Good Morning, America: Militarized, Humiliated, and Maybe Just Plain Nuts

Military powers expand at the border, global leaders condemn Trump’s Ukraine stance, and economic experts question his sanity

🌅 Good Morning! In a move that screams banana republic cosplay, the Trump administration quietly dropped a Friday night memo handing jurisdiction over public land along the southern border to the U.S. military. That’s right, military authority, not Border Patrol, not civilian agencies. Just good ol' fashioned uniformed force, ready to build walls, drop sensors, and maybe, just maybe, set up temporary detention facilities (because nothing says “land of the free” like wartime internment zones).

The Roosevelt Reservation stretching across California, Arizona, and New Mexico now effectively belongs to the Pentagon. American Indian reservations are exempt (for now), but the message is clear: Trump wants the border militarized, reclassified, and ready for wartime optics. His administration, having already declared a national emergency with record-low border crossings, seems determined to reenact Red Dawn in reverse except the only invasion appears to be coming from the executive branch.

While Trump paints a picture of national siege, the rest of the world is responding... not with polite diplomatic murmurs, but with open disgust. On British television, former government officials and commentators tore into Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, for suggesting Ukraine should be partitioned like post-WWII Germany. Yes, the victim of an unprovoked invasion is now being told to surrender half its land and be grateful.

“This is not diplomacy, it's historical amnesia,” one commentator snapped, calling the proposal “appalling” and “devoid of moral compass.” Others pointed out the obvious: Germany was divided because it was the aggressor. Ukraine is being invaded by a lunatic with czarist fantasies and a dwindling conscript pool. Yet here we are, with Trump’s envoys floating deals that smell suspiciously like appeasement, just days after his associate Steve Witkoff cozied up with Putin in Moscow to discuss... well, rare earth minerals, mostly.

Meanwhile, back in the markets, economists are asking a different question: What if this isn’t policy failure? What if it’s brain failure?

According to FSInsights’ Tom Lee, macro fund managers are privately speculating that Trump may be mentally unwell. Not ideologically extreme just clinically unstable. After a week of reciprocal tariffs, snap reversals, a 125% spike on Chinese goods followed by a 10% across-the-board “reset,” the market has been left dizzy, confused, and billions poorer. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan echoed concerns, warning that the U.S. is teetering on a needlessly induced recession, thanks to leadership more erratic than a Fox News guest segment on ketamine.

And then there’s Alina Habba, Trump’s personal law gremlin and chaos courier, who took to Fox News to announce a criminal investigation into New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and AG Matt Platkin. No, this isn’t satire. This is federal prosecutorial power used as a revenge tool because, presumably, someone didn’t bow low enough at Mar-a-Lago. Habba, widely regarded as ethically allergic to due process, is now weaponizing the DOJ like it’s a White House gift shop souvenir.

Thankfully, someone is fighting back. Enter Susman Godfrey, the law firm that forced Fox News into a $787.5 million settlement over their Big Lie bonanza. They’re now suing Trump over his April 9 executive order, which bans Susman lawyers from federal buildings, strips security clearances, and cancels contracts with their clients all because they dared to hold him accountable in court.

“The President is abusing the powers of his office to wield the might of the Executive Branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes.”
That’s from the complaint. The subtext? Trump’s vendetta politics now come with official letterhead and military-grade spite.

Of course, no Trumpian dumpster fire is complete without our co-president and part-time overlord, Elon Musk, who this week tried to quietly downgrade his grand DOGE promise of $2 trillion in government “savings” to… $150 billion.

Yes, that’s a 92.5% downgrade, for those keeping score.

And even that number is squishy because DOGE stopped reporting data after they got caught inflating cuts and misrepresenting contract terminations. Meanwhile, federal spending has gone up, the IRS has been gutted (letting tax cheats run wild), and foreign aid slashed leading to projected mass deaths among vulnerable children globally. But hey, we saved some toner paper, right?

To cap it all off, Elon decided this was a good week to amplify outright lies from Stephen Miller reposting a Fox News clip where Miller accused the Biden administration of trafficking 500,000 children. No evidence, no shame, just your typical authoritarian propaganda dressed up as “patriotic concern.” This follows Musk’s now-predictable pattern: amplify fascist disinfo, then retreat into memes and martyrdom when questioned.

And just when you think the descent couldn’t get more personal, it does.

“So be it, as soon as you march on 1600 Penn. Ave, I’ll ensure every veteran is there waiting… I’ll go back to federal service to hunt down those who reported me to fascistbook… Your post has poisoned my family against me, and I won’t have it anymore.”

That’s a direct message we received this week, a threat, a confession, and a cry for help rolled into one deranged screed. This is what happens when violent fantasy becomes a political strategy: some people believe it. They think they’re being called to war. They think they’re soldiers in a culture battle that justifies doxxing, threats, and vengeance.

They’re not alone. But they’re also not in charge yet.