Grandpa Has Lost It: While Soldiers Die, Trump Admires His Drapes

By Rob C.

Art by Drew Sheneman (edited)

TL;DR: While six American service members are returning home in flag-draped coffins and Iranian civilians are being “liberated” into early graves, while Grab-Ass Grandpa is busy bragging about the drapes in his new White House ballroom. Donald Trump’s cognitive decline has moved from “eccentric uncle” to “national security threat” as he spews a word salad so incoherent that corporate media needs interpreters, but having a senile wannabe dictator launching wars without legal authority or strategy is more than just embarrassing—it’s dangerous. Backed by a cabinet of sycophants—including Marco Rubio, who has a hard-on for regime change, and Pete “DUI Hire” Hegseth who’s drunk on power and probably whiskey —Trump is using a manufactured war with Iran as the ultimate “Shock Doctrine” play to seize control of our elections and bury the Epstein files forever.

Let’s be honest: Grandpa has lost it. We’ve all seen the videos. Trump is currently operating as a giant orange sponge, soaking up the most toxic ideas from whoever happened to be the last person to compliment his golf swing. While the war in Iran—a conflict he started without Congressional approval while the two countries were literally in the middle of negotiations—claims more lives every hour, the man at the top is distracted by the interior design of his latest ballroom.

Not the strategy for winning the war. Not the exit plan. Not condolences for the families of the dead. The drapes. How expensive they are. How luxurious. How gold. How they’re the most beautiful drapes anyone has ever seen, believe me, people are saying they’ve never seen drapes like this.

Trump has always been incoherent. We’ve known this. His speeches have always been rambling streams of consciousness that bounce from topic to topic like a drunk driver swerving across lanes.

But it’s gotten worse. Much worse.

Corporate media has literally had to hire interpreters to translate Trump’s word salad into something resembling coherent sentences. His rallies are exercises in elderly confusion—forgetting names, mixing up countries, losing his train of thought mid-sentence, and launching into tangents about toilets, sharks, or whatever random neurons are still firing in his deteriorating brain.

When he’s just embarrassing himself at rallies or mumbling through prepared remarks, it’s almost funny in a dark, watching-Rome-burn kind of way. But when that same brain-addled grandpa has the nuclear codes and is launching wars? That’s not funny. That’s a national security crisis.

The 25th Amendment was written for exactly this scenario. Trump is not mentally fit to serve. He’s not competent to make life-or-death decisions. Having a brain-addled, wannabe dictator launching illegal wars based on “vibes” and Benjamin Netanyahu’s wish list isn’t just an “imminent threat”; it’s a controlled demolition of the Republic.

But his cabinet of sycophants won’t do it, because they’re too busy using his cognitive decline to push their own psychotic agendas.

The Cabinet of War-Hungry Lunatics

Trump is like a giant orange sponge, soaking up whatever terrible idea is whispered in his ear by whichever sociopath has his attention that day. And if you look at the rogues’ gallery of war criminals and white supremacists he’s appointed, you’ll understand why we’re in for trouble.

Marco Rubio has had a raging hard-on for regime change his entire political career. He’s obsessed with Cuba because his family’s plantation got nationalized and he’s still bitter about it. But he’ll settle for any brown-skinned country he can bomb in the name of “freedom.” Iran? Sure. Venezuela? Why not. Syria? Absolutely. He’s never met a war he didn’t love or a diplomatic solution he didn’t reject.

Pete “DUI Hire” Hegseth is in a whole different category of dangerous. This is a man who’s drunk with power—and probably actual whiskey. A Fox News talking head with White Supremacist tattoos on his chest who got put in charge of the most powerful military in human history because he kissed Trump’s ass on TV. Hegseth is eager to blow up brown people to prove how tough he is. He’s never seen combat that didn’t involve a TV camera, but he’s got strong opinions about how wars should be fought—specifically, with more brutality, less oversight, and maximum civilian casualties to “send a message.”

This is the brain trust running Trump’s war. A senile game show host who can’t remember what country he’s bombing, a Cuban-American politician with regime-change fantasies, and a day-drunk white supremacist with a Pentagon budget.

What could go wrong?

The Shifting Rationale (AKA The Lies Keep Changing)

The rationale for this war changes more often than Trump’s golf handicap. Remember when the war was about Iran being “days away from a nuclear weapon”? That lasted about 48 hours before it became obvious that was bullshit. Then it was “nuclear breakout” (despite Iran offering to give up their ambitions), “protecting our allies,” then the classic “preventing terrorism.” Finally, the real reason was disclosed accidentally-on-purpose: Bibi wanted it. We are fighting a war of choice for foreign hegemony while our own “farting father” proclaims victory from a Mar-a-Lago ballroom.

Benjamin Netanyahu wanted the United States to attack Iran, so Donald Trump attacked Iran. That’s it. That’s the whole strategy. Israel’s far-right government has been pushing for war with Iran for decades. They’ve been lobbying American politicians, funding think tanks, and spreading propaganda about the Iranian “threat” while building their own undeclared nuclear arsenal.

And Trump—desperate for distraction from the Epstein files, cratering approval ratings, and economic disaster—gave Netanyahu exactly what he wanted.

The Bait and Switch

But there is a much darker “bait and switch” happening here. Trump has been floating his desire to “take over elections and “securing the vote” through federal intervention.” He’s talked about it openly. His cronies have discussed it. Project 2025 laid out the playbook. And war is the perfect excuse.

History teaches us that war is the world’s most effective vacuum for civil rights. By keeping the country in a state of perpetual “Emergency,” the administration can justify stripping away the last vestiges of our democracy.

Trump has been doing everything possible to ensure he never loses another election. He’s purged the federal government of anyone disloyal. He’s stacked the courts with sycophants. He’s deployed ICE as his personal Gestapo. He’s attacked the press, threatened political enemies, and praised dictators who rule without elections.

And now he’s got a war. A war that he started. A war that he controls. A war that gives him an excuse to declare emergencies, suspend rights, and consolidate power.

“We can’t have elections during wartime.” “We need to postpone democracy until the crisis is over.” “Anyone who opposes the war is a traitor.”

We’ve heard this before. In other countries. In other times. Right before democracy died and never came back.

This war isn’t about Iran. It’s not about security. It’s not about protecting America.

It’s about protecting Trump. It’s about distracting from Epstein. It’s about giving Bibi what he wants. It’s about enriching defense contractors. It’s about consolidating authoritarian power.

Grandpa has lost it. His brain is mush. His cabinet is insane. His war is illegal. His motives are transparent.

They want us scared of the boogieman in Tehran so we don’t notice ICE seizing the ballot boxes.

While soldiers die for Grandpa’s war, Pam Bondi is still working the midnight shift to ensure those 2.5 million Epstein files never see the light of day. They need the war to keep the files closed. They need the chaos to keep the power. And they need you to keep believing that Grandpa is still in control.

If we don’t stop this now—if we don’t demand he be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, if we don’t force Congress to end this war, if we don’t hold these criminals accountable—we’re going to wake up one day and realize we’ve lost everything.

F*CK ICE. RELEASE ALL THE FILES!

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— Robert Cain, author of Democracy for Sale: How Corporate Greed Is Corrupting Democracy and Endangering the Planet.