TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The mainstream media is constantly hiding facts from the American people. I will never offer less than the truth to my readers. Trump sent National Guard Troops to Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago for one reason, and one reason only: to prevent the “No Kings” protests against his authoritarian and fascist actions by true and patriotic Americans. As America’s leading hypocrite, he is taking action to protect protestors, albeit in a Muslim nation. Protests against the failure of Iran’s leaders based on a declining economy, have turned deadly. “If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.” Throughout our nation’s 249 years, our federal government continues to interfere with events occurring in other nations. We are not a “great nation,” and we are not the “world’s police force.” We have no right to impose our beliefs on other nations...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Darkest Day in American History happened on January 6, 2021. My wife and I watched all three hours of an event planned, organized, and executed by a sitting president. It was an attempted coup, although it has been represented as a lesser crime by those who support Donald John Trump. The second darkest day happened in October of 2020. Breaking his own unconstitutional rule, Moscow Mitch McConnell’s choice to complete the nine-members of the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, was confirmed by the Senate just weeks prior to the presidential election in November. Moscow Mitch and Trump succeeded in their efforts to stack the Supreme Court of the United States with three additional right-wing extremists, created a super majority by 6-3. Their first notable and destructive effort occurred on June 24, 2022. Six fascist-leaning justices overturned a 49-year-old decision by a legitimate Court known as Roe v Wade. This action removed the rights of all women to make de...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Between 2017 and 2021, Trump nearly placed our nation in another Great Depression. Over one million Americans lost their lives from the effects of Covid-19 while Trump told us, “it will just go away.” However not a single positive accomplishment can be found over those four, long years. In 2025, your illegitimate president is once again ignoring the needs and wishes of America’s majority while he pretends to be the leader of 340 million people. In just nine days, the orange buffoon will have completed the first year of his four-year term. I know it seems much longer because the damage he has caused to our nation is 100 times worse than the first. Trump began his attack on America with the creation of DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency. To lead this new and unnecessary department, he chose a billionaire with no experience in government but had donated more than 350 million dollars to his campaign; Elon Musk. In Nine Days, Trump Will Have Been Your Illegiti...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This story may not excite you or awaken your strongest emotions. However, it clearly reveals that your illegitimate president is void of concern for anyone but himself and the super-rich, and lacks integrity, undeserving of the respect of any true American. It concerns the first two vetoes of his second illegitimate presidency. The bipartisan bills are designed to make it easier to build a water pipeline in Colorado and give a Native American tribe more control over a portion of the Everglades. [One of the bills — the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act — would have added a small village called the Osceola Camp to a section of the Florida Everglades that the Miccosukee Native American Tribe has control over. It would also require the Department of the Interior to take action to protect structures in the village from flooding.] Trump gave his own reason for vetoing the bill, based on vengeance and hatred for anyone whose origin is now western European and whi...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I proudly admit to being a pacifist. For men and women of average intelligence, there is never justification for acts of violence. When right-wing extremist, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated, I denounced it and knew that this was an action based on hate. Hate creates more hate and is an act of pure stupidity. Nazis among us would like you to believe that Kirk was a hero, a saint, and a martyr. This is far from the truth. He encouraged hatred and violence while spreading fascist message to his supporters. Here are a few of his opinions related to race, debate, gender, feminism, reproductive rights, gun violence, immigration, Islam, and religion. “Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.” The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 20 “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative act...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Anyone who is honest with themself knows that Trump’s history is filled with tales of extreme racism, sexual depravity, and white-collar crime. After he declared his intention to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in June of 2015 he exposed the “real Donald Trump.” We learned that he has no concern, no compassion, for anyone other than himself. As more information was released in 2017, his lifelong mental affliction of malignant narcissism was revealed. He actually enjoys his ability to make the lives of others more difficult. As your illegitimate president, he is following his own fascist manifesto, Project 2025, word for word. His ultimate goal is to become our nation’s dictator for the remainder of his disgusting and pitiful life. Democrats refused to agree to plans ending the recent government shutdown until millions of Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act, and receive subsidies, were protected. However, eight cowards, including both ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart On December 18, 2019, Donald Trump was impeached for the first time. The charges were fair and just: abuse of power and obstruction of justice. Trump engaged in phone conversations with the President of Ukraine. He demanded “dirt” on Hunter and Joe Biden in exchange for funds already approved by Congress. This act was a continuation of how he conducted business in the private sector. History proves that Moscow Mitch McConnell’s refusal to conduct a fair trial in the Senate is a critical part of why we are where we are today. Trump was impeached again after he planned, organized, and executed the January 6 insurrection. Same results in the Senate. Trump was a failure at everything he attempted in the private sector, and continues to be a failure as your illegitimate president. So far, he has bullied nearly every agency, university, business, and individual dependent on government funding. His tariffs are no different. Trump is attempting to bully every country in...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart A President of the United States is not a “King,” a “Dictator,” or any other form of autocrat. The truth is, he is no more important than the janitors who clean the White House bathrooms, he simply has a different list of “to dos.” He is a public servant. A president’s primary function is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. This includes protecting the rights of every American guaranteed by the Law of the Land. He is also required to make our nation safe and secure for all 340 million people. His ‘job’ is to seriously address the many problems facing our nation and find solutions acceptable to everyone, even if that means compromise. He is not allowed to have prejudices: he was elected by voters residing in the most diverse nation in the world. Trump is the anti-American president. He is the opposite of everything I previously listed. Trump uses his position for personal gain. He doesn’t give a damn about a single c...