4 March 2026

ALAN HAYES

 

HAS the Mad King lost his mind and is literally hurtling us toward World War III. Something has broken in his brain and this lunatic, who draws on decades of rhetoric that amplifies "whiteness as an identity and locus of oppression," has utilised white identity as a foundational aspect of his presidency and changes his mind within minutes of making one of his so-called ‘deals’.

 

It’s time to face the truth. The president of the United States has lost his mind.

 

That is not hyperbole. Journalists, world leaders and medical professionals have often referred to things Donald Trump has done or said as insane, deranged, mad, or unhinged. He has always been ignorant and petty and vindictive and cruel and bigoted. But this time it is different. Something has broken in his brain.

 

Is it dementia? Is it an adverse reaction to the medications he is taking? A psychologist may be able to offer the answer, if allowed to spend some time trawling the depths of the bog inside Trump’s head – but that won’t be allowed to happen. So, there will be no medical diagnosis, just a global emergency as the Mad King continues to inflict American imperialism upon the rest of the world.

 

With the Mad King, nothing is assured. The negotiation table with Iran was a ruse to lull them into a false sense of being able to achieve an outcome other than war.

 

Ahead of the talks in Geneva, Iran's Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said: "Tehran would head into the negotiations with a determination to achieve a fair and equitable deal — in the shortest possible time”.

 

“Our fundamental convictions are crystal clear: Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon; neither will we Iranians ever forgo our right to harness the dividends of peaceful nuclear technology for our people,” he said.

 

“We have a historic opportunity to strike an unprecedented agreement that addresses mutual concerns and achieves mutual interests. A deal is within reach, but only if diplomacy is given priority. We have proven that we will stop at nothing to guard our sovereignty with courage. We bring the same courage to the negotiating table, where we will pursue a peaceful resolution to any differences.”

 

Not surprisingly, Trump, it is now, obvious had already made up his mind – it was going to be war! This now begs the question: Will Trump also take the United States to war against his European allies? It would be bonkers for almost any reason, let alone the impossibly stupid reason for which he would be doing it.

 

Trump wants to seize Greenland against the will of not only the people who live there but the American people as well — because he’s obsessing about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, and because Greenland looks really big on the misleading map he displayed to the World, and because he wants to destroy NATO, and because he is desperate to show how big and powerful he is. A megalomaniac who will stop at nothing to get his own way.

 

We can debate just how much importance each of those factors plays in the discordant cacophony clanging about in the Mad King's fevered mind. But the truth is that the lunatical crisis is escalating, because of Trump’s disconnection from reality – evident in his 108 minute State of Unreality (Union) address.

 

The Mad King’s State of the Union address wasn’t so much a verdict on the state of the nation, but more of a reflection of an unhinged narrator.

 

Trump’s state of unreality

 

Rich with bravado, self-congratulation and falsehoods, the Mad King opened with a flourish, declaring that core inflation had been driven down to the “lowest level in more than five years” - a line that raised eyebrows among the nation’s actual economists.

 

And so, the rhetoric fabrication continued, culminating in the pièce de resistance, a claim that Trump had ended eight wars. A true vision of belief for someone who is a legend in their own mind – as real as his Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Of all the fallacy-promoting magniloquence, was the lie on foreign policy. Mad King Donald assured the nation that Iran’s nuclear program had been “wiped out”, a monumental achievement if marginally dulled by being entirely untrue - a renovation of facts to suit a boisterously inventive narrative arc.

 

In the Trumpian lexicon, to say something persistently, confidently and loudly is to entitle it to gravitas, regardless of whether it stands up to scrutiny. Something Trump no doubt learned from his favourite dictator of history, Adolf Hitler, and his henchman Joseph Goebbels, who mastered the big lie. But the Mad King’s haystack of humbug demonstrates little evolution – merely piling on more forage to feed the sycophantic faithful.

 

Trump’s address mattered little on what was said, but was a reinforcement of resounding truth-bending from the depths of his broken brain.

 

Time for truth

 

Now that Trump is off and running in Iran, will he still set his sites on Greenland? Despite the excuses of U.S. security, the Mad King’s desire to annex Greenland is to steal their mineral wealth – he’s already stolen Venezuelan oil.

