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The Most Powerful & Perfidious POTUS Psyop in History<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SOTN<\/a> Editor’s Note: Every once in a great while someone comes along who pens a piece that wraps it all up very very nice with the perfect bow and pluperfect card.\u00a0 \u00a0The following expos\u00e9 on Donald John Trump is exactly that consummate act of revelation.\u00a0 We used Trump’s middle name, by the way, because that’s how the mainstream media has always referred to the worst mass murderers and other extremely evil criminals (most are patsies like the troika of 1960’s assassins) when they grace the front pages of the CIA’s Mockingbird Media<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the only reason why the following article was posted in its entirety today is because SOTN began writing an expos\u00e9 on Trump yesterday as an essential reference for our upcoming article titled: THE CATACLYSMIC IRAN WAR: A Highly Deceptive Armed Conflict Launched\u2026..<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 But when we happened upon Laurent Guy\u00e9not excellent post at The Unz Review<\/em>, we knew instantly that he saved us a LOT of time—thank you LG.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the reader will soon find out that Donald Trump is nothing but a carnival barker his entire life…as he is obviously a very good one today.\u00a0 And, he was never meant to be anything but the Carnival Barker-in-Chief as he is a natural like no other POTUS since the beginning of the American Republic.<\/p>\n

However, quite unfortunately for the American people, this Carnival Barker-in-Chief is being used by his Khazarian overlords to first collapse the United States, followed by the entire planetary civilization as will be explained in the preceding link.\u00a0 Until that paper published, consider the education below as a prerequisite for this Alt Media<\/em> platform’s most important post ever on the true purposes of the “Highly Deceptive”<\/strong> Iran War.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a>
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DEEP TRUMP: The Conman Who Saved America from the Thucydides Trap<\/h1>\n

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Tucker Carlson\u00a0recently confessed<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I\u2019m sorry for misleading people.\u201d How can one not feel sorry and ashamed today for having believed in Trump? I\u2019ll be honest: although I hold no responsibility in Trump\u2019s election, I feel ashamed for having placed any hope in him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump phenomenon resembles a form of collective hypnosis. It has a religious dimension that makes it unique in American political history. For the believer, every failure, every scandal, every lie is proof that Trump is fighting against the Deep State, the Fake News, the Swamp, the Washington elite, the Democrats, the New World Order, the FBI, and who knows what else. The Q psy-op was particularly successful in tapping into the religious imagination of Americans who were distrustful of the government. This is well explained by\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Green<\/a>, who admits she \u201cfell for that in late 2017 and 2018\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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it\u2019s basically a cult. \u2026 What it does, it takes a layer of truth and then it twists it into a lie. \u2026 Q was very successful. It was probably one of the most successful psychological operations I\u2019ve ever seen because it did use the layer of truth and the things that people were most passionate about and was able to use that and twist their belief to pull their full faith and trust into \u2026 an anonymous person or an anonymous entity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This was political propaganda on a deeper level than ever experimented before. I have analyzed the methods of manipulation used by Q and other pro-Trump groups in\u00a0\u201cDARK PILL: How Satan-Worshipping Pedophiles have taken over Conspiracyland\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0\u201cThe Satanic False Flag: Dark-pilling, conspiracy cults, pied-piper operations, and Zionist spiritual warfare\u201d<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The strangest thing, looking back, is that radical Zionists made no secret about their own quasi-religious adoration for Trump. In May 2018, commenting on Trump\u2019s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Netanyahu himself\u00a0compared<\/a>\u00a0him\u00a0to Cyrus the Great<\/a>[1]<\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no shame in being betrayed. No one blames Jesus for having trusted Judas. But there is shame in being fooled. And the truth about Trump is not that he has betrayed his supporters in 2025; it is that he has fooled them in 2016. Those who believed he would MAGA did so despite so many red flags.