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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart When Trump declared his intention to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2015, I decided that I needed to know more about the New York businessman. Although most of his biography was public record, I wanted to know more about the man other than what I saw on television and read about in various publications. I knew that after he received his diploma from Wharton in 1968, he joined his father’s real estate business. Digging deeper, I discovered that what later became the “Trump Organization” was extremely racist. When Black men and women filled out rental applications for one of Fred Trump’s properties, the agent reviewing their applications was instructed to put a large, red “C” at the top of the application. Digging even deeper, it was Donald Trump who left a successful business outside of Manhattan and moved into the more glamorous and lucrative world he always dreamed about. I learned that he married first wife, Ivana, in 1977. They were div...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Read the First Amendment carefully. Our Founding Fathers considered these promises, these guarantees of human rights, the most important paragraph ever written. “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The first line was obviously extremely important to the men who signed the Constitution in 1789. The “straw that broke the camel’s back,” and why they left England, was the declaration by King George III that the Anglican Church would be the single religion in the British Empire. This single sentence clearly demands the separation of Church and State. It guarantees all Americans the right to practice the religion of their choice, but also guarantees freedom from religion. I am one of about 100 million American citizens who reject al...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I care. I have been warning the American people in print newspapers, blogs including The Las Vegas Guardian Express, the Guardian Liberty Voice, and my own Ask Reverend Jim and TheWiseOldFart for more than a decade that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have a master plan to end the United States and create a fascist state. Most of our nation’s citizens choose ignorance over fact. As long as they can purchase the latest i-Phones, buy Taylor Swift concert tickets, fill their stomachs with take-out or delivery food, and waste money they don’t have on “things,” they are happy to remain uninformed. Like Trump, they “learn everything they need to know on television.” For those who have ignored how quickly all three branches of our government have become corrupted, and the truth that the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments have already been shredded, read this article and weep. America is one step away from becoming a fascist nation ruled by the worst man in the wo...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Let’s discuss the ‘enigma’ which is Elon Musk. I don’t know what others think of him, or how much they know about the ‘man,’ not the image. Musk was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971. His wealthy mother immigrated to Canada in 1989, where she and her son became citizens. In 2002, Musk moved to the United States and became an American citizen. Musk is best known as the CEO of Tesla, and SpaceX. In 2024, he joined Trump’s campaign and donated a reported 291.5 million dollars to the orange buffoon’s campaign. Trump created a position in his administration for Musk; a position for which he was woefully unqualified. Trump named it the “Department of Government Efficiency,” DOGE. What it actually was became clear immediately. It was an illegal agency whose purpose was to rid Washington of legitimate agencies which had been focused on investigating Trump’s egregious and numerous crimes between 2021 and 2024. Thousands of hard-working government employees were summa...

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is a very dumb man. If you don’t like my blunt words, stop reading now. By his own words and actions it is obvious that he did not earn his degree from Wharton. I have no doubt that Daddy Fred bought his diploma in the same manner he purchased deferments which prevented Trump from doing his duty and serving in Vietnam. This is why he had all of his academic records sealed in January of 2017. 99 percent of the world’s economists agree that placing outrageous tariffs on imports is moronic. However, there are two things everyone should learn about the old man defiling our White House. Trump has no idea how to administrate America’s economy. He is a serial failure in the business world, and a seven trillion-dollar budget is far beyond his comprehension. The second reason is based on his only tactic in the business world. Trump is a schoolyard bully. Tariffs are a tactic only a bully would use, not a man educated in an Ivy League business college. Trump’s tarif...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart !3 men: only one of them was not an ‘old white man.’ That’s the number of presidents I remember. It would be 14, but I was too young to know what happened in my life when Truman was still in office. I was 10 years old and turned on the television when I came home from 4 th grade and saw lots of people waving signs with slogans “I Like Ike,” and “Four More Years,” among many others. I didn’t know what I was seeing, but I was fascinated. As I listened to one of the men broadcasting the event, I learned it was Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second convention. That day began my interest in politics. It was minimal then, but today, July 7, 2025, I feel it is my obligation to keep those who care about our country’s future informed. The truth is mostly hidden from the people by the mainstream media in collusion with Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle. By the time I was in high school, my interest in how presidents affected our nation’s future had grown. 