Journalist warns Trump 'lit the world on fire' — and gave other leaders cover for abuses

A journalist warned in a new essay that President Donald Trump just crossed a line that can never be uncrossed.

Marisa Kabas, a Brooklyn-based journalist, wrote in a new essay for her website, The Handbasket, that Trump's threat to annihilate the Iranian civilization was a moment of "mortal peril" that "lit the world on fire." She added that it has since put the world in "limbo," one that is balanced on Trump's fleeting passions.

"Our president’s actions gave permission to other reckless leaders abroad to put their own people in the very direct line of fire," Kabas wrote. "While the Iranians who showed up at these various sites were linked to one another, it was difficult not to feel as though we were linked to them, too. Because while Trump may have been pointing a weapon at them, Americans were undoubtedly in the crossfire."

"While a civilization did not yet die this week, we most certainly experienced a very real loss; the loss of that last shred of hope that no matter how unhinged Trump becomes, no matter what he says in a rambling speech or an incoherent press conference, that he wouldn’t do that," she added. "That is now a menu item, even if its threat is just a means to an end."