Bombing Iranian facility hours after diplomacy promise is Trump’s attack on the Constitution

There was a time when declarations of war were solemn, grave matters debated in the halls of Congress. But on a warm June night in 2025, America once again learned the hard way that when Donald J. Trump gets itchy fingers and a narcissist’s urge to play god, no Constitution, no Congress, and no conscience stands in his way.

In a stunning act of hubris wrapped in secrecy and launched with no more ceremony than a tweet, Trump authorized airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—flinging the United States headlong into a regional war that is not ours, was never ours, and should never have become ours.

Hours earlier, the very same president had postured about giving diplomacy “one more shot.” That shot, it turns out, came from a missile battery aimed at a sovereign nation that had not attacked us.

The bombs fell. And with them, fell every pretense of constitutional order.

Andrew Albertson, executive director of Foreign Policy for America, said that: “Trump owns this conflict – and all that comes next.”

Indeed, he does. The shredded remnants of the Iran nuclear deal, a diplomatic achievement that once held real promise, lie in tatters because Trump ripped it apart in a tantrum of political spite.

The alternative is chaos of his making, a chain reaction of recklessness now culminating in a war launched without congressional debate, without allied support, and without a single ounce of accountability.

Albertson’s blistering salvo rightfully demands answers. And not just the kind of hollow, whispered reassurances offered by Pentagon press flacks or gaslighting White House aides. Real answers: What intelligence justified this strike? Was there a clear and present danger to American lives? Or is this the foreign policy equivalent of lighting a match in a fireworks factory just to watch it all explode?

Congress, long asleep at the switch, is now forced into the agonizing position of cleaning up after a toddler who found the nuclear launch codes.

Enter Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna—strange bedfellows in any sane political timeline—who have introduced a bipartisan War Powers Resolution in a desperate attempt to put the brakes on Trump’s unauthorized march to war.

Massie, one of the most vocal Republicans against American intervention in Iran, flatly declared that Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites is unconstitutional.

Senator Tim Kaine, one of the few who warned years ago that this day would come, has filed parallel legislation in the Senate, an eleventh-hour effort to restore what little remains of legislative dignity.

Make no mistake: this isn’t about left or right, Democrat or Republican.

This is about the naked seizure of power by a man who treats the Constitution as toilet paper and considers Congressional oversight a nuisance at best, treason at worst.

“Entering this war is a recipe for more escalation, more destruction, and more death — while keeping the United States bogged down in costly Middle Eastern wars for years to come,” said Ned Price, a former deputy to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations.

“These are not policies that keep Americans safe and out of conflicts, promote the prosperity of all, and are true to our country’s historic values,” said New Jersey progressive champion Lisa McCormick, who warned that Trump would drag the United States into another unnecessary war.

“The United States should only go to war when facing an imminent threat and after every diplomatic avenue has been exhausted,” said McCormick. “This is a diversion to shield Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from accountability for the crimes he is currently facing trial for in Israel, but not the first time Donald Trump engaged in obstruction of justice.”

The latest polling shows that 60% of Americans do not want a war with Iran and instead think that the U.S. military should not get involved.

Albertson asked if this administration is purging intelligence officials who dared to speak the truth: that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, and that diplomacy still had a heartbeat before Trump knifed it in the chest.

And now the questions tumble out like bodies from a burning wreckage: Will Iranian-Americans face a new wave of profiling, detention, and harassment? Will young Americans be marched off to die in another endless desert war while billionaires toast champagne in Mar-a-Lago? Will oil prices surge, economies crater, and ships burn in the Strait of Hormuz as the fallout of Trump’s ego trip reverberates through the global order?

The war drums are pounding. Not from Tehran, but from the Oval Office.

Albertson’s call to action is a desperate scream from a corner of American political life that still believes in law, process, and the sanctity of human life. It demands congressional courage in a time when cowardice is bipartisan, when silence is complicity, and when the consequences of inaction are counted in coffins.

We are no longer asking if Trump will start a war to boost his ego or distract from domestic disgrace. He already has.

The question now is: will anyone stop him before he finishes what he started?

Because if Congress fails to act—if the American people remain passive spectators to another reckless descent into bloodshed—then Andrew Albertson’s email won’t be remembered as a warning.

It will be remembered as an obituary. For peace. For the Constitution. And for a republic that once believed the people, not one man, held the power to decide between war and peace.