<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of being bought<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The first key to unlock Trump was his prose. A man who writes books should be measured by his books, before anything else. In that case, one look at\u00a0the titles<\/a>\u00a0was enough:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Art of the Deal\u00a0<\/em>(1987)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0How to Get Rich\u00a0<\/em>(2004)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0The Way to the Top\u00a0<\/em>(2004)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Think like a Billionaire\u00a0<\/em>(2004)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0How to Build a Fortune\u00a0<\/em>(2006)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Think Big and Kick Ass\u00a0<\/em>(2007)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Think Like a Champion\u00a0<\/em>(2009).<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump believes that everything can be bought, that society is purely transactional, and that cunning is the keys to success. He wrote in\u00a0The Art of the Deal,\u00a0<\/em>his 1987 bestseller:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people\u2019s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That\u2019s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It\u2019s an innocent form of exaggeration\u2014and a very effective form of promotion.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is no trace in his books of a word of wisdom or a\u00a0touch of humor<\/a>. In fact, Trump has no literary or philosophical culture, and\u00a0it shows<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is also clear in Trump\u2019s books is his narcissism. Every sentence comes down to: \u201cI\u2019m the best and I know everything about everything.\u201d Trump isn\u2019t just a salesman; he\u2019s also the product.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the opening of Trump Tower in Manhattan in 1983, the massive promotion of his book\u00a0The Art of the Deal\u00a0<\/em>turned Trump into a celebrity. Tony Schwartz, the book\u2019s co-author\u2014who, according to Schwartz, actually wrote the entire book (with Trump\u2019s contribution limited to deleting the least flattering passages)\u2014has said since 2016 that\u00a0he is haunted by guilt<\/a>\u00a0for having helped Trump become president. Trump, he says, lies constantly without the slightest inhibition or guilt. \u201cThere is an emptiness inside Trump. There\u2019s an absence of a soul. There\u2019s an absence of a heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The third element that helped craft Trump\u2019s image as a billionaire hero\u2014the equivalent of a saint in the religion of money\u2014is the reality TV show\u00a0The Apprentice,\u00a0<\/em>co-produced by Trump himself and airing since 2004, in which Trump essentially sells himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The second standard by which Trump should have been measured was his business record. Is Trump the artist of the deal and the winner he claims to be? No. The advertising is deceptive. Trump is not a\u00a0self-made man<\/em>, but a\u00a0self-made myth.<\/em>[3]<\/a>\u00a0While he has always claimed to have received a single million dollars from his father to start his business, a 2018\u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0investigation revealed that \u201che received at least $413 million in today\u2019s dollars from his father\u2019s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only did he inherit this initial fortune without lifting a finger, but he invested it in failed ventures. Trump has filed\u00a0for bankruptcy six times<\/a> in his career. His Taj Mahal casino filed for bankruptcy just 15 months after opening\u2014how a casino can go bankrupt? Other bankruptcies followed in the 1990s and 2000s: the Trump Castle and Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992, then Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, with $1.8 billion in debt, and finally Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009 and 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the 1990s, Trump was in debt to the tune of $5 billion, including $1 billion personally\u2014a negative billionaire. That\u2019s when a group of bankers led by Wilbur Ross, former director of Rothschild Inc., decided to bail him out (Trump would reward Wilbur Ross with the position of Secretary of Commerce in 2016). According to\u00a0remarks made<\/a>\u00a0by real estate attorney Alan Pomerantz on CNN in 2016, speaking on behalf of the bankers: \u201cWe made the decision that he would be worth more alive to us than dead\u2014dead meaning in bankruptcy\u2026 We kept him alive to help us\u201d (more on\u00a0John Hankey\u2019s investigation<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Forbes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0magazine<\/a>\u00a0article).