Only one out of every five Americans supported striking Iran, before it happened. Only one out of four trust Trump with military force, and only 14% of independents.

Trump bombed little girls in Iran anyway. He will always do it anyway, because the point is ignoring consent. The point is demonstrating that when he sees a girl he can “grab’em” or shoot them.

This is the same logic in the hotel room, at the Epstein party, on the burning boat. The victim’s resistance isn’t for Trump to overcome, it’s the proof nobody can take away his power over the weakest victims. Being unpopular isn’t a political problem for him, it’s his brand. The more unpopular the more he demands respect.

Every poll showing supermajority opposition is another little girl with the door blocked, another phone taken, another “no” overridden. The cruelty and the unpopularity serve the same function: Hegseth and Trump laugh that no one can stop them from taking advantage, losing control while punching down.

Hegseth tattoos “kafir” on his arm — Arabic for infidel — right below “Deus Vult,” the Crusader battle cry. He chanted “Kill All Muslims” at a bar in Ohio. He titled his book American Crusade. He wears the hate on his skin and dares you to object, because your objection is his sense of meaning. The tattoo isn’t a belief statement. It’s a hate word for dominance display. Just like the “kill everybody” order on a burning boat in the Caribbean, just like the double-tap strike on survivors clinging to wreckage. The hate is the fuel. The revulsion of decent people is the validation.

Trump allegedly punched a 13-year-old Epstein girl in the head when she bit his penis. The FBI interviewed the victim four times.

His own Justice Department is now illegally withholding over 50 pages of those FBI files from the public release, mandated by a law he himself signed. He says the files “totally exonerated” him, which is why they’re being hidden.

The psychology of dominating helpless doesn’t scale to state-on-state, given what we’ve seen recently. Hegseth failed so badly in the Houthi attacks that he ceded the entire region and Israel had to unilaterally recognize a new state. The Pentagon demanded restraint on weapons automation be removed and then shot down three of its own F15 fighter jets in one night.

America now just produces atrocities that generate retaliation cycles. Trump bombs schools in Minab. Missiles hitting Beit Shemesh. 100s of children dead on day one. And the same men who have spent their lives denying what they did to individual victims are now denying what they’re doing to entire populations, while the DOJ hides the receipts and the Senate twice voted down resolutions to limit the authority.

The deepest structural problem is that the institutions that are supposed to check these men — the courts, the FBI, the Senate, the DOJ — have been systematically degraded to the point where the same behavioral pattern that should have ended both their careers instead got them the keys to the largest military on earth. There’s a failure of institutional accountability operating at civilizational scale, expressing bombing little girls as American foreign policy.