Trump delivers the sickest, vilest, most wildly dishonest speech in all U.S. history

In addressing the Israeli parliament today, Donald Trump accomplished what only yesterday was altogether unimaginable: He made his collected rhetorical works of surely unsurpassable malevolence, stupidity and inhumanity sound like Reinhold Niebuhr lectures.

Trump slandered two U.S. presidents, his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Trump turned to Israeli President Issac Herzog and said, "Hey, I have an idea, Mr. President. Why don't you give [Bibi Netanyahu] a pardon?"

Trump said "We are going to have hope, harmony, opportunity and happiness here in the spiritual and geographic center of the entire world."

It's the Palestinians, said Trump — not Hamas, the Palestinians — next door to the world's happy center who must turn forever from the path of terror and violence.

Trump said Netanyahu "would call me so many times. Can you get me this weapon? That weapon, that weapon.... We'd get them here.... They are the best.... You used them well."

Our and Netanyahu's weapons killed more than 67,000 Palestinians. Dozens more of the dead are recovered daily as the rubble is cleared.

Trump said "Now is the time [for Gaza] to concentrate on building [its] people up instead of trying to tear Israel down."

Gaza helplessly watched Israel tear apart its healthcare and sanitation systems.

Trump said that Gazans must, at long last, concentrate on economic development and the restoration of "stability" and "dignity."

The U.N. says Gaza City is officially in a state of famine, and throughout there's severe hunger because of the degradations of Israel's war crimes and socially destabilizing shutdown of aid.

Gaza City

Trump said the ceasefire represents "the end of a war."

Israel's war lastingly laid waste to virtually all of Gaza's farmland, polluted its wells, rendered its other water sources unsafe for agricultural use, bulldozed its orchards, killed its livestock and wiped out its fishing industry.

Trump said "Gaza will be immediately demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed."

Knowledgeable observers are saying No way — the ceasefire plan lacks mechanisms to achieve either one.

Trump said that "after two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. And it is glorious."

Forty-four-year-old father Saed Abu Aita said to the NY Times that in Gaza "there’s nothing to be happy about. My two daughters were killed, my home was destroyed."

How does a writer smoothly wrap a survey of such grotesque indifference by an American leader toward an entire people's crippling pain, loss, and enduring hardship? His pettiness and ineffable crudity? His giddiness over weapons of mass destruction "used well" in a genocidal crusade?

I guess I just wrapped it with ineffable — though not smoothly. I can't.

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Cross-posted in Substack.