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is completely incompetent, and he doesn’t care. Simply look at the men and women he chose for his administration. ‘Unfit for office’ is a huge understatement. I have reported Trump’s life of failure for more than 10 years. Seldom have I ever understood what he was talking about as he ranted on and on at his numerous hate rallies. When I did find some comprehension, he was either whining about how badly he was mistreated, or attacking someone who disagreed with his fascist and Unconstitutional policies. Today his speech is incoherent and makes no sense. What’s left of his little mind is deteriorating rapidly. Is disgusts me when Trump is referred to as the President. He is not my president and never will be. Only a patriot who loves his or her country and all of its people is an American. Trump is nothing more than an opportunist. He uses people and his position for personal gain and his perverted pleasures. It is no secret that not a single member of Trump...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In eight months, if I live that long, I will be an octogenarian. I grew up reading the Sunday newspaper, mostly the comics section. By the time I was in high school, I read the morning paper daily, primarily the sports section. By my junior year, one of my teachers made it a requirement to read the entire front page and more. In 2025, it is a sad fact that reading a newspaper has become obsolete for most. I don’t watch television news: none of it is entirely accurate or based on the complete truth. I turn on my computer and open numerous websites, searching for the truth about what happened on the previous day or while I was asleep. Over the last 10 years, most mainstream media agencies cover Trump more than anything or anyone else. Therefore, there is no “good news.” Most of what I read is revolting and contain attacks on the future of my beloved country. It is an irrefutable fact that every member of our federal government, all 547 men and women, knew about Pu...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s personal beliefs: white supremacy, fascism, the repeal of the First, Fourth, Fifth, and 14 th Amendments, and rule by the super-rich. What he does not believe: freedom and justice for all, due process, tradition, history, the rule of law, complete equality for all, diversity, inclusion, free thought, doing the right thing, and the New Testament of the Bible. Trump’s fascist administration, whose only “gods” are power and great wealth, consistently brag about ‘protecting religious freedom.’ Their actions prove that this only applies to Christian extremism, and their support for the  Old Testament: a collection of fairy tales and fables . They reject your right to practice the Religion of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or any other faith not controlled by priests, ministers, pastors, and most significantly Evangelical leaders.    Their leader, Dictator Donny Trump, has never been a “Christian.” During the 2016 campaign season, he offered t...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The not so well-kept secret that Trump is a fascist dictator is not a surprise. Trump hates America and what most of our nation’s people support: celebrating our diversity, inclusion for all, and complete equality regardless of your ethnic origin, color of your skin, religious affiliation, sex or sexual orientation. He is the leader of the Nazi movement in America. [Fascism: a far-right, authoritarian political ideology and system of government characterized by a dictatorial leader, a centralized autocratic government, and the forcible suppression of opposition. It is marked by extreme nationalism, a belief in the supremacy of the nation over the individual, and often a cult of personality around the leader. Other common features include militarism, suppression of dissent, and a rejection of democratic liberalism.] Convince me that the above is not an accurate definition of Trump and his party. Senator Bernie Sanders is the champion of the majority: the working ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Exit polls taken in swing states on November 5, 2024, revealed how uninformed the average American voter truly is. When asked why they voted for Trump, the reply was always similar to, “I think he’ll be better for the economy.” They were obviously unaware that Trump’s failure to lead our nation in the fight against a deadly coronavirus, combined with his failed fiscal policy, nearly created a second Great Depression in 2020, and added eight trillion dollars to the national debt. “What their responses said to me was, “how bad can he be?” Those same voters are suffering from how bad the orange buffoon has become. All politicians make promises. During the 2016 campaign, Trump made promises about a wall, which would have failed, and how great the economy would be if he was elected: and many, many more. He kept none of these promises. During the 2024 campaign, his biggest promises were to end the war in Ukraine on day one, as well as the current “Greedflation.” As of...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In every administration in my lifetime, the position of Secretary of Defense, now labeled the “Secretary of War,” by your illegitimate president, was critical to our nation’s future and to our relationship with our allies from nearly every other country in the world. As a pollical reporter, I remember the worst. Robert McNamara was hated by nearly every young man in my age group. Those of us who never served on the ground in South Vietnam constantly questioned the justification for a war halfway around the world and felt great anger as we watched our family, friends, and acquaintances arrive home in body bags. Even more evil was George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. It is an undeniable fact that he was incompetent, but the fact that he displayed a total lack of concern for the lives of our military in Afghanistan and Iraq earned him the title of worst of all time. This and other actions, approved by Bush, confirmed their attacks by the World Co...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s no secret: Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed. His economic policies have proven disastrous. On his report card, Foreign Relations receives an F-. Trump is not a leader, as we learned during Covid-19. More than one million American lives were lost, while he told us, “it will just go away.” What is most obvious, but goes unreported by the mainstream media, is that Trump is a dictator. However, the New York Times recently talked to younger voters who voted for Trump in 2024. Asked to describe Trump’s actions over the last eight months, they called him “aggressive,” “overpowering,” and “reckless.” Mustafa, a 28-year-old Republican from Georgia, didn’t hold back. “The way that he’s been handling things recently, dictatorship,” he said. There is little remaining in the base for right-wing politicians. The group Trump and I belong to, septuagenarians, is dying off. Educated Americans reject Trump and his party. Trump is losing the support of rural voters....

