TheWiseOldFart

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 Trump is an ‘equal opportunity bigot:’ he hates everyone who is not pure white and wealthy. Knowing this, I was not surprised when he called all immigrants from Somalia “garbage.” [In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Somalis and Ilhan Omar, the congressional representative who is from Somalia and is a US citizen. He said Somalia “stinks” and is “no good for a reason”. [“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you,” he said. He called Omar “garbage” and said, “we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country”.] I would like to define “garbage” when the word is used to describe another human being. I do not believe in using terms which demean other men and women. However, your illegitimate and immoral president proves his lack of average intelligence every day when he calls his enemies by names he believes define them as inferior. Let’s look at reality and the hi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you ask any working-class person in any democratic nation, “what is the most important issue in any election,” the answer will always be “the economy.” Uninformed voters believed Trump’s baseless braggadocio between 2017 and 2021. He claimed that America’s recovering economy was his accomplishment, although facts prove that every positive action began during President Obama’s administration and was responsible for the growth of America’s economy. The choice to choose ignorance over fact was a critical fact in Trump’s illegitimate victory in 2024. A little history ignored by voters who, like Trump, “learn everything they need to know from television.” In 1992 Bill Clinton was elected. The primary reason for his victory was the fact that the fiscal policies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush greatly diminished the quality of life for the majority, and increased the national debt by more than a trillion dollars. When Clinton left office in 2001, the economy o...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart There are at least two Americas. One is composed of about 95 percent of citizens who work hard to make better lives for themselves, their children, and their grandchildren. My America is grateful for its diversity. We are a nation of immigrants. We are not perfect, but most try to be. We never ask for much, and we usually get less. The other America is occupied by men and women who came into great wealth at birth. Some obtained great wealth when offered “once in a lifetime opportunities” not available to the majority. As a small child, I never knew that I was poor. I remember my childhood as “great.” I didn’t have money in my pockets, I had “treasures” which were worth little or nothing but had meaning for me. I look back on my younger years and have mostly fond memories, although I understood the struggle my mother faced every day, worrying that her children might not have enough to eat. We always did, somehow. Trump and his oligarchs never faced “worry.” Their...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Here’s the latest from the biggest liar in world history. Trump says that he will authorize $2,000.00 checks to all working-class Americans. However, one of his top aides reports the facts, the truth. You and I will not receive “checks.” His form of aid for the majority. His “gift,” will be in the form of “tax breaks.” He knows that one-half of all Americans pay little or no taxes. We are in the “low-income,” or “poverty” brackets in our nation’s economy. We will continue to struggle every time we go to the grocery store. Trump lies and brags about everything, which is nothing. The problem for him is the fact that everything he “accomplishes” harms the majority and increases the outrageous wealth of his oligarchs. Want proof? Look at Trump’s reason for his “gift.” [Donald Trump has vowed to pay a $2,000 (£1,520) “tariff dividend” to American households in a radical stimulus package that could trigger a stock market boom.] Only the wealthiest Americans are heavil...

