TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart After the Great Depression began in 1929, Hoover and his administration attempted to restore America’s economy by placing tariffs on imports. This only exacerbated the situation. However, Trump is a schoolyard bully and doesn’t read or understand the lessons offered by history. The truth is, free trade agreements stimulate the world’s economies. Trump doesn’t care about any other country, or the fact that in the 21 st century, no nation can stand alone. America’s economy is dependent upon consumerism. His choice to place excessive tariffs on every nation, including our allies, is founded in a mixture of arrogance and ignorance. He believes that he can bully other nations, and force them to obey his demands. This is what happens when a lifelong failure is chosen to lead a nation of 340 million people. Remember what Trump did to America’s economy between 2017 and 2021. When he was evicted from the White House, our nation was nearing a second Great Depression, and...

This promise gained Trump votes in the 2024 Election. However, it was just another lie from the man who has never told the truth. Legitimate Economists claim that the orange buffoon’s latest tariffs will raise grocery prices, causing more pain for the majority of our nation’s people. He doesn’t care. Everything is always about him. Every economist offers the same opinion: tariffs will destroy the economy and inflation will grow by as much as ten percent. When Trump was campaigning in 2024, he promised to ‘run our country like he runs his business.’ If you knew about Trump’s failures, you would never have voted for him. The only reasons he continues to have a business is because foreign nations rescued him and he used illegal methods to get undeserved loans when his world was falling away. For the latter reason, he is a convicted felon. Trump’s only tactic is no different from the schoolyard bully you might remember in elementary school. He threatens his adversaries, and lies to those f...

Co-presidents Musk and Trump aren’t good at much. Trump’s entire life is a history of failure. Musk’s Tesla vehicles caught fire, his SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft has blown up twice, one of his Cyber Truck’s exploded in Vegas, and he is now destroying every part of our government which was actually working. All three branches of our government are corrupt, biased, and support the right-wing fascist manifesto, Project 2025. They are good for nothing. The people who actually worked in Washington and accomplished things based on our most important issues, are now looking for new jobs. Trump’s life has been a disaster. When he took office in 2017, one of the first things he did was to seal his educational records. We know that daddy Fred bought deferments which prevented him from being drafted into the military during the illegal war in South Vietnam. It is very clear that he also paid for his diplomas from military boarding school, and Wharton Business College. Trump is the worst public s...

It’s obvious that qualifications have nothing to do with Trump’s nominations for his White House staff. Just a few names offer irrefutable proof for my claims: Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and Matt Gaetz. Three biased individuals who are incapable of free and intelligent thought. However, just a small examination of who he nominated reveals his reasons, and the fact that Trump knows nothing about governing our country. A number of his nominees are based on reciprocity. They helped him win specific states, like Rubio in Florida. Others share his extreme views of our nation’s future. At least two were Fox personalities. Fox has been his personal propaganda machine for nine years. Like Hitler, he could not have won without a functioning agency focused on brainwashing uninformed Americans. With the nomination of Matt Gaetz, it was an obvious display of gratitude for the American Nazi Party, calling themselves the Freedom Caucus. Felons and sexual predators flock together. Not a single nomin...