 

But there is the conundrum – as many informed analysts have pointed out, there’s nothing the U.S. can get from Greenland by taking it over that they don’t already have. They have a military base there, and under the terms of a treaty they signed with Denmark in 1951, the U.S. can establish as many more military bases as they like.

 

If America wants to dig through the permafrost looking for minerals, no doubt that could be easily arranged as well without Greenland becoming the fifty-first state. The desire to annex Greenland is more about the unhinged imperialistic machinations of a warmonger.

 

When asked why he wanted Greenland, the Mad King replied: “Really it is, to me, it’s ownership. Ownership is very important.

 

"Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.’

 

So, there you have it , the deranged mind of a true gangster, showing up at your house and saying “I need you to hand over your house to me. It’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. Or I’ll kill you.”

 

The Mad King is not a well man - a different person than he was in his first term, with all of his worst qualities intensified and exaggerated. He’s angrier, less coherent, more resentful, more distractible, more hateful, and more impulsive. If a country disagrees with him, he punishes them with tariffs, or threatens to attack them!

 

Whether it was one event or the accumulated degradations of age, the unavoidable fact is that the most powerful person on earth is no longer of sound mind. The World cannot avoid it any longer.

 

The road to Tehran

 

While US bombs and missiles rain down on Iran, there is every likelihood that they are being targeted with the direct or indirect assistance of “joint” US-Australian military facilities at Pine Gap and North West Cape.

 

Although Anthony Albanese, along with Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, deny any prior knowledge of  the Trump / Netanyahu war, their implausible statements teeter on the edge of absurdity: the role of the US-controlled Pine Gap signals facility in Western-backed warfare in the Middle East is a matter of public record.

 

Australian Greens leader, Larissa Waters said: “The Labor government must confirm to the Australian people that no intelligence from Pine Gap or other US bases in Australia was used, and rule out allowing these bases to be used in this illegal war going forward.

 

“End AUKUS. Australia must be a force for peace and diplomacy across the world.”

 

Trump’s war will not bring safety to the brave Iranian people who are fighting for liberation from the brutal regime. Innocent people have already been massacred, including at least 60 children in Southern Iran, killed by US and Israeli strikes on an elementary school. This war will see homes and cities razed to the ground and countless innocent lives lost.

 

Regime change is fraught with unforeseen consequences. It does not necessarily mean a better alternative; it simply means the absence of the existing order. The US knows this better than most. Yet the Mad King would have you believe otherwise.

 

There were no imminent threats from Iran prior to Trump's strike: the nuclear talks were progressing well, and it was reported that Iran had agreed not to stockpile enriched uranium. According to the Omani foreign minister, who was mediating talks between Iran and the United States, removing the stockpile of enriched uranium served as the circuit breaker in any weaponisation program. No stockpile, no nuclear bomb.

 

The genocidal duo (America and Israel) launched a premeditated attack on Iran, which has resulted in the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and at least 200 Iranians, including children. Trump justified the attack as pre-emptive, pointing to the lack of progress in nuclear talks and Iran’s missile program. The attempted talks in Geneva suggest otherwise.

 

Very few countries have called Trump’s illegal actions out - Norway and Spain rejected the US justification of self-defence, while most countries simply called for calm and de-escalation.

 

Anthony Albanese offered Australia’s support for the Trump-Netanyahu attack, in its aim to “prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security”. In dismissing international law and supporting yet another Western military attack on a Middle Eastern country, Anthony Albanese has completed his transformation into John Howard and become deputy sheriff of the United States.

 

Albanese said: “We have long recognised that Iran’s nuclear program is a threat to global peace and security.”

 

“With international partners, including the United States and the G7, we have called for the Iranian regime to uphold the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Iran’s citizens. Sadly, these calls have gone unheeded and action has now been taken.”

 

Once again the Albanese rhetoric drones out in the passive voice - a purported threat to “global peace and security” from Iran and “human rights and fundamental freedoms” — as a justification for a Western military assault on a Middle Eastern country. The same pomposity when asked why Australia continued to support Israel, while playing lip service to that country’s genocidal activities. An attitude that was amplified with the recent invitation and subsequent visit of Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog.

 

What about Australia’s position?

 

Despite the Mad King’s irrational behaviour, the so-called purveyors of Australian political balance have insisted that Trump is there for the deal that can be relied upon – we must dismiss the fact that he is a convicted rapist, along with a raft of other criminal convictions – and to look past the corruption, the sexual assaults, the rambling and cognitive decline, the fascism, the thuggish loathing for international norms and the track record of poor governance. It’s all about the deal, so nothing else matters!

