TheWiseOldFart

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Do you remember “Bushisms?” There were many and they were never-ending in the early 21 st century. Our nation’s 43 rd president either failed or refused to attend English classes in high school or college. It was common for the late-night talk shows to poke fun at George W. Bush’s ability to mispronounce or misuse words when he addressed the American people. His most frequent and most remembered was “nucular” instead of “nuclear.” He never learned to pronounce the word correctly. NO COMPARISON Trump is an absolute embarrassment for any man or woman who has English as their primary language. It is this fact alone which convinced me that there is no way Trump earned his diploma from an Ivy League College. He was very likely the focus of many jokes at Wharton. I admit that much of his inability to speak in clear, coherent, and meaningful sentences is related to dementia and the fact that he will be an octogenarian in one week. However, his thousan...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart No one, nothing, has proven the fact that America is all about profits and not the people than the illegitimate presidencies of Donald John Trump. For decades the right-wing has supported special interests and ignored the working class. Trump is openly conspiring with his oligarchs to control the future of our nation for the next 50+ years. YOU CAN HIDE SOME THINGS, SOMETIMES, BUT YOU WILL BE CAUGHT Trump’s financial records show that in his first year of his second term, his businesses made a profit of 1.4 billion dollars. Trump is running our government like one of his personal businesses. America is deeper in debt every month, but his personal account is growing rapidly. Trump is clearly the “Don” of the Washington Mafia. He controls every member of his party. Nothing happens without his approval. He is more than a dictator, he is controlling the most prosperous mafia in U.S. history. 40 YEARS AGO, I ADMITTED THE TRUTH There was a time in my life when I was e...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart “I’m gonna build a wall on the southern border, and Mexico will pay for it.” “It will just go away.” (Covid-19). “I will end Greedflation on day one.” “I will end the invasion of Ukraine on day one.” “I will prevent another war in the Middle East.”   “No one has ever done more for Black people than me.” “I won the 2020 election.” These are some of the biggest lies told by the worst man in the world. In case you don’t read, these were told by the pathological liar defiling our White House for the second time. His name is Donald Trump, better known in 2026 as Donny Dementia. FOR TRUMP, HIS ENTIRE LIFE IS A LIE I despise liars. The only people I find more reprehensible are members of the mainstream media who offer their viewers half-truths. They are far more dangerous than someone who looks directly into the cameras and tells lies so outrageous no one could ever believe them. Over his nearly 80 years, Trump has lied more than one million times....

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart, Before the Constitution was signed in 1789, there was a White America, and a Black America. In the 21 st century, there is a greater division between Blacks and Whites. There are also two more “Americas:” one for the super-rich and powerful, and one for low-income and poor men and women. These four Americas are often intertwined, with the exception of the super-rich and powerful. Not a single man or woman with power and great wealth has been fairly punished for a serious crime in my lifetime. The average income for all incarcerated men and women prior to their convictions is less than $20,000 per year. Think about it. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN From the time the first settlers arrived in the New World, America has been dominated by working-class Americans. It wasn’t long before they were called “rebels” by the British elite. In truth, it was a badge of honor. These men and women came to the colonies seeking freedoms they had never had in wes...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart On what should be a day when our entire nation celebrates the privilege of being a citizen of the United States of America, July 4, 2026, most of our nation will be struggling to purchase food for a family barbecue or picnic. Trump stated one fact, possibly the only truthful words he has spoken in nearly 80 years: “I am not concerned about the finances of the American people.”  It’s always about Trump and only Trump. TRUMP IS PLANNING A CELEBRATION FOR JULY 4 TH , BUT IT’S UNRAVELING RAPIDLY He’s calling it the “Great American State Fair:” another stupid and meaningless name, just like his slogan, “Make America Great Again.” However, it appears that many true and patriotic Americans are refusing to participate in Trump’s circus. Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, Young MC, Morris Day and the Commodores are among the scheduled acts who have said they will not be appearing. I expect that list will grow, and knowing Trump’s historically low approval ratings, I wou...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart ICE was created in a “knee jerk” reaction by the Bush administration after 9/11. It was totally unnecessary, and there were no definitions about what its powers would be, how they would be trained, and which government agency would control it. It was the second worst decision by the Bush administration after the unconstitutional Patriot Act. There is no difference between Hitler’s Gestapo and ICE. They are composed of white supremacists who hate the dream of our Founding Fathers, while supporting Trump’s belief in fascism and his worship for Adolf Hitler. ANYONE WHO CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TRUMP IN 2026, AFTER HE HAS BEEN TOTALLY EXPOSED IS AN ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Trump openly admits that his loyalty is to our nation’s biggest enemies: Vladimir Putin, Mohammad bin Salman, and Kim Jong-un. He envies the fact that they are not required to win free and fair elections, or give a damn about the people they are intended to serve. NO MORE “MR. NICE GUY” I have wri...