Donald Trumpâs Sunday meltdown didnât start with policy, law, or national security. It started with a grudge.

On a quiet Sunday morning, the former president logged on and launched into a rage rant at Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas â and, incredibly, at Cuellarâs daughters. Trump fumed that Cuellar had committed âthe ultimate act of disloyaltyâ by refusing to switch parties after Trump pardoned him from a Biden-DOJ fraud case. Trump claimed he only granted the pardon because Cuellarâs daughters wrote to him, and now, he snarled, Cuellar had âshamedâ them and the people of Texas.
This wasnât a legal argument. It was a public shakedown. The message: loyalty to Trump matters more than law, country, or family.
And that ugly logic runs through everything else happening around him.
While Trump raged online, Vladimir Putin was literally praising Americaâs new National Security Strategy, boasting that it âperfectly alignsâ with the Kremlinâs worldview. The document openly talks about cultivating âresistanceâ inside Europe, undermining the EU, and freezing NATO expansion â exactly what Putin has been dreaming of for years. Yet corporate media barely touches it.
Instead, Trump world is busy celebrating something else: his decision to pardon former Honduran president and narco-trafficker Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez, convicted of helping move hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States while allegedly saying, âLetâs kill the gringos. Get the drugs up their nose.â
Faced with this, Trumpâs Republican allies folded on live TV.

Senator Tom Cotton, normally âlock âem up and throw away the key,â suddenly claimed there âmay be strategic reasonsâ for freeing a man tied to El Chapo. Pressed to say whether he opposed the pardon, he hid behind âIâd have to know more about the circumstancesâ â a United States senator pretending he hasnât read the biggest headline in his own party.
Senator Eric Schmitt did the same dance. Asked directly if he supported the pardon, he insisted he âwasnât familiar with the facts,â then defaulted to the standard MAGA script: blame the media, attack the host, complain about ratings. Anything but answer the question.
Senator Curtis of Utah â the ânice-guy moderateâ â refused to say whether heâd still vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after credible reports that Hegseth used encrypted apps and personal phones to direct a âdouble tapâ strike on a suspected drug boat and then a second strike on survivors waving for help. Curtis hid behind âIâd need to do more research,â as if the evidence hasnât already been laid out by multiple committees.
Tom Cotton went further. Confronted with reports that the men on that capsized boat appeared to raise their arms in surrender, he waved it off. It didnât matter, he said, whether they were signaling distress, surrender, or âtrying to get a suntan.â In his view, any boat âloaded with drugsâ crewed by cartel associates is a valid target â not just now, but going forward. âIâm not just comfortable with it,â he said. âI want to continue it.â
That isnât a slip. Itâs doctrine: loyalty to Trumpâs war narrative first, human life second.
The same mindset shows up at home. ICE agents are caught on video chasing and detaining U.S. citizens â a young mother in New Orleans, a terrified family in Florida â despite DHS insisting they âdonât arrest citizens.â Former ICE director Tom Homan âexplainsâ it away by saying lots of âillegals claim to be citizens,â defending racial profiling and wrongful grabs as the cost of doing business. When pressed about Trump calling Somali immigrants âgarbage,â Homan suddenly âisnât awareâ of what the president meant.

At the same time, right-wing media is screaming that the EU is âcensoringâ Elon Musk and American social media, when in reality Europeâs new digital rules are about transparency, fake checkmarks, and algorithm accountability. That story gets blasted all over MAGA outlets. But Trump pardoning a narco kingpin and a Ponzi schemer who ripped off thousands of small investors? It barely registers.
Meanwhile, Minnesotaâs Democratic governor Tim Walz is being treated like a national scandal because a federal nutrition program was defrauded and the perpetrators are being prosecuted. In Trumpâs case, heâs the one helping the crooks walk free â and somehow thatâs not the headline.
Overlay all of that with Trumpâs own bizarre public appearances. At a State Department event handing out âKennedy awardsâ to celebrities like Sylvester Stallone, he rambled into strange, looping sounds â âping ping ping ping pingâ â instead of coherent policy. Hours later, he was back online, threatening a Democratic lawmakerâs family over âdisloyalty.â
This isnât random chaos. Itâs a system: a president who pardons narco traffickers and fraudsters, senators who pretend not to know the details, war planners who treat human beings on capsized boats as target practice, and propagandists who scream about âcensorshipâ while the real scandals slide by.
Trumpâs Sunday spiral is just the latest symptom of a deeper rot: a movement that demands personal loyalty above law, dignity, or truth â and a political class too cowardly, compromised, or complicit to say no.
Karma hasnât finished its work. But you can feel it circling.
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