TheWiseOldFart

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 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 ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I hate to even write the name and title: “Vice-President Vance.” It frightens me even more to think that at Trump’s age, Vance could become your president overnight, than it does to know that Trump is your illegitimate president today. Trump is “the devil we know.” This will be a brief article. Everyone who cares about what is happening in our nation knows that J.D. Vance was an unpopular choice for most Republican voters. He is another hypocrite. He denounced Trump constantly prior to being chosen as his running mate. I despise liars and hypocrites equally. It became completely clear after Trump violated the Constitution once again on Saturday night, bombing suspected nuclear weapons construction sites in Iran, that he and Vance rarely speak. Vance, defending his Fuhrer, made the following statement, although Trump had already indicated that he prefers a regime change in Iran. "The president's been very clear: We have no interest in a protracted confli...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart This is what Trump’s Pentagon had to say after America bombed Iran yesterday. [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites while Vice President JD Vance said the strikes have given Tehran a renewed chance of negotiating with Washington.] What is the difference between bombing Iran and bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? People are killed: some innocent, and some not. Bombing any nation, including retaliation for an attack on our own country is an act of war. Nations and their citizens around the world are angry about these attacks. The were the act of a bully, and a President of the United States. Using weapons of mass destruction is not the only way in which one nation declares war on another. In 2016, 2020, and 2024, Russia’s interference in our most sacred democratic process, our right to vote, were declarations of war. Vladim...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart It happens more often than you might think. Everyone experiences situations which fail to offer a definitive solution. However, in every situation the only truly bad decision is no decision. Therefore, we theoretically flip a coin, asking ourselves, “what’s the worst that could happen?” I am convinced that this is what happened in the 2024 election. Very few voters knew Kamala Harris as I knew her, and if they watched Fox “Fake” News, they were conned into believing that Trump was not the worst man in the world, When millions of uninformed voters went to the polls, they asked themselves: “how bad can he be?” Now they know that the disaster known as Donald John Trump is the worst thing to ever happen to America. His first illegitimate presidency was a disaster. His second is a catastrophe. I continue to find it unbelievable that a convicted felon, a man who committed treason on January 6, 2021, and violated the Espionage Act on January 20, 2021 is defiling the Wh...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart All members of Neo-Nazi groups are terrorists and must be arrested and charged under the guidelines contained in the Patriot Act. Their leader, Donald Trump, is no exception. He has proven by his own words and actions that he is a traitor to the American people. When Trump pardoned more than 1,500 men and women who committed treason on January 6, 2021, his purpose was clear but never reported by the media. These people are members of his fascist army and he may need them again. The second American Revolution is just beginning. No one seems to notice that those calling themselves “Republicans” establish laws and rules which either punish anyone who opposes their fascist beliefs, or benefits their owners; 902 oligarchs. Beginning in 1981, right-wing politicians began distanced themselves from their constituents on the left side of the aisle. By 2017, the democratic process of finding solutions for our nation’s problems, deliberation and compromise, no longer exist...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Contrary to Trump’s lie, Greedflation continues to grow. Domestic terrorism continues to escalate, making leaving your home a threat to your life. Protest against the fascist actions by Trump and Musk continue. Every day more Americans are losing faith in our government and find reasons to believe that our nation is broken beyond repair. Fear, despair, and mistrust have replaced any feelings of security the American people might have felt prior to January 20, 2025. Between 2017 and 2021, the Trump administration failed to present a single positive accomplishment for the majority of our nation’s people. To the contrary, the orange buffoon’s failure to take timely action when he was made aware of an approaching healthcare emergency, cost more than one million Americans their lives, and nearly placed our nation in a second Great Depression. Experts in healthcare claim that Trump is directly responsible for as many as 100,000 of those lives based on his failure to t...

It’s composed of 922 pages of instructions designed to end democracy in America and remove the First Amendment from the Bill of Rights. Included in the Fascist Manifesto are suggestions about how to abolish the Department of Education, recreate our country’s already failed healthcare system with provisions which would offer care exclusively for the white, wealthy and powerful, and a guideline to remove any historical facts about slavery, homophobia, and efforts by women to obtain complete equality with men. It also contains plans to make Christianity the only true religion in the United States. Trump and his American Fascist Party are destroying everything of value which made America the most respected nation in the world. The principles, morals, and ideals of our Founding Fathers will be nothing but a memory long before Trump completes his first year as your illegitimate president. The one tactic used by your illegitimate president since 2015 does not belong to him, but to one of his ...

