Letter to the editor: 'Hell is truth seen too late'

First published in the Brunswick Beacon, 04.23.26

So said philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Consider Mike Dies’ April 9 letter accusing the president’s critics of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

It was published just after Trump posted this on Easter Sunday: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the [expletive] Strait, you crazy [expletive], or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” Two days later, Trump wrote: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

The Beacon’s deadline for letters is Monday for Thursday’s issue. That means Dies submitted his letter before Trump’s second post, and likely before his Easter post, too. If Dies had waited just one week, he could have spared himself the ignominy of defending a man who made vulgar threats to commit war crimes on the holiest day in the Christian calendar, doubled down by threatening genocide, followed that by attacking the Pope, then finished with a post depicting himself as Jesus. After seeing what Trump has become, Dies might finally have reached the same conclusion as many formerly enthusiastic Trump supporters.

Tucker Carlson called Trump’s Easter post “vile on every level,” adding, “This is a mockery, not just of Islam — it’s a mockery of Christianity.”

Conservative podcaster Riley Gaines wrote, “God shall not be mocked.” Alex Jones called for Trump to be replaced.

Candace Owens said, “The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness.”

After Trump’s post threatening genocide, Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote, “We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.” She called his Jesus image “more than blasphemy — it’s an Antichrist spirit.” She concluded, “he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”

It’s too late for Dies to un-submit his letter. It’s not too late to stop being complicit.

Eileen Farrell

Sunset Beach