  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 Power is mostly about control. It is also about pleasing oneself while the masses suffer. Malignant Narcissist Donald John Trump takes great pleasure knowing that his actions are harming America’s poor, especially minorities and all non-Christians who are not pure white. Trump is enjoying his government shutdown. He has never been and never will be a “working president,” but without all members of Congress in session, even less is required of him. Thank you to the cowardly Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Trump continues to receive his salary and benefits, but the most wasteful and excessive privilege is his use of Air Force One, and the Secret Service, costing taxpayers millions of dollars for his personal enjoyment. Trump is golfing incessantly. He recently returned from an unnecessary trip to Asia, avoiding the demands to release the Epstein files, and seriously addressing his government shutdown. He continues to party with his oligarchs at his personal pl...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart What Trump is, is not news. He is your illegitimate president, having won two “rigged” elections. He is the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in America. He staged a fake assassination attempt to improve his declining approval ratings. Trump is destroying our nation piece by piece. He is a confirmed sexual predator and undoubtedly a pedophile. What Trump is not is intelligent, or a man who cares about the 340 million people he was illegitimately elected to serve. However, two recent illegal and immoral actions by the orange buffoon are really pissing me off. My wife and I often discuss one of America’s greatest failures. Unlike Europe and Asia, our country’s greediest men and women are constantly destroying everything old instead of renovating some of our most beautiful architectural creations of the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Newer is not always better. Fortunately, every city and town in America declares the original area of their communities historical sights...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It’s easier to list the traits which do not apply to your illegitimate president based on a life filled with failures than positive qualities. However, I can find adjectives and nouns which expose the real con man who has fully revealed himself over the last 10 years. He was born into a very wealthy family deeply embedded in white privilege. He was never required to perform anything which might be defined as “work” throughout his pitiful and useless life. Listening to and reading his rambling, incoherent, and often illiterate speeches offer irrefutable proof that although he has a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business College, he attended very few classes, if any. Because of his mental diseases, malignant narcissism, and escalating dementia, his mind is a virtual “wet rag.” His thought process is uncertain, ranging from rage and a desire for revenge against anyone he perceives to be an enemy, and his need for adulation and relevance. At ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Beginning in June of 2015, not a single day has passed without the name “Trump” appearing in every legitimate and illegitimate news service, or his old, ugly face appearing somewhere on television and the internet. He and I are the same age, and I have a reason to outlive the old bastard. I want to live long enough to read the news and not see the name ‘Trump’ or his picture anywhere. I truly don’t understand. There is no legitimate reason for the least intelligent, and least accomplished old man in the world to be covered constantly by the media. He cannot put two sentences together. He slurs and rambles. Not once in his pitiful and far-too-long life has he spoken the truth or offered one idea which would be beneficial for the American people and the world. Trump is the source and the example of why America’s people have become ignorant sheep marching to the slaughterhouse. A few, recent lies and irrational thoughts from your illegitimate president. I begin wit...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Of course, my title’s question is facetious. Trump has never done anything for anyone else in his life. Afflicted with malignant narcissism, he is incapable of having normal feelings of empathy and compassion. Trump has proven one thing over his 79 pitiful and useless years on earth, he has a narcissistic personality disorder that is highly abusive. People with this personality supposedly get a sense of satisfaction from hurting others and may manipulate people or lie to gain money, acclaim, and other things they desire. Every human being asks his or herself one question, multiple times in their lives: “what if I had taken the left fork in the road instead of the right?” As a political writer, having written thousands of articles exposing the “real Donald Trump,” I look back at the 2000 election, the 2016 election and the 2024 debacle. I begin with the 2000 election. Some of you may be too young to remember the contest between Clinton’s Vice-President, Al Gore, ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump has been “above the law” for his entire life. Not once had he been prosecuted for his many crimes until May 30, 2024, when he was pronounced guilty on 34 counts of felonious actions. However, his Supreme Court virtually nullified his convictions, and gave him absolute immunity, preventing the continuation of additional court actions involving numerous felonies, including treason, and violating the Espionage Act. Our government, all of it, and his ignorant cult, are fueling his ego and the fascist dictator is escalating his constant abuse of power. The malignant narcissist is also experiencing dementia, and becoming a raging lunatic. So the orange buffoon completely ignored a decision by a federal judge which prevents him from spending millions of dollars of your tax money to send members of the National Guard into Portland Oregon. However, Trump is ignoring the decision of a federal judge. Not only is this a violation of the Constitution, this is an abuse ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s ignorant supporters would claim that my title is a lie. If you call ethnic cleansing, political retribution, destroying critical agencies, giving tax cuts to those who don’t need or deserve them, golfing, partying at Mar-a-Lago, and spending more than 10 million dollars of taxpayer money to open a golf club in Scotland, then yes, he is very busy spending your money for his own purposes. Let’s go back in time. In his first week in office in 2009, Barack Obama gathered the greatest minds available and make plans to save our nation’s economy from complete collapse. George W. Bush’s failed economic policies and his choices to place our nation in two costly and unwinnable wars were disastrous and totally incompetent decisions. In January of 2021, after Trump’s coup failed, and he violated the Espionage Act by stealing at least 14 boxes of national secrets as he finally left the White House and moved to Mar-a-Lago, a real President met with his team and create...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The Mainstream Media failed again. Several statements from representatives and leaders of the 189 countries represented at the United Nations, told reporters from many nations that they found Trump’s disjointed speech at the United Nations hilarious, totally unrelated to the purpose of the event, and an embarrassment for the American people. Not a single reputable American news agency reported this fact. Why do they support Trump and not the American people? I can only put his rambling and incoherent speech in the context it deserves. Trump attacked every other nation in the world and bragged about accomplishments he never had. Period. Once again, he displayed his lifelong mental impairment, malignant narcissism. In a previous article I offered my readers some of the “lowlights” of Trump’s speech. I have written thousands of articles about Trump’s failures since 2015, but none revealed the fact that he is too old and lacks the mental acuity to lead our nation mo...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is not concerned with the welfare of most of our nation’s people. His focus is solely on seven percent of all Americans: billionaires and multi-billionaires. Multiple promises were made to the working-class in 2024. But, as it was in 2016, they were all lies. Greedflation continues to grow here in Nevada and across the United States. The invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate, and taxes have been raised on working Americans, and lowered for the super-rich. Unless an Act of God happens in the next three days, our federal government will shut down on Wednesday. America is the only nation which passes an annual budget, and later requires an agreement on the “debt ceiling,” and how those funds are allocated. In 2025 our government is undoubtedly the most corrupt and incompetent in the world. A couple of days ago, a meeting between your illegitimate president and leaders of the Democratic Party was scheduled to discuss a possible prevention of that shutdown....

