-murder-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/william-astore-trump-threatens-mass-murder-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"William Astore: Trump Threatens Mass Murder Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/\">Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/04\/trump-hate4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58597\" src=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/04\/trump-hate4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/04\/trump-hate4-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/04\/trump-hate4-480x275.jpg 480w, https:\/\/d27srd8s9736cr.cloudfront.net\/2026\/04\/trump-hate4.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine \u201cblessing\u201d the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, \u201cFury,\u201d which does a decent job of showing some of the horrors of warfare. We get a few fairly honest scenes about war, as in the opening sequence of \u201cSaving Private Ryan,\u201d yet war coverage in our media portrays war as a bloodless video game.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump tweets about mass murder and most in the media just seem to shrug. Mass murder!<\/p>\n<p>For two decades I\u2019ve been writing about America\u2019s warrior nonsense and the increasing militarization of our country even as we\u2019re kept deliberately isolated from war and all its horrors. It all seems like it\u2019s coalesced into the nightmare we have today.<\/p>\n<p>I was on Judge Napolitano\u2019s show this morning, Judging Freedom, and I was somewhat at a loss to describe my reaction to this. If we can\u2019t unite to stop mass murder of innocents, when are we going to unite?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqU56GlLO1I?si=uHD9ExCgiNEcCKSr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. This is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine \u201cblessing\u201d the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization. Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, \u201cFury,\u201d which does a decent job of showing some of the horrors of warfare. 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