Trump brags about “obliterating” Iran—a country with 20 million children. Words have meaning—and obliterate means “to destroy entirely, to wipe out.”

He threatens to “blow up [Iran’s] largest electric generating plants”—an electrical grid 90 million Iranians depend on for water, sanitation, cooking, heat, light and more. “One shot. It's gone. It collapses.” 

He warns Iran must give up its national rights and surrender, or “We’ll just keep blowing them away—unimpeded, unstopped.” 

He says he “doesn’t care” what Iran does—"we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out." Hearts? Sure, of stone.

This is genocidal Nazi talk. And it’s coming straight from the mouths of those directing the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran—Commander-in-Chief Trump and his minions. 

They’re telling you straight up that they’re mass murdering war criminals who don’t give a fuck about human rights, international law, or the lives of 90 million Iranians (or Palestinians, or Lebanese, or anyone else). 

Hype? Exaggeration?

Just listen to Pete Hegseth, the Christian fundamentalist head of Trump’s “War Department.” “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation,” he said at a March 25 Christian worship service at the Pentagon. Then he prayed for “overwhelming violence of action against those who [he deems] deserve no mercy.” 

Hegseth has never said whether the U.S. Tomahawk missile that “obliterated” 165 young schoolgirls in southern Iran on the first day of the war had “found its mark.” 

For Trump and Hegseth, they apparently deserved “overwhelming violence of action,” but “no mercy.”

Ditto for the thousands of other Iranians so far killed or injured by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, and the millions of others displaced, or those suffering from the destruction of over 61,000 homes, or who no longer have healthcare because 275 medical centers have been bombed, or can no longer go to the nearly 500 schools that have already been damaged or destroyed. 

And what is “blowing up” a country’s electrical grid? It’s a war crime under international law. And more to the point, it’s genocide: a death sentence imposed on millions of people who are suddenly without the electricity that pumps their water—and their sewage—that heats their homes, that cooks their food, that lights the darkness.

You think the Israelis are any more merciful or any less genocidal? Think again.

After Israeli troops gunned down two children and their parents in the Palestinian West Bank on March 15, a member of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) said: “…there are no innocent civilians, no innocent children in Jenin… Even if the collateral damage includes children or women, it doesn't matter to me… I have no sense of compassion for my enemies."

This is the same Nazi mindset driving Israel’s unrelenting terror and collective punishment against the Palestinian population of Gaza—and now raining bombs indiscriminately on Iranian and Lebanese civilians. 

So yes, there is one word that describes Trump, his regime, and Israel’s rulers: genocidal.

That isn’t a curse word. It’s a word that accurately describes the mentality and values of those now in charge of the unprovoked, criminal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.