It's ISRAEL FIRST as usual! Meet the new boss same as the old boss, ...nobbled by the Jews.
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“We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”
“We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change.”
“We’re nation building. We can’t do it. We have to build our own nation.”
“We will build up our military not as an act of aggression, but as an act of prevention. In short, we seek peace through strength.”
“I don’t want American forces fighting in areas that we shouldn’t be fighting in.”
“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop the wars.”
Israel has nullified them all and turned Trump’s presidency to serve Netanyahu’s agenda.
All these beautiful “America First,” non-interventionist declarations were turned on their head with Trump’s foreign interventions in the proxy war in Ukraine, funding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, bombing Iran, the war in Yemen, numerous African interventions, kidnapping the leader of another country, and now the latest move of another Iranian war.
But the most destructive flaw that has spoiled Trump’s image with his base was his unconditional support of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people. His base has rightly recognized Trump is not “America First” but rather “Israel First.”
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Confessions Of A Former Trump Supporter
When it comes to political opinions and commentary, there are times where one must review past analysis with honesty and self-criticism, admitting errors. Admitting mistakes can clean the slate and give the commentator a new start. Thus, this article is my attempt to redeem my former assessments.
In the 2016 presidential race, I had some opportunities to work with several evangelical political organizations that promoted the candidacy of Donald J. Trump.
Promoting Trump in 2016 was no easy task. It was a challenge convincing American evangelicals to vote for a brash NYC developer with an ego and questionable character.
Our approach was policy and reform over character. The “policy” priority was based on Trump’s early speeches that echoed all the right “America First” rhetoric to an American people who have been long forgotten by the ruling and money class.
Trump’s message of resetting American greatness by protecting the borders, rebuilding American industry, reforming the federal government, and stopping our endless wars deeply resonated with middle-class evangelicals and independents.
With candidate Trump, there was always conflicting views. He was pro-Christian and traditional values, but he was also pro-homosexuality. This made him a hard sell to those who identified as traditional conservatives. But, in our desperate political situation, we felt that the positives outweighed the negatives.
Trump presented himself as an outsider and was despised by the Republican establishment. That gave us a ray of hope that he could be the outsider who would be a true reformer.
With hope of reform and a shake-up of the establishment, we were compelled to support his candidacy. However, even Trump’s most optimistic supporters recognized that even if he were elected, the best outcome would be 35% of his promises kept. But 15% was more realistic.
So, despite the character issues and Trump being void of a core conservative worldview, we hoped we were electing an alpha-male reformer with “America First” instincts. But as we have seen, both character and worldview matter.
DRAINING THE SWAMP: WHAT HAPPENED?
“Draining the swamp” was Trump’s 2016 election theme that also resonated. Trump’s first administration failed in this effort. You can’t drain the Washington establishment swamp by filling your cabinet with swamp creatures.
Bobby Kennedy Jr. said it best: “Trump got rolled” in his first term in office.
We thought that in the four-year gap between his first and second terms, he had reconsidered his failures with a new and more aggressive approach to dealing with the swamp. Some of his second-term appointments brought hope. But apart from Kennedy Jr. at HHS, nothing much has changed.
Where is the reform at the FBI? Where is the overhaul of the planning division of the CIA? Is there any justice for the J-6 conspirators? When will the unredacted files for the Kennedy assassination be finally released? Will there be any reform of the private club called the Federal Reserve? Why is the DOJ redacting the Epstein files?
What happened to budget reform? Instead, we got the 2025 “Big Beautiful Bill,” a boon for lobbyists, financial elite, and corporate interests that saddled our national debt by an additional three-plus trillion dollars.
The what and the where of Trump 2.0 lacks any reform of the DC establishment. His administration has become more of the same.
AMERICA FIRST: PROMISES LOST
Where do we start? The “America First” slogan was the dominant Trump election theme. Trump railed against previous administrations’ foreign policy of endless wars and regime changes. Remember the following Trump quotes:
“We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”
“We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change.”
“We’re nation building. We can’t do it. We have to build our own nation.”
“We will build up our military not as an act of aggression, but as an act of prevention. In short, we seek peace through strength.”
“I don’t want American forces fighting in areas that we shouldn’t be fighting in.”
“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop the wars.”
All these beautiful “America First,” non-interventionist declarations were turned on their head with Trump’s foreign interventions in the proxy war in Ukraine, funding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, bombing Iran, the war in Yemen, numerous African interventions, kidnapping the leader of another country, and now the latest move of another Iranian war.
But the most destructive flaw that has spoiled Trump’s image with his base was his unconditional support of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people. His base has rightly recognized Trump is not “America First” but rather “Israel First.”
No matter one’s thoughts on the nation of Israel, no one with eyes can deny its actions are genocidal. Israel has destroyed over 200,000 lives, 38 hospitals, and 670 schools. Israel is viewed by most of the world as a rogue, lawless, pariah state. Yet the Trump administration’s support and funding is unconditional. Trump’s “Israel First” policy has done tremendous damage to America’s worldwide image.
Trump had the power to be a real peacemaker by demanding that Israel allow a true Palestinian state. That opportunity is long lost.
Trump’s rebranding of the defense department as the “Department of War” does not convey that America’s new image is one of peace.
Then we have one, if not the biggest, of the swamp institutions in the military-industrial complex. In 2024 its congressional budget was $886 billion. Trump has now elevated it past the trillion number with talk of going to $1.5 trillion. Instead of cutting back on the American Empire of 800 plus military bases in over 150 countries, he is building more bases.