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Roy Cohn Method<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If he is a failed casino tycoon, is Trump at least an honest one? Obviously not. Trump has been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits. His first lawsuit dates back to 1973. Trump was accused by the federal government of racial discrimination in the leasing of buildings constructed with public funds. He hired attorney\u00a0Roy Cohn<\/a>, who taught him life. In the words of\u00a0Greg Reese<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The unwritten rules that Roy Cohn helped instill into the character of Donald Trump are, one: Never Apologize. Never Admit Wrongdoing. Two: Always Counterattack and Hit Back Harder. Three: Use the Legal System as a Weapon. Four: Manipulate the Media. Five: Use Fear as Both Shield and Sword. And six: Build a Fortress of Loyalty and Punish Disloyalty Absolutely. Cohn\u2019s playbook didn\u2019t just work on business rivals and judges, it scaled to con millions of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The \u201cart of the lie,\u201d not the art of the deal, is the essence of Trump. Trump spouts enormous lies about everything and repeats his lies tirelessly. Persons close to Trump, such as his former communications director\u00a0Stephanie Grisham<\/a>, have reported that Trump believes that simply repeating something thousands of times makes it the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s big lies are numerous. For example:\u00a0\u201cI ended eight wars\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(and therefore \u201cI deserve the Nobel Peace Prize\u201d). In 2024,\u00a0Trump declared<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m the only president in modern history who left office with a smaller national debt than when I came into office.\u201d In reality, under his presidency, the debt increased by 7.8 trillion, a record 40 percent increase.[4]<\/a>\u00a0Lying and then calling liars those who expose his lies, is Trump\u2019s instinctual pattern of behavior. Here is a nice example, posted April 20, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Had Trump read\u00a0Mein Kampf,\u00a0<\/em>he would have recognized the truth of the\u00a0gro\u00dfe L\u00fcge<\/em>\u00a0theorem:<\/span><\/p>\n

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in the size of the lie there is always contained a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of a people, \u2026 in the primitive simplicity of their minds, will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one, for the reason that they themselves also lie sometimes in little things, but would be too much ashamed of making too great lies. \u2026 Therefore they are unable to believe in the possibility of the enormous impudence of the most infamous distortion in others; \u2026 for this reason alone, some part of the most impudent lie will remain and stick; a fact which all great lying artists and societies in this world know only too well and therefore villainously employ. Those who know best this truth\u2026, however, were at all time the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of Trump\u2019s biggest lies is the staged event of July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania (watch John Hankey\u2019s film\u00a0\u201cTrump in the Crosshairs?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0if you haven\u2019t). It is such a colossal lie that no one dared to denounce it, because the very idea of such a lie seems unbearably obscene. Everyone would rather pretend to believe it than risk making such a serious accusation. Nine months later, however,\u00a0the idea of a fake attack<\/a>\u00a0is gaining traction among the disappointed MAGA, especially since Joe Kent\u2019s revelation on the FBI\u2019s obstruction to the investigation (see the discussion started by\u00a0Trisha Hope<\/a>\u00a0and shared by\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Green<\/a>, or\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0mentioning Tim Dillon and Emerald Robinson).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Roy Cohn method is how Trump dealt with the Epstein problem. It is no coincidence that the Q psy-op, portraying Trump as the Angel of Justice against the Satan-worshipping pedophiles (all Democrats), gained momentum just as the Epstein scandal was making its first headlines in the mainstream press. Now we know why: his name appears more than\u00a038,000 times<\/a>\u00a0in the declassified documents so far. Among these documents are allegations against him of\u00a0raping girls aged 13 to 15<\/a>\u00a0at his golf club in California.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is a moral to the story: Trump fell into his own trap. He had bolstered the public rage and generated an uncontainable demand for the release of the Epstein files. Now he fiercely opposes the release, referring to the Epstein files as a\u00a0\u201cDemocrat hoax.