Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review April 4, 2026
This past week was what many Christians regard as Holy Week, starting with celebration of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday; mourning Christ’s crucifixion and death on Good Friday; continuing with prayer and church services on Holy Saturday; and concluding with the glory of Christ’s resurrection on Easter Sunday. Here in Washington things were predictably a bit different, starting with a President Donald Trump speech to the nation on Wednesday night which was a series of lies including how great the economy is doing. The intention was to address the American public concern over the ongoing war with Iran, in which he praised the valor of the US troops who are slaughtering Iranian schoolchildren before launching into a tirade demanding that Iran de facto surrender or he would bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages where it belongs” if it did not comply. On Holy Saturday Trump was at it again, threatening Iran. He warned on Truth Social that Iran’s “time is running out. Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!”
On Good Friday Trump followed up on this threats by requesting approval of a 2027 military budget proposed by the White House that would be $1.5 trillion, half a trillion more than this year, which does not even include the $200 billion recently requested by the Pentagon for the Iran war. Trump was following through on part of the Wednesday speech in which he had said that the United States cannot now spend money on the environment or “take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things.” Instead, the United States has to focus on its wars. “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care,” Trump said Wednesday. “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.” Some in the audience subsequently speculated that it was an odd comment, totally devoid of anything like Christian charity, to be coming out with just before Easter.
Interestingly, that very week a projection of the US National Debt if the increased military spending is approve estimated that if the deficit spending continues the debt will increase by nearly $7 trillion over the next decade from its current $39 trillion level, which is itself unsustainable. To no one’s surprise, Trump had previously increased the debt by $7.8 trillion during his first four years in office.
A news story also revealed that Trump has wasted $100 million of taxpayer money on his fifty-six trips to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, where he spent 110 days, to play golf. If he keeps up the pace, he will have spent half a billion dollars on golf by the time his term of office has ended. Apparently, there may not be money available for improving the healthcare of Americans but paying huge amounts to be able to play a game, which he allegedly cheats at, is all right.
But there was more than that. Early in the week on Palm Sunday Pope Leo denounced the Iran war as “atrocious,” observing that the United States had “hands full of blood.” This ran contrary to what Trump and his cheerleaders were promoting, particularly Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who has been evoking God and Jesus while calling for more war. The Pope’s response to that was “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war.”
Trump, who is affiliated with no known Christian denomination and may in fact be a convert to Judaism, has a so-called Christian spiritual adviser named Paula White-Cain. Early in the week she “advised” that American Christians should tithe their gross incomes and give the money (10%) to Israel. She stated that that would be compliant with what she claimed to be the right thing to do to avoid “disobeying God.” At a lunch at the White House later in the week she also compared Jesus Christ with Donald J Trump, an equation that shocked many in the actual Christian community. It might also be observed that the White House Faith Office, which White-Cain heads, was recently involved in the expulsion of its only Roman Catholic member Carrie Prejean Boller, who objected to the group’s inclusion of Zionism as a recognized and protected faith based on its political agenda and its war crimes in Palestine.
And speaking of Christianity and the Trump Administration, there was also celebration of Easter at the Pentagon, though some found one aspect of it rather odd. The event was on Good Friday and was billed as a religious gathering, though Pete Hegseth, who was the principal speaker, instructed the organizers to prohibit the attendance by Catholics. Signs were posted to that effect outside the gathering. Hegseth, who is an Evangelical Christian and ardent supporter of Israel and Zionism who has been promoting Christian religiosity in the armed services, may have been reacting to the Pope’s comments but his ban on Catholics, to put it mildly, provoked some controversy. An email sent out to Air Force personnel on Friday morning read “Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel.” One recipient responded anonymously with “I guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome. It’s so ridiculous.”
A final story with religious overtones surfaced also last week. The defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson, who was possibly set up by the government as the killer of Charlie Kirk in Utah in September, have revealed that they have been able to demonstrate through technical examination that Robinson’s rifle was not used to fire the fatal shot, which could mean that the FBI, which showed up at the scene astonishingly quickly and proceeded to take charge, may have had prior knowledge of what was about to take place. They intervened to include denying a doctor access to a possibly still living Kirk after he had been taken to a nearby hospital. Kirk notably had decided to end his support of Israel crimes in the Middle East and was prepared to go public with his criticism. Interestingly, when he was shot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on television almost immediately in Israel to declare that his country had had nothing to do with the killing! Hmmmm! I highly recommend today (Saturday’s) program featuring Larry Johnson with Judge Andrew Napolitano explaining in more detail how there has been a cover-up and at least some fingers are pointing at Israel colluding with the FBI!
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
Short, sweet and to the point.
A lot of points covered which should worry every American who loves his country.
Charlie Kirk official narrative about who killed him and how he was killed, complete baloney.
My comment on TUR same article:
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/trump-talks-war-for-easter-week/#comment-7571370
Good piece from Geraldi. Anyone who doesn’t clearly realize that we are slogging through a dystopia of utter absurdity and satanic inversion wouldn’t know shit from shampoo.
Zion Don the Con has proven to be among the most corrupt, compromised, and overtly mendacious political stooges in the history of history. It is also rather clear that he is criminally insane and stark raving mad.