1960 wa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The 2016 election was rigged. The 2020 election was described “as the most fair and secure in history” by Trump’s own Election Czar. In 2024, several tech companies found reasons to believe that Putin instructed his computer hackers to gain access to the voting machines in all seven swing states, allowing Trump to accomplish the impossible: win all seven, and therefore the presidency. The odds of his winning all seven states are about 100 million to one. Today, Trump is spending your tax dollars to have his supporters build new voting machines which can be controlled by him, his puppeteer, and anyone who supports Trump’s fascist agenda. He and his Supreme Court are planning to revoke the 22 nd Amendment and allow the worst president in the history of the world to seek a third term at the ancient age of 82. Trump is a pathological liar, and very rarely tells the truth. However, during the 2016 campaign he told the truth, although he couldn’t resist spinning the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOLdFart In 2016 and 2024, Trump made many promises during his hate rallies. However, he has never kept a single one. In 2025, his focus is even more on himself and his wallet. Trump believes “what is good for him is good for the country.” From his violation of the law, using ICE as his personal gestapo, attempting genocide in America, to his failed and moronic military parade honoring his own birthday, Trump is an embarrassment to all other dictators past and present. Of course, this is what we should expect from a man with lower than average intelligence. No honest person can deny that Trump has become America’s first dictator, a Fuhrer. But this could not have happened without the assistance of a corrupt and biased Supreme Court. Proven by the absurd length of boring, self-serving speeches, Trump’s greatest pleasure is standing before his supporters and receiving undeserved adulation and loyalty. He is the living example of everyone inflicted with malignant narcissism...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Clearly, Trump is suffering from dementia and the natural effects of being a man far too old to lead a nation of 340 million people, with an average age of 38.5 year of age. He became 79 years old on June 15, older than President Biden was on January 20, 2021. Today, while the rest of America was celebrating “Independence Day,” Trump was busy signing his “big, beautiful bill,” a bill which is widely opposed by most of our nation’s people. For four years fake Republicans and its propaganda machine, Fox News, attacked Mr. Biden for being an older American, not that he was an incompetent president. The truth is, Biden was the most effective president since Bill Clinton. An example from today. Like all legislation under Trump’s failed leadership, his tax and spend bill will harm the majority, and allow his 813 oligarchs to place more of their outrageous profits in offshore accounts. Trump’s mental demise allowed him to view the situation differently. [On Friday, bef...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart 249 years ago today, July 4, 1776, our Founding Fathers declared their independence from the country of their birth, England. King George III considered this an act of civil disobedience. We all know what it really was, an act of courage, and a revolt against a powerful and ruthless despot. It required great courage to have faith that the people of the new nation wanted their freedom as much as they did. They rightfully believed that the majority of men and women now living in a new world, a new nation, wanted the same things, freedom from and of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of choice, complete equality, a government which works for people, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and protects and encourages open and honest dissent. The rest is literally history. A band of farmers, hunters, merchants, and tradesmen defeated the largest and greatest army in the world because freedom, and individual rights were worth dying for. Sa...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you hate America and believe in Trump’s motto, “Make America White Again,” you should be celebrating tomorrow, July 4, and every day since January 20, 2017. Although you have been waiting since the 1940’s, your time has come. You have a dedicated fascist leader defiling the White House in Washington right now. You have many right-wing politicians to thank for your rise to power, but you must thank yourselves. On January 6, 2021 you attempted to retain power for your leader, Donald Trump, Although you failed, you were given another chance by a like-minded Supreme Court which violated the intent of the 14 th Amendment and allowed Trump to run for the presidency for the third time in 2024. You conspired with Trump’s American Fascist Party, Vladimir Putin, Moscow Mitch McConnell, and Elon Musk to illegally win the rigged election. You contributed to funding for Russian hackers who gained access to the voting machines in all seven swing states: this according to ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Fact: There are no true Republicans in Washington today. In 1981, Ronald Reagan forced every Republican to take an oath of absolute loyalty. This was the beginning of the end of the once Grand Old Party, and the destruction of our Founding Fathers’ system of governance. Reagan’s three successors, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, adopted the same