Are We at the End of the Trumpenstein Project?

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When Donald Trump burst upon the political scene, descending the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, just as The Simpsons had predicted he would, I didn’t pay much attention. I found Trump to be an obnoxious blowhard, and shook my head at how his ridiculous reality show had become so popular.

I knew a bit of his history. When another, less divisive loose cannon billionaire, Ross Perot, created the Reform Party after two exciting but predictably unsuccessful presidential campaigns, Trump entered the fray. Apparently, he despised former Nixon aide and commentator Pat Buchanan enough to threaten to run against him for the Reform Party’s 2000 nomination. Considering how much Trump cared about our open borders in 2016, this was a curious thing to do, since Buchanan was the first national candidate to make our criminal immigration policy a major issue.

Trump would also come out on occasion and comment on political topics. I recall one instance where, in one of those laughable televised “discussions” on race, he was scolded by tiny Black racist Spike Lee. Trump didn’t fight back any more effectively than any other cucked White prominent figure. You might say, ironically enough, that they’ve “learned their place.” I also recall Trump declaring, during an appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show, that he would have been able to attract much younger beauties like Marla Maples, even if he had no money. His ego was gargantuan enough that he actually thought that his wealth was irrelevant to these women.

So it was with astonishment that I heard him become more revolutionary every day during that 2016 presidential campaign. Eviscerating Jeb Bush and the Bush crime family. Coming up with childish but effective nicknames like “Crooked Hillary,” “Little Marco,” and “Lyin’ Ted Cruz.” And, of course, the fact that the entire establishment, including the Republican Party hierarchy, seemed unilaterally opposed to him was a great point in his favor. Indeed, as time wore on, I began saying that Trump’s enemies were the best thing about him.

Trump attacked our inexcusably horrendous immigration policy with a fervor that no previous politician ever had. He was certainly more outspoken on it than Pat Buchanan, whose own presidential bid he had tried to wreck in 2000. Oddly, Trump’s second big issue was NAFTA and our other disastrous trade deals, which had also been a huge part of Buchanan’s platform. Maybe Trump loved immigration and NAFTA in 2000. It’s a presidential thing, I wouldn’t understand.

Trump was first universally condemned as a “racist,” after he called out the fact an illegal immigrant who’d already been deported multiple times and committed multiple other crimes, was wandering free to murder thirty two year old Californian Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015. In a portent of things to come, a jury would accept Jose Zarate’s defense that he’d found the gun under the bench where he’d been sitting, and it had accidentally gone off. While juries routinely send defendants to prison for life on the most flimsy “evidence” imaginable, in this case, they acquitted him of all charges except one, and an appeals court overturned that.

So, for protesting this egregious miscarriage of justice, as well as the insane immigration policy that permitted such tragedies to happen, Trump was lambasted by politicians of both parties, every mainstream media outlet, and all the clueless celebrities. Trump was further criticized for meeting with the “Angel Moms,” representing families who had lost a loved one at the hands of an illegal immigrant. This hardly seemed “racist” to me, and Trump began to really catch my eye. His rhetoric grew more more anti-establishment than any I’d ever heard before, from a political candidate in either of our “opposing” major parties.

Around this time, Roger Stone contacted me. He’d read and loved my book Hidden History. During a phone conversation, he told me that I was going to absolutely love Donald Trump, his close friend of thirty years. He said, “he knows about all the conspiracies.” He made it sound like Trump would love my book, too. Trump was calling out NATO, and our “senseless wars.” And then his campaign slogan became “America First.” This hearkened back to the huge movement, prior to Pearl Harbor, to keep America out of World War II, which was led by classical liberals of the time. Naturally, he was smeared as a “Nazi” for using the term.

Putting American interests first was portrayed as something controversial. Imagine the Chinese public rejecting a leader who wanted to put Chinese interests first. Imagine any predominantly nonwhite country doing that. Trump had been vocal about questioning the link between vaccines and autism in the recent past. He had been a prominent “Birther,” and tweeted out his suspicions that the woman who “verified” Barack Obama’s birth certificate just happened to be the only casualty of a subsequent plane crash. He brought up the death of Vince Foster. Rather absurdly, he mentioned a connection between Lee Harvey Oswald and Ted Cruz’s father.

After many rallies featuring the chant of “Lock her up"!” Trump told Hillary Clinton to her face, during one of their debates, that he was going to prosecute her once he was elected. He promised many things like that. An executive order on his first day in office, banning birthright citizenship, and sanctuary cities. Ending the H-1B visa foreign worker program. Unleashing a deportation squad to finally address the untold millions of illegals already in this country. Bringing the troops home, especially those nonsensically still stationed in their World War II locales. Auditing the Federal Reserve. He dropped hints about 9/11 and Joe Scarborough’s dead young intern.

Candidate Trump mentioned “globalists” almost as often as Alex Jones. And, of course, he actually appeared on Alex Jones’ show. I knew there was a very slim chance that Trump could actually be sincere, but I believed that if he did anything about illegal immigration alone, he was worth voting for. So I voted for him- the first Republican I ever voted for. Jimmy Carter was the only Democrat- but I was young, it was my first vote, and I still naively believed they were the good guys. I could rationalize that maybe, just maybe, Trump had made all the money he wanted, and was tired of “playing the game,” and really objected to what was going on.

When Trump picked Mike Pence as his running mate, it raised a few red flags, but he was still saying all that great stuff. Then came an election that I figured he had no chance of winning. The fix was in for the Queen of Corruption. When he won, it shocked me to the extent that I stopped making all political predictions. I certainly didn’t see that coming. And then he gave what was probably the second greatest Inaugural Address ever, after John F. Kennedy’s. It seemed like he might just be intent on trying to “drain the swamp.” And then came his appointments.