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart ICE was created in a “knee jerk” reaction by the Bush administration after 9/11. It was totally unnecessary, and there were no definitions about what its powers would be, how they would be trained, and which government agency would control it. It was the second worst decision by the Bush administration after the unconstitutional Patriot Act. There is no difference between Hitler’s Gestapo and ICE. They are composed of white supremacists who hate the dream of our Founding Fathers, while supporting Trump’s belief in fascism and his worship for Adolf Hitler. ANYONE WHO CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TRUMP IN 2026, AFTER HE HAS BEEN TOTALLY EXPOSED IS AN ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Trump openly admits that his loyalty is to our nation’s biggest enemies: Vladimir Putin, Mohammad bin Salman, and Kim Jong-un. He envies the fact that they are not required to win free and fair elections, or give a damn about the people they are intended to serve. NO MORE “MR. NICE GUY” I ha...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart On Thursday, Trump was examined by doctors at Walter Reed for the third time in just over one year. Today, Saturday, his personal doctor claimed that Donny Dementia is “in perfect health.” Really? Let’s see an unredacted medical report. Just looking at the old man, watching him fall asleep during meetings, his face, which has turned into a map of mountains and valleys, his purple hands, and his swollen ankles, it is clear that “perfect health” is a huge exaggeration. That word applies to Trump in many, many ways. A more accurate assessment would be “pretty good for an octogenarian.” WHO SHOULD WE BELIEVE? In the past, Trump’s personal physicians lied about the old, obese, orange man shamelessly. On one occasion his doctor claimed that he was six-foot, three-inches tall, and weighed 175 pounds. Just by looking at him, it was clear that he was well over 225 and maybe 240 pounds. Trump will be 80 on June 14. I will become an octogenarian on July 7. We are both too ...

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 Today, May 26, 2026, your illegitimate president is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the third time in the past 13 months. Listening to his incoherent speech, it is clear that Trump’s mental abilities are in steep decline. I assume that he will receive another cognitive test, and he will claim that “I aced it,” once again. I say, “so what?” However, Trump is suffering from something physical as well. His hands and ankles continue to show discoloration and swelling. THE OLDEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY In just two weeks and five days, Trump will become an octogenarian. If he survives his full term, he will become the oldest president in American history. Just three weeks later, I will join Trump as an 80-year-old man. On July 6, George W. Bush will complete eight decades on this planet and on August 19 th , Bill Clinton will join us. The truth is simple: all four of us are too old to be the President of the United States. Times have changed, a...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Yes, I am a wise old fart. I have lived in my beloved country for nearly 80 years. That is why what I see happening in my nation of choice is so upsetting and even incomprehensible. My articles are often repetitive, and I am fully aware of this fact. Sometimes I think that I’m attempting to wake up and find that this is all a nightmare. Maybe it’s the memory of a bad movie I watched 40 years ago. Unfortunately, our elected officials are so cowardly and incompetent that what I am experiencing is reality. WAS I BRAINWASHED? I think back to my younger years when I was growing up in the post war era and how I viewed my country. I might have been brainwashed as I review my thoughts and beliefs as a young American. However, by the time I was partially an illusion, manufactured by the politicians in Washington. OUR LEADERS HAVE EMBARRASSED OUR FOUNDING FATHERS When I compare the courage and dedication of our Founding Fathers to what has happened to my country over the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart After more than 10 years of Trump exposing himself and being exposed, I am convinced that anyone who continues to support the orange buffoon either can’t read, watches Fox, Newsmax or another right-wing extremist rag all day, or is just plain stupid. First and of greatest importance is the fact that Trump cares about no one, and that means his own children, other than himself. Over the last 10+ years, Donald John Trump has used his position to increase his personal wealth while violating the Bill of Rights daily. IF YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE HIS BIG LIE, YOU LITERALLY NEED YOUR HEAD EXAMINED At this moment in history, anyone who believes an old, brain damaged, malignant narcissist chose to be brainwashed. Why do they hate America? Our government has become the most corrupt and incompetent in the world, and these facts, the truth, can be attributed to the actions and words of a few ambitious and power-mad white men. Some are professional politicians, and others see...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Whoever came up with the idea to have a national holiday to celebrate all 47 of our nation’s presidents was an idiot who obviously never read the history of our country. Most of the men who were given the opportunity and privilege to lead America’s people were complete failures, and some caused harm to our nation’s future. Only a few should receive such an honor, because only a handful performed the duties required of an American President. When I was a young man, our nation celebrated the lives of two Presidents, Abraham Lincoln on February 12 th , and George Washington on February 22 nd . They were deserving of the honor. I would have added Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose birthday is January 30. “The People’s President” was the greatest of all time for a single reason: he was the only man to place all Americans in priority number one. MY AMERICA TOOK ITS LAST BREATH ON JANUARY 20, 2017 On January 20, 2017, not only was the worst president in history  inau...