Considering Trump’s 2024 election anti-war platform, he had a golden opportunity with both political parties to reign in the defense industry, cut its massive budgets, and close much of the US bases worldwide. Instead, it is business as usual, and the empire moves on. Trump is just another in a long list of neocons.
MAGA ABANDONED
The best way to destroy one’s political base is to break promises and then demonize anyone who publicly criticizes the failure to keep them.
The MAGA movement has an assortment of political demographics. A key demographic base for Trump is the three true conservatives in Congress: Sen. Rand Paul, Congressman Thomas Massie, and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
These three very important politicians with essential MAGA worldviews could have been Trump’s major supporters in Congress. Instead, because they tried to bring the president back to his “America First” promises, Trump has publicly attacked all three.
Trump’s attack on Greene was so vitriolic that it forced her to resign her seat. Concerning Massie, Trump has moved to defeat him in his coming primary.
Trump’s attack of the three has not been embraced by his MAGA base. All three are deeply admired by his supporters. No one can attack his own base and survive politically.
CHARACTER MATTERS
There is a steady flow of fair and apparently accurate, recent commentary on Trump as an egomaniac and narcissist. A traditional American president finishes his term of office and allows those who come afterward to put the president’s name on federal symbols acknowledging their accomplishments. Trump doesn’t have the patience or humility for this tradition. He is totally obsessed with getting his Trump name on everything possible now. It started with the Kennedy-Trump center and the White House ballroom. He has continued to attach his name to airports, DC memorials, institutes, battleships, and coinages.
Indeed, Trump could correctly be defined as a narcissist , having an excessive admiration of himself.
Then there was Trump’s public acknowledgment of being bribed by the Israel lobby, specifically the Adelsons and their millions. Usually, a politician is quiet when bribed, but not Trump.
The incident on January 13, 2026, at the Dearborn Ford plant brought out the worst in Trump. When Trump was on a balcony viewing the plant, a worker yelled at him, “pedophile protector!” Trump immediately dropped two “F-you” to the Ford employee and gave him the middle finger. What head of state does this?
Trump did not give the international sign of displeasure from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, where his pedophilic friends multiply their wealth, but to an autoworker at a Ford plant. Do you see the symbolism?
Along with his constant flow of insults directed at anyone who opposes him, he now feels the freedom to use foul and inappropriate language, publicly and toward those who should be his base. His cabinet members have followed Trump’s example. This is all unbecoming of a head of state, especially the president of the United States.
THE EMPEROR COMPLEX
There exists a plethora of articles and commentaries using the word “emperor” in reference to Trump. His behavior gives legitimacy to the title.
His presidency is without any concept of constitutional law. Legislation has been replaced by executive orders. He rules with his pen without consensus of law.
In a recent NY Times interview, President Trump stated, “I don’t need international law” and added that power is constrained only by “my own morality.” To an emperor, respect of nations, diplomacy, and international order established over centuries means little.
International relations to Trump are as if he is the biggest kid on a New Jersey middle school playground. Instead of diplomacy, he boasts, blusters, insults, sanctions, tariffs, and flippantly threatens military force. Of course, his bullying doesn’t work on the high schoolers: Russia and China.
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The paleo-conservative writer, Sam T. Francis, titled one of his books Beautiful Losers. Of course, the title refers to us conservatives. Inferred in the title is the political fact that the conservatives have the majority, the best intellectual ideas, but rarely prevail in American politics and culture.
There are times since JFK and the early 60s where we have had potential reform candidates. The four of note were Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. You could throw Ross Perot and Ron Paul into the mix. Two of the four reached the White House but failed to reform the federal institutions.
1964 Goldwater
He was abandoned by the Republican establishment and lost to LBJ.
1980 Reagan
Sixteen years later Ronald Reagan came and his Reagan revolution. The revolution ended when he was pressed to take Bush Sr. as his vice president.
1992 Buchanan
Twelve years later came Reagan’s speech writer, Pat Buchanan. Many of us would call him the best conservative candidate in American politics in sixty years. He shocked Bush Sr. with a strong showing in the New Hampshire primary but only received 23% of the final Republican primary vote.
2016 Trump
Twenty-four years later, the real estate developer and presumed outsider created an “America First, Make America Great Again” movement.
The two that won elections never had much success in reforming the American system that continues under the control of the international bankers, Wall Street, and their multinationals.
Reagan gave the conservative movement occasionally lovely speeches and dominated elections but brought little reform. Trump, who has three years left, now looks as if he is another lost opportunity for the American people.
CONCLUSION
Will Trump make the necessary and drastic changes to revive his MAGA movement? Probably not. The real question surrounding Trump is whether he will finish his term considering future unredacted Epstein releases and his mental health?
So, we end up again with the familiar question: When will the next “America First” populist candidate appear—12, 16, or 24 years?
Or is this idea of national salvation by a political candidate not possible in modern America? Instead, should our hope be directed in what gave America its great beginning, a Christian renewal with an accompanying cultural and institutional reform from the ground up?
The latter takes a long-term vision, dedication, and years. Voting for the next political savior is much easier.
Let me end with a positive note from the Englishman R. McNair Wilson in the preface of his 1961 book, God and the Goldsmiths. In one paragraph he gives an overview of Western civilization and a ray of hope:
International finance replaced the Medieval Church as a world order system, just as the Medieval Church had replaced Imperial Rome; if international finance falls there will be no new world order system unless men turn once more to the religion of Christ, that City of God without which man’s life has neither joy nor peace nor meaning.
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