Bloodthirsty is an adjective used to describe a person, group or action:
- Propensity for violence or murder
- Showing a strong desire to harm others
- Cruel, uncivil or mercilessly offensive
While running for president for the first time, Donald Trump toyed with the idea of killing another human being without consequence.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose a voter.”
Perhaps Trump was testing the waters, seeing how people would react to the idea of personally assassinating him. He advocated the killing of the Central Park Five long ago. Thirteen years later, the five were exonerated when DNA evidence and a full confession from the actual perpetrators exonerated them. When Trump learned that he had killed five innocent young men, he did not apologize. He never does.
In an interview, Trump gave the year the teenagers were arrested. He preached hate as a way to do good.
“Of course I hate these people, and let’s all hate these people because we need hate if we’re going to do anything.”
Based on his history, it’s unlikely that it’s a coincidence that “this man” wants everyone to hate being black.
During Donald Trump’s first term (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021), the United States conducted multiple military operations that resulted in deaths.
Examples include:
- Counter-terrorism operations in Yemen in January 2017
- Various operations in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria
- Air strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
- Air strikes in Afghanistan
- Airstrikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia
- Airstrikes in Yemen against AQAP
These operations resulted in combatant and, in some cases, civilian casualties, as documented by the Department of Defense and independent monitoring groups.
If Trump could be called a favorite, it would be the January 2020 strike on Qassem Soleimani. It was a high-profile US military strike in Baghdad that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and several others traveling with them. Trump welcomes visitors to Mar-a-Lago with a countdown to the carnage.
Every president has ordered actions resulting in death. Pacifist Jimmy Carter did it. So is Barack Obama. None other than Trump found pleasure in killing others, as his words would later reveal.
With the notable exception of General Soleimani, most of the deaths occurred on Trump’s watch, but were not ordered by him personally. In his second term, Trump found a way to get more personally involved in killing people. Trump ordered the US military to destroy small boats near Venezuela and in the Caribbean Sea, accusing them of bringing drugs into America without documentation, and destroying each boat saved 25,000 American lives. For the record, drug boats leaving Venezuela typically carry cocaine, not the more deadly fentanyl, and none of the boats appear to be headed for America.
“This morning, at my command, US military forces conducted a kinetic strike…”
Trump bragged about the assassination. Even endorsing the killing of survivors clinging to the partial hull of the wrecked boat, calling them a danger to the United States.
“They were trying to get the boat back to where it could float, and we didn’t want to see that because that boat was loaded with drugs.”
At least 46 boats have been destroyed and at least 157 people have been killed since September 2025 in US attacks in the Caribbean, eastern Pacific and waters near Venezuela. In his recent public comments about the boat attack, Trump spoke about the killings in a way that many observers interpreted as disturbing. Reporters noted that he re-enacted the explosions, emphasized the deaths with theatrical accounts, and even justified a second strike that killed the survivors by saying, “They were trying to get the boat back to where it could float, and we didn’t want to see it because that boat was loaded with drugs.”
Critics argue that this tone suggests that he is not merely defending policy but relishing violence, raising fears that he may feel emboldened to authorize more lethal measures because he enjoys the spectacle they create. As the killing of South American and Central American brown people proved less and less a distraction from the Epstein file. Trump needed to escalate the killing. Dragging America into a war of its choice in Iran and it is already threatening to occupy Cuba.
Trump may have ulterior motives for raising the body count and taking America to war with Iran, though he calls it a “minor intrusion.” Trump is likely, even likely, using Iran as a distraction against the continuing drip, drip, drip of information released from the Epstein files. On February 24, 2026, NPR reported on the 53 missing pages from the Epstein file release that Trump forced a young teenager to perform oral sex on him. February 28, 2026. Trump orders attack on Iran. Another coincidence?
Donald Trump is more than capable of killing two birds with one stone. That sounds like something he might enjoy. Once he started killing thousands of people in Iran. He may find he rather likes it. The fact that his victims were Muslims was a bonus for him.
Lest you think Trump was concerned about the lives of American soldiers who would be killed or wounded. Trump has long considered people who die or suffer for their country “suckers and losers.” Trump downplayed the deaths of American soldiers with phrases such as: “Things happen in war,” “That’s what happens in war,” “War is messy,” and “It’s a war. Bad things happen.” Trump has no idea what happens in war, using the five moratoriums citing “bone spurs” to avoid the Vietnam War. Across the five generations of the Trump family in the United States, no known male family member has served in the U.S. military in wartime or peacetime. Worse, Trump used one Self-portrait during the dignified transfer of dead American soldiers In a fundraising letter.
As if all this is not enough. Trump recently told NBC News that he may order more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island. “Just for fun.” Who says that? In American history, no American president has ever said out loud that he would risk American lives “just for fun.”
Donald Trump has become a full-blown, bloodthirsty narcissist, only hinted at in his first term. The Supreme Court grants immunity to the President for any official act while he is in office. What guard is keeping him from killing thousands more people, including women and children, who happen to be non-white, coincidentally, as all his victims have historically been (except for any young girls he may have involved with his pedophile friends Jeffrey Epstein and John Casablancas).
Donald Trump says his own morality is the only thing preventing any broad foreign-policy action.
“Yes, there is one thing. My own morality, my own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” “I don’t need international law.” “I don’t want to hurt people.”
God help us if we rely on Donald Trump’s morality to prevent disaster. All three of his wives have seen what comes of relying on Trump’s ethics.
It is actually a fallacy that some animals, once they have tasted human blood, become bloodthirsty and cannot stop themselves from killing again and again. Their behavior is learned; Humans are slower than most foods in the wild, and it is the older and weaker predators who choose human prey because humans are easier to catch. Trump decided to kill people in small boats near Venezuela and fire missiles at Iran because he sees these issues as war games. He’s having fun.
The danger is not just that Trump is comfortable killing. It’s what he discovers about how easily violence can be repackaged as power, how quickly spectacle can drown out scandal, and how reliably death can be a distraction from the truth he can’t let go of. Every strike, every pride, every recycling is a reminder that he crossed a line no American president had crossed before, not on principle, but on pleasure.
If that’s what he’s willing to say out loud, imagine what he’s willing to do when no one is looking. There is no longer any question whether Donald Trump has a taste for human blood. Will the country admit that it wants to drink it, and we will finally admit that the cost is being paid by people who didn’t like it in the first place.
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This post was Previously published in Polis.
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