"Freedomis a fragile thing, and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be foughtfor and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes onlyonce to a people. And those in world history who have known freedomand then lost it have never known it again."
President
Ronald Reagan
The
American people must face it: The U.S. Constitution is dead. The Bill
of Rights is dead. The rule of law is dead. Federalism is dead. The
American experiment of self-government is dead. The Monroe
Doctrine has been replaced with the Donroe
Doctrine—a gross perversion of James Monroe’s magnificent
manifesto of peace, independence and national sovereignty.
(Liberty-Pac adds George H.W. Bush & Bill Clinton) George W.
Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and especially Donald Trump have turned
our constitutional republic into a Banana Republic. Trump
is not a president; he is a dictator—and a mad dictator
at that. In many respects, he is not unlike the emperors of Rome. And
our national Congress is almost identical to the Roman senate:
utterly meaningless and worthless to the maintenance of law in the
face of naked aggression by the chief executive.
Scottish
pod-caster George Galloway recently referred
to Trump as Caligula—and
his historical analogy might not be far off.
The
U.S. government has become a rogue state. It is a gangster state. It
is run not by statesmen or even politicians. It is run by thugs.
Pirates. Mafia dons. Criminals. Thieves.
Extortioners. Plunderers. Murderers.
Any
of Trump’s MAGA supporters who continue to support Trump in 2026
are proving themselves to be more the tyrants than those on the Left
whom they have accused of being tyrants. Tyranny is tyranny whether
it is shouted from under a flag, from inside the Oval Office or from
behind a pulpit.
Those
who supported Trump in 2024 because Trump promised to be a “peace
president” are sycophantic hypocrites if they continue to support
him now.
During
2025, Trump unilaterally, illegally, unconstitutionally and immorally
declared war on seven sovereign states: That is, Trump—on his own
authority (which he doesn’t have)—dropped bombs on seven
countries. When Japan dropped bombs on our naval installations in
Hawaii in 1941, the U.S. (rightly) considered those bombings an act
of war. So, Trump declared war on seven countries in just the first
year of his second term: Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, Iran, Iraq, Syria
and now Venezuela.
Now,
after attacking and kidnapping Venezuela’s president, Donald Trump
is threatening to attack Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
Brazil—basically all of South America. He is threatening to
seize—with military force, if necessary—Greenland, which is the
territory of Denmark. Trump has greenlit an all-out Israeli/U.S.
attack on Iran. Seizing the oil of Venezuela is doubtless a prelude
to the attack on Iran. Trump is attempting to mitigate the loss of
oil from the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s retaliation following
the forthcoming U.S./Israel invasion.
Donald
Trump’s campaign promises that he would be a “peace president”
are now proven to be nothing but bald-faced lies. Let me remind MAGA
of what Trump promised us.
April
2016: We're getting out of the nation building business.
July
2016: We must abandon the failed policy of nation building
and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in
Egypt, and in Syria.
August
2016: Our current strategy of nation building and regime
change is a proven absolute failure.
September
2016: We will break the cycle of regime change.
September
2016: We will pursue a new, steady foreign policy that seeks
to advance the national security interests of the United States - not
a reckless interventionist globalism.
August
2019: We’re not looking for regime change [in Iran].
You've seen how that works over the last 20 years. That hasn’t been
too good.
Now,
Trump is threatening to go to war all over the world.
And
let’s not leave out Trump’s military aggression against Russia.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric regarding peace with Russia, his actions
have spoken much more loudly to the contrary.
In
a recent interview,
former British diplomat Alastair Crooke reminded us of Trump’s
record of military aggression against Russia during 2025.
Now
put this together with, first of all, the attack that was in May or
June on the strategic bomber fleet of Russia, the attack by drones
that were so much in the model that we later saw on the 12th of June
by Israel in the surprise attack on Iran, the attack on its strategic
bombers, which were out in the open as per the assault treaty.
Then
we had, during further negotiations, four long-range attack missiles,
American long-range attack missiles, were fired during a previous set
of negotiations, and they were fired at Voronezh. Voronezh is where
Russia has its early warning over-the-horizon radars. They are
nothing; neither the strategic bomber fleet, nor the early warning
radars, nor the bunker, the command bunker in the compound at Valdai,
have anything to do with what's happening in Ukraine. These
are all to do about a nuclear war. [Emphasis added]
In
other words, Donald Trump is playing a nuclear game of “chicken”
with Russia. Couple that with the crippling economic sanctions
against Russia, China and India (all three are nuclear powers), and
we can easily see how Trump is literally daring the world to resist
him—even to the point of nuclear war.
That’s
not politics; it’s not diplomacy; it’s not foreign relations.
It’s gangsterism! Donald Trump is an international gangster. A
mobster. A goon. A thug.
I
know nothing about this pastor, but I totally agree with this segment
of his
recent sermon in
which he called out Donald Trump for who and what he is: “the
supreme thug.”
Y'all
see the mess yesterday where a press conference was held in
Mar-a-Lago, and they are bragging about how swift and sweet the
kidnapping was of another nation's leader. Now, to be sure, he's a
thug; he's a low life. But he's their thug and their low life. And we
really can't talk about somebody else's leader being a thug and a
lowlife when our own president got convicted on 34 counts. You talk
about the supreme thug.
And,
y'all, he's arrested, and they're talking about him [Maduro] because
he allegedly is drug trafficking. Now, you gave a pardon and released
someone [Honduran President Juan Hernández] who had been convicted
of drug trafficking, but somehow this one is someone that you are
going to have tried and convicted. I gotta park right there.
Amen,
Brother! Preach it!
The
presidency of Donald Trump is not America first; it’s
not making America great; it’s not even patriotic. It’s
sheer gangsterism. It is using position for personal power and greed.
It’s international extortion and the worst kind of bullyism and
banditry.
And
it is very dangerous!
The
verdict on Venezuela is still very much out. The potential for long
term damage to not just the Western Hemisphere in general but to the
United States in particular is very real. And if
Trump thinks he has gotten away unscathed with the Venezuelan regime
change, he will spread his brazen recklessness and bullying all over
the world—something he has already been doing in degrees—but his
malignant narcissism and increasing dementia could very easily
escalate his madness to levels not seen in the modern age.
And
the frightening part of it is that today’s military technology will
be completely unforgiving. In the nuclear age, there is no such thing
as winning a world war.
And
for those evangelical Christians who are reading this column, let me
hasten to alert you to this reality: A global nuclear war prompted by
a mad U.S. president would NOT be the Second Coming of Christ.
The fire of God at the Last Day will
be of divine origin, NOT human.
And
in the event of global nuclear war, there will be NO “rapture.”
(My
upcoming message on Sunday, January 18, will address this topic in
detail. The message is entitled: The
Second Coming Of Christ – Satan’s Little Season And The Fire Of
God.
I invite readers to watch
it here.)
If
nuclear rain falls, it will fall on the just and on the unjust.
(Matthew 5:45) Christians will NOT escape.
Under
Donald Trump, we do not have constitutional government; we do not
have good government; we do not have lawful government. We have a
gangster government.
It’s
time the American people face it—before it’s too late.
©Chuck Baldwin