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart On Wednesday, Trump stood before the world and proved that he is a blithering idiot. He bragged about things he has failed to accomplish, called the leaders of the European Union morons, and claimed that only he could solve all of the world’s problems. It took him nearly an hour to embarrass our nation, and prove that our voters are uninformed and ignorant. I’m shocked that no one walked out on his moronic tirade after the first 10 minutes. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Standing in front of the entire world was a malignant narcissist suffering from dementia, who is the greatest failure in our nation’s history and offering proof with his own ludicrous and ridiculous speech. For your incompetent president, his greatest and most revealing statement was calling climate change caused by man, a “hoax.” This proved to the world that he and his American Nazi Party were born with only half a brain. They are the only people in all of developed nations who refuse ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Over the last couple of weeks, Trump has ordered his oligarchs to fire two men who have been constant critics of his failure to lead our nation. Paramount, the parent company of CBS, fired Stephen Colbert. Disney Corp, the parent company of ABC, attempted to hide their ownership of several companies, including Nexstar, fired Jimmy Kimmel. The only crime committed by either late night host was speaking truth to power about your corrupt and incompetent president. They were exercising their First Amendment rights without malice, or slander. Their weapon was humor, and Trump is incapable of self-deprecation, or any other form of laughing at his expense. Let’s go back to January 20, 2025. [Partway through his second presidential inaugural address, Donald Trump boasted, “After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Okay, one more time. I condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk. However, he was a fascist, and I despise his politics, his hatred for everyone who is not pure white and wealthy, and most of all his desire to overturn our government and in its place install a fascist regime with Trump as his Fuhrer, was unacceptable and was, in fact, the actions of Neo-Nazi. I also condemn anyone who supported Kirk. They could not admire his position on everything without becoming members of the American Nazi Party themselves. If the men and women who fought in WWII, the war to halt the advance of fascism, were alive today, they would be grabbing their weapons and prepare to fight another revolutionary war. Kirk had a right to his opinions, and to voice those opinions. However, he had no right to encourage his ignorant followers to overthrow our government. Sedition remains a federal crime, and so does treason. His treasonous followers are calling him an “American hero.” In truth, he ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I am a fortunate American. Born in 1946, I experienced post-war America. Only a very small number of my readers share what I felt, saw, and heard as I was growing up in the 1950s. I remember first grade. When all of the students had taken their seats, Sister Mary told us to stand, face the American flag in the corner of the room, place our right hands over our hearts, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. This may be a bit “trite,” but it was not uncommon to feel a few tears in my eyes. I believed in the words. However, our current federal government does not. oweHH “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The truth is, our current, illegitimate president continues to intentionally divide the people of our nation. America is no longer a Democratic Republic, it is a fascist regime. Your “president” is attempting to end “liberty a...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I am compelled to write about “the man who would be king” every day, but I take no joy in informing the American people about the most evil and destructive man in world history. I often fear that my readers “can’t handle the truth.” Between 2017 and 2021, Trump caused enormous and irreparable harm to my country. Trump 2.0 has been an effort to add every nation in the world to his plans for devastation. The people of the world are threatened by his foolhardy tariffs, and every resident of every nation is concerned about the end of world peace, fearing a third World War. The United States has not enjoyed a great leader since 1963. Without a great man or woman living in the White House who possesses great love for all the people of his or her nation, America cannot move forward. Being President of the United States demands patriotism, concern for the future of all Americans, a high level of intelligence, and sometimes good, old common sense. Trump fails to possess ...