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThis will hurt my friends,\u201d Trump reportedly told\u00a0Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u00a0to dissuade her from joining the Democrats in a resolution calling for declassification. Taylor Greene makes yet\u00a0another stunning revelation<\/a>: \u201cTrump texted me that if my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We should have known. As early as 2002, Trump had told\u00a0New York magazine<\/a><\/em>: \u201cI\u2019ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He\u2019s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it \u2014 Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\u201d There are numerous photos of Trump with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, as well as a video footage\u00a0of a party organized by Epstein in 1992 at Mar-a-Lago<\/a>\u00a0(Trump\u2019s estate in Palm Beach), featuring young inebriated teenage girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is a known sex offender who has faced 28 complaints of harassment or rape. He has bragged about sneaking into the dressing rooms of young girls competing in the beauty pageants he owns. And don\u2019t forget: \u201cWhen you\u2019re a star,\u201d\u00a0he bragged<\/a>, you can just \u201cgrab them by the pussy!\u201d In an\u00a0audio recording<\/a>\u00a0from 2006, Trump states that his minimum age limit for sleeping with a girl is twelve.<\/span><\/p>\n

The narcissistic con artist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is a con artist\u00a0.\u00a0<\/em>He fits the profile analyzed by Maria Konnikova in\u00a0The Confidence Game,\u00a0<\/em>where she writes: \u201cThe true con artist doesn\u2019t force us to do anything; he makes us complicit in our own undoing. He doesn\u2019t steal. We give.\u201d In his\u00a0interview with The\u00a0<\/a>New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0published on May 2, Tucker Carlson mentions Trump\u2019s\u00a0\u201cspellbinding\u201d quality<\/a>, that can \u201cweaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. I\u2019ve experienced it myself. You spend a day with Trump and you\u2019re in this kind of\u00a0dreamland,\u00a0<\/em>like smoking hash or something\u2026 and there may be a supernatural component to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019,\u00a0George Conway wrote<\/a>\u00a0an article for\u00a0The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>making this diagnosis of malignant narcissism, backed by numerous testimonies. Rereading his article today, one is struck by the obviousness of it all\u2014an obviousness we refused to see because it was presented to us by the Democrats, whom we deemed completely unworthy of attention.\u00a0Experts define<\/a>\u00a0the narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as \u201ca pervasive pattern of grandiosity, a need for admiration, a lack of empathy, and a heightened sense of self-importance. Individuals with NPD may present to others as boastful, arrogant, or even unlikeable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s narcissism, probably overlapping with psychopathy, makes him the ideal proxy for his sponsors\u2014always for sale, devoid of any moral inhibitions, and easily manipulated by flattery. Benjamin Disraeli once explained his influence on Queen Victoria with these words: \u201cEveryone likes flattery, and when it comes to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.\u201d[5]<\/a>\u00a0So with Trump: tell him he\u2019s the greatest man in history, and he will sign your bill. Better still, have his spiritual advisor Paula White\u00a0tell him he is Jesus<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lying takes mental energy, even for a seasoned liar like Trump, because a man who lies as he breathes must constantly recall the lies he has already told so as not to contradict himself. Aging brings with it a decline in mental energy, and Trump no longer has the vigilance needed to know when to stop. He lies out of habit. Not only has he lost mastery of the art of lying, but he has lost the ability to disguise his narcissistic pathology. In January of this year, a\u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0correspondent asked Trump if he saw any limits to the exercise of his power on a global scale. \u201cYeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It\u2019s the only thing that can stop me.\u201d On April 13, Trump posted an image of\u00a0himself as Jesus<\/a>\u00a0on Truth Social.