Trump's Midweek Meltdown
While America Mourned, Trump Raged, Fled, and Threatened War
Murder, Missiles, and a Coward-in-Chief
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Murders, Missiles, and a President Unfit to Lead
There are weeks in history where a presidency is tested, and then there are weeks when the country realizes it’s already failed the test. June 14–18, 2025, not even a goddam week, was one such reckoning. America witnessed political assassinations on its own soil, a global diplomatic summit unravel before our eyes, and a military flashpoint in the Middle East threaten to ignite a regional war. What did President Donald J. Trump do in response?
He refused to call a grieving governor.
He got cut off mid-ramble at the G7 by the Canadian Prime Minister.
He fled the summit before meeting with Ukraine’s President.
And he threatened to bomb Tehran on Truth Social.
While families buried the dead in Minnesota and allies scrambled for unity in Alberta, Trump stewed in his own ego, posted veiled nuclear threats from the sky, and doubled down on isolationist tantrums. This wasn’t leadership, it was abdication. The President of the United States was not present. Not morally. Not diplomatically. Not constitutionally.
And the world noticed.
Blood in Minnesota, Silence in Washington
On the morning of June 14, America woke up to one of the most horrifying acts of political violence in recent memory. Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old former Workforce Development Board member, disguised himself as a police officer, donned a silicone mask, and embarked on a pre-dawn murder spree targeting elected Democratic officials in Minnesota.
His first victims were State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. He shot them both multiple times at their Champlin home. Senator Hoffman survived with gunshot wounds to his elbow and abdomen; his wife suffered three gunshot wounds and remains in critical condition. Boelter then drove to Brooklyn Park, where he fatally shot State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
Authorities later found a target list in Boelter’s vehicle with 70 names, Democratic politicians, abortion rights advocates, journalists, and doctors. Among them: Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, who was subsequently placed under protection by federal agents.
This was not random violence. It was politically motivated terror, a MAGA death squad in miniature. And while federal agents launched a nationwide manhunt, and Democratic leaders publicly mourned the dead, the President of the United States… said nothing.
Worse than nothing.
Later, aboard Air Force One, Trump was asked if he planned to call Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. His reply? “The guy’s a mess… Why would I waste time calling him?”
Waste time.
It was one of the most grotesque moments of Trump’s second term. While Vice President JD Vance and even former President Biden called Walz to coordinate federal response, classic fucking MAGAts lashed out with petty insults and a blatant lie, falsely blaming Walz for appointing the gunman, when records appear to show the appointment happened under Walz’s predecessor.
This wasn’t just presidential dereliction. It was calculated cruelty. It was yet another example of Trump weaponizing grief as a political cudgel. In a normal country, presidents comfort the nation after political violence. In Trump’s America, he blames the victims and picks fights from 30,000 feet.
Trump at the G7: Diplomacy Derailed by Narcissism
As Minnesota mourned, Trump landed in Kananaskis, Alberta, for the 2025 G7 Summit, a global meeting that quickly devolved into another chapter of Trump’s performative dysfunction.
Instead of rallying allies to contain the escalating Israel-Iran war or reinforcing Western support for Ukraine, Trump spent the summit undermining decades of diplomatic progress. He opened his mouth and immediately set the tone: blaming the war in Ukraine on the G7’s decision to expel Russia in 2014. “If we hadn’t kicked Putin out,” Trump said, “maybe he wouldn’t have done what he did.”
That wasn’t just revisionist. It was treacherous.
Then came the press conference fiasco. Canadian PM Mark Carney, as summit chair, tried to wrap things up after Trump began veering into an incoherent rant about oil prices and tariffs. “If you don’t mind,” Carney interjected, “I’m going to exercise my role as chair…” He smiled politely. Trump glared. The message was unmistakable: you’re done, Don.
Trump reportedly stormed out of the summit, skipping the dinner afterward, skipping meetings with key allies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had traveled thousands of miles hoping for a face-to-face. Trump left before he even landed.
