TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Every day over the last 10+ months, Trump violated the Fifth Amendment, after the Supreme Court granted him powers not intended by our Founding Fathers. He knows he is above the law and continues to commit the most egregious crimes known to man. Trump and his henchman, Pete Hegseth, along with the consent of the corrupt men and women in the Pentagon, have murdered more than 100 people off the coast of Venezuela in a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself , nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due p...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When I look at any member of Trump’s inner circle, my first thought is “what was he thinking?” And therein lies the problem. Trump doesn’t think. Trump obviously selected his cabinet, leaders of various departments, and closest advisers based on how often they kiss his huge derriere, and their support for his fascist manifesto, Project 2025. Excluding the politicians who work in the Pentagon, if I were a member of any of our nation’s military forces, I would resign. Trump is a draft dodger who once called the courageous men buried in a French graveyard who lost their lives in WWI “suckers and fools,” asking the question, “what was in it for them,” cannot be allowed to claim the title of “Commander-in-Chief.” His choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was a part-time Fox News personality. He was best known for his love of alcohol. His own mother described him as a sexual predator. He was forced to resign from his position as the leader of a charity servin...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Any American with common sense is aware that Trump is far from the sharpest tool in the shed. He actually believes that he can hide the truth from the American people forever. History proves that the truth will always find its way into the light of day, and for villains and scoundrels, this is their greatest fear. To hide the fact that he is a soon-to-be confirmed pedophile, Trump will wage war against a nation which offers no threat to the United States. If this sounds familiar, other presidents have taken the same actions in the past. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq were illegal and immoral wars. However, government officials who were heavily invested in the military industrial complex became super-rich while those forced to fight their wars lost their lives and limbs. Venezuela, like most other South American countries, has a major problem with the illicit drug trade. However, fentanyl is not one of those drugs. Trump, who pardoned the biggest drug lord in Sou...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart At a hearing last week, Congress demanded to know who was responsible for the murder of two survivors after a missile struck their boat and were obliterated by a second missile. This happened on December 2, 2025. The question shouldn’t have been about who ordered the second strike, a war crime by definition, but why would any American choose to commit such a vile crime against human beings they had never met? The problem lies in the fact that the Pentagon has become politicized. Anyone holding the rank of colonel or vice-admiral and above has become a member of the worst, most evil profession in the world: politician. Where is my country? Why has the most vile and disgusting person in the world, pretending to be your president, been allowed to remain in our White House? Let’s be totally honest about the situation. Pete Hegseth, the least qualified Secretary of State in history, is guilty of murder and committed a war crime. Admiral Bradley violated the Uni...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The first report revealed a conversation between Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Admiral Mitch Bradley. After a missile struck a Venezuelan speed boat, two survivors were seen in the water. Hegseth’s response was: “kill them all.” It was never confirmed that the boat was indeed transporting illegal drugs. Here are the facts, and whether or not the boat was carrying drugs, the action was illegal and immoral. The action after the first missile severely damaged the boat was murder. The individuals in the water were defenseless and offered no threat to the American vessel or anyone else. Hegseth simply added murder to his other crimes of being drunk and disorderly, assaulting women, and embezzling money from a military charity. As for Admiral Bradley, he clearly violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, UCMJ, by killing a defenseless adversary. These ongoing acts are a choice by Trump unconfirmed by military intelligence. As of today, Hegseth continues ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to head the Office of Special Counsel. This was intended to be a “watchdog” agency, but when Trump places one of his like-minded cronies into any position in his administration, their purpose is to rubber stamp his fascist agenda. After members of both parties railed against Ingrassia’s open racism and his own admission that he has a “Nazi streak,” knowing he would not be confirmed, Ingrassia withdrew from his nomination. Democratic leaders expressed their concerns in a letter. "Mr. Ingrassia’s loyalty to Donald Trump over the Constitution, his calls for imposing martial law and celebrating violent January 6th insurrectionists, and his close associations with antisemitic extremists all make it clear that he lacks the temperament, experience, and fundamental constitutional fidelity required to lead this office," Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrote in the letter. "He is not simply unqualified—his c...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart First, an undeniable fact. Pete Hegseth is woefully unqualified to be Trump’s first Secretary of Defense. Without an iota of experience in any level of government, the well-known sexual predator, alcoholic, and a man who embezzled funds from charities involved with veterans, which he led, was given one of the most important positions on any president’s cabinet. Over the last five months, Hegseth has proven himself to be a moron who has no legitimate reason to be in any form of government. He is an embarrassment to himself, to Trump, and to his country. Trump doesn’t care, but the American people should. Hegseth is loyal to Trump, not to his country, not to 340 million people. He is lying about the effectiveness of the 14 ‘mega bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds, dropped on Iran last Saturday evening. Although Trump and his cronies united in the last two days to falsely claim that the attacks were completely successful, reports by respected authorities contradict...

