{"id":45016,"date":"2026-06-23T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45016"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:01:18","slug":"so-whats-coming-down-the-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/23\/so-whats-coming-down-the-pipe\/","title":{"rendered":"So What&#8217;s Coming Down The Pipe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday and it already feels like Trump is flopping about like a salmon cornered in the shallows of the spawning river by a hungry bear. From important news such as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/politics\/trump-iran-claims-nuclear-inspectors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump keeps claiming Iran made concessions. Iran keeps denying them<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/politics\/senate-iran-war-powers-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Congress votes to rein in Trump on Iran in rare rebuke<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/todd-blanche-state-bar-complaint-former-judges-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Todd Blanche hit with state bar complaint backed by 101 former judges<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-45018 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=233%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PXL_20260218_235455576-scaled.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>not to mention the <em><strong>DNI<\/strong><\/em> debacle, now with sequels, or simply noting his entire Cabinet is not made up of the &#8220;best,&#8221; as he promised oh so long ago, but the <strong>worst<\/strong>. Moving on to relatively obscure failures, we have <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/23\/sadly-apropos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ducks dying<\/a> as a consequence of his gross and possibly illegal mismanagement of the repair of the Reflecting Pool, the stock market slumping with the <strong>NASDAQ<\/strong> down 2.21% today, shrinking oil and munition stockpiles, and &#8230; oh, stop there?<\/p>\n<p>Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Look, maybe Trump has the patience of a saint, but I doubt it. Following the trail of squirrel-chewed baked goods into the forest, let&#8217;s ask the bleeding obvious:<\/p>\n<p>What will he do to relieve his feelings of failure and inadequacy?<\/p>\n<p><em>He has nuclear strike capability.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, if Trump decides to take Tehran off the map, what will happen?<\/p>\n<p>Will someone in that Cabinet try to stop him?<\/p>\n<p>How about in the military?<\/p>\n<p>Will Vance finally step up?<\/p>\n<p>I think the answers here are <em><strong>No<\/strong><\/em>. But I think what might happen is this: Countries with nuclear missiles and surveillance capabilities will note the launch and the impact, and a few minutes later one, or more, of them will hit D.C., or Mar-a-Lago, or wherever Trump is located, with their own nuclear strike.<\/p>\n<p>Because Trump will have demonstrated that he is insane, and, out of self-defense, they&#8217;ll take him out.<\/p>\n<p>Or the American military will arrest and execute him after a summary court-martial.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this doesn&#8217;t happen. Oh, Mr. Vance, you really do need to pursue <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25th Amendment<\/a> proceedings with vigor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday and it already feels like Trump is flopping about like a salmon cornered in the shallows of the spawning river by a hungry bear. From important news such as Trump keeps claiming Iran made concessions. Iran keeps denying them and Congress votes to rein in Trump on Iran \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/23\/so-whats-coming-down-the-pipe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45019,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45016\/revisions\/45019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}