SATURDAY: We hope to hit the ground running...

 SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026

...after the world lost a week: We hit the ground running, admittedly at a rather slow speed, after yesterday's medical summit.

Results from the summit were several: 

One pharmaceutical was kicked to the curb. Another was replaced by a substitute. We returned to our sprawling campus, fell into a deep sleep.

These pharmaceuticals today! At any rate, "Doc" assured us we'd be back on track—and our current reports will (we hope) resume on Monday morning.

Where we left off:

"Who talks like that," David Remnick had said, speaking to Jen Psaki. For the sake of clarity, we'll highlight that excellent question:

Who talks like that?

Also, Megyn Kelly has asked several similar questions, including these:

Can’t he just behave like a normal human? What does that say about him?

One possible answer to all those questions is stunningly obvious. The fact that no one knows how to provide it—or the fact that no one is willing to do so—is anthropology all the way down concerning our bodies, ourselves.

One possible answer is blindingly obvious. With a bit of luck, we'll return to this topic at the start of the week. 

Almost surely, the president isn't "a normal human." But what's the excuse, or the explanation, for the conduct of everyone else?

ILLNESS: "Who talks like this?" David Remnick had said!

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2026

And then, we had Megyn Kelly: And then, we had Megyn Kelly's reaction to the president's recent threats. 

To view the tape, you can just click here. With apologies for our decision not to bleep, we think we can answer her questions: 

KELLY (4/7/26): I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this shit! I’m just—I’m sick of it. Can’t he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president—“3D chess.” Just shut up! Fucking shut up about that shit! 

You don’t threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We’re talking about civilians, just casually in a social media post. 

You know, like, I am the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary...But this is completely irresponsible and disgusting. This is wrong. It’s wrong. He should not be doing it.

I don’t care that it’s a negotia–his negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians–men, women, and children–an American president, so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? It’s just wrong. It’s not hard to say it, it’s not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this. Like, he can’t negotiate without doing this? What does that say about him? What does that say about the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? 

He’s got to say this? He can’t be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes? Like what is he, Genghis Khan? Like, what is he trying to do and why can’t he do it with strength–threats, sure, go for it–that don’t diminish and demean the United States of America in this way?  

So she said, on Tuesday's edition of The Megyn Kelly Show. For today, we'll regard these as her basic questions: 

Can’t he just behave like a normal human? What does that say about him?  

We think we can provide one (obvious) possible answer to those important questions. In yesterday's post, we said the same thing about David Remnick's recent question:

Who talks like this, Remnick had said.

We think we know how to answer these questions. 

Tomorrow morning, we're going down to see the doc. If we can start to return to normal levels of energy and focus, we'll be happy to tell you what one obvious answer is.

ILLNESS: "Who talks like this?" the gentleman said!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026

We think we have his answer: Yesterday morning, President Trump offered this post on Truth Social:

Truth Social
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The president gave his blessing to "the great people of Iran," even as he threatened, during the day, to destroy all their bridges and all their power plants and to destroy their ancient civilization.

At the start of last evening's The Last Word, after the president had announced a fourteen day pause, Lawrence O'Donnell suggested that the president's threats had already destroyed "a whole civilization"—our own. 

He said the mere fact of the past week's threats had created "a stain" on the way the United States is seen around the world. He said that stain will never be washed away. 

We don't know if that's right or that's wrong. 

Near the end of the previous hour, David Remnick had appeared on The Briefing with Jen Psaki. 

Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker ever since 1998.  He had a question to ask about the president's astonishing threats:  

"Who talks like this?" Remnick asked. 

He had asked a very good question. We'll guess that Remnick is aware of one (obvious) possible answer.

At this site, we feel fairly sure that we can answer his question! Because we're still weirdly under the weather, we'll offer the answer tomorrow.