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The entire job of a president is to serve and care for the needs, wishes, and safety of his/her people. Donald Trump is not an American president by any stretch of the imagination. Over his nearly 80 pitiful years, his only concern has been himself. This malignant narcissist takes pleasure in the pain of others. That’s the one thing he is good at. LOOKING AT HIS MANY CRIMES, TWO STAND ABOVE ALL THE OTHERS When Trump committed treason on January 6, 2021, my wife and I were two of the few who actually experienced the darkest day in American history. When Trump unilaterally decided to wage a war on the sovereign nation of Iran on February 28, 2026, he not only violated the Constitution, he committed a war crime. A part of this story includes the pain he inflicted on the American people. Not only has his illegal and immoral war cost taxpayers at least one billion dollars each day, the cost of essentials, including gasoline, continue to reach prices no one has experi...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I had a dream, at least I wish it was nothing but a bad dream. In this dream, I fell asleep on November 7, 2016, and when I woke up, my surroundings told me it was the beginning of another, ordinary day. However, the events of that day and what I heard on television told me that I was no longer in the United States of America. The date on my computer was January 19, 2017. The primary story on television news was about the events of January 20, and the inauguration of our nation’s 45 th president. However, the picture displayed on the screen showed Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton. What the fuck? This was not possible. Not only was Hillary far ahead in the polls, Trump was a joke, He was the least qualified man in history to seek the office of President of the United States. He was a complete failure in the private sector, and the Manhattan real estate community was aware that he was a white-collar criminal. He had a reputation as a sexual predator who had been...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you did not watch all three hours of the darkest day in America’s history on January 6, 2021, I envy you. Although my wife and I felt like crying, we were in shock. This could not happen in our America: but it did. The American Nazi Party, the fake news, and every person in our nation with power and great wealth, will attempt to gaslight you. The truth is, the second American Revolution has begun. Loyal Americans are at war with their own federal government. THE TRUTH YOUR GOVERNMENT AND THE FAKE NEWS DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW Trump is the most popular illegitimate president in America’s history: if you believe that democracy should be replaced with a fascist regime. The fourth estate no longer exists, not a single broadcast “news” show on television can be believed or trusted. All major networks are owned by Trump’s oligarchs/billionaires. We all know that Fox is a right-wing propaganda machine. However, in 2026, NBC, ABC, and Paramount, the parent company of...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart As you know by now, our Founding Fathers made mistakes. They knew it, but believed that their successors would make the necessary improvements. They expected others would be eager to follow them and serve their country, their people. However, they failed to foresee the weakness and lack of character we experience today. The federal government of the United States is the most incompetent and corrupt in the world in 2026. And their leader is the “Don” of the Washington Mafia.” “The president continues to find new, once-unimaginable ways to use the awesome powers of the federal government to enrich himself.” Michael A. Cohen, (author). HOW MANY OF OUR ELECTED AND APPOINTED LEADERS ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY? The saddest and most important lesson I learned over my nearly 80 years as a patriotic American, is that in the 21 st century, no one with extreme wealth and/or power can be trusted. If I had to guess, I believe that about 80 percent of those who spend ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: the Republican Party began to take its final breaths in 1981. Today, the Party of Lincoln is nothing but a memory. There are many reasons that this travesty occurred, but at the center are efforts by one extremist group of leaders calling themselves “Evangelicals.” [The term evangelical refers to a worldwide movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the authority of the Bible, the "good news" (gospel) of salvation through Jesus Christ, and the personal experience of being "born”] IF YOU IGNORE THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST, YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN Growing up Catholic, and attending Parochial school, I read the Bible, and studied the basic concepts of Judaism, the Religion of Islam, and learned the beliefs of Buddhism, Sikhism, and other less popular faiths. For those of you who have never read the Bible, cover to cover, it is divided into two parts: the Old Testament, and the New Testament. The Old Testament is composed of lege...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In January of 2017, an entire political party, which was once known as “the Grand Old Party,” abandoned its morals, its self-respect, its principles, and its dignity, and surrendered its free thought and free will to an old, obese, and mentally deficient failed businessman who had renently been illegitimately sworn in as their president. The Party of Lincoln had taken its last breath. MOST “REPUBLICANS” KNOW BETTER I have no doubt that the majority of the men and women who call themselves “Republicans” in Washington have at least average intelligence and are fully aware that Trump has become a dictator. They know that his policies are wrong for America, but with a shrinking voter base, they are desperate to receive the votes of his ignorant supporters. His failure to keep his promises, most notably ending inflation, ending the invasion of Ukraine, and keeping our nation out of another unwinnable war in the Middle East, are adding to the possibility of Democrats ...