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Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump can never be called “Mr. President.” He never has performed the duties required of our nation’s leader, and he never wanted to be a president in 2016. In 2024, things had changed. Trump was facing charges for treason, January 6, and violating the Espionage Act, January 20, 2021. He was also broke, having lost the money he profited illegally as your illegitimate president between 2017 and 2021. The irrefutable truth is that he did not become your president. Nothing he has done in 17 months can be called “presidential.” TRUMP WAS DESPERATE TO WIN IN 2024, BUT ONLY FOR REASONS IMPORTANT TO HIM Those of us who watched the darkest day in American history, January 6, 2021, know the truth, and it is undeniable. Trump organized, planned, and executed an attempted, violent coup just two weeks before he was evicted from the White House. Like everything else in his life, the event was another failure. He and his Nazi army should be in various federal prisons today. I...

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 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 The Emoluments Clause is an effort to prevent a sitting President of the United States from profiting from his or her position financially. It is primarily focused on the man in the White House doing business with foreign nations and giving their leaders access to our nation’s pretender-in-chief. Trump violates this clause every day, as he did between 2017 and 2021. During his first four years as your illegitimate president, he made a profit of 1.7 billion dollars. FOR TRUMP, IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY In 2026, he has a new scam. [Washington, D.C. (November 25, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a new staff report revealing how President Donald Trump and his family have transformed the presidency into a personal money-making operation, adding billions of dollars to his net worth through cryptocurrency schemes entangled with foreign governments, corporate allies, and criminal actors.] Are you surprised? Trump is ac...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart If you thought that Trump’s first administration was filled with the worst, most incompetent, unqualified, and corrupt men and women in the world, you were right. That is, until the Washington Mafia 2.0 in 2025. Let’s begin at the top. Trump is now a convicted felon, committed treason on January 6, 2021, violated the Espionage Act, and became the most hated man in the world. However, he is your illegitimate president once again since January 20, 2025, and is even worse than he was four years ago. He is spending your tax money like a drunken sailor on leave. Unnecessary placement of two flagpoles on the White House lawn, and now the construction of a 200+ million-dollar ballroom, are nothing more than efforts to placate the ego of a raging malignant narcissist. Like 2017, he fails to keep a single promise, adding ill-advised tariffs to the unnecessary harm affecting 340 million people. Did I mention that six members of the Supreme Court anointed him as America’s ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I’m sure the title of this piece tells you what it is all about. As much as I despise the old, obese traitor, I can’t stop writing about his crimes. He is by far the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime. The mainstream media refuses to offer the truth to the American people. The Fourth Estate surrendered to Donald Trump 10 years ago. However, I always ‘tell it like it is,’ and Trump is a fascist dictator who should never have been allowed to be sworn into office. He is not an American. What really pisses me off is how many times he breaks state, federal, and Constitutional law, and no one has the balls to stop him. A law passed in the late 1800’s prevents the use of U.S. military forces as law enforcement officers. [The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), enacted in 1878, which prohibits federal military personnel from acting as law enforcement or participating in civilian law enforcement activities without express Congressional authorization.] Trump violated ...

  It is an irrefutable fact: Donald John Trump is a traitor who also violated the Espionage Act. Because a corrupt and biased Supreme Court gave him total immunity and a path to a second illegitimate presidency, he is openly committing crimes against America every day in 2025. Our corrupt government allowed a convicted felon and the greatest criminal in American history to defile our White House for a second time and he’s far worse than the first. That was expected by anyone who loves this country. Donald Trump us not an American President because his loyalty is not to all of our nation’s people. Trump is the Don of the Washington Mafia. Not only is Trump following the right-wing’s fascist manifesto, Project 2025, this week he engaged in a two-hour phone call with his puppeteer, Vladimir Putin. Without a single live brain cell and suffering from malignant narcissism, Trump is nothing more than a tool for Putin and his 813 billionaires/oligarchs. Our government is allowing Don Trump...

All heads of mob organizations demand absolute loyalty. If this sounds familiar, it’s because you have read at least one story about how Trump demands fealty from all of his “people” although he never offers loyalty in return. Trump’s cabinet and other close advisers share two things in common: none of them are qualified for their positions, and all of them are loyal to Trump for a variety reasons, including criminal activity. He is protecting them from prosecution. In return, each of them continues to kiss his humongous derriere on a regular basis. It is fair to compare Trump’s entire life to those of infamous mobsters Al Capone, and John Gotti. From his early days Trump committed crimes big and small. These were desperate efforts to maintain the lifestyle of a real billionaire. He has now become the unquestionable leader of the Washington Mafia 2.0 in 2025. Long before Putin decided to make Trump your president, he was committing tax fraud by inflating the value of his properties whe...

    It is an undeniable fact that Trump and fellow sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein were close friends for a decade. There are videos of the two old, white perverts attending parties at Mar-a-Lago. Although the media hid the fact that Trump was accused by one 12-year-old girl after one of Epstein’s parties, this is the truth. As it has been for Trump throughout his pitiful life, he was placed above the law ant the situation was never fully investigated. Trump’s Attorney General, who is another member of the Washington Mafia and guilty of criminal activity, Pam Bondi, is preparing to release information about Epstein’s immoral activities, including a list of men who attended his underage sex orgies. The question is: “will Trump’s name be removed from that list?” At 78 I have become a skeptic, I trust no one in power or who possesses great wealth. A desire for great wealth, and/or power, removes an individual’s humanity. If you look up “corruption” in any ...

