THURSDAY: Sitting president reverts to form, part 2!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2026

The problem we're still all facing: David French says that Pete Hegseth should have been impeached this week. 

Beyond that, he says that Hegseth should be impeached next year, after Democrats take control of both Houses of Congress.  He gives detailed reasons for his view—and French, as you know, is smart.   

His reasoning may make technical sense. On the other hand, we give you this latest reversion to form by the sitting president:

Trump Erupts at ‘CORRUPT AND EVIL’ Democrats, Others in Flurry of Early-Morning Truth Social Posts

President Donald Trump was up early on Thursday, unleashing several Truth Social screeds to eviscerate the “CORRUPT AND EVIL” Democrats who have accused his White House of corruption.

Posting to Truth Social just before 6 a.m., Trump called Democrats “the most Corrupt and anti-American groups of political leaders and hacks,” and accused the party of calling his administration corrupt to distract from “TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED” fraud in blue states.   

And so on from there. 

Below, you see the first of five such posts by the disordered president. In his report for Mediaite, Tom Durante posts the texts of four of the Truth Social posts:  

Truth Details   

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Democrat Party, lead by one of the most Corrupt and anti-American groups of political leaders and hacks in the history of our Country, and even the World, is doing everything in their power to get away from MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION by saying, over and over again, that the Trump Administration is corrupt. It is a sound bite that they viciously use, over and over again, in order to nullify the TREMENDOUS & UNPRECEDENTED theft that has taken place in our Blue States – Minnesota, California, and others, all over the U.S.A. I, perhaps foolishly because the Fake News refuses to write about it, including in my First Term, don’t even take a Salary, worth Millions of Dollars. I am the only President to have done so! In any event, THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite! Fight hard, Republicans, or you won’t have a Country left! President DONALD J. TRUMP    

This man will function as sitting president for more than two more years. How do you think he'll choose to run the Department of Defense if Hegseth is suddenly gone?

On its face, the president's presence in office seems dangerous. It would help if Democrats and denizens of  Blue America understood the various ways our own bad judgment, and  our own dishonesty, helped send him to the Oval Office for each of his two terms.   

Sadly, we Blues helped create this dangerous situation; we aren't always perfectly sharp. And even now, our political and journalistic leaders still refuse to discuss the president's likely medical / mental health situation in a serious way.  

In the meantime, factions are already starting to form among us Blues, as factions are wont to do. Wisely or otherwise, some Dems already seem to be hoping for one, two, many trials.

Will last week's astounding electoral sweep turn into something more lasting? In significant part, Democrats were able to win so many elections, in so many locales, because the sitting president  was making an undisguised fool of himself on a daily basis, every day, for the bulk of the past year.  

That helped Blue candidates flip red states. The sitting president may still be behaving that way by November 2028, but who knows what he may have decided to do before we could manage to get there?

French says Hegseth should be impeached. It's possible that he's right.