Politicians lie their asses off, of course, to get (s)elected, but one would be hard pressed to find another candidate in the anals, er annals, of the Jewnited States who so dramatically betrayed their base of prole and ignorati supporters. But anyone who has been paying attention for the past, oh, couple decades has known that Chump is a Chabadnik lunatic and an obsequious cuck to Shlomo and the jew crew. The festering c*nt should be whipped in the streets, have a Talmud shoved u his ass, and hanged for treason and crimes against humanity.
That image at the top of the staged hit on Zion Don the Con, here are scores of dumb-f*cks who actually believe that shit show of pantomime theatre was an actual ass-assination attempt despite the laughable absurdity of everything about it. In a sane whirled, that asshole would be in prison and getting forcibly sodomized on the daily for trying to pull that stunt.
Then Giraldi mentioned the utterly shameless whore grifter Paula White. Watch the video about that deranged charlatan on the piece that was posted yesterday. I stand by my comment that she would blow a goat if a pair of shoes was part of the deal. Scum like her who exploit the mentally retarded and dangerously stupid should have their tongues ripped out and get worked over with tire irons and claw hammers, then told, “There’s more of that for you if you keep that shit up.” of course, the dumb-f*cks who actually fall for that shit aren’t blameless as they willingly parade into those inane asylums and sucker emporiums that double as “mega churches”.
Speaking of bat shit crazy and criminally insane, we have Pete Hegseth “who is an Evangelical Christian and ardent supporter of” Mordor and Zionism. As I have said ad nauseum, Evangelicals and “Christian Zionists” are among THE most dangerously stupid and deranged shit-bags on the planet. Hegseth is a very dangerous combination of frothingly insane, dumber than dog shit, and morally bankrupt…and deserves to get thrown into the street, his kneecaps and elbows shattered, have a few layers flayed off, rolled in pig shit and salt, then hanged in front of the Mordorian embassy.
Jewry and the Protocols of the “Learned” Elders of Zion have really done a number on the Jewnited States in their frenzy of degradation, exploitation, and destruction, and utter implosion is far more likely than any sort of actual recovery absent divine intervention…and I have to think that the Almighty just looks on in slack-jawed disbelief and mutters to Himself, “Well, they really f*cked that up.”
The average Americunt is far too gullible, stupid, hubristic, and ignorant, poisoned by decades of jew propaganda media mass formation psychoses, the dumbing down of the edjewcation system, and beaten down by the jewdiciary and regime chicanery to even recognize which end is up, let alone be able to work their way out of such a shit mix.
What are the consequences of so many conflicting news stories about the same topics? We get so confused by their clever mixing of truth with lies that we don’t believe anything they tell us anymore. We must judge by results. Remember what life was like 10 years or 20 years ago. Is it better or worse for us? If worse, who was in charge as it got worse? Those people and their colleagues did it. Expect more of the same as long as they are in charge. Look at the trajectory of their past actions and events and anticipate how they will increase them. Is there any point at which we can stop them? If so, how?
As I have noted before, I was once a practicing Catholic..but for numerous reasons now more an Agnostic.
There may be a “God” ….but not the obvious Jew god Satan/Lucifer
However,…this shit and abuse of Catholics as noted (below) is a sure sign this Iran war is Satanic,…pure evil. It is not acceptable but was predictable.
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“…..The event was on Good Friday and was billed as a religious gathering, though Pete Hegseth, who was the principal speaker, instructed the organizers to prohibit the attendance by Catholics. Signs were posted to that effect outside the gathering.
Hegseth, who is an Evangelical Christian and ardent supporter of Israel and Zionism who has been promoting Christian religiosity in the armed services, may have been reacting to the Pope’s comments but his ban on Catholics, to put it mildly, provoked some controversy. An email sent out to Air Force personnel on Friday morning read “Just a friendly reminder:
There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel.” One recipient responded anonymously with “vI guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome. It’s so ridiculous.”
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Trump, who is affiliated with no known Christian denomination and may in fact be a convert to Judaism, has a so-called Christian spiritual adviser named Paula White-Cain. Early in the week she “advised” that American Christians should tithe their gross incomes and give the money (10%) to Israel. She stated that that would be compliant with what she claimed to be the right thing to do to avoid “disobeying God.
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COMMENT:
These lunatic Christian Zionists are products of the Scofield Bible and its added and amended bullsh*te of the ” 2nd coming ” and “the Rapture” which is an alleged prophecy and that this current Kike war will lead to Jesus and Heaven.
The advantage is they , their beliefs, and their agenda stands out and they have exposed themselves and their Jew ass- kissing as enemies of the USA via their alliance with IsraHell.
The article lays out Trump is truly a psychotic..egomaniac..narcissist ….out -of -control ,etc. and if the USA wishes to survive…. it best arrest him and clean out the WHITE outHOUSE and its syncophants .
RE: Paula White C*nt says give 10% tithe to Israel?
This nutcase does us a favour re: founding of USA.
USA was settled by crypto Jews (Puritans etc) who avoided Catholicism and believed USA was the “New Jerusalem” ….so from Day One USA was a GOLEM for the Jews ( ain’t it obvious? )and now the trigger is being pulled…a plan centuries in the making now hatching.
However , they only have ONE shot…..will they succeed?
Regardless I really can’t beleive I am reading this shite……it is no longer a surprise but unfolding as we speak.
i learn so much from you guys
thanks rixon