I guess it’s luck on our part that Donald Trump is such an incompetent fool that we have lost the war with Iran, because it’s likely that no more of our people will be killed, and no more Iranian civilians will die. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-just-wan...

With everyone in Trump’s administration taking example from the biggest no-nothing of them all, it isn’t just know-nothing-ism that’s on the march. It’s gin-soaked-know-nothing-ism, and Trump himself doesn’t even have alcohol abuse as an excuse. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

Trump will squeak and moan and whine and brag on Truth Social that he “won” in Iran. Iran will know the truth, and they will make sure that the whole world knows what a pitiful helpless crumbling lying fool is Donald Trump. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/irans-stra...

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Hegseth tries to re-institute mandatory chapel attendance at West Point and the other Academies. The virus of religious prejudice is like measles, the most transmissible disease there is. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

I said, that’s bullshit, Dad. But it wasn’t. When I got in the Army, I knew more than any 22-year-old Second Lieutenant should know about men and power and the army. That knowledge and what I did with it would end my career almost exactly one year later. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

In my army personnel file was a letter on White House stationery from Brigadier General Alexander Haig. It was a warning that this officer, Truscott, was a known radical who was disloyal to the army and was suspected of being a Communist. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

Haig took his feet off his desk and slapped a little stack of papers, saying they were the requests we had handed in to the finance department. Glaring at me, he said, I know what you’re up to. This is a way to go after mandatory chapel, isn’t it? luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

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We’re talking about the year 1967, what you might call a pivotal year for the country and the war in Vietnam. The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album was released. Jimi Hendrix came out with his important first album, Are You Experienced. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

We have broken our own hearts and the hearts of everyone who once believed in us as a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. It is left to us to turn the lights on again and power them without killing ourselves and the living things around us. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-are-bre...

I reported to the office of the brand new colonel who had just been assigned to be the Third Regimental Tactical Officer. His name was Colonel Alexander M. Haig. Yes, that Alexander M. Haig. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

Roy Cohn would be so proud. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/melania-de...

In four years at West Point, I don’t think I told anyone I was a descendent of Jefferson. I certainly did not tell any of the West Point authorities with whom a few years later I would do battle over the issue of mandatory chapel. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-west-p...

I guess we have reached the sad nadir as a nation that we should be thankful Trump is an outrageous crook. The only thing that’s saving us, and the world, from Trump using a nuclear weapon is his greed. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/forty-days...

As a wartime president, he is just the same hollow poseur he’s always been. He didn’t get a victory, he got the same sort of lame-ass withdrawal that has ended every other war we have fought since 1945. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-not-ta...

I decided to finally accomplish my taking-a-night-off mission with photos of me and our cats, because there is no need, tonight at least, to further annoy and disturb my loyal readers, because cats good and Trump bad. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-man-and-...

Donald Trump will never learn what people without his privilege have known all their lives. It is why he will lose his war on Iran, and he will lose the war he has waged against his own people in his own country. He is a bully and we aren’t. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-going-t...

Physically, he resembles a hunched-over half-speed Frankenstein monster, and he goes from jabbering like a magpie to mumbling like an animated corpse in a horror movie, sometimes within moments. And it’s all business as usual to the mainstream media. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dont-belie...

I have to say that I am glad my father and my grandfathers are dead and buried and are not here to see the desecration of the service to this country which they loved and to which they dedicated their lives. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-hegset...

This is where we find ourselves, We have a physically ill and mentally disabled president and a war overseen by a dry drunk Christian nationalist with Nazi tattoos on his body who has compared the war against a nation of Muslims to the Crusades. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/yet-anothe...

I would employ the satirical phrase from the movie “Borat” – “Is this a great country, or what?” – except for the sad fact that Trump and MAGA Republicans have made it nearly impossible to satirize the state in which we find ourselves in 2026. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/ill-bet-yo...

Oil tankers are on fire and missiles and drones are landing in the Middle East and oil and gas prices going up, and the only regime change I can see on the horizon is right here at home in November when the Republican regime loses control of Congress. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-vacillat...

Trump said, “We’re going to win so much that you’re going to be sick and tired. You’re going to say, Please let us have at least one loss.” Well, we’re going to get a big one that he is not prepared for. We’ll need more than Pete Hegseth praying for us. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-to-los...

If life makes you angry, deal with it. You are not going to run out the clock. Because you are human, the rules dictate that the clock is going to outrun you. In the meantime, as my mother counseled, be kind to others. You, and they, will live longer. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/to-be-human

As soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division arrive in the Middle East fully equipped for Trump’s war, he will depart the White House tomorrow for Palm Beach, Florida, where he will spend the weekend playing golf. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/another-da...