Before Trump announced his candidacy for the President of the United States in 2015, long before, we knew that Trump had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. If you choose to be an informed citizen, you might have read about at least 18 women who accused Trump of sexual assault. His own words on the Access Hollywood video confirmed his opinion that all women were on earth to serve the needs of men. There is film of Trump and Epstein at an “all girls party” at Mar-a-Lago in 1992. Later, a young woman testified that she had been introduced to Trump by Epstein at one of his infamous sex parties. She was 14 years old. At that time, Trump was just another perverted old man. Today that much older man is your illegitimate president. On Friday, Elon Musk confirmed that Trump is on the list of Epstein’s friends and associates who attended those parties. The illegitimate president and his co-conspirator have become enemies as I predicted in February of this year. Two men with enormous egos...

Anger, hatred, and violence. This is what I see and what I read about over the last four months. My wife and I do not watch any “television news broadcasts,” because we hate liars and reject conspiracy theories. However, we do read news and blogs from around the world and fact check constantly. Prior to 2017, the United States was on a path to becoming a great nation for the first time in its nearly 249 years. 44 presidents preceded Trump and the ultimate goal was to improve upon the principles and ideals of our Founding Fathers. Trump intentionally moved our nation backwards into the dark days of the mid-twentieth century. Over the last 10 years, there has been a significant increase in hate crimes. Since January 20, 2025, everything I read about reveals the fact that animosity, driven by fear, and resulting anger and hatred has risen to levels not seen since the mid 1800’s. My wife was getting gas at Costco today and there was a loud, angry argument just a couple of pumps away. Every...

Trump is a disaster. He is the most destructive man to ever hold office in history. He is causing far more damage to our nation’s future than Joseph McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush or six justices on the current Supreme Court. He is undoubtedly Putin’s puppet, and is an admirer of Adolf Hitler, but these facts do not fully explain his low level of intelligence and his increasing inability to speak clearly and in sentences others can understand. His constant offerings of conspiracy theories are so moronic and laughable, they prove beyond a doubt that his dementia is escalating rapidly and he is totally unfit to lead our nation. His latest baseless allegation proves once and for all that there is little remaining of his little and inferior brain. I thought that his claim that drinking bleach would cure Covid-19 was so outlandish, it would never be surpassed. I was wrong, again. Trump claims that the best president in the 21 st century, based on statistics and facts, Joe Biden, w...

  One look at Trump’s residence inside Trump Tower on 5 th avenue in New York City, and it is clear that the malignant narcissist has delusions of grandeur. Gold paint is everywhere on everything. It is gawdy and unlivable for any normal human being. The only differences in Trump 2.0 and his original illegitimate presidency in 2017 is that he is exacerbating his destruction of American values at a much faster pace, and is finding ways to spend more of your tax dollars, while reducing the amount of revenue necessary to slow or end the rising national debt. Between 2017 and 2021 Trump averaged more than six million dollars each month using taxpayer money for personal pleasure. He is on pace in 2025 to increase that unfathomable number to ten million each month. Once again, he is reducing taxes for the super-rich, using funding allotted for Medicaid and other necessary funds to justify his homage to those who don’t need it. He hasn’t talked about his most moronic idea, yet, his unnec...

Read the following definition. This is the definition of Donald John Trump. [Malignant narcissism is a severe form of narcissistic personality disorder that combines traits of grandiosity with sadistic and exploitative behaviors. Individuals with malignant narcissism often exhibit a lack of empathy, a strong desire for power and control, and a tendency to harm or manipulate others for their own gain. Key characteristics of malignant narcissism: Grandiosity and inflated sense of self: Malignant narcissists have an exaggerated sense of their own importance, brilliance, and achievements, often believing they are superior to others. Lack of empathy and sympathy: They struggle to understand or care about the feelings and needs of others, often dismissing or minimizing their experiences. Exploitative and manipulative behavior: They may use others to achieve their goals, lying, deceiving, and taking advantage of vulnerable individuals. Sadistic tendencies: They can derive pleasure from causin...

It is an undeniable fact that on January 20, 2021, Trump violated the Espionage Act by stealing an estimated 14 boxes of national secrets from the White House. Although a corrupt Supreme Court prevented his prosecution, he remains guilty of a crime punishable by death. Trump does not normally lead by example. His “basement dwellers” choose to believe his lies. This is how he survived for nearly 79 years. Now that he is once again your illegitimate president, his woefully unqualified administration is following his lead in all the wrong directions. Both his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his choice for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, willfully disobeyed the rules and made top secret information accessible to the world’s population. Neither moron has been fired. However, today, May 2, 2025, it was reported that Waltz was removed from his current position, and subsequently nominated for America’s Ambassador to the United Nations. If America had a real president, both men w...

