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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart 3.8 Trillion Dollars. That is the amount of money added to the National Debt by Trump’s wasteful spending in just 19 months. But Trump Believes that all of your tax dollars belong solely to White, super-rich men and their trophy wives. This enormous amount of money would cover the costs of universal healthcare and higher education for everyone. During his second illegitimate term, Trump has spent more money than any other president in history. He has failed to keep his most important campaign promise: to “end inflation on day one.” The truth is, his ill-advised tariffs have exacerbated the problem. NO WORKING-CLASS AMERICAN CAN IMAGINE WHAT A TRILLION DOLLARS LOOKS LIKE $40,000,000,000,000.00. That’s the amount of America’s national debt. After four years and 19 months as your illegitimate president, he is now responsible for 7.8 trillion dollars of that deficit. Trump scoffs at “affordability.” There is no way he is able to comprehend the everyday struggle whic...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump owns a record which will never be broken: not a single attempt to accomplish something of value in 80 years has become a reality. His economic policy of placing tariffs on every nation is ludicrous and making the lives of about 320 million people miserable, unimagined in America’s 250-year history. In addition to his ill-advised and failed tariffs, he failed to keep another campaign promise and end greedflation, while he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on personal, unnecessary, and unwanted projects. He completely demolished the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom, spent millions of dollars on unnecessary revisions to what is left of the People’s Home, golf excursions and trips to Mar-a-Lago, at the cost of more than 10 million dollars each month, a planned archway in his honor, and alterations to the reflecting pool on the National Mall, which destroyed what had been repaired by President Obama, and is now experiencing another rebuild,...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart There has only been one “great” president in my 80 years on this planet. His name has become as American as “mom and apple pie.’ John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected and became America’s 35 th President during the first semester of my first year in high school: 1960. Although I had always had an interest in politics, beginning in 1956, his eloquent speech gave me greater feelings of pride, patriotism, and hope. Few of you remember that before he was chosen to lead our country, he wrote a best-selling book. The title was “Profiles in Courage.” The book was released in 1956. Its subject focuses on short biographies of eight U.S. Senators who deserved JFK’s admiration. Sadly, this book could not be written today. It is not feasible that eight men or women out of 100 senators could be called courageous. Hell, they seldom follow the golden rule and simply “do the right thing.” Trump can be defined by many terms:  mentally deficient, a malignant n...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Like its incompetent Commander-in-Chief, the Pentagon can’t do anything right. Our military brass lost wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and now it has clearly lost Trump’s war in Iran. According to sources inside the Pentagon, they have used almost every long-range missile in their arsenal. Trump’s folly has cost taxpayers about 70 billion dollars and on this day, August 8, 2026, the situation is back where it started, although it appears that Iran has a distinct advantage in deciding how it might end: someday. HOW A DRAFT DODGER BEGAN A WAR AND GOT HIS FAT ASS KICKED No American citizen wanted another war in the Middle East. History proves that an attack on Muslim nations is unwinnable. However, Trump was desperate to find a distraction from his association with best friend and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and the fat, old men in the Pentagon wanted a chance to play with their overpriced toys. Since February 28, Trump and his boys in uniform have w...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Man cannot exist without humor: life is too difficult to survive without it. Regardless of your race, sex, religious affiliation or none at all, or your economic status, it is a fact that we all face more difficulties than pleasure in a lifetime. Humor in its many forms provides an escape from the harshness of our very existence. Movies, television, books, and stand-up comics provide a little respite from the challenges we face every day. In my 80 years there has been one person above all others who provided a source for comics, writers, and water-cooler chuckles: the President of the United States. THE MOST INTELLIGENT PEOPLE I ENCOUNTERED IN MY LIFE HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR I liked “Ike,” but the first American President I remember well was John F. Kennedy. His speeches inspired young Americans to become involved in their nation’s governance, and instilled a feeling of patriotism none of our nation’s leaders accomplished since. JFK used humor to hold the att...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This story will be short. The facts are undeniable, and the truth is found in another failure by the world’s least successful man. Fact number one: Obama spent about 34 million dollars repairing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The job was completed during the Biden administration. Lie number one: Trump lied again, claiming that Obama and Biden spent “hundreds of millions of dollars on the project.” Fact number two: Since 2017, Trump has attempted to undo the many accomplishments of his predecessors. He decided to redesign the pool, “putting his name on it.” Lie number two: Trump claimed the project would cost 12 million dollars. His folly is reaching the 30-million-dollar mark. DETAILS ABOUT ANOTHER TRUMP FAILURE Trump had a “better idea.” The science denier wanted to paint the bottom of the pool “flag blue.” The pool is under the auspices of the Parks and Recreation Department. Any project under their control requires three bids by certified contractors. ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The current hearings with Dr. Fauci as the centerpiece are a farce. Once again, our government is attempting to cover up another Trump failure. Fact: Trump was informed about a possible health emergency in late December of 20019. Although he refuses to read the President’s Daily Brief, an aide is assigned to the responsibility. He did nothing As people from Asia and Europe began to die from what became Covid-19, the press asked Trump if America was facing a pandemic. His answer was “no.” Next came another big lie: “It will just go away.” Trump did nothing. Thankfully, major pharmaceutical companies took the threat seriously and began the development of a vaccine. However, Trump’s failure to lead our nation in the fight allowed millions of Americans to become infected. When he was evicted from the White House in 2021, more than one million Americans had died from the deadly coronavirus. TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 100,000 AMERICAN DEATHS Healthcare experts claim tha...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart He was born into a world of extreme white privilege with an opportunity to do great and memorable things. Donald Trump chose another path: a lifelong search for relevance, personal gratification and even destruction. A life without purpose, virtue, or accomplishment. After five years and seven months as America’s illegitimate president, Trump cannot truthfully claim a single accomplishment for the American people. The opposite is reality. He has caused enormous harm to the great majority of our nation’s people, and to our country. His wasteful spending is the greatest in history, and all of it is beneficial to him, personally. His lifelong mental illness, malignant narcissism, remains his paramount concern. His waste of taxpayer money is outrageous, averaging more than 10 million dollars each month for his personal pleasure, including golf excursions and many trips to his millionaires and billionaire’s playpen, Mar-a-Lago. WHAT TRUMP IS DOING TODAY The overall f...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump claims that he “has a very good brain.” That may be true, but there’s a problem: it’s also very small and of no use to an 80-year-old man. After five years and nearly seven months pretending to be your president, Trump has accomplished nothing of importance; nothing to improve the lives of 340 million people. However, he can brag about one thing: he has the lowest approval ratings of any president in history. REASONS FOR HIS “SUCCESS” How did one old, obese man come to be disliked and even hated by millions of people, not only in America, but around the world? It all began in June of 2015 and a ride down an escalator. But let’s focus on what he has done and said since January 20, 2025. From the first day of his second illegitimate term, his focus was clearly not on keeping his promises and addressing our nation’s most serious problems. Instead, the malignant narcissist concentrated on taking revenge. Trump intentionally divided our country’s people between...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: the citizens of every nation in the world have never declared war against any other country. Governments are responsible for every war in history, and governments force their nation’s people to fight their battles. Our military leaders in the Pentagon and our government love our soldiers until they come home. When they have been seriously wounded, physically or mentally, they and their families become a nuisance. WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT I’m sure you have seen the commercials for an organization called the Wounded oWarrior Project. It is admirable to care for the men and women who fought for our country and arrive home with serious physical and/or mental disabilities. My question is, “why does it exist?” It seems logical to me that the men and women who choose to engage in wars have a responsibility to care for anyone they sent into harm’s way. PENTAGON’S FINANCIAL FAILURES The Pentagon budget for 2027 is expected to surpass one trillion dollars. This is m...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump and the Trump Party are composed of liars, incompetents, and racists. I have said many times that “if Trump’s lips are moving, he’s lying.” Trump loves to brag about other Democratic president’s accomplishments, claiming them as his own. However, when he fails, which is every time he attempts to do anything, he blames his debacle on someone else. A FAILURE A MINUTE Like his lies, Trump’s failures have reached numbers too big to count. And the saga continues. First, and foremost, you must know that everything Trump attempts is an effort to satisfy his insatiable ego. This fact is the result of a lifelong mental disease known as “malignant narcissism,” combined with advancing dementia. His latest efforts, and therefore his latest failures, involve the reflecting pool on the National Mall, and his tacky plan to celebrate our nation’s 250 th anniversary. He is calling it the “Great American State Fair.” When it began this week, the water in the reflecting poo...