Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

Trump made few good choices in his life and many very bad ones. Three times he chose trophy wives instead of someone he loved and loved him in return. He was obviously raised without a value system which included an awareness of the value of others. He is now and always was a man whose only concern was personal pleasure.

He chose Jeffrey Epstein as his best and only true friend. Epstein was simply a tool who aided Trump in achieving his most lascivious carnal desires.

Although his father, Fred Trump, gave him properties worth more than 400 million dollars when he began his own business, and moved into a position to head his father’s real estate empire in the near future, he sold them and moved into the complicated and competitive world of Manhattan Real Estate. He failed miserably, declaring bankruptcy six times, including the impossible, a bankruptcy on an Atlantic City casino/hotel.. This forced him into a life of crime and deception.

In 2013, after meetings held in Moscow, Vladimir Putin convinced Trump to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Although he was enjoying a life filled with pleasure, legal and illegal, he exposed himself and capitulated to his handler. It is perfectly clear that Trump will die knowing that he is the most hated man in the world, and most of us will be happy when he is no longer destroying the lives of millions. Never hearing or reading the name “Trump” again would be a genuine reason to celebrate.

NO ONE WAS SURPRISED IN 2025

When Trump began to announce his nominees for cabinet posts and other critical situations which placed them in a position of power and influence, he made the worst decisions possible. It appears that he intended to fuck up every agency critical to America’s future. Unlike his illegitimate presidency between 2017 and 2021, not a single man or woman he nominated was or is qualified for their lofty and destructive positions in his doomed to fail administration.

The truth is, everyone in his administration is guilty of harming the future of 340 million people.

WHO IS THE WORST OF THE WORST? PETE HEGSETH OR J.D. VANCE?

When Trump nominated J.D. Vance to be his running mate in 2024, most Republicans cried “foul.” As a Senator, Vance was one of Trump’s biggest critics during his first campaign and his destructive and illegitimate presidency. Vance called him “Hitler,” and constantly denounced his qualifications to be your president. However, after covering Trump’s humongous derriere with his lips as much as humanly possible, Trump was unable to deny the desires of someone who so obviously adored him.

I have no idea about the process involved in choosing Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense. (I know Trump wants to call the position “Secretary of War,” but I do not believe that the American people support the many wars forced upon our nation’s people by incompetent and unfit presidents over the last 249 years.)

It is no secret that Hegseth was a “public drunkard,” a sexual predator, and a criminal who stole money from a military charity he once led. Before his nomination, he was a second-rate personality on the right-wing propaganda machine, Fox News. Apparently, Trump considered those dubious “qualities” sufficient to lead the Pentagon.

ANY SENATOR WHO VOTED FOR HEGSETH’S CONFIRMATION WAS A LIAR AND A TRAITOR TO HIS OR HER COUNTRY

Confirming a presidential nominee is an extremely important obligation. When this involves the Secretary of Defense, it becomes a confirmation of policies including national security and preparations to defend and prevent an attack against our nation. The man or woman in that position dictates the direction our military forces will take under the demands of the man or woman who will “lead” our nation for the next four years.

Hegseth is a caricature of a court jester in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is a bad actor playing a part in a very bad movie. Although it’s not intended to be a comedy, he is a hilarious buffoon, but he is not funny.

TRUMP AND HEGSETH ARE “BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER MOTHER”

Trump defends Hegseth because the are very much alike, and that ain’t good. Trump will say, “he has military experience.” This is true, but his duties were as an infantry officer in the National Guard. He “served” in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. He was never included in the upper Escalon who hide behind the threatening walls of the Pentagon.

It is a dirty little secret that he is hated by nearly every man and woman in Washington, Democrat or Nazi. Outwardly, he is an arrogant and obnoxious pretender. In reality, he is very similar to Trump: a cowardly little man desperate to become relevant and important.

IS TRUMP ATTEMPTING TO DESTROY EVERYTHING “AMERICAN?”

If you are paying attention, you are fully aware that Trump’s second, illegitimate presidency is 100 times worse than the first. If I am honest, it appears that he is attempting to accomplish his puppeteer’s lifelong goal of destroying the United States of America. His destruction of the East Wing of our nation’s most treasured edifice is symbolic of his ambitions over the next three years.

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Sources: newrepublic.com: Everyone Hates Trump’s New Defense Secretary publicnotice.co/p/trump: The worst cabinet in American history