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s megalomaniacal narcissism is now apparent in his plans for monuments to his own glory. He has announced the construction in Washington of \u201cthe GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL\u00a0Triumphal Arch<\/a>\u00a0anywhere in the World\u201d (three times taller than Napoleon\u2019s in Paris). Shortly before that, he unveiled his plans for\u00a0the Trump Presidential Library<\/a>\u00a0in Miami, a gigantic skyscraper that would also serve as a hotel, featuring Air Force One on display in the lobby and including a massive auditorium with a gigantic golden statue of Trump (see the\u00a0parody here<\/a>). His megalomaniacal projects also include the construction of a $400 million ballroom in the East Wing of the White House (the cost has now been upgraded to\u00a0$1 billion<\/a>). Add to that Trump\u2019s decision to attach his name to the Kennedy Center\u2019s arts complex and concert hall, renamed the Trump Kennedy Center. He has also put his name on the Palm Beach airport, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the boulevard leading to Mar-a-Lago, and he plans to put his signature on the new U.S. currency, and his photo and signature in gold letters\u00a0on U.S. passports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s pathology is now a mainstream topic, and not just among Democrats. A former Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, who served as a special counsel for Trump during his first term,\u00a0has publicly stated<\/a>\u00a0that \u201chis mental condition has deteriorated substantially\u201d to the point where he was now unfit to serve.\u201d\u00a0The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reports the testimony of a longtime Trump associate who wished to remain anonymous: \u201cHe\u2019s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live. He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn\u2019t do, because of his sheer power and force of will.\u201d[6]<\/a>\u00a0On April 17, the\u00a0Washington Examiner\u00a0<\/em>ran the headline\u00a0\u201cDonald Trump Is Losing His Mind<\/a>\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum \u2014 he never had those \u2014 but any remaining sense of self-control. Everyone around him can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The tragedy is no longer Trump\u2019s. It is now America\u2019s.[7]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Deep State, a shallow concept<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump persona some of us believed in was nothing but an image, a fiction manufactured by a powerful propaganda machine. We were sold not only a character, but a story in which he was backed by a secret group of high-level virtuous patriots ready to unleash \u201cthe storm\u201d against the secret group of high-level pedophile globalists known as the Deep State, and conspiring to enslave us in their \u201cNew World Order.\u201d Alexander Dugin, who seems to still be thinking along these lines, called those two groups the Deep State and \u201cthe Deeper State<\/a>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Deep State is a concept that has some utility as a general metaphor for the mechanisms of power in liberal democracies, but as a real entity, it remains forever elusive. It is like the Freudian unconscious, which we see only when it resurfaces into consciousness. The Deep State is such a vague concept that it lends itself to any definition. There are all kinds of \u201cdeep powers\u201d, if you like, but they don\u2019t constitute an entity.<\/span><\/p>\n

And no deep power is stronger than Israel in America. Consider how the decision to bomb Iran was made last February, as explained by the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>in an April 7 article:\u00a0\u201cHow Trump took the U.S. to War with Iran.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0On February 11, a meeting was held in the White House Situation Room (a crisis room equipped with secure communications equipment, managed by the National Security Council) attended by Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by Israeli intelligence officers. Standing before a screen showing Mossad Director David Barnea and Israeli military officials, Netanyahu presented his case for bombing Iran with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation, demonstrating that it would bring down the Iranian regime and thus resolve instantly all the problems in the Middle East in one fell swoop, while making Trump the greatest man in history. Seated across from him were President Trump, Secretary of War Peter Hegseth, Chief of Staff Dan Caine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliff, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, as well as Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, unofficial negotiators. After Netanyahu\u2019s presentation, Trump nodded and said, \u201cIt sounds good to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The same group met again the next day, without Netanyahu but with Vice President JD Vance, who had just returned from Azerbaijan. Hegseth was on board; Ratcliff, Vance, and Rubio were skeptical; Caine was undecided and Wiles remained on the sidelines. A final meeting took place on February 26, including a few other people, such as advisor David Warrington, who discussed the legality of such an intervention. Trump concluded the meeting with these words: \u201cI think we need to do it.\u201d In the meantime, he had had several phone conversations with Netanyahu, who was urging him to act quickly. The next day, February 27, Trump sent the following message from Air Force One: \u201cOperation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Question: Given that it was the Deep State that dragged the United States into the war against Iran, identify the Deep State based on this account. Additional clue: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas\u00a0Araghchi reported<\/a>\u00a0that, during the negotiations held on April 11 and 12 in Islamabad (Pakistan), where Kushner and Wilkoff were present, JD Vance abruptly interrupted the negotiations after receiving a call from Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe first Jewish President\u201d?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