They have been there a long time. What we want from them has been there even longer. If you think I’m talking about oil and the war in Iran and Trump trying to negotiate his way out of it, I am. But I’m also talking about buying rugs in the Middle East. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-2000-y...

If we survive the next year without a nuclear accident or an intentional explosion somewhere in the Middle East, it will be a miracle. In the meantime, we wrestle to find meaning in a maelstrom that has made us afraid for ourselves and for each other. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/zig-zaggin...

Trump and Bibi? Watch what they do, not what they say. Trumps likes bombing things, but he loves money and power even more, and both are slipping away from him in Iran. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/who-gets-a...

It’s not boots. It’s human beings. In the case of Trump administration rhetoric, those human beings are soldiers. Boots are inanimate objects until they are laced onto the feet of soldiers. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-boots...

Let’s be brief: If Trump orders American soldiers into Iran, it will be a bloodbath. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/bloodbath

Trump explained that it wouldn’t have been a surprise. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” You could have fried an egg on the top of the head of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/greed-is-t...

The drilling into my head was almost over, but CNN wasn’t. The Pentagon announced that it had begun dropping 1,000-pound bombs on targets in Iran, further “degrading” whatever had not been “degraded” already. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-had-a-ro...

Maybe if his cabinet gets around to invoking the 25th Amendment and throws drooling pincushion Trump out of office, they can find a way to appoint Joe Kent in his stead. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/dogpaddlin...

Wars are overwhelming because so many people have died for such ridiculous reasons. Trump is just another ridiculous reason in a long, long list of them. To the Iranians, he’s not even a ruler of a rival empire, except in his own mind. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-many-m...

Death, destruction, depression, despair and disgust are its results, from which neither Iran nor the world will soon recover. For now, let us gaze upon Gracie, whose beauty and easy elegance I hope will help to lift all our spirits. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/my-night-o...

The proverbial rats are jumping off the proverbial ship. How is Trump going to convince Iran to stop attacking oil tankers and let shipping resume? Say “I’m sorry” and stop the bombing? Regime change is coming, all right. Donald Trump’s. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/you-know-w...

This war will go down in history. So will the man who started it, as the biggest loser of this century. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/irans-war-...

Little Cat is not out there in the storm raging outside. She is watching me doing my reading for tomorrow’s column. For Tracy and me and the rest of the animals, it’s a very good feeling to have her in our family. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/little-cat...

Does it matter that Trump ordered the U.S. military to carry out an operation to kidnap a foreign leader that resulted in his gaining access to and control of $2 billion? All this is reported as if these are normal things that happen in the United States. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/inside-the...

“I have a plan for everything. You’ll be very happy,” Trump said today. He also said he doesn’t remember ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein, his poll numbers are higher than anyone has ever seen, and tiny plastic pigs will fall out of the sky. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/memory-hol...

I can assure you that after this war, as it has been true after every war, the dead will speak louder than any of the noise we hear from the man who ordered them into a war nobody wanted and that neither they, nor the world deserved. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/with-a-mad...

It’s really something to be witness to a stray becoming a housecat. Little by little, she’s moving into the crew and becoming one of the Harris/Truscotts. Welcome inside, Little Cat. We love you! luciantruscott.substack.com/p/saturday-n...

Our military should pack up and go home before more of its members die in Trump’s fruitless attempt to distract from everything that is driving him crazy here at home. It’s not our war, it’s Trump’s war, and after just one week, he is already losing it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-does-t...

Noem’s departure is the first instance of Trump getting rid of one of his disastrous cabinet officials. Watch this space. He will soon be looking for someone to blame for his chaotic “war” with Iran. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/luxo-jet-d...

Maybe they should just call it a “special military operation,” Vladimir Putin’s term for "war." It’s perfect, in a twisted, horrid, unthinkable way: They not only don’t know what they’re doing, they can’t even agree on what to call it. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/five-days-...

Don’t you get it? Real men don’t prepare for war. They make war! Watch out! I see a bearded Mullah who’s getting away! Lethality that evil bastard! We don’t need no stinking plan! It’s in God’s plan! luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-to-pla...

“When I hear that sound, that beautiful sound behind me, it means money," Trump said. We will learn at some time in the future what Donald Trump’s war has been all about. He can hear the pile drivers for his ballroom, but he can’t hear the bombs. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-watched-...

He’s bombing and killing little girls in Iran and partying at Mar a Lago wearing a gold tie. We’ve been wondering if there could be a new low that is even lower than the older low that Trump could reach, and ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-tell...