  Our nation’s leaders at every level, and in every enterprise, act like they are afraid of Trump. He is a senile, very old, obese man with limited intellect and no friends. Not even Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk are true “friends.” They use his desperate need for praise to use him for their own benefits. Fact, President Biden accomplished more than any other president in four years since Bill Clinton in eight years between 1993 and 2001. Most importantly to most Americans, his economic policies were nearly as successful as Clinton’s. Don’t use the usual right wing bullshit about inflation. There was no “inflation,” it was pure Greedflation by our greedy billionaires. I refer you to two articles containing information never reported by the cowardly television news. “The Biden Administration Handed Over a Strong Economy” “Treasury Releases New Analysis Highlighting the U.S. Economy’s Historic Post-Pandemic Recovery Driven by the Biden Administration’s Policy Agenda” If you read, you ...

Trump is a very weak, old, obese man. Of all of his misgivings the trait he is missing which reveals just how unfit he is to lead our nation is a total lack of the ability to take criticism. He has no sense of humor. Trump is the most immature old man I have ever seen. Anyone with any talent was removed from this year’s White House Correspondence Dinner. Normally it is a roast and the major butt of the jokes is the current president. Trump couldn’t deal with jokes focused on him and his policies: they would be too close to the truth. It’s impossible not to find humor in almost everything he says. He talks about things which have no importance, whines about “how badly he’s treated,” is totally illiterate, and makes sound effects when he can’t think of an appropriate word. Trump is actually dumber than George W. Bush. I have fairly called Trump a schoolyard bully because that’s what he is. He lacks any skill required for diplomatic negotiations. His tariffs are a perfect example. He know...

The headline reads, “CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades.” That goes back to Eisenhower’s first administration. He was the first president I remember. I was ten years old when I came home from school, turned on the television and began watching the 1956 Republican National Convention. It is an undeniable fact that there will never be a worse president in history than Donald John Trump: if there is another president. Trump is a Nazi and seeks the dictatorship of the United States. No one can doubt this fact. He has proven my allegations time and time again during his first 100 days pretending to be an American president. [Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term.] CNN Personally, I do not understand how it could be that high. Illegitimate President “Destructo” is destroying our nation piece by piece. Once again, h...

The damage is done, and it’s irreparable. I continue to find it unconscionable that Trump was allowed to wear the label of President of the United States for a second time. He has doubled down on the destruction of my America. Lawerence O’Donnell reports that a significant number of Trump’s most ardent supporters and independent voters who failed to vet Trump and his party, are turning against him. These ignorant men and women were warned that the plans contained in Project 2025 would harm them the most, but they ignored facts and accepted more lies from the worst old man in the world. “But the marginal voter who made Donald Trump, that swing voter who made Donald Trump president, has now turned against Donald Trump,” O’Donnell said. Okay, here’s what I don’t understand. Fact: Trump has failed to keep every campaign promise. Fact: Every action taken by Trump and Musk is destructive and removes some of the only working parts of our government. Fact: Trump is following the right-wing fas...

I admit to being exactly three weeks younger than your illegitimate president. I also admit to being far more intelligent than my fellow original baby boomer. This makes me at least ten-times more intelligent than his avid supporters who he refers to as “basement dwellers.” I never finished college. Therefore, many of you will say, “Trump graduated from an Ivy League school. How can you make such a claim?” First, Trump clearly failed to graduate. His diploma, like his deferments from serving in the Vietnam War, were purchased for him by his father. Second, I would be willing to compare my knowledge of the English language, Mathematics, Science, Geography, and History with his any time. I offer you proof of my assertion any time Trump opens his pie hole. Of course he is lying, but listening to him is like listening to a three-year-old child. Half of everything he says is gibberish. I have no doubt that he failed any course which required knowledge of the English language. Trump is by fa...

The results of Trump’s annual physical are strangely similar to those reported in 2018. They were obviously bullshit then, and are certainly another huge lie today. One man claims that the results were actually copied and pasted from an Olympic athlete’s physical. I only need two statistics to prove that like everything else about Trump, his posted medical evaluation is bogus and another fairy tale. Trump is reported to be six-feet-three-inches tall, and weighs 220 pounds. Every picture of the malignant narcissist debunks these numbers. At my highest weight, 220 pounds, I continued to be in relatively good shape, and I am only five-feet-eleven-inches tall. My guess is that Trump weighs between 285 and 290 pounds, at the very least. Trump is without a doubt a rapidly aging, obese, mentally challenged man who continues to reveal the truth. He even fell asleep during his criminal trial. His minimal attention span was revealed during an Oval Office meeting with then Speaker of the House Pa...