Trump’s cabinet choices were about as bad as it gets. He basically stocked his administration with the people a President Jeb Bush would have. I wondered how many members of the Trump administration actually voted for Trump. Needless to say, none of the promised executive orders were forthcoming. Even Obama’s ridiculous DACA program, which Trump blasted, remained intact. He told his supporters to stop chanting “Lock her up!” He joked, “that played well during the campaign. We don’t need that now.” He publicly said the Clintons were “good people.” The border was never closed. The troops weren’t brought home.

Trump instead became a cartoonish figure, getting into constant grade school level food fights on social media, often with self-important celebrities. He raged about “fake news,” and it became a part of the national lexicon. Perhaps that will be his enduring legacy, establishing “fake news” as a rebuttal to any information that you don’t like. Trump said, “I’m both a nationalist and a globalist.” He turned his back on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., after offering his the chairmanship of a commission to look into the links between vaccines and autism. He publicly said Oswald did it.

Those who have read my work for a while know that I think Donald Trump was selected to play the part of a populist firebrand, who would inspire millions while infuriating millions more with his contentious personality. I dubbed it the Trumpenstein Project, and it succeeded admirably in its primary goal of hopelessly dividing the country. I also called him Trump/Goldstein, for how much he resembled Immanuel Goldstein, the ultimately fake opposition leader in Orwell’s 1984. The Two Minute Hate for Goldstein became a 24/7 hate for Trump. He garnered, and continues to garner, more hatred than any public figure in American history.

The 2020 election was rife with fraud. It may not have been all that much more corrupt than usual, but Trump’s presence put a real magnifying glass on it. And because he was involved, the many millions with Trump Derangement Syndrome didn’t care if there was massive fraud. They would have supported “vote early and often,” the dead voting, counting ballots multiple times, blocking observers at poll places, and all the other improprieties we saw, most of them recorded for posterity. Trump, unlike Ron Paul or any other party victimized by obvious electoral theft, was front and center, complaining that the election had been stolen from him.

We all know what happened on January 6. Well, some of us do. Millions believe that violent “insurrectionists” attempted to wrest control of the government from our esteemed statesmen, the Nancy Pelosis and Mitch McConnells. One of them even had the audacity to put his boots on Lady Pelosi’s desk. Two years later, an untold number of these political prisoners remain behind bars, denied all due process. Others have been given draconian prison sentences that would fit nicely into the plot of Oliver Twist. And after throwing them under the bus as soon as the trouble started, Donald Trump has essentially ignored his hardcore J6 supporters ever since.

I will go over all the gory details of Trump’s flip-flopping on the lockdowns and vaccines, in my upcoming book Masking the Truth. Trump continues to claim credit for a largely untested shot that most of his supporters recognize is dangerous and often deadly, while his salivating enemies cling to it with a maniacal passion. After the equally dubious 2022 midterm elections, Trump again alleged fraud, but not as many were listening. There was no buffoonish legal team left to “release the Kraken.” He actually said that he was not to blame for any candidates who lost, but should receive full credit for those who won.

Trump has attacked his most likely competition for the MAGA vote, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy who was deeply involved with trying to expose 2020 voting shenanigans, announced he was investigating DeSantis’ vote in the midterms, insinuating that perhaps it wasn’t a legitimate win. Trump has clearly lost a lot of support, and DeSantis seems like a more eloquent and electable candidate for the populist right. He’s undeniably younger. Trump has announced a run for 2024, but his heart doesn’t seem in it. There is little talk about immigration now, accept to criticize Biden’s insane policy, but Trump deported fewer illegals than Obama.

Trump had an opportunity to stem the deadly globalist tide of war and wealth disparity, which had reigned unchallenged since they murdered JFK. He could have signed an executive order tying all government benefits to immigration status. That would have resulted in massive self-deportations. He could have backed that vaccines-autism commission, but that would have spoiled the upcoming COVID narrative. He could have brought the troops home, and stationed a fraction of them at the border. He could have convinced many of us that voting can make a difference.

Trump permitted nationwide riots during the summer of 2020. He stood idly by, tweeting away, as historical statues were torn down, and landmarks were littered by graffiti. He acted the part of the Last White Hope, an alpha male from a departed generation. But he governed like an inanimate object. He was hated by many for what he didn’t do, and loved by others for what he didn’t do. For his first two years in office, Trump had control of both houses of Congress. He bragged that we would get tired of all the winning. Exactly what was accomplished during that time? Instead, Trump tweeted and played golf. A lot of golf.

Trump failed so miserably that some of the very issues he raised, will be instantly mocked by the state controlled media, and the millions of Americans who will hate anyone who raises them as much as they hate Trump. Things instantly became so much worse after him, because of all the things he failed to do. Even on his way out of office, he couldn’t do the right thing. He didn’t pardon Assange, or Snowden, or Manning. Instead, he pardoned the president of Death Row Records, and some other rappers. All of whom, like his cabinet choices, would never have voted for him.

As I said, I don’t make predictions. They just make you look foolish, because they are usually wrong. But it does look like the Trumpenstein Project has run its course. The celebrities won’t allow another four years of Trump. They’d have to move to Canada, after closing their Twitter accounts. It was a great run. The elite killed any Third Party movement for good, by getting everyone firmly planted in pro and anti Trump factions. Populism instinctively resounds with the people, but now populist rhetoric will sound too much like Trump. Trump was our last hope, and he was an actor. All you have to do is look around you to know we lost. But they won. Won bigly.