A Dictator, a Cowardly Draft Dodger, America’s Biggest Traitor, and his 45 Million Dollar Parade

I am a novelist. If I wrote the saga of Donald John Trump, no one would buy the book. The story would be too dark, and upsetting to capture a reader’s interest. Here’s a quick rundown of the despicable life of an old, obese man who chose to be the worst person in the world.

Trump was born on June 15, 1946 into a life of luxury and extreme white privilege. No one knew that his birth would become the greatest tragedy in the history of the United States of America. Apparently, by the age of 13, his parents had tired of living with their son. He was sent to a military boarding school.

Trump finished his time in the boarding school in 1964. I share several important periods in our nation’s history with the man I have learned to hate, having been born in July of 1946. However, our paths were very different. I graduated from high school in that same year.

The illegal war in Vietnam began to escalate. At the age of 18, and the military draft still in effect, young men my age faced the probability of fighting in a war halfway around the world, without understanding what we would be fighting for. Vastly different families and values resulted in two original baby boomers making very different choices.

I had good grades, but I had no way to pay for tuition at a college or university. I talked to a recruiter at a local United States Air Force. He guaranteed me that if I spent four years in the USAF, I would receive training which would offer great opportunities in the civilian world. Another option was the G. I. bill which would give me money to attend an institution of higher learning. I was sworn in on September 11, 1964.

Trump is a bully, and all bullies are cowards. He was afraid of being drafted. Daddy Fred bribed a medical doctor who resided in one of his New York apartments to sign medical deferments for his son, thus avoiding military service. The reason was given as “bone spurs in both feet.”

This story is already too long, so let me get to the important facts.

On March 9, 1965, I was medically discharged from the USAF. The recruiter failed to list a pre-existing medical condition on my paperwork. It was nothing serious, but it was decided that I would be unable to perform the job for which I had been trained.

Trump received a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business College in 1968. He had all of his records sealed in 2017, but by his own words and lack of intelligent thought, it is clear to me that Daddy Fred paid for his degree.

In 1967, I married my first wife. I was employed by a growing airline at Los Angeles International Airport.

After leaving Wharton, Trump went to work for his father’s real estate business. I have no details about his duties, but I do know that part of the time he was a rental agent. One of his primary instructions was an initial display of extreme racism within the Trump family.

When a Black American presented a rental application, he was ordered to place a large red “’C” at the top of the first page. Blacks were not allowed to live in a Trump property.

I move forward to a couple of years later.

My wife and I worked hard to maintain a decent quality of life. I worked all the overtime I could get and worked shifts for other agents who wanted time off. During one 12-month period I did not have a single day when I was not working.

Daddy Fred gave his son more than 400 million dollars to begin his own real estate empire. He invested the 413 million dollars, money Fred Trump gained through various acts of tax evasion, in properties designed for low-income families, in the outer boroughs away from Manhattan. He was making a good income, but his debilitating condition of malignant narcissism forced him to seek greater grandeur and notoriety.

Trump obtained loans, using his current properties as collateral, and began investing in properties in the heart of New York. In just a few years he lost everything.

I continued my employment with the airline. My wife completed cosmetology school and began her career as a hair stylist. In 1973, we had our first child, a son. I made a decision to change careers, and attended cosmetology school in the evenings and on my days off. After our second child was born in 1977, a girl, we accepted a business offer and moved to North County San Diego.

As Trump’s real estate business was bleeding money, in the early 1980’s, he and first wife, Ivana, accepted an offer to travel to Moscow. The invitation came from the KGB. In 1987, Donald Trump made his first visit to the Russian capital. There is no information available about what happened in Moscow, but it is reasonable to assume that Trump met Vladimir Putin for the first time. Putin was a high-ranking official in the Russian spy agency in 1987.

Shortly after his return to New York, Russian oligarchs began investing in Trump’s real estate business. Although he had nothing to do with his own success, he was now considered a “real estate magnate.” The great façade was created, and Trump’s new career as a con man had begun.

Okay, if I’m bored, you have surely stopped reading. I will skip most of the details, but I will tell you that I am technically retired and living with my third wife, a dog and a cat, in Sun Valley, Nevada. This is in the northern part of the state where we have all four seasons, and it is truly a hidden gem in America’s west. We continue to struggle financially, but we share a deep love for each other and cherish all of our family members across America.

You know what Trump is doing now: destroying everything which made America an envied nation around the world.

After winning two rigged elections in 2016 and 2024, the American people are now ruled by Dictator Donald Trump. His relationship with Putin is why Trump is defiling our White House today.

The sad part of this horror story is that our leaders, in both government and the military, know that Trump’s presidencies are illegitimate.

If you have any doubts about my allegations, consider these facts.

On January 6, 2021, I watched events which will forever make that date the darkest day in American history. A sitting president stood before his Neo-Nazi supporters and ordered them to halt the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote, currently happening in the Capitol Building. This violent insurrection was nothing less than an act of treason.

My wife and I watched all three hours, beginning with Trump’s demands just outside of the White House. There is no doubt that he planned, organized, and executed an attempted coup. However, a direct violation of the 14^th Amendment, supported by a corrupt Supreme Court, allowed the worst man in the world to run for the presidency in 2024. Trump and his party are a band of traitors to the nation of our Founding Fathers. His Nazi supporters on January 6 received a pardon from Trump, and are now plotting another attack on our nation and its diverse citizens.

Trump recently made a decision to admit his position as America’s Fuhrer. On his 79^th birthday, June 15, 2025, Trump will join other dictators from countries considered enemies of the United States, North Korea, Russia, and China, and review a military parade in Washington. This has never occurred in a Democratic nation in history. Another “first” for America’s biggest traitor. It will cost taxpayers at least 45 million dollars, along with its reputation as the leaders of the free world.

From my first day in elementary school, as we stood, faced the flag, and recited the Pledge of allegiance, I was a huge patriot.

Today, May 17, 2025, I am ashamed to be an American citizen. Our nation’s elected officials are willing to accept the end of democracy, and the establishment of a fascist regime. I am not.

I know that if I was a younger man, I would be one of the leaders of the second Revolutionary War.

God bless America, wherever it is today.

Op-ed by James Turnage

If you follow my blog, you will be an informed American citizen

Sources: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/prri-poll-most-americans-trump-dangerous-dictator

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-cost-army.html