He missed bilateral meetings with Australia’s Anthony Albanese and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum. He blew off sessions on trade, climate, and coordinated sanctions. And then he left the summit a full day early, without warning most attendees.
The press spun it as “strategic urgency.” The reality? It was pure flight. Trump, uncomfortable, impatient, and unprepared, bailed on global diplomacy at its most fragile moment. While Prime Ministers tried to salvage a joint statement, the U.S. blocked its release. Canada opted to issue its own independent support for Ukraine after Trump refused to sign on.
The optics were devastating. The U.S., the backbone of postwar diplomacy, had become its weakest link.
The Zelensky Snub and the Global Fallout
Zelensky’s planned meeting with Trump was supposed to be a diplomatic reset. The war in Ukraine had dragged into its fourth year. Russia was probing NATO's eastern flank again. Ukraine needed U.S. backing, militarily, economically, symbolically.
Instead, he got ghosted.
The Ukrainian president touched down in Alberta expecting to lobby for sanctions, weapons, and long-term partnership. He arrived to an empty chair. The U.S. delegation offered “deep regrets,” but the message had already been sent: we're done caring.
Even worse, Trump’s early exit effectively sabotaged a unified G7 statement on Ukraine. Canada, after pushback from the White House, scaled back its wording and cut portions referencing future military escalations. Macron, visibly frustrated, pushed forward with a ceasefire initiative between Iran and Israel, which Trump mocked as “publicity-seeking.”
It was a diplomatic trainwreck. A crisis summit became a leadership vacuum. Trump’s pettiness and unpredictability had once again left America’s allies scrambling, and left its adversaries emboldened.
Trump’s Iran Rhetoric Turns a War Into a Game Show
By June 16, the Middle East had exploded. Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion” had unleashed five waves of airstrikes on Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure. The scale was massive, 200 aircraft, over 300 munitions, dozens of high-value targets eliminated. Iran responded with a barrage of missiles and suicide drones, killing civilians in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
The world held its breath. Diplomats huddled. UN emergency sessions were called.
And then Trump logged onto Truth Social.
“Iran should have signed the deal I told them to sign. What a shame. What a waste of human life. Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.”
The next day, he escalated again: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding… He is safe there, or now.”
This was not a statesman issuing calibrated warnings. This was a delusional, petty fucking man stoking flames for clicks. He wasn’t diffusing tensions, he was playing footsie with Armageddon.
Military advisers reportedly briefed Trump on the possibility of bombing Iran’s Fordow enrichment site. Sources say he was “very interested.” He later told press: “I’m not in the mood to negotiate. I want a real end, not another fake ceasefire.”
This is how world wars start, not through planning, but through ego.
Polls, Panic, and the Crumbling Illusion of Control
Underneath the chaos, the numbers told a quieter story: Americans were losing faith.
Pew Research showed Trump’s approval plummeting to 40%. Among younger voters, that number cratered below 30%. Even among self-identified Republicans, only 75% of “less enthusiastic” Trump voters still supported him, a 13-point drop from April.
An Elon University poll revealed 67% of Americans feared a constitutional crisis. Forty-seven percent believed Trump had already gone “too far” with executive orders. Bipartisan trust in American institutions? In freefall.
The Minnesota murders, the G7 exit, the Iran saber-rattling, it all reinforced one thing: this president is a crisis accelerant, not a crisis manager.
A Presidency Unfit for a World on Fire
What does it say when a nation mourns political assassinations and the president mocks the governor?
When allies call for unity and the president walks out of the room?
When the world teeters on nuclear escalation, and the Commander-in-Chief uses social media to taunt religious leaders and threaten annihilation?
It says the crisis isn’t just in Minnesota, or Gaza, or Tehran. It’s right here, in the Oval Office and in the streets of America.
Trump didn’t lead this week. He fled. He threatened. He postured. And worst of all, he didn’t care.
If this is how he handles one week of tragedy and war, what will happen when the next shoe drops?
The fuse is lit. The clock is ticking. And Trump’s still holding the match.
