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Progressive Charlestown: Earth-Destroying Trump and the Threat of World War III Progressive Charlestown a fresh, sharp look at news, life and politics in Charlestown, Rhode Island Menu Bar Home Calendar Topics Just Charlestown About Us Monday, May 18, 2026 Earth-Destroying Trump and the Threat of World War III The nightmare that is Donald Trump Tom Engelhardt in the TomDispatch Unlike every other column of mine, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break. In that context, here’s my advice to you: Don’t get old. For years, I managed not to do so, but unfortunately that’s all over now and I’m increasingly an old

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Progressive Charlestown: Earth-Destroying Trump and the Threat of World War III Progressive Charlestown a fresh, sharp look at news, life and politics in Charlestown, Rhode Island Menu Bar Home Calendar Topics Just Charlestown About Us Monday, May 18, 2026 Earth-Destroying Trump and the Threat of World War III The nightmare that is Donald Trump Tom Engelhardt in the TomDispatch Unlike every other column of mine, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break. In that context, here’s my advice to you: Don’t get old. For years, I managed not to do so, but unfortunately that’s all over now and I’m increasingly an old man. In fact, I’m not quite two years older than Donald J. Trump. I was born on July 20, 1944, while World War II was still ongoing, and he was born on June 14, 1946, in the peacetime that followed but would all too soon become the Cold War with the Soviet Union. And let me tell you something else: these days it’s hard enough to keep the website I still run, TomDispatch , in some kind of reasonable shape, while also keeping track of our ever-stranger, more confusing, all-too-Trumpian world. But keeping track of things nationally and globally as an 80-year-old president of the United States (with another two-and-a-half years to go) in a world that seems to be coming apart at the — whoops, sorry, I can’t help it! — seams? I simply can’t imagine that. Of course, I couldn’t imagine it for Joe Biden either, and yet he left the presidency when he was a staggering 82 years and 61 days old and will still have been younger than Trump if he truly makes it to January 20, 2029. (And both of them will have beaten the oldest Roman Emperor, Gordian I, who at 81 only lasted a few weeks in power.) It’s hardly news that Donald Trump is now the oldest president ever to take the oath of office (twice!) and, in that sense, he’s been both record-setting and, in his own strange way, remarkable. But in case you hadn’t noticed, while he’s always had his odd moments, they are indeed getting ever odder and more frequent. After all, how many times has this country had a president who mistook himself for (or do I mean confused himself with) Jesus Christ? Oh, wait, how could I be so confused? That image wasn’t of Jesus but (as “our” president insisted) of a lookalike medical doctor . (“I thought it was me as a doctor,” Trump said. “Only the fake news could come up with that.”) And meanwhile, of course, in his own ever stranger fashion, “our” president took out after Leo , the American pope, himself a veritable youth at 70 years old, calling him of all things, “WEAK on crime” and, of course, “catering to the Radical Left.” Oh, and while he was at it,

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