5 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he sacks Bondi – and extra firings might be on the best way

We’ll never know what Donald Trump’s tipping point was with Pam Bondi – but rumours are swirling that Trump might be going for a clean sweep of powerful women in his cabinet

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We may never know what Donald Trump’s tipping point was.

Maybe it was when Attorney General Pam Bondi complained on live TV that people should pay more attention to the Dow Jones being “at 50,000” than they were about the Epstein Files…and its immediate and unstoppable nosedive of 5% in the month since.

Maybe it’s been bubbling over her ham-fisted handling of said files. Remember back when she claimed she had a “client list” on her desk waiting to be released…which she later tried in vain walked back, all of which led to the eventual release of the files – dragging Trump back into the scandal.

Perhaps it was the bipartisan summons issued to her by the Epstein probe committee… at the time of writing she’s still scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on April 16, but maybe she was fired to give Republicans a dodgy smokescreen to let her off the hook.

Or maybe, just maybe, Trump took a look at his historically bad poll ratings this week and thought…gosh, I need to blame this on someone. And it may as well be a woman.

Meanwhile, in Trumpworld

• Bondi beached
• Is Gabbard next?
• Trump’s 20 minute Iran nothingburger
• Trump, 79, brands Springsteen, 76, an “old prune”
• Trump boasts about bombing civilian infrastructure

Here’s everything you need to know

1. Bondi, Beached

As we all know by now, Pam Bondi is no longer Attorney General. She was, we’re told, fired last night by Trump in a “humiliating” showdown in the Oval Office. Bondi reportedly begged to keep her job, but has since fled to Florida.

She’ll be replaced, at least for now, by her deputy – Todd Blanche. Why is that name familiar? Because he’s the guy who visited Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, conducted an “interview” with her in which she was curiously adamant that she’d seen no wrongdoing by Trump, after which she was curiously moved to a cushier prison camp.

I also saw him on stage at CPAC last week, where he proudly declared that nobody who was involved in prosecuting Trump after the first term (which they were absolutely correct to do) was still working at the Department of Justice.

So if you were thinking the post-Bondi DoJ would involved fewer political prosecutions, you might want to temper your expectations.

In his Truth Social post, Trump said Bondi would be “transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future”.

Mate.

Other names on the block to replace Bondi include Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin and Fox News host-turned hapless DC prosecutor Jeannine Pirro – best known for giving hilarious press conferences every time one of her harebrained schemes to prosecute Trump’s enemies runs up against a legal blockage. Which is all the time.

I’m still holding out hope for a return of Trump’s first choice for AG – Matt Gaetz. Surely in an era of January 6th pardons he can’t be kept down by the trifling matter of having to drop out of consideration when congress launched a probe into allegations that he paid an underage girl for sex, and trafficked her across state lines.

The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.

2. Gabbard next?

Trump might be going for a clean sweep of prominent women from his cabinet. Last month Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was unceremoniously dumped. Today it’s Pam Bondi.

And the other rumour that’s circulating is that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is being considered for the chop. Trump has been miffed with her since she failed to condemn Joe Kent, her former deputy who quit over the Iran war – severely undermining his case for the conflict.

There are, I am sad to report, no such rumours about Trump mulling the departure of Pete “what if Big, but instead of Tom Hanks it’s a teenager from an early 90s Sega Megadrive ad” Hegseth.

3. My fellow Americans, have a nothingburger

Everyone was fired up for a barnstorming address to the nation from Trump last night. They’d announced it a day in advance, and teed it up as a major update on the War in Iran.

Would it be boots on the ground? Some information about plans for America’s withdrawal from the conflict? An update on negotiations? An announcement about a major new operation? Maybe an update on Trump’s deadline of 6 April to open the Strait of Hormuz?

Nah, he just spent 20 minutes wanging on about the conflict with the same soundbites he’s been putting about on Truth Social in the last few days.

4. Who’s the Boss?

So in case you were wondering what was occupying the President’s mind at a time of war, Trump launched a bitter and furious rant against Bruce Springsteen, accusing him of looking like a “wrinkled old prune”.

Springsteen, the closest thing America has to a national treasure, has been interspersing political speeches in his current US tour.

Opening the tour in Minneapolis on Tuesday night, he opened with a “prayer for our m en and women in service overseas” – before launching into Edwin Starr’s 1970 anti-Vietnam anthem “War”.

“We are living through some very dark times,” the Boss said later in the three-hour concert – before branding the Trump administration “corrupt” and saying the President “can’t handle the truth.”

Trump lashed out against the “Born To Run” megastar this morning on Truth Social, urging MAGA supporters to boycott his sold-out tour.

“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon, has long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS,” he wrote.

“The guy is a total loser who spews hate against a President who won a Landslide Election, including the popular vote, all Seven Swing States, and 86% of the Counties across America. Under Sleepy Joe and the Dems, our Country was DEAD, and now we have the “hottest” Country, by far, anywhere in the World. MAGA SHOULD BOYCOTT HIS OVERPRICED CONCERTS, WHICH SUCK. SAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. AMERICA IS BACK!!!”

5. What The Hague?

And finally, Trump has been on Truth Social again boasting about things that are almost certainly war crimes.

“The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again – Much more to follow,” he wrote, seemingly confirming the US had either attacked civilian infrastructure, or was applauding those who had.