It is an undeniable fact that on January 20, 2021, Trump violated the Espionage Act by stealing an estimated 14 boxes of national secrets from the White House. Although a corrupt Supreme Court prevented his prosecution, he remains guilty of a crime punishable by death. Trump does not normally lead by example. His “basement dwellers” choose to believe his lies. This is how he survived for nearly 79 years. Now that he is once again your illegitimate president, his woefully unqualified administration is following his lead in all the wrong directions. Both his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, willfully disobeyed the rules and made top secret information accessible to the world’s population. Neither moron has been fired. However, today, May 2, 2025, it was reported that Waltz was removed from his current position, and subsequently nominated for America’s Ambassador to the United Nations. If America had a real president, both men w...

It is abundantly clear that Trump learned nothing from his first, four disastrous years in the White House. I dare anyone to disagree with me that Trump’s administration is composed of the least qualified, anti-American, and uncaring millionaires and billionaires in our nation. Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Robert Kennedy Jr., Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi and the others are a slap in the face to every man and woman who previously held their positions. I find Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the greatest embarrassment of all. Before his confirmation by a corrupt Republican-dominated Senate, he was a part-time Fox personality, and a well-known alcoholic, even while at work, a sexual predator, and a thief who embezzled funds from two organizations he led which served our veterans. It appears that Hegseth may be the first major member of Trump’s administration to be removed from his position. An anonymous federal official claims that the White House is looking for an indiv...

In recent days it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump’s administration is the most incompetent and unqualified in history. Sadly, the hypocritical and cowardly members of the Senate confirmed these morons. The careless and dangerous security violations by Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth are far more serious than Trump would like you to know. Imagine that the attacks were against our greatest enemy; Russia. A mistake at this level could mean the physical destruction of America. It is more obvious than ever that Trump’s administration is composed of men and women who fail to possess qualifications for their positions. Unlike President Obama and President Biden, whose staffs were composed of people whose talents and abilities were incomparable. Trump chose individuals much like himself: criminals, degenerates, ambitious men and women who would take any position offered them which would give them relevance and credibility. Experience and qualifications were not considered by T...

Trump, Musk, and their entire administration are totally incompetent, unfit, and destructive. They are so horrible that the only sensible thing to do is realize that everything from election day until today is in reality a very bad practical joke on the American people. I should laugh, but I know too much about how our government should function, unlike Trump’s billionaires, criminals, and degenerates. The existence of the United States is in great jeopardy. Unfortunately, no one seems to care, including everyone in Washington, and the mainstream media. In just over two months, our nation has relinquished its position as the most powerful, the most respected, and the richest country on the planet. America is no longer the leader of the free world. This title now belongs to the leaders of the European Union, and the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. For their nations, Trump is now their enemy and the reason they will soon face economic disaster. One of the biggest dangers to ou...