On January 20, 2017, Washington was changed forever. It’s composition for 241 years had been men and women who were patriots, loyal to the American people, and most were intent upon improving the lives of all Americans, while keeping them safe from our enemies, both foreign and domestic. However, since 1981 the former Grand Old Party began moving further to the right, and it was clearly divided between Moderates, the Tea Party, and a new fascist-leaning group calling themselves the Freedom Caucus. When Trump began his reign of terror, every man and woman calling themselves Republicans began to bow to the wannabe Fuhrer. Today’s Washington is filled with Fascists, Nazis, Incompetents, criminals, Traitors, and now Q’Anon Conspiracy Theorists. Here’s the latest from one of Trump’s woefully unqualified criminals pretending to be the Secretary of Defense. Pete, “the Drunk,” Hegseth and “Trump administration officials at the Pentagon invited antisemitic right-wing conspiracy theorist and ser...

The names Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth are interchangeable. Their history proves that they are depraved sexual predators, have addictive personalities with drugs and/or alcohol, and are confirmed but not convicted criminals. The one difference is that the furor over Gaetz based on several Congressional investigations forced him to remove himself from the nomination to become the Attorney General. Hegseth has no integrity or self-esteem and continues to fight for Senate confirmation as Secretary of Defense. I say, “what the hell! All of Trump’s nominees are woefully unqualified and have a dark past. Why not allow another another ‘Trump clone’ to defile the West Wing?” Let’s be totally honest about this serious situation. Members of a president’s cabinet and nominees for other critical institutions including the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Environmental Protection Agency, have extremely important jobs necessary to sustain the American way of life. To suggest that a no...

Would you choose to work in a city where no one trusts one another; where success is measured by power and wealth; where doing the right thing is forbidden; where morality, integrity, and principles are not allowed to exist inside the city’s boundaries? If you are one of the men and women who spend most of their time in Washington, this is your life. It began in 1981, and was fulfilled in 2017: the government of the United States is the most corrupt and incompetent within the world of developed nations. Trump is making serious efforts to make it even worse. Not a single nominee named by Trump is qualified for his or her position. They have no experience or training in the agencies they will lead. Of even greater interest, is that each of these individuals has been suspected, accused, or indicted for crimes big and small. Trump’s administration was rightfully called the “Washington Mafia” between 2017 and 2021, and this group will be thought of as the “Washington Mafia 2.0.” I have been...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Corruption and even Crimes of a serious nature are far from uncommon in our nation’s young government. In my lifetime alone, I can think of several names which have become infamous. I know you all will think first of Richard Nixon, but there were also three other high-level politicians who were forced to resign. As you might assume, none of them were fairly punished. WHO REMEMBERS SPIRO T. AGNEW? Mr. Nixon’s first Vice-President was the former Mayor of Maryland, Spiro T. Agnew. After a thorough investigation by the FBI, Agnew was forced to resign, less than a year prior to Nixon’s own resignation. He plead guilty to avoid charges of political corruption. He was fined $10,000, and sentenced to three years’ probation. The state of Maryland disbarred him. NEWT GINGRICH AND “THE PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES” For those of us who lived through those years, Newt Gingrich will be remembered for two reasons: he was a hypocrite and another Republican criminal wh...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart You might remember when Trump pardoned some of our nation’s biggest traitors. Even more laughable, he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to one of the worst Americans in history, Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh divided our nation for decades and “freedom” was something he never believed in for anyone but pure whites. Don’t fear, followers of Trumpenstein, he’s getting the Washington Mafia back together again. MAKING AMERICA ASHAMED AGAIN Paul Manafort was convicted of bank and tax fraud. He was sentenced to seven and one-half years in prison. However, he was released after two when Trump’s coronavirus began to spread across America. To no one’s surprise, Trump is welcoming the convict back to his team of criminals and degenerates. “Birds of a feather.” “I ONLY HIRE THE BEST PEOPLE”  Trump lied again when he promised his supporters that his administration would be composed of “only the best people.” The men and women he chose were woefully unqualified and incompe...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Trump was in office for 1,460 days. He committed at least one crime during every sad day he pretended to be your president. We all know of his many Constitutional violations and his crimes against humanity, and we all know that he was impeached for cause twice but never received a fair trial in the Senate. Most of us knew about a situation confirmed and reported to the general public today, which would have demanded a third impeachment. The Emoluments Clause is clear: “The plain purpose of the foreign emoluments clause was to ensure that the country’s leaders would not be improperly influenced, even unconsciously, through gift giving, then a common and generally corrupt practice among European rulers and diplomats. An early version of the clause, modeled on a rule adopted by the Dutch Republic in 1651 that forbade its foreign ministers from receiving “any presents, directly or indirectly, in any manner or way whatever,” was incorporated into the Articles o...