Transgender journalist Moira Donegan has accused President Donald Trump of starting a war against Iran as a distraction from his weakness domestically, especially as his polls show his growing unpopularity as voters sour on his sagging economy, high prices, high unemployment rates, and the “pointless cruelty and terror” of his ethnic cleansing policy of “mass deportations.”

“The Trump administration launched a war on Iran with no organized attempt to persuade the American public of the justice of their course of action, no effort to get the constitutionally required approval from Congress, and no attempt to put forward an even minimally coherent post-hoc rationalization for their decision,” Donegan wrote in a recent column in The Guardian.

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“One reason for this inability to articulate a rationale for Trump’s war of choice against Iran is that the real reason is inconvenient for Trump to admit: the war serves as a distraction,” Donegan wrote, in her column entitled, “Trump is the weakest he’s ever been. That makes him so dangerous on Iran.”

“[Trump] is a failing president with little room to maneuver, unable to organize his coalition, unable to consolidate his regime, and unable to effect his will. Many would-be authoritarians have believed that a quick and easy foreign war was just what they needed to rally their support at home. Trump should look up what happened to them,” she wrote.

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Lesbian MS NOW host Rachel Maddow has also recently criticized Trump’s health, and Trump’s lesbian niece Mary Trump has called him “deeply unhealthy.”

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