Let’s take a look back into the dark days of the first illegitimate Trump administration. The connections between Trump, his “people,” and Vladimir Putin were undeniable, and supported by “Republican” politicians. From August of 2016 until election day, the man who financed Trump’s campaign was Robert Mercer. Mercer is a billionaire whose closest friends include Russian oligarchs. He is the primary supporter of the right-wing extremist blog and radio broadcast, “Breitbart.” Two years after the illegitimate election, it was confirmed that Trump and Putin were in constant contact during the 2016 campaign. The plan to win the presidency began in Moscow in 2013. Trump’s first Secretary of State was Rex Tillerson. Tillerson formerly held the position of CEO in the Exxon Corporation. More significantly, he was close friends with Vladimir Putin, and conducted many business arrangements with the Russian President. Tillerson received the highest honor a civilian can receive who is not a Russian...

I am a proud pacifist. Violence never accomplishes anything, and no war has ever been “won.” Even when I was a martial arts instructor, my first attempt was to encourage my students to avoid violence whenever possible. Our oath: “I come to you with empty hands: I have no weapons. However if it is a matter of life or death, right or wrong, then these are my weapons: Karate, my empty hands.” I am beginning to think that “my empty hands may not be enough.” It is an undeniable fact that Trump is Putin’s puppet. It is a fact known by our government, both political parties, and our military that in 2016 and 2024 Putin won the election for Trump. On both occasions, Trump is an illegitimate president whose intent is to destroy the dream of our founding fathers forever. As a pacifist, I have renounced the destructive emotion of hatred for most of my life. However, because the future of 340 million people is in the balance, and the country I love is under attack, I have learned to hate Trump and...

Your uncaring and Trump worshiping fake Republican Party confirmed a woefully unqualified degenerate to oversee the largest and most expensive military force in the world. Pete “the Party Animal” Hegseth, is a drunk, a womanizer, a thief, and another Trump wannabe who paid hush money to a woman he sexually assaulted. So when I tell you that cowardly and hypocritical Republican Senators in Washington confirmed his nomination as, you won’t want to believe this, Secretary of Defense, you may or may not be appalled, but you should be. Good news for Republican politicians who worship Trump, Hegseth has promised to end Pentagon waste. He will make many changes in how the military brass spends taxpayer money. He believes that women are meant to be subservient to men and they are not qualified for combat. Therefore, he will change their uniforms to something more fitting for real women Combat gear for male soldiers and sailors is too expensive, and Hegseth has a cure for that.   Hegseth ha...

The names Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth are interchangeable. Their history proves that they are depraved sexual predators, have addictive personalities with drugs and/or alcohol, and are confirmed but not convicted criminals. The one difference is that the furor over Gaetz based on several Congressional investigations forced him to remove himself from the nomination to become the Attorney General. Hegseth has no integrity or self-esteem and continues to fight for Senate confirmation as Secretary of Defense. I say, “what the hell! All of Trump’s nominees are woefully unqualified and have a dark past. Why not allow another another ‘Trump clone’ to defile the West Wing?” Let’s be totally honest about this serious situation. Members of a president’s cabinet and nominees for other critical institutions including the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Environmental Protection Agency, have extremely important jobs necessary to sustain the American way of life. To suggest that a no...

  What I have been reading over the last week cannot be real. It must be a farcical movie produced by the Farrelly or the Coen brothers. In this movie, the dumbest, most corrupt old, obese, white man in America became our country’s president. To add to the ridiculous overall theme, this moron selected men and women for his cabinet and closest advisors who are totally unfit for the positions offered to them, and in several situations opposed to the departments they will lead. If this is reality, this movie will produce more tears than laughter. Does anyone with average intelligence believe that “Little Marco Rubio” possesses any of the experience and skills necessary to hold the positions of Secretary of State? Rubio has been called the “laziest member of the Senate.” Not once has he displayed the ability to “think on his feet,” or the skills necessary to negotiate during the diplomaticl process. Then I read about Tulsi Gabbard. She has frequently been suspected of having a ...