If President Trump Campaigned Today,
He Would Not Be Elected
Renee Parsons
Since the 2024 elections, there is general agreement that the country is on shaky ground amidst domestic turmoil within a global world in transition; the country is endangered by an impending fiscal bankruptcy and a partisan uncertainty of its future as a Constitutional Republic. A heavily propagandized country with a materialist base has proven easily overwhelmed by a malevolent national security state.
Almost one full year into the Trump Administration, it was thought that a conservative peace populist President had been elected to provide political leadership to bring down the Deep State; yet today the Federal government is in crisis with the Trump Presidency in tatters.
The Country’s expectations that the ‘peace president’ would bring an immediate end to the Ukraine war were easily dashed as his promise never materialized while lamenting ‘all the killing’, at the same time, the President continued to send funds and weapons to Ukraine. If he is unable to end the Ukraine conflict, how does the President expect to subdue the Deep State.
On Inauguration Day Trump predicted he would be remembered as a “Peace President” and as a ‘unifier’ as he also prophesied that “Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent and totally unpredictable.” Trump’s January Inaugural speech also included “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end,” he said. “And perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
None of those grand pronouncements ever made it past the recitation on that January day to fulfill Trump’s promise or that a ‘new spirit of unity’ was ever attempted.
Instead, Trump’s Cabinet of officers filled with many unqualified or inexperienced appointments with little creative juice that negated the President’s legacy would ever be adopted. Trump flipped immediately after inauguration – holding himself in such low esteem and unable to fathom the need to preserve integrity of the Office of President. While few of his political or economic promises have come to fruition, the majority of Cabinet appointments are serving an agenda more common with Zionism than America First.
Almost immediately Trump’s peace identity transitioned when he failed to end the Ukraine war; follow by a series of unanticipated military conflicts with a sustained $1 billion bombing campaign against Yemen after which the President was in cahoots with Israel in an unprecedented missile attack on Iran which resulted in severe damage to Israel’s Iron Dome, a gift from American taxpayers. Trump’s disregard for Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people were followed by a series of brutal unconstitutional attacks on twenty Venezuelan fishing boats claimed to be ‘narcoterrorists’ for which no proof or evidence has ever been presented. In addition, Trump’s early hubris included the unrealistic takeover of the Panama Canal from China as well as the annexation of Canada and the invasion of Greenland.
In what was regarded as an overwhelming 2024 election victory with 49.8% of the popular vote and 312 electoral college votes, the President’s current public support has deteriorated according to Reuters/Ipsos to 38% disapproval with 65% disapproving of his cost of living efforts.
It may be that expectations were too high, too unrealistic for Trump to play in the fast lane with war criminals like Netanyahu while retaining his own integrity or it may be, as some believe, that Trump was always a member of the Deep State. At the same time, the President’s disdain for the US Constitution has become obvious; especially its First Amendment free speech tenets protecting political protestors and its Fourteenth Amendment Due Process protections for the accused before guilt be judged. The President’s Constitutional noncompliance represents a long term, damaging stain on his Presidential profile.
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Yet given Trump’s current foreign policy agenda, the US sponsored creation of a Board of Peace is nothing less than ludicrous. Adopted by the UN’s Security Council, Trump offered a ‘Congratulations to the World’ and in his usual understated way, President Trump referred to the Peace Board as an ‘incredible vote’ and a ‘moment of true historic proportions.’
No doubt an early entry in the Noble Peace Prize sweepstakes, the Peace Board will be chaired by President Trump and will include the ‘most powerful and respected leaders throughout the world.” While Russia and China abstained reflecting a level of diplomatic policy terrain, the Board is intended to provide a temporary international force within Gaza to act as a transitional plan to oversee redevelopment of the Gaza strip.
If there is one major influence that has brought Trump’s political efforts to a screeching halt, it has been the US government’s delegitimizing of itself to be replaced by Israel with mindless support for Netanyahu’s genocide of the Palestinian people and other objectionable exploits.
As the Zionist genocide in Gaza was beginning, President Trump revealed there had always been an ulterior purpose to the destruction of the Palestinian people and their Gaza homeland: “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out,” he said.
Just as it is no coincidence that Presidential son-in-law Special US Envoy Jared Kushner was the key architect of the President’s twenty point plan to develop Gaza, to conduct the business for an expensive, executive residential/commercial real estate development to be built which provides a warped rationale for explaining Trump’s silence on the horror of the Gaza slaughter.
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While Trump lacks the self-awareness to respect what a Constitutional President means, one of the most objectionable choices of the Administration may have been the recent visit of a former Isis/al Qaeda terrorist known as Julani (the head chopper) who reintroduced himself to the world as Ahmed al-Sharaa. The newly self appointed President of Syria was brought into the White House for what should have been a humiliating visit with President Trump via a back door into the Oval Office. At this point in Trump’s evolution as a foreign policy President, there are plans for new US bases in Damascus, Syria and another base in the contested Gaza Strip, both of which would require US boots on the ground.
As if reuniting like old friends rather than a joint effort to block resurgence of an Islamic State, Trump waived US sanctions on Syria in an unusual gesture which had economically crippled Syria for decades; yet ignored that Americans were killed in Syria as part of the US regime change ousting former Syrian President Bashar Assad. Trump fails to understand the difference between US hegemony in Syria with the despicable optics of al Sharaa’s massacre of Christians (Alewites or Druze) in Syria. When asked to comment on 911 and other Mujahadeen terrorism, al Sharaa used the ‘I knew nothing’ excuse.
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Of special note is the President ‘s response to every perceived challenge to his thought whether those challenges come from professional comedians trying to be funny or personal insults to anyone who disagrees on matters of policy details. The most recent being ‘quiet Piggy” to an inquisitive female reporter. While publicly disparaging Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) who resigned his Senate seat, Trump has routinely berated Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Marjorie Greene (R-Ga) for their differences on foreign relations and political policy.
The President has enlisted Zionist billionaire Miriam Adelson to fund a $20 million primary campaign against Massie and declared a possible primary campaign against MJT has elicited “Marjorie TRAITOR* Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. Frankly? I don’t think anybody CARES about her!” as further evidence of unacceptable Presidential behavior.
After notable election losses last week in NYC, NJ and Virginia gubernatorial elections, Marjorie wisely suggested that the President, ‘refocus his efforts’ while asking “why fight this so hard,’ a question Americans are asking.
“The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, he called me a ‘traitor,’ and those are the type of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger” as Rome Police Department confirmed assassination threats against Rep. Greene and her family.
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Once the bedrock for a trustworthy global financial structure, the US is experiencing an unassailable $38 trillion debt with no recognition of the looming fiscal chaos on the horizon. During the dispute about the Big Beautiful Bill, an educated guess is that Elon saw the hard truth of a $1.5 trillion annual interest payment, took a big step back and left the campaign as DOGE ground to a halt. Trump recently awarded Argentine President Milei a $40 billion gift, $30 billion to Israel since October 7th attack while Israel is seeking a new 20-year military aid deal with the United States to secure $4 billion annually until 2045.
Renee Parsons has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.