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The hidden list: Healthcare, education, income inequality, racism and bigotry, religious persecution, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, and an illegitimate and fascist president who hates his own country. Trump has been allowed to be your illegitimate president for five years and five months. He failed to take his job seriously between 2017 and 2021, and is once again refusing to serve the American people in 2026. Trump is the ultimate, professional politician. He made hundreds of promises over the last eleven years, and failed to keep one of them. President Biden spent four years repairing the damage caused by the orange buffoon. Therefore, not a single effort to solve our nation’s growing problems has been addressed since President Obama left office in 2017. Let’s look at each of the biggest problems facing America, many of which began in 1981, and have only become more problematic over the last 45 years. THE WORST AND MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE IN ALL DEVELO...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I wonder what it feels like to know that you have failed every attempt to accomplish something, anything, for an entire lifetime. This is the tragic reality one obese, mentally damaged, 80-year-old man is experiencing today. From that day in the early 1970’s, when Donny Dementia began his attempt to become a New York real estate magnate, he was doomed to fail. Over the last 11 years the world has learned why Donny D had his academic records sealed in 2017. Although he has a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business College, it is clear that he never attended classes to earn his degree. His incoherent and rambling speech alone confirms that he failed to make an effort to learn anything of value while attending an Ivy League College. Six bankruptcies, and accepting bailouts from Russian Oligarchs and the Saudi Royal Family revealed the fact that he was way “over his head” when he attempted to become a successful businessman. Wnen V...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Donald Trump is a disaster for all 340 million Americans. If you are supportive of his “America,” you are one of nation’s 22 million millionaires or 989 billionaires. The rest of us live in his version of hell. First of all, whoever created the term, “the golden years,” was full of shit. You have to be mentally tough to survive beyond the age of 75. Personally, the only part of “me” which has not begun to rapidly deteriorate is my mind. I’m thankful for that. However, I can’t stand or walk, my eyesight becomes worse every day, I have become clumsy, and all of this combined is the reason I occasionally act like an angry, feeble old man. This is America, and one issue above all makes life extremely difficult for me and my incredible bride of 31 years: we are expected to survive on a meager, fixed income. The value of all individuals in America is judged by their income, the money they have in their bank accounts, and nothing else. The national motto has become “pr...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart No one could write a movie this confusing. On every set is a person whose job is to ensure that the film contains continuity and makes sense from beginning to end. What’s left of Donald Trump’s little brain is a f**king mess. No one knows what he is doing, including Donald John Trump. The old, mentally disabled, obese man who is pretending to be your president revealed himself as the Antichrist years ago. When speaking to his cult, he exalts himself constantly. He easily brainwashes, his weak-minded followers who became convinced that Donald Trump is the Messiah: greater than Mohammad or Jesus Christ. TRUMP TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS THAT HE IS GREATER THAN JESUS CHRIST “‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.” Trump is a fake Christian. The pastor of the Church Trump claims to be his place of worship, revealed that Trump has never crossed its threshold. It is obvious that he never read the bible, and definitely not the New Testa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In my nearly 80 years, I have learned that many of the sayings I heard from my grandparents, older relatives, and other individuals who were older than me are founded in fact, based on nothing more complicated than human nature. One of these is, “you can be judged by the friends and associates you choose.” As a man who had too many “careers” in his life, all involving working with the public, I have had many casual relationships. I referred to all of these people as “friends.” They were, to an extent. However, those I considered “true friends” cared about me as much as I cared about them. That number is small, as it should be. “TRUMP’S “FRIENDS” ARE THE SCUM AT THE BOTTOM OF A CESSPOOL Donald Trump has never had a true friend. He uses those he calls “friends” for personal advantage, and they use him to achieve their ambitions and increase their outrageous wealth. When he planned his trip to China, he invited a few of his oligarchs, his son, Eric, the worst Secre...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It may be dementia, senility, or simply the fact that at nearly 80 years of age, Trump is too old to be your president. However, just before he boarded AF-1 for his trip to “Jina,” Trump told the truth for the first time in his pitiful life. A reporter asked: “When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” Without hesitation, Trump replied, “Not even a little bit.” He continued: “The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran — they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.” “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” It’s always about Donald Trump and no one else. The malignant narcissist is alive and unwell in our White House. YEARS OF RESEARCHING TRUMP AND HE FINALLY TELLS THE TRUTH ...