failed policies initiated by Reagan: absolute loyalty without dissention and free thought, and the failed fiscal policy of “trickle-down economics.” When George W. Bush and his V.P. Dick Chendy ignored the warnings of our security agencies and went on vacation in 2001, refusing to take their admonitions seriously. The result was one of the darkest days in American history: September 11, 2001. It was George W. Bush who overreacted and in several situations, including his reelection campaign in 2004, used the outrage and fear of the American people to secure victories for his personal agenda. It was the ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I admit to repeating myself. I have written similar articles before. However, it is more accurate today than ever before that God, if there is one, made one serious mistake. This one error in judgement will end His or Her greatest creation, the planet Earth. When I was a young man and learned about the tragedies occurring every day around the world, how the most disenfranchised people in the world suffered from disease, famine, wars, and genocide, I began to have my doubts about the existence of a God. I was raised a Catholic, attending Parochial schools for 10 years. We were taught the eight beatitudes. Two of them are why I began to question not only my religion, but all religions and their belief in a supernatural power who watched over us and cared for us. “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.” “Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” These lessons...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is very busy. Number one priority is chasing a little, white ball through a field of grass. Number two is partying with his oligarchs at his trashy and garish resort, Mar-a-Lago. Third is accomplishing Vladimir Putin’s goal to destroy America. Fourth is taking revenge on the men and women whose job it was to expose his crimes and treasonous actions against his own country. Historical records prove that Trump failed to produce a single positive accomplishment, to take a single action focused on improving the lives of the American people between 2017 and 2021. To the contrary, Trump is directly responsible for about 100,000 lives lost when he failed to lead our nation in the fight against Covid-19. In 2025, Trump 2.0 is far worse. He is not only breaking every campaign promise, he is destroying every accomplishment made by his predecessors over the last 72 years, beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower. His constitutional violations are too numerous to mention. ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump is a bully. Using the largest non-nuclear bombs ever made in the U.S. was the ultimate act of a coward who has others do his fighting for him. Of course, there was a cost to the American people when our military dropped 14 bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities. At more than $5,000,000 each, the cost was greater than 100 million dollars. It’s true that the older a man gets, the more expensive his toys become. Although Trump and his woefully unqualified Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, claimed that Iran’s efforts to construct nuclear weapons was “obliterated,” experts report that the military of the United States once again failed to attain its goals. [Rafael Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that US strikes on three sites a week ago had caused "severe damage" but it was not "total".] [Mr. Grossi told CBS News: "The capacities they have are there. They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I w...

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...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Okay, you know me, and if you read most of my rants, you know that I believe without a doubt that Trump is the worst president in history,  for the second time, and no one will ever take that title from him. You may also know that although Richard Nixon made a huge mistake, and deserved to be punished for his crime, I consider him one of the best Republican presidents in modern history. Now I’m going to tell you why. First, I offer you one fact which is irrefutable. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump failed to record a single positive accomplishment. In 2025 he has become more destructive and dictatorial than before. Unlike Nixon, Trump has not been forced to pay for his many, many crimes. That said, let’s compare Mr. Nixon’s accomplishments and how Trump has addressed the same issues today, or if he has simply ignored them. Although Trump expressed his feelings about our military personnel, calling them “suckers and losers,” what a draft dodger would say, he has ...

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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Not one democratic government can exist with the existence of a single party. Without deliberation and compromise, democracy shrinks into non-existence and an autocracy is born. This is Donald Trump’s plan for America, and it has been fulfilled. Congress did not approve Trump’s declaration of war against Iran yesterday when he ordered our military to drop twelve 30,000-pound bombs on sites inside Iran which are allegedly dedicated to developing nuclear weapons. Not only did he refuse to follow the mandate of the Law of the Land, he ignored the entire Democratic Party. This essentially was a declaration that Democrats and Independents have no place in Trump’s new and devolved country. Only members of his American Fascist Party will be heard. Between 2017 and 2021, Trump pretended to be your dictator. In 2025 he is a dictator without opposition and therefore America’s Fuhrer. He has attained his “dream job:” Hitler 2.0. With that said, as long as Trump remains you...