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It has always been a term in flux. It changed with generations. However, there are some qualities consistent with “being a man.” Real men are capable of a wide range of emotions. They have complete control over those emotions, and refuse to be affected by the opinions of others. They know themselves and are always trying to be better. Your illegitimate president is not a ‘man.’ He is afflicted with a disease. Malignant narcissism: “Malignant narcissism is a psychological disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-worth, a need for admiration, and a disregard for others. Key characteristics of malignant narcissism include paranoia, feeling threatened or persecuted without proof, aggression, manipulation, and lack of remorse.” One more: “Malignant narcissism is a personality type that causes extreme narcissism, aggression, and, sometimes, abuse of others. A person may use manipulative means or violence to enhance their own sense of wellbeing.” Every ...

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 During the 2024 campaign, one of his biggest lies came when he was asked about Project 2025. As he always does, he lied, saying “I know nothing about it.” The truth is, every word, every idea in the 922-page fascist encyclopedia came from Trump’s own words during his many, boring, hate rallies. It is no secret: Trump’s primary ‘hero’ is Adolf Hitler. He studied the Fuhrer’s speeches every night before going to bed. There is no doubt that he is not an American president. Recently, these are a few of the plans contained in Project 2025. • launching a mass deportation program • purging civil servants and replacing them with partisan loyalists • defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting• reducing the Federal Emergency Management Agency's role in disaster response • eliminating federal "diversity, equity and inclusion" efforts • banning transgender troops in the military One of Hitler’s primary plans to establish complete control of Germany in t...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The quality of life for most Americans is in steep decline. Trump refused to keep his number one promise and “end inflation on day one.” We, the people, are beginning to feel the pain from Trump’s moronic tariffs. Most importantly, the average American cannot afford to buy a home or rent a decent apartment in 2025. I live in Northern Nevada. Nevada has a hypocritical, lying bastard of a governor. Joe Lombardo is a “Trump lackey” and kisses his Fuhrer’s humongous ass constantly. He paid ordinary citizens to lie in an ad designed to increase the bank accounts of our state’s home builders. The ad was a big lie, claiming that more availability would lower the costs of homes and apartment rentals. The new apartments near my home are ridiculously expensive. A one-bedroom rents for about $1,700 per month. Incomes in Northern Nevada are far lower than the national average. One-half of all Americans struggle to survive on an annual income which is far below the nat...

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...