Perhaps we should have known when he announced his run for President after coming down an escalator, after all. In any event, we’re back for today’s BradCast after a week off for Spring Break, with a lot to catch up with. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
We begin by catching up on just some of the news we missed over the past week, including his corrupt firing of corrupt women — Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi — to help distract from his own personal failures.
But Donald Trump‘s profane, social media post on Easter Sunday, threatening war crimes (which is, itself, a war crime) sort of helps focus both the mind and today’s program.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!,” he vowed, adding: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”.
Today (Monday), during a lengthy news conference at the White House to tout the rescue of a downed U.S. airman in Iran on Sunday, Trump repeated the his threat of war crimes — including complete destruction of civilian power infrastructure in Iran, “back to the stone age” — to happen tomorrow at 8pm, he vowed, if Iran doesn’t agree to whatever conditions Trump claims to be demanding now. In a war that he’s, arguably, already lost.
The response to his weekend tweet, from not-insane people on the right, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, and from the not-right, like UK columnist Christopher Bucktin, seem to make clear that not-insane people around the globe, at this point, see Trump in serious and terrifying mental decay. So do medical professionals.
All of which brings us back to a point we discussed in our last show before Spring Break: Trump has become a serious danger to both the nation and the world. So much so, that even corrupt, compromised, evil J.D. Vance would be a more palatable alternative to the unstable, psychologically broken man who now terrifyingly has his finger on the nuclear button. At least in my opinion.
We open up the phones to listeners today to see if they agree on that and much more. Hope you’ll tune in!…
Good to have you folks back.
Catching your broadcast 4/7/26. Where I live, I listen to your cast fairly regularly. Most times you lay info out well enough.
Sometimes, maybe not so well.
Your broadcast 4/6/26, to question, of vote Trump or Vance threw me. Vance, the man who just met with Orban/Hungary?
The primary designer of “Project 2025”, really.
Who introduced such to the Federalist Society and billionaire lawyers?
My confidence waned somewhat in what you at times push on the agenda as well.
Allen –
Thanks for the note. It’s not 100% clear which show you are referring to here, since I raised the topic both on yesterday’s show (4/6/26) with callers, as linked above, and the last show we did before Spring Break (3/25/26) with Digby and Driftglass, which ran as a rebroadcast in some markets just before yesterday’s new show.
Either way, yes, THAT Vance. And it wasn’t a question of who to “vote” for, literally. The context of the question was, given the quickly deteriorating state of Trump amid his disastrous Iran war, and the threat that something horrible could happen (for example, we put in ground troops that get hit with a Beirut 1983 style attack), what Trump might then do in response, given his fragile ego and broken state.
My point was that, though I never thought I’d say it, I’d prefer Vance in office at this time than Trump, as he continues to deteriorate.
So, yeah. Given the circumstances, and the choice between Trump and Vance, I’d prefer an evil but sane person have control of the button, versus an evil insane one.
Am I still wrong about that?
Either way, thanks for the input! And feel free to let me know what else you see me as getting wrong whenever ya like!