6 April—It was on this day in 1917 that President Woodrow Wilson signed the declaration of war against Germany after it had been approved by both houses of Congress, thus legally—as well as with just cause, of course—entering what was at the time generally known as the Great War and the World War. Although some pessimists, realists, and clairvoyants called it World War I or the First World War at the time, the numerical designation didn’t come into common use until the outbreak of World War II or the Second World War in 1939. Why would it have?

Yesterday, as if the unhinged tyrannical ignoramus Donald Trump has ever had the slightest inkling of or interest in anything that happened in 1917, he brought us still closer to World War III or the Third World War with his latest revulsive vituperation on his execrable antisocial medium that once again threatened to devastate Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including electric generating stations and oil wells, if the mullahs didn’t—don’t—give him his way and open the Strait of Hormuz: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

A crazy bastard calling crazy bastards crazy bastards. And using dirty words. That’s precisely why his MAGA morons worship Trump.

In all events, that’s what the self-proclaimed President of Peace promised or threatened, the narcissist who boasted, “The only thing that can stop me is my own morality, my own mind,” the first which he never had, the second which he clearly lost. You wonder if the demented dictator is even aware of the horrendous war crimes he’d be ordering American armed forces to commit and that as commander in chief the buck stops with him, exposing him to a possible death penalty under both United States and international law. Come to think of it, he’s already committed horrendous war crimes.

Article II of the Constitution deals with impeachment of federal officers, including the president. Impeachment by Congress for high crimes and misdemeanors against the state is a political process rather than a criminal trial—even if a federal officer is in fact guilty of crimes. Donald Trump is undeniably guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors against the state, the people, and the world. He should therefore be impeached a third time—and this time convicted and thus removed from office. (And then tried in criminal court and convicted of those crimes. Along with all the others he’s clearly guilty of.)

There’s also the 25^th Amendment to the Constitution, which authorizes the vice president and a majority of the cabinet—or such other body that may be designated by Congress—to declare a president incapacitated and unable to govern, thus making the vice president the acting president.

So even given the virtual impunity injudiciously bestowed on presidents by the current majority on the Supreme Court, a sitting cabinet comprising demonstrably incompetent flunkies who profess complete and utter loyalty and obeisance to Trump only for their own advantage, and Trumpublican majorities in both houses of Congress scared to rub the tyrant the wrong way for their own political survival, isn’t it time for Donald Trump to be removed before he does any more damage to America and the world?

And not just from the presidency . . .