MAGA was MIGA all along, just like the neocons\u2019 PNAC had been a Project for a New Israeli Century.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump betrayed his voters, but not his donors.\u00a0Trump stated<\/a>\u00a0in December 2025 at the White House that \u201cMiriam gave my campaign, indirectly and directly, $250 million.\u201d Speaking before the Israeli parliament in October of that same year,\u00a0he acknowledged the role<\/a>\u00a0of Sheldon and Miriam Adelson in shaping his foreign policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since January 2025, Netanyahu has visited the White House seven times. On February 5, 2025, he presented Trump with\u00a0a gold pager<\/a>, commemorating the murder by booby-trapped pagers committed by Israel against members of Hezbollah or their relatives (including children) on September 23, 2024. In exchange, Trump gave him a signed and autographed photo of himself with the words: \u201cTo Bibi, a great leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 15, 2025,\u00a0Netanyahu stated<\/a>\u00a0at a press conference in Jerusalem, alongside Marco Rubio, that: \u201cDonald Trump is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.\u201d Trump has implemented the foreign policy dictated by Netanyahu so effectively that Netanyahu had to\u00a0publicly defend himself against accusations of controlling Trump<\/a>: \u201cTrump is the most independent leader I\u2019ve ever seen. The idea that I control Trump is a lie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In December 2025, during a Hanukkah celebration at the White House, media personality Mark Levin, a fervent Zionist who is part of Trump\u2019s inner circle, put his arm around Trump\u2019s neck and introduced him to the television cameras as\u00a0\u201cThe first Jewish president<\/a>,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and Trump replied: \u201cIt\u2019s true.\u201d Was he telling the truth, for once? There is a persistent rumor that he has secretly converted to Judaism. But I do not believe that Trump is connected to Israel by moral or religious convictions. It is transactional, like everything else in Trump\u2019s mind. When Trump calls\u00a0Thomas Massie a loser<\/a>, one must understand that, for him, anyone who opposes Israel is by definition a loser\u00a0,\u00a0<\/em>because you cannot win against Israel, while with Israel you can get very rich.<\/span><\/p>\n

Epic corruption<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump told the American people that he was launching a historic campaign to combat fraud. He appointed JD Vance as\u00a0\u201canti-fraud czar.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0But it is a fraud of biblical proportions that Trump and his family are scheming in plain sight. According to\u00a0The New Republic<\/a><\/em>, barely halfway through his second presidential term, Trump has already tripled his fortune\u2014now estimated at $6.5 billion. Trump\u2019s\u00a0latest financial disclosure<\/a>\u00a0to the US Office of Government Ethics shows that Trump made more than 3,700 trades in the first three months of 2026, with companies that have dealings with his administration, for\u00a0a volume<\/a>\u00a0between $220 million and $750 million. The list of his insider trades keeps\u00a0growing every day<\/a>. Meanwhile, Trump has so far pardoned\u2014for a fee\u2014more than\u00a070 convicted fraudsters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The real-estate mafia of the Trumps, the Kushners and the Witkoffs treat the destruction of Gaza as a\u00a0real estate opportunity<\/a>. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, they unveiled their $25 billion project for \u201cNew Gaza,\u201d along with a construction timeline.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reports that in February 2025, Jared Kushner used his position as an unofficial mediator to ask the Saudis to invest $5 billion in his investment firm, Affinity Partners. He reportedly approached Mohammed bin Salman (MSB) directly for this purpose. He had already secured $2 billion from the Saudis in 2022. The Senate Committee on Finance has\u00a0launched an investigation<\/a>\u00a0into this blatant conflict of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump and Witkoff families have also taken advantage of their position to make shady investments in\u00a0cryptocurrencies<\/a>. In September 2024, two months before the election, Trump launched\u00a0World Liberty Financial<\/a>\u2014a decentralized finance