Brave New Trumpenstein

Building the new Technocracy

I haven’t written much lately about Donald Trump. The man I christened Trumpenstein. After all, there is only so much you can write about any one individual, even one who is at the center of all political discourse now. He continues to effortlessly shuffle back and forth between populist rhetoric and RINO reality.

He has undeniably given his MAGA faithful more red meat this time around. RFK, Jr. was the most revolutionary presidential appointee of my lifetime. He is openly promising to dismantle the Medical Industrial Complex. Imagine having food without red dye and countless dangerous, unnecessary preservatives? Or clean tap water to drink? I am very dubious that RFK, Jr. will be approved as HHS secretary, or any other position in government. But Trump vowed to use his power of “Recess Appointments” to get RFK, Jr., Tulsi, and Matt Gaetz through a Congress that was never going to approve them. So what happened to all that “Recess Appointments” talk? Gaetz summarily withdrew, after the contrived scandal which grew out of an extortion attempt on his wealthy father was revived by Congress and our state controlled media. His replacement, Pam Bondi, won’t be draining any swamp.

I wrote in detail about the Gaetz “scandal” in the last issue of American Free Press. Basically, there was another Florida politician named Greenberg. Not O’Malley. He was caught doing some very nasty things, including trafficking underage girls. He knew Gaetz to some degree, and when the authorities set out to prosecute him, he attempted to throw Gaetz under the bus in order to reduce his own sentence. It’s a complicated case, but there was no seventeen year old girl with Gaetz. Gaetz’s father recorded the extortion attempt, but the FBI still refuses to release it. Instead, our hopelessly doormat “free press” continues to parrot the discredited charges against Gaetz. And the “ethics” committee in Congress released a new report detailing the phony allegations. They don’t want someone like Gaetz running the FBI. Possibly abolishing it. At the very least, perhaps targeting real Deep State villains.

As for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he will have to depend upon a “representative” body that will be voting on his nomination, consisting of senators who have received “hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry,” in the words of The Federalist. Outside of AIPAC (and Gaetz, by the way, was one of only two Republicans in Congress to refuse their money), the pharmaceutical lobby is the most powerful one on Capitol Hill. Kennedy has promised “beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!” A supportive Rep. Chip Roy called RFK, Jr. a “disruptor,” and looked forward to working with him. As always in character, Trumpenstein lashed out at Roy, a seeming MAGA figure, for opposing the most recent continuing resolution spending bill. Trump called Roy “weak and ineffective,” and urged someone to primary him.

The food fight with Roy revealed Trump’s latest, inexplicable policy position. He now opposes any debt ceiling limit, which obviously clashes with MAGA supporters, and even many traditional Republican politicians. He called it “a meaningless concept.” In 2023, Trump reacted to that particular looming government shutdown quite differently, telling Republicans to stand firm, since Democrats would “absolutely cave because you don't want to have that happen, but it's better than what we're doing right now because we're spending money like drunken sailors.” Trump, like every other politician, ignores the fact that the national debt is not taxpayer debt. Taxpayers never approved borrowing from China or anywhere else, and couldn’t begin to understand the machinations of our unaudited Federal Reserve counterfeit banking system. We should instead simply repudiate the debt.

Trump has sounded very sensible in his past comments on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Just last year, he said, "I don't think in terms of winning and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people." After mocking Ukrainian President, former actor Volodymyr Zelensky (I’ve decided on just using one “y” at the end of his name- for unexplained reasons, the world doesn’t seem sure of the spelling, and I can be as lazy as any other ‘Murrican) as “the greatest salesman on earth” for extorting tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. government, and promising to cut aid and begin peace talks, Trump now is declaring he will continue aiding Ukraine. It’s a Trumpenstein Project thing, you wouldn’t understand. Even if Trump does manage to negotiate an end to the dispute, he, and every one of his appointees, are fully on board with escalating tensions with Iran.

Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, theoretically could do some real damage to our diabolical intelligence agencies. But she’s still a member of the CFR the last time I checked, and has always supported the ridiculous “war on terror.” Like every other Trump appointee except Gaetz, she is a committed Zionist. If the powers behind the scenes greenlight their long rumored war with Iran, she won’t be talking about peace. She once publicly declared that a war with Iran would be “far more devastating” for America than the Iraqi War was. But she also has referred to herself as a “hawk” and called ISIS America’s biggest threat. Bigger even than White Supremacy. Now that ISIS has gone wherever Al-Qaeda went, maybe she considers Iran the biggest threat. After all, they are a “state sponsor of terrorism,” whatever that means. And remember, she co-sponsored the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act in 2013.

In 2014, Gabbard raised expressed alarm over websites and “tens of thousands of accounts” on social media “directing terrorist attacks,” and called for government censorship of the internet to deal with it. When asked about the First Amendment implications involved, Gabbard explained that “people who are threatening violence, terrorists, are not protected by the First Amendment.” Now where have we heard that before? “Hate speech isn’t free speech!” Gabbard went on to tell Israeli citizen turned U.S. “journalist” Wolf Blitzer, “These websites, these social media platforms, these social media accounts, they need to be shut down. You want to reduce the amount of propaganda and access that people have towards this Islamic extremist propaganda.” I know- it hurt me to read those quotes, too. She’s so pretty. And I had my picture taken next to her while she held up my book Survival of the Richest.

