Donald J. Trump spent Easter Sunday posting about Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, then told reporters the same morning that if there were no deal immediately to open the waterway, “We’re blowing up the whole country.” Later, he told Axios, “if they don’t make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there.”
The Bulwark’s “Impeach Him Again” argues that the president is irresponsible, reckless and unhinged, and asks, “How are we going to make it through thirty-three more months of this?” That question lands at a moment when the shutdown remains in place and House Speaker Mike Johnson has not yet acted to call the House back from recess, which is scheduled to run until April 13.
That timing matters because Republicans are not in a hurry to pass a deal to re-fund DHS. Leaders in both chambers and Trump have backed a plan to fund the whole Department of Homeland Security except ICE and the Border Patrol, while Republicans plan to fund ICE and the Border Patrol through party-line reconciliation legislation instead. In other words, the broader shutdown fight is still unresolved even as the White House is talking in warlike terms about Iran.
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The piece says senior officials in the executive branch know they can recall their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. It says they can also act privately or more publicly to make life more difficult for political masters engaged in misconduct or abuses of power. And it says conscientious public servants who cannot stay in their positions need not resign politely and keep quiet.
That is the friction point in this moment. Trump is not being described as merely combative or abrasive; he is being portrayed as a president whose conduct has crossed into something that tests the limits of loyalty inside his own government. At the same time, the machinery of Congress is frozen. Johnson has not brought the House back, and the recess stretches to April 13, leaving no quick legislative escape hatch if the politics worsen before then.
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The result is a federal government stuck in one kind of crisis while its president speaks as if another were a game of annihilation. The article’s argument is not subtle: if senior officials believe Trump is abusing power, they have both a duty and a range of options beyond silence. The question now is whether anyone in the administration, or in Congress, is willing to act on that warning before the shutdown fight and the Iran threats collide again.
