Did Trump deceive us?

Did we deceive ourselves?

In the spring of 2016, I astonished my Republican friends at our local primary election polling place when I walked in wearing a novel baseball cap, which bore the words: “Make America Great Again”. I was one of the first with the cap, which was not yet standard red.

My friends did not think Trump was a serious candidate or a true conservative. I said I was going to take a chance on Trump, given his stated policy positions; maybe he actually meant what he said. And the rest is history.

I state this as prologue because given what I am about to say, some readers will condemn me as heretical, globalist, neoconservative, pro-Bush, never-Trump. None of these things are true. I simply call balls and strikes.

I wish the Trump of 2016 had run this year. I would be enthusiastic about that candidate. But the man has changed.

He accomplished some good things during his first term, although fewer than his acolytes admit. And there is no doubt that he was preferable to his Democrat challengers in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

According to the CDC VAERS, they have about 42 thousand reports of deaths caused by the COVID jab, roughly 86% of all vaccine deaths ever reported to VAERS. My calculation shows that VAERS is underreported by a factor of about 17, putting the true death toll from the COVID jab in the vicinity of 700 thousand. That last number is far larger than the number of people killed by COVID alone, with no additional causes of death.

Trump’s unrelenting bragging about the COVID jabs has grated on me since 2021. Now Bill Gates reports that he just had a wonderful meeting with Donald Trump, who Gates says really understands vaccines. The world should be alarmed.

Trump has promised mass deportations of illegal aliens, of whom there are about 30 million in America right now. Those deportations will be completely pointless without a wall to prevent them returning. Trump’s promise to “build the wall” was one of the pillars of his 2016 campaign. Although he refurbished many sections of the existing wall, he added, as I recall, less than 50 miles to its length. I do not recall hearing anything about the wall during the 2024 campaign.

Trump campaigned to put America first, which naive voters interpreted as putting Americans first - especially American workers. He was opposed to the abusive H-1B visa program during his 2016 campaign. After the 2024 election, Trump’s big tech money handlers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy announced that the American worker was a speed bump along the way to their transnationalist vision of greater wealth for themselves. Trump himself jumped into the conversation, endorsing Elon and Vivek. This is the classic neoliberal-neoconservative position.

Last but not least has been the stabbing of Israel in the back this past month. A couple of weeks ago, Trump posted a video by a sick Jewish anti-Semite blaming Benjamin Netanyahu for the first Gulf War (Bibi was not prime minister at that time). I consider this a shot across the bow, warning that Trump was willing to ramp up American anti-Semitism if he didn’t get his way.

Next, Trump’s Jewish anti-Semite enforcer burst in on Netanyahu during the Sabbath, threatening Israel if it didn’t release terrorist murderers in exchange for one-third of the Hamas hostages, leaving the others in captivity. I can only guess how horrific the threat must to Israel and to Jews must have been to force Netanyahu to give up the war aim of rescuing all the hostages.

Trump seems to have abandoned any interest in protecting American lives, American borders, American jobs, or American allies. I hope I am wrong.

In the meantime, we should all recall the words of Psalm 146:

1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.