What about this DOGE thing- the Department of Government Efficiency? There have been disquieting indications that Elon Musk, who is in charge of DOGE, and maverick former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who is working with him, may decide to target Social Security and Medicare. You know, two of the few services Americans actually get from their corrupt and incompetent government. Well, it’s inaccurate to call them services, because they are programs which return money to individuals who had it involuntarily withheld from them over the course of a lifetime in the workforce. And yet, conservatives continue to deride them as “entitlements.” We are entitled to Social Security and Medicare, because we were forced to pay a whole lot of money into the system. The last place any honest assessment of government spending should start is there.

Elon Musk has declared that he wants to “delete” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has reportedly returned some $19 billion to consumers who’d been scammed by predatory lenders. Again, this is the place where you want to start cutting back? What about FEMA, the absolutely worthless agency which most recently disgraced itself by blocking relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene? What about the bloated Pentagon budget? What about the secret budgets of our unconstitutional intelligence agencies? Oddly, considering he is the CEO of Tesla, Musk also wants to eliminate the $7500 tax credit for those who purchase electric vehicles. Musk seemingly supports the implementation of a social credit system in America. Nothing could be more Orwellian than a Chinese-style social credit score. He supported the WEF’s efforts in the past to launch a “digital Great Reset.”

Musk talks like a financially prudent conservative now, and often champions free speech. However, his past is murky to put it kindly. He has publicly worn a costume with a prominent image of Baphomet displayed, with a Satanic-style upside down cross between its horns. Musk’s mother Maye has been photographed countless times, flashing occult hand signals, including the notorious fingers circling one eye thing. Musk talks about planting chips in people. The upside there is that there are fantastic claims about the chip miraculously curing terminal disease, blindness, and paralysis. How many poor souls confined to a wheelchair would turn down something like that, over concerns about being politically controlled? Musk has been tied to freemasonry, and powerful Jewish ancestors, by those who regularly find such connections. Some even call him the antichrist. But he has become Trump’s right hand MAGA man.

Trump has become so close to Musk that apparently he has been essentially living at Mar-a-Lago. Think John Belushi, in the classic “Guest that wouldn’t leave” sketch from the original SNL. It’s disquieting to have all this AI and neuralink talk being mixed in with the MAGA rhetoric. I’m not sure I’d trade 50 million deported illegals for a microchip in my brain. And now Musk has lashed out and called a segment of the MAGA base “contemptible fools” for objecting to his familiar One Percenter contention that America needs “skilled” workers from other lands. Who are not White. Can’t have that. Musk declared they “must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.” Trump appears to be favoring techno-libertarians like Musk this time around, rather than Never Trumpers. Is that an improvement? Maybe we’ll see the first AI appointee by Trump, who will declare him/she/it to be the “best.”

A shockingly juvenile Musk reacted to someone questioning him on X about his denigration of American workers, and support for increased legal immigration, by telling him, “fuck yourself in the face.” He also threatened to kick Laura Loomer off of his platform. So much for the country’s most unlikely champion of free speech. Trump, not to be outdone, extended a heartwarming New Year’s Eve invitation to the world’s most devoted eugenicist, Bill Gates. Referring to his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump asked, “When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe?’ and said, “We miss you.” Well, I guess you can’t have a New Year’s Eve party without a mad, evil nonscientist. So what is going on? Why all this divisive infighting right before Trump’s inauguration? Who can believe that all this just happened coincidentally at the same time? And they wonder why I call it the Trumpenstein Project.

Like Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, known to have displayed my book Hidden History on a bookshelf behind him during an interview with Alex Jones, recently seemed to demand more migrant workers for the U.S. In a decidedly non-MAGA stance, Vivek called American workers lazy, and attacked our society for “venerating mediocrity over excellence.” He has a point there, but the mediocrity has certainly been stoked by forced DEI hires and promotions, and by the presence of immigrants willing to work cheaper. The old saying, “you get what you pay for” comes to mind. At any rate, Vivek’s comments seem to guarantee that DOGE will not be targeting the disastrous H-1B visa worker program. Trump himself, while loudly threatening mass deportations, has also claimed that “we need more people” in the workforce. Foreign people. People who will not expect traditional pay or benefits. America First!

Trump intended to appoint Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, daughter in law of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as deputy director of the CIA. That would have been a bold move, considering the history between the CIA and the Kennedy family. Even though her nomination was strongly opposed by all the usual suspects, her position didn’t require Senate approval. Despite this, Trump displayed his familiar tendency to capitulate and withdrew her name from consideration. RFK, Jr. was pushing her for the position, so it’s likely he is becoming disenchanted with Trump at this point, taken in conjunction with some of his other awful picks, who clash with Kennedy’s criticisms of Big Pharma. Republican lawmakers, still beholden to the national security state that publicly despises their leader Trump, were said to be concerned that she would “try to make serious changes” in the CIA. You know, the kind that have been desperately needed for a long time. Can’t have that. Might lead to actual swamp draining.

Fox Kennedy is decidedly eccentric. To be fair, so is her father in law. When she married Robert F. Kennedy III, the groom was barefoot, and the ceremony had strong hippie overtones. She became one of the CIA’s youngest female officers at just twenty two years old, and would write a book about her experiences with the Agency. She worked as RFK, Jr.’s presidential campaign manager. Some of her claims are dubious, such as carrying her newborn child in a sling while working undercover to stop Al-Qaeda from developing nuclear weapons. And again I ask, what happened to Al-Qaeda? Did all those committed terrorists just switch to Hamas? But Fox Kennedy did say the intelligence agencies are a threat to the country, which was bound to impact her chances to oversee them. She noted the Ukraine-Russia war was a “con” and “The war hawks and the bankers are no friends to Ukraine.” Sounds like my kind of girl.

President-Elect Trump had vowed to immediately fire military leaders like chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who have been so focