TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart There is no vandalism. For once in your waste of human life, admit that you fucked up. You gave a friend a “no bid” contract for an unnecessary rebuild of the reflecting pool, and it is clear that he had no idea what he was doing. It appears that he took some of the Hispanic employees you have at Mar-a-Lago to do the job. Big mistake. It turned vomit green as it was being filled, and I assume he used regular house paint to cover the bottom instead of marine-quality paint. SAD, SO SAD The irrefutable truth is that Trump’s life story is a tale of abject failure. He has never accomplished anything of value in 80 years. He has made many mistakes, although he continues his lie: “I have never done anything wrong.” He attempts to justify the fact that he is a draft dodger. He also refuses to admit that when Covid-19 became deadly in America, his claim that “it will just go away” resulted in more than a million deaths In 2024, uninformed voters gave Trump a second chan...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As a political junkie and a lover of history, I am aware that most American presidents and their administrations were nearly worthless. I have experienced 14 of them, and only four made an effort to improve the lives of the people: John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Every man calling himself a “Republican” was only concerned with the welfare of the rich and powerful. None of these men reached the depravity and incompetence of the least qualified man in the world, Donald John Trump, and his useless administration. EVEN WHEN HE TRIES TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIMSELF, HE FAILS Immediately, when he walked into the Oval Office on his first day, he created the Department of Government Efficiency. Even the title was a joke. Then he placed the wealthiest man in the world in control of DOGE. Elon Musk is a Nazi from South Africa, and knows nothing about America and its method of governing 340 million people. Trump promised to reduce the national debt by ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have been trying to understand why Trump chose the least qualified men and women to be on his cabinet and lead our nation’s most critical agencies. I finally realized that this is another display of his lifelong mental illness: malignant narcissism. Trump knows nothing about anything. Therefore, choosing men and women who are even dumber than he is seems normal. FIRING NOEM, BONDI, AND GABBARD WAS A GOOD BEGINNING Real Americans celebrated when Trump fired Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Three other names came to my mind immediately: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, (not “of War), FBI Director, Kash Patel, and most importantly Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr. It appears to me that Kennedy is attempting to kill as many of our nation’s people as possible. He is nothing less than a witch doctor who makes things up as he wakes up each mornin...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I may be an old man, but I know two things: I have seen or heard all the great individual men and women who created the greatest music in history, and the bands who thrilled us, and I have lived long enough to see our nation’s federal government become the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. I am aware that I was naïve before my junior year in high school, 1962, but for the most part, I trusted my government, our military leaders, law enforcement, and the priests serving me and my fellow parishioners in our church. I also believed that most of America’s wealthiest men and women and the corporations they owned cared about the quality of their products and the people who worked for them. As I near my 80 th birthday, I no longer trust anyone in our nation who has outrageous wealth and/or complete power over my life. The truth is both disheartening and unacceptable. NOT A SINGLE PERSON IN OUR GOVERNMENT IS WORTH THE SALARY THEY RECEIVE The ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you ask 90 percent of voters what the most important issue in any election is, the answer is always, “the economy.” Being an American is not easy in the 21 st century. The solution to any problem, and at the root of most crimes is money. If you want the “American dream,” you must have money, and lots of it.. As an original baby boomer, I grew up in a country struggling to move from a wartime economy to something more normal. As a boy in the 1950s and 1960s my dreams were not very lofty. Most of my friends had more “things” than me, but that was never important. Most of the kids in my school had two parents. I and my brother were raised by a single mother. All she did was work. She considered raising two sons her entire reason for existing. I worked lots of jobs, but never became rich. My wife and I finally achieved the American dream in 1999 when I was 53 and my wife 49: we purchased our own home. Statistics prove that most Americans 35 years of age and youn...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I often think about what makes America less than it should or could be. I know all the good things: I love history and our Founding Fathers stated their reasons for creating the United States of America better than I could ever explain them to you. ACCORDING TO ME, HERE ARE THE WORST OF THE WORST I won’t use individuals, you know who they are. The government of the United States has become the most corrupt and incompetent in the world, and there are plenty of guilty individuals on Capitol Hill. I will list organizations and groups I consider to be the most harmful to the image and future of America. I trust no one with great wealth or power. I could have chosen our incompetent military leaders in the Pentagon, all law enforcement agencies, many religious leaders, and other groups I despise for their failures to do what is right without reservation. However, I narrowed it down to just four. PROFESSIONAL POLITIICANS BELONG TO THE WORST PROFESSION IN THE WORLD If a...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Is Trump mentally ill? That is a huge understatement. Everything he says, everything he does, makes no sense. He is wasting billions, and possibly trillions of dollars waging wars, destroying national treasures and rebuilding them into what appear to be massage parlors and brothels: places Trump is obviously more familiar with. TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL 2024 VICTORY WAS ACHIEVED WITH LIES AND MISDIRECTION Trump attempted to make the 2024 election all about the economy. We now know that this was another attempt to gaslight the American people. It is a fact that America’s voting public is the least informed in the world, and therefore his tactics were successful, if the election was fair. Evidence proves it was not. However, millions of gullible Americans believed Trump’s promises: to end the invasion of Ukraine on day one; to end inflation/Greedflation on day one; to prevent another war on foreign soil; and to reduce the national debt. How’s he doing? Stop laughing. ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart What we don’t know about Trump’s war on Iran. It’s a war. No, it’s not a war. We won, and the war is over. The war will be over soon. The Strait of Hormuz is fully open. The Strait of Hormuz is closed again. I will not extend the ceasefire. The ceasefire has been extended by 10 days. The TACO man is at it again. He has no idea what he is doing. WE, THE PEOPLE, DESERVE BETTER I have lived through 14 presidents and watched their actions with feelings of hope and trust. I don’t remember Truman; I was born in 1946. However, I watched some of Dwight Eisenhower’s second nomination at the Republican National Convention in 1956, and my interest in politics began. My opinion about most of our presidents can be summed up with one word: adequate. Only one of them can be called “great.” Sadly, I consider three of them to be the worst in American history, and Nixon is not one of them. I rate presidents solely on their accomplishments for all Americans and their successes or ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Pentagon: what is it good for? Apparently, absolutely nothing. Our military leaders live in the past and dream about what might be. They are out of touch with the real world, including their overrated “expertise” related to waging wars. Where is DOGE when we need it?. Fact: our military leaders have lost every war since WWII. Their entire organization is incompetent and wasteful, underserving of an annual budget reaching nearly one trillion dollars. Trump wants to raise it to 1.5 trillion dollars. Watchdog groups have confirmed that 50 cents out of every dollar goes to waste. Many of their expensive toys simply don’t work when used in modern warfare. ANOTHER LOSS IN IRAN IS IMMINENT, AND OUR SOLDIERS SERVING ABROAD ARE IN GREAT DANGER What upsets me the most is the fact that our military “leaders” are willing to accept orders from a self-admitted fascist and a draft dodger. Trump is not concerned about the loss of American lives, or the fact that his war is ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Your government is the most corrupt in the world. It is also the most incompetent in history, refusing to perform the jobs for which they were elected. That said, a watchdog group claims that the Washington Mafia is hiding the truth about our national debt. Although it is reported as 39 trillion dollars, this group claims that the actual number is 170.3 trillion dollars. TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING CLAIMS THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE COSTS INCLUDED IN THE DEFICIT [As of Sept. 30, 2025, the U.S. government had only $6.1 trillion on hand to pay for $176.3 trillion worth of incurred and promised liabilities, Truth in Accounting reports.] The following are a few of the debts unreported by your corrupt government. [Within that number, projected Social Security benefits for all Americans who have entered the workforce amount to $54 trillion, total Medicare benefits will cost $74.5 trillion, and military and civilian retirement benefits will be $15.5 trilli...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Last Monday, a poll revealed that Trump’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent; the lowest for a second term president in modern history. As Trump’s War against Iran continues, and gas prices escalate, his very low numbers are expected to continue on a downward spiral. WHAT HAS TRUMP ACCOMPLISHED? All politicians make promises they know they’ll never keep. However, when the promises come from the man or woman the states choose to lead our nation, we pay attention. Trump promised to end inflation, more accurately known as “Greedflation,” on day one. He also promised to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine immediately, During his many hate rallies, he promised to end military conflicts around the world and prevent America from becoming involved in another unwinnable war. In January 2025, Trump and his campaign financier, Elon Musk, began taking revenge on anyone who disagreed with the orange buffoon’s fascist plans for America. Thousands of men and women who actually...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Donald Trump never has been and never will be an American President. He is a fascist dictator. The truth is, he never wanted to have a ‘real job.’ He knows nothing about leadership or government, and has never shown any indication that he is willing to learn how to work, and never for the benefit of others. However, after his rigged victory on November 8, 2016, he saw an opportunity to increase his personal wealth, and he did, by 3.7 billion dollars over four, long years. Vladimir Putin recognized the reality that he would have his greatest asset in a position of power. His lifelong dream of destroying America would be sitting behind the Resolute desk. In 2026, Trump is moving full speed ahead in his efforts to create chaos and end the dream of our Founding Fathers. I will say it again: Trump remains an immature, spoiled child, who is and always was the schoolyard bully. Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t read; or maybe he can’t. If he had read “Being a President for ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I have known about ‘the real Donald Trump’ since 2015 when I began writing about the failed businessman. However, I, and no other political writer could have foreseen how horrific his illegitimate presidencies have become. The mainstream media won’t tell the absolute truth, but I will. Trump is a fascist, a Hitler wannabe, and the leader of the American Nazi Party. Thanks to six corrupt Supreme Court Justices, he has become a dictator. Placing him above the law and granting him powers not intended by our Founding Fathers allows him to ignore his responsibilities as a sitting president and use his position for personal gain and revenge on his millions of enemies. Trump has absolute control over actions by the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of our government. What disappoints and frightens me the most is how the Pentagon surrendered to a fascist who is a draft dodger and once called American soldiers buried in France after WWI “losers and suckers.” ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It is no secret that after nearly five years as your illegitimate president, Trump has accomplished nothing of a positive nature. The reasons for this are many, but I have no doubt it began before the orange buffoon reached puberty, if he ever did. There is no information about Trump’s childhood. What we do know is that his parents no longer wanted him in their home and placed him in a local military boarding school at the age of 13. I have no doubt that it was during this time that he became a schoolyard bully. He is a coward, and all schoolyard bullies are cowards, ordering others to do his fighting for him. This continues today. His success as a Manhattan real estate mogul is a fable. The New York business community tells tales of his bribing public officials in charge of inspecting his construction projects, and threatened anyone who attempted to expose his crimes. At least six bankruptcies, and bailouts by Russian oligarchs and the Saudi Royal Family saved ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In 1980, I was fooled by a better actor than I believed him to be. As a resident of California, Ronald Reagan had impressed me as our governor. His remodel of our state’s educational system, most significantly our state colleges and universities, was a major influence as to why I, and many other Independents, voted for him in 1980. However, early in 1981, Reagan revealed himself and his agenda. He began the right-wing’s war against the working class, minorities, and women’s rights. He also made me aware of his support for the establishment of Christianity as our nation’s only true religion and his support for our nation’s billionaires. He planted the roots of fascism with a demand that his party offer him 100 percent loyalty. He rejected any efforts to oppose his policies and plans for our nation’s future. The Republican Party’s platform was based on lies and misdirection, and hypocrisy became its cornerstone. [Newt Gingrich notably touted the Republican Party a...