protocol\u2014with his sons and the Witkoff family, selling tokens that buyers later realized were non-transferable and therefore of no real value. Chinese entrepreneur\u00a0Justin Sun<\/a>, who invested tens of millions of dollars in the venture, is now suing the Trump family for fraud. On January 17, 2025, three days before his inauguration, Trump organized a promotional sale of a\u00a0memecoin\u00a0<\/em>called\u00a0$Trump<\/a>, attracting a slew of courtiers ready to buy his presidential favors. Of the twelve figures leading this operation, four are from the Trump family (Donald and his three sons) and three are from the Witkoff family (Steven and his two sons). They pocket $350 million in investment fees, according to the\u00a0Financial Times<\/a><\/em>. Two days after the launch of $Trump, Trump\u2019s wife launches her own\u00a0memecoin<\/em>, $Melania. It is estimated that the Trump family has amassed\u00a0over $1<\/a> billion through their various cryptocurrency ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Senate and House Democrats launched\u00a0an investigation<\/a>\u00a0on the suspicion that Trump used these operations to barter his presidential pardons with convicted fraudsters. From January to July 2025, Trump pardoned\u00a0more than 1,500 people<\/a>, many of them financiers who would pay him back.\u00a0Joseph Schwartz<\/a>, a nursing home owner sentenced to three years in prison for a $5 million fraud, was pardoned after only three months in prison in exchange for a $1 million donation to Trump\u2019s lobbyists, while the plaintiffs against him did not receive a single cent.\u00a0David Gentile<\/a>, convicted of a $1.6 billion fraud, was pardoned 12 days into his 7-year sentence. Among the pardoned are also many Zionist Jews, such as\u00a0Philip Esformes<\/a>,\u00a0Sholom Weiss<\/a>,\u00a0Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin<\/a>,\u00a0Eliyahu Weinstein<\/a>,\u00a0Drew \u201cBo\u201d Brownstein<\/a>. Trump also pardoned his former spiritual advisor,\u00a0Robert Morris<\/a>, sentenced to twenty years in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl, and released after only six months. Trump once mentioned the possibility of\u00a0pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inevitably, the Trump family is at the forefront of war profiteering. According to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>, a few days before the attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump invested in a company producing armed drones, Powerus, to which the Department of Defense subsequently placed a $1.1 billion order. In April 1, just as Trump had announced that Gulf States should not count on the U.S. to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Powerus met with officials in Abu Dhabi to showcase its products. Donald Jr. has also invested in a startup called\u00a0Vulcan Elements<\/a>\u00a0specializing in rare-earth magnets, and has just secured a $620 million contract with the Department of Defense. We have also learned from the\u00a0Financial Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that in August 2025, Trump\u2019s sons made an investment, through a shell company, in a firm called Skyline Builders, which is likely to receive $1.6 billion from the U.S. government.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was reported to the U.S. Congress that President Trump had launched a paid newsletter titled\u00a0\u201cPrivate Security Briefing<\/a>,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0selling confidential information related to national security to investors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)\u00a0for $10 billion<\/a>\u00a0following the disclosure of his tax returns by a contractor (tax returns he had promised to make public during his campaign). Yet Trump controls the very government he is suing. \u201cI\u2019m supposed to work out a settlement with myself,\u201d he noted wryly. No U.S. president has ever used his position to\u00a0enrich himself to this extent<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the most scandalous case of insider trading, reported even by the British\u00a0BBC<\/a>\u00a0and the French\u00a0Figaro<\/a><\/em>, took place\u00a0between March 22 and 24<\/a>. On Saturday 22, Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to destroy all of its power plants. Iran immediately responded that if Trump carried out his threats, Iran would respond in kind against American infrastructures in the Gulf states. The price of oil rose and energy-related stock prices plummeted as the deadline approached. Then, on Monday at 7:04 a.m., Trump announced on Truth Social that negotiations were underway with Iran (Iran denied). Fourteen minutes earlier, \u201cthere were an unusually high number of bets on the US oil price\u201d totaling more than $1.5 billion in profit. No investigation has determined who pulled off the stock market coup of the century.<\/span><\/p>\n

And let us not forget the way the sons of Howard\u00a0Lutnick cashed in<\/a>\u00a0on his unlawful tariffs predictably overturned by Supreme Court. The House of Representatives has\u00a0questioned Lutnick<\/a>\u00a0about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In conclusion, the White House has been taken over by the most shallow, the most deranged, and the most corrupt individual.<\/span><\/p>\n

His unintended merit, however, is to have exposed to the world the true ugly face of 21st-century America. The very fact that Trump was elected president is the clearest indication of how dysfunctional \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d has become.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has also made Israel\u2019s control on U.S. foreign policy totally transparent. Think of the change from twenty years ago, when the idea that the U.S. had been dragged into war against Iraq by Israel was still confidential. Mearsheimer and Walt couldn\u2019t even find an American publisher for\u00a0The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.\u00a0<\/em>Today, it\u2019s a commonly accepted fact, and that\u2019s a good thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s unprovoked aggression on Iran has not only deteriorated America\u2019s image in the world. It has also been a total failure in terms of its stated objectives, despite Trump\u2019s bragging victory on Truth Social. Iran comes out not only with a clear moral superiority, but with an undeniable strategic victory. That\u2019s another good thing, because that war was for Israel, and so is the defeat. Iran is our only hope to prevent the psychopathic state from achieving its goal of becoming the regional super-power.<\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s humiliating failure has ruined America\u2019s reputation of military invincibility. Taking note of the U.S.\u2019s incapacity to protect their own military bases, the Gulf States will reconsider their alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the most happy result of it all is that the danger of America and China falling into the Thucydides Trap, that\u00a0Graham Allison<\/a>\u00a0considered very great ten years ago, has now receded.\u00a0Xi Jinping\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0reference to the Thucydides Trap in his speech on May 14 has been widely recognized as highly significant: \u201cThe whole world is watching our meeting,\u201d he said. \u201cThe International situation is turbulent. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the anecdote, when explained what the Thucydides Trap meant after Xi\u2019s speech, Trump posted this typically trumpish note:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although I have zero expertise in military matters, it seems quite clear to me that, under Trump, the U.S. has wasted its capacity to stop China from becoming the world\u2019s economic superpower, which will inevitably collapse the dollar\u2019s gigantic Ponzi scheme. It is highly unlikely that, after the damage caused by Trump and his grotesque Secretary of War to the American military machine\u2014and to its self-confidence\u2014, the U.S. can ever feel tempted to confront China. It is significant that, in his\u00a0interview with Fox News<\/a>\u00a0from China before heading back to Washington, he stated unequivocally that Taiwan is \u201ca place\u201d too far away for the U.S. to fight for. Japan and South Korea will soon come to terms with this new reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Had the U.S. been led by a man who really cared to Make America Great Again, it might quite plausibly have fallen into the Thucydides Trap. But Trump is all about making Trump great, and his Israeli handlers are all about making Israel great. Neither of them really care for the American empire, except as a tool for their own greatness.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so Trump may have saved the world after all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cJeanine Pirro\u2019s exclusive interview with Netanyahu\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0Quoted in Thom Hartmann,\u00a0The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink,\u00a0<\/em>Berrett-Koehler, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a>\u00a0As David Cay Johnston wrote in\u00a0The Making of Donald Trump,\u00a0<\/em>Melville House, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0Hartmann,\u00a0The Last American President, op. cit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

[5]<\/a>\u00a0Stanley Weintraub,\u00a0Disraeli: A Biography,\u00a0<\/em>Hamish Hamilton, 1993, pp. 579, 547.<\/span><\/p>\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer,\u00a0\u201cThe Yolo Presidency<\/a>,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The Atlantic,\u00a0<\/em>April 29, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

[7]<\/a>\u00a0Dan Hannan,\u00a0\u201cDonald Trump is losing his mind<\/a>,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Washington Examiner,\u00a0<\/em>April 17, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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