View from the MAGA Psychiatric Ward - Part 4

Not very long ago, President Donald J. Trump lobbed several blistering and caustic salvos at the image and the personality of the late Senator John Sidney McCain, III, from the State of Arizona, a former Naval Aviator and a Prisoner of War (POW) in Vietnam. Yours Truly does not vividly or readily recall precisely what this to-do or flareup was about, except the fact that it bordered on something having to do with mainstream American politics and patriotism and/or responsible and patriotic leadership. During the course of the aforementioned fracas, Mr. Trump brazenly, intemperately and categorically stated that he had absolutely no high regard or respect for Prisoners of War and did not deem the latter category of soldier to be worthy of being either designated or hailed as “Heroes.”

The billionaire realtor - he prefers to be known and called a Real-Estate Developer - went on to further assert that he had absolutely no respect for “Dead Soldiers” and did not in the least consider the latter category of warriors to be heroes. “I have absolutely no respect for POWs; neither do I have any respect for dead soldiers whom I do not consider to be heroes. Heroes are soldiers who go into battle and return home alive and victorious.”

So, it must have come as absolutely nothing short of plain sardonic and amusing that in the wake of the collaborative and the genocidally massive assault by the United States and the Zionist and the Fascist State of Israel on the Islamic Revolutionary State of Iran, resulting in the deaths of at least a dozen US soldiers at the battlefront, President Trump would rather conveniently and opportunistically constitute a ragtag team of some of his topmost cabinet appointees and associates into what has come to be tagged by the media as the “Dignified Transfer Reception” of fallen soldiers from the US-Israeli War on Iran, at the globally renowned Andrews Air Force Base, in the State of Delaware, presumably, to be flown or ferried to the various military stations and/or barracks around the country from where these fallen soldiers served or were called to duty abroad for what is increasingly being reckoned by a remarkable mass of American citizens to be “A War of Choice,” or the gratuitous resort to aggression in servile service of the criminally indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Zionist State of Israel.

On the latter count must be promptly underscored the fact that Mr. Netanyahu stands officially indicted on treasonous charges of bribery and corruption before his country’s judicial system, together with his wife, Sara Netanyahu; as well as the heinous crime of genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the former instance, Mr. Netanyahu has been desperately maneuvering and scheming to have the charges of bribery and corruption dropped, having “epically” failed to knavishly amend the Israeli Constitution so as to effectively emasculate the Israeli Supreme Court and, in effect, nullify the age-old democratic principle of the coordinate Separation of the Statutory Powers of the traditional Three Branches of Government, namely, the august institutional establishments of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.

So, it is incontrovertibly clear and all to be expected that a criminally cornered Mr. Netanyahu would deviously and pretextually seize any opportunity “seizeable” to distract public and judicial attention from his wanton and extortionate acts of criminality in the name of wartime emergency. In the latter context, therefore and as well, of course, Monsieur Netanyahu and President Trump, who has also been desperately scheming to evade criminal complicity in the Matter of the Epstein Files, entailing the heinous and wanton exploitation of legally underage women, including the possible raping of a remarkable number of these female minors, may also very well have envisaged the completely unprovoked and knavishly fabricated “Nuclear Specter” supposedly posed by the Ayatollahs of Tehran as “a perfect storm” for either evading leadership responsibility and accountability, altogether, or at least in a bid to indefinitely delaying the proverbial “Long-Arm of Justice” until the temporal potency of poetic justice - in Shakespearean parlance - has almost completely exhausted itself, whichever of these two instances of judicial discipline proves to be more convenient and ideal.

But, of course, there is another apparently unforeseen problem here on the part of our “twin protagonists.” And it regards the possibility of racking up, in the case of Prime Minister Netanyahu, a third charge of the flagrant breach of International Law entailing the criminal unleashing or the application of unprovoked deadly violence. In the case of Mr. Trump, the likelihood of the exaction of such condign disciplinary measure is moot and may very well hinge on the exigencies of a morally righteous American legislature and judicial system, operating systematically and synergistically in concert or even independently in our “Supra”-Social Darwinian Regime.

Ultimately, however, if, indeed, there were any such legitimate procedural phenomenon as the “Dignified Transfer” of our putative “Dead/Fallen Heroes,” a phenomenon that, as already indicated at the beginning of this segment of our discourse on the raging deadly assault on Iran by Israel and the United States, does not muster the self-righteous approbation of America’s 45th and 47th President, then how come the American people and our Representatives have been and still continue to maintain a deathly silence while such flagrant and patently and scandalously egregious charade is being lavishly and orgiastically performed, nose-thumbing fashion, in our name by a President who cowardly evaded military service in Vietnam, in his age and time, and yet imperiously believes that he can capriciously define and luridly act out in our name, whatever he conveniently and opportunistically deems to serve his own parochial and egomaniacal interests and purposes?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
March 18, 2026
E-mail: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com

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