How Do You Defend the Indefensible?©

 How Do You Defend the Indefensible?© 

Updated: Wednesday, 3 December 2025

This week President Trump, in his undeniable authoritarian manner, crossed a line that even many of his long-time supporters find impossible to defend, because it is indefensible. Six members of Congress, all military veterans or former CIA, published a short video recommending to today’s military that they are oath-bound not to follow or carry out an illegal order.  

The President took to his favorite medium, “Truth Social” to lash out in several posts, the last two of which said this was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH” and a later re-posted comment that Democrats should be hanged.

In the following firestorm, some of his supporters had difficulty defending the indefensible. Mike Johnson said they were not the words he would choose, Lindsey Graham said the remarks were "over the top" and the President’s press secretary, when asked if the President wants to hang members of Congress said, “No,” but immediately, as is her and her boss’s want, went on the attack. But she mis-characterized the video as insubordination to the Commander-in-Chief, just as the Commander-in-Chief himself mis-characterized it. Leavitt intentionally left out the fact that the video stressed “illegal” orders.

Despite the fact that Leavitt said the president didn't want to hang the producers of the video, this is nonetheless a default reaction for the President. His character when under fire shows us where his mind and heart have been feeding. He is a pathological and violent man. His heart is filled with vengeance, anger, hate, and savagery. Evidence mounts by the day, week, and month of his true authoritarian nature--another indefensible issue.

For this record, I oppose, denounce, and publically speak out against a President who calls for the death of those who oppose him. He is so thin-skinned–and his skin seems to be getting thinner by the day–and so abominably ignorant that he nor his press secretary attack dog, know the difference between the words “legal” and “illegal”--if he is opposed it is automatically illegal--or they choose to ignore the difference, which itself is an ignorant move. But Leavitt is just a loyal attack dog and her ignorance is that she thinks the MAGA base will believe and accept her mis-representation of the video’s message.

The President continues to take things to new levels of low, even when you think he cannot. THIS IS REALLY DANGEROUS STUFF! We’ve never seen anything like it from a sitting President. And every American should be outraged and reject it and its proponent(s). Charlie Kirk's assassination and recent threats against Marjorie Taylor Greene and the “thousands” of immediate threats the six contributors to the video received following DJT’s remarks, among other examples, demonstrate the danger. President Trump is well aware of this. He does not rebuke or shun it, he leads the charge, taking it to a new nadir. He likes not only the “fight,” but he likes the violence, cruelty, pain, suffering, hate, and intimidation involved. American’s should be enraged that their leader descends to this brutalism on a daily basis. No American should ever defend this indefensible barbarism.

For me there is hope, not hopelessness. I see signs of a crack in MAGA, and I know Almighty God is in control. God forgive us for electing a heathen who relishes the barbarity of fascists, Nazis, and dictators.

Note, 3 December 2025:  On Monday, 1 December 2025, President Trump tweeted from the White House the following relative to the video Mark Kelly and others produced late in November.  He wrote:

Mark Kelly and the group of Unpatriotic Politicians were WRONG to do what they did and they know it!  I hope the people looking at them are not duped into thinking that it’s OK to openly and freely get others to disobey the President of the United States!

Again the President appears to purpously misinterpret the message of the Kelly, et al, video.  The lawmakers encouraged troops to refuse to carry out "illegal" orders, but our myopic and narcissistic President interprets the video's message as getting "others to disobey the President of the United States!" Obviously he thinks that as President his word is law--the very definition of a dictator. His incredible ignorance is incapable of making the not-so-subtle distinction between encouraging people not to follow illegal orders and disobeying the President--unless of course, all of his orders are illegal.  It is sad to see the leader of the free world, one who considers himself "a stable genius," to be this intellectually unable. Or, he knows exactly what he is doing in twisting every single thing to be about him and his authority. Even MAGA supporters should be able to see this is either monumental stupidity or equally monumental hutzpa, but it isn't truth or anything near it.  How long are the Maga folks willing to allow themselves to be, in the President's word, "duped" by him?

Let’s think together again, soon.