 

But Trump’s behaviour does matter, because no deal with him can be guaranteed to last longer than the meeting it was struck in. You cannot trust the Mad King to play fairly in the sand pit. And while U.S. bombs and missiles rain down on Iran, there is every likelihood that they are being targeted with the direct or indirect assistance of “joint” US-Australian military facilities at Pine Gap and North West Cape.

 

So, why doesn’t our government put an immediate stop to supporting Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war. No resources. No intelligence. No more cover.

 

When questioned about the legality of the attack on Iran, Albanese said, “those judgments and statements [are] for the United States and for those involved directly in the attack. What I would say is that the threat to international peace and security of the Iranian regime is real.”

 

One can only surmise that Albanese would like us to forget that Trump claimed in June — and the White House claimed again last week — that Israeli and US bombings in 2025 had “obliterated” Iranian nuclear facilities.

 

It’s a far cry from Albanese’s own position on the Iraq invasion, 23 years ago. In a speech in early 2003, Albanese said:

 

“There is no UN mandate here. We are not bringing peace; we are invading a sovereign country and making war. This is an unjust war without UN backing. Our government is about to redefine us in the eyes of the world as willing backers of US militarism … What does that say about the sort of nation that we are? We are a multicultural nation, and yet here we are sending a message, particularly to the Islamic world, that we are a part of the old, white, Anglo-Christian order and we have the president of the United States who invokes God in defending his government’s actions.”

 

And just like George W Bush did during the Iraq war, and war-mongering U.S. presidents before and after him, Mad King Donald also invoked God.

 

No one in Australia, including our government, can seriously believe that Donald Trump cares about the rights or lives of people in Iran. Just like other US wars that Australia has supported - Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - the talk is about freedom and democracy but the reality is killing and destruction. Already, there are reports of schools being destroyed and children killed in airstrikes.

 

With barely a moment’s pause, the Albanese Government has backed Trump and another U.S.-led war in the Middle East. This demonstrates, without a shadow of a doubt, that our government has outsourced Australian foreign policy to Washington.

 

Australia has been made part of the Iranian conflict because of our government allowing Pine Gap and other US military bases here to be used to gather intelligence for U.S. bombs and missiles – backing illegal U.S. wars by default is not an option.

 

Time and time again, the U.S. has betrayed the people it was claiming to protect, leaving bloodshed in its wake while serving its own corporate and military interests. Trump is no different, even if he is more blatant.

 

A Trump-led military assault on Iran is not a pathway to freedom or a pathway to a democratic regime; this attack, like the last, is a pathway to chaos and more killing in Iran.

 

Yet our government, who is more interested in submarines we are unlikely to get, believes the ‘deal maker’ will honour his promise: a regime change that will benefit the people of Iran. In a world where the U.S. no longer has allies, just potential threats or grovelling vassals, Australia’s belly rash very much makes us the latter!

 

It’s time for Australia to get tough – who wants to be a U.S. vassal? – and realise that Trump is not interested in protecting Australian interest on the world stage as Trump-America retreats from unipolarity to focus on the Western Hemisphere, protecting Israel and respecting the right of other powers like China and Russia to dominate their regions.

 

The Mad King is only interested in domination! Like any madman, his thinking is irrational and self-centred – what he says in the morning will change by the afternoon.

 

It’s time for Australia to rethink its alliance with the United States. This debate was sharpened by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum, which urged middle power countries to resist compromising their values at the behest of major global superpowers.

 

Despite Australia’s hitherto economy and national security previously being the two key pillars of the US-Australia relationship, often cited by Labor and the Coalition, the Mad King's administration has ripped up Australia's free trade agreement with the United States. It has trashed all the rules of global trade, which were of course imperfect, but which for the most part benefited Australia and created prosperity in Australia, and destroyed the rules-based-order.

 

Australia’s relationship with the United States, far from making us safer at the moment, is inviting us to Donald Trump's next war.

 

The Albanese government needs to be doing an urgent reassessment to ensure Australia stands on the side of international law and to not support Mad King Donald’s acts of lawlessness.

 

It’s time to make the change and not be part of Mad King Donald’s malevolent domain!