Hamid Mir
The American people had been disgusted with their President Donald Trump for a long time, but on March 28, this disgust turned into a nationwide popular uprising. On a single day, millions of people took to the streets in dozens of American cities chanting “Go Trump Go.” Trump, who attacked Iran in early March 2026 with Israel and told the Iranian people to take to the streets for regime change, took to the streets against Trump within just four weeks. The biggest reason for this public uprising against Trump is his war against Iran, which has also started to give economic shocks to the American people. One of the main reasons for the growing hatred against Trump among ordinary Americans is that Trump promised his people to become president for the second time that he would not push America into new wars. Trump did not do anything in his first term that would make him president for a second time, but he attracted Americans with his anti-war slogan and then promised to deport those who entered the United States illegally based on the slogan “America First”.
Trump promised that the United States spends trillions of dollars on wars in other countries, and he would not only save trillions of dollars by ending wars but also create jobs for Americans by deporting those who entered the United States illegally. After becoming president for the second time, Trump started a campaign against foreigners, but he broke his promise not to start new wars. After becoming president for the second time, Trump bombed Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Iraq and Yemen. He attacked Venezuela and angered Europe by expressing his desire to occupy Greenland. He attacked Iran in 2025 and announced that we had ended Iran’s nuclear programme.
In 2026, another attack was launched on Iran, saying that the aim of the attack was to achieve regime change as well as to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. Trump believed that regime change would occur in Iran after the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and that the same would happen in Iran, just as American companies seized Venezuela’s oil reserves after the arrest of the Venezuelan president. All of Trump’s predictions about Iran turned out to be wrong. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, creating an oil crisis worldwide. As the war dragged on, public disapproval of Trump turned into hatred. European countries refused to join Trump’s war against Iran. Iran began attacking US military bases in the Gulf countries, which also damaged America’s reputation as a superpower.
Orthodox Jews in the United States also announced their disapproval of Trump and Netanyahu’s war against Iran, and comments appeared in the American media saying that Netanyahu had blackmailed Trump into a war in which America had no interest. The most criticism was that after the attack on Iran in 2025, Trump claimed that we had eliminated Iran’s nuclear capability. Why was it said again after the second attack on Iran in 2026 that we wanted to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capability? Was what Trump had claimed in 2025 a lie? Several senators from Trump’s own party objected that how could the United States start another war without the approval of Congress? On Saturday, the slogan that we do not want a monarchy in America was also raised in protests Trump in all major cities in the United States. In these protests against Trump, Trump was called a liar. Many banners described Trump as a madman. Seeing these banners reminded me of a book by a well-known American psychologist, Bandy Lee. In 2017, Bandy, with the help of 27 American psychologists, published a book called The Dangerous Case of Trump, in which he analysed several psychological and neurological illnesses of Trump. This book stated that many American presidents had mental illnesses even before Trump. Abraham Lincoln was a patient of depression; Lyndon Johnson was suffering from bipolar disorder. Ronald Reagan had amnesia. Richard Nixon used to lie a lot, but Donald Trump’s psychological and neurological illnesses are so severe that he is not eligible to become the President of the United States. In this book, Professor James Gilligan of New York University wrote in his article that Trump is not only dangerous to himself but also to others. If he becomes president, he will kill as many people in a few seconds as any dictator would have killed in his many years in power. This book was widely discussed in the American media, and Trump’s mental state was considered a threat to America. Call it a feature of democracy or a flaw, many voters ignored the warnings of psychologists and re-elected Trump as president.
Now, Americans are starting to remember the warnings of these psychologists again. Trump, who is emotionally agitated and selfish, has started calling the Strait of Hormuz the Trump Strait during his speech. He sometimes speaks derogatory words about the Saudi Crown Prince in one speech, and the next moment he starts praising him. Trump has become a threat not only to his enemies but also to his friends. He has forgotten all the promises he made to the American people. The people have come out on the streets against him for this breach of promise. In a democracy, it is permissible to go out on the streets and shout slogans, but slogans do not change the government. He can be impeached to remove Trump from power, and this decision is up to Congress. We only know that the famous American scholar Noam Chomsky wrote a book many years ago, the Urdu translation of which was published under the name “Rogue States”. In this book, Chomsky wrote that the US government calls Iran, Iraq and North Korea as rogue states, but in reality, the biggest rogue state in the world is America itself, which does not respect any international law. Trump’s recent actions have proven Chomsky right. Now who will treat the mentally ill president of this rogue state? No one else can do this, the US Congress itself, because there is a cure for a rogue president in US law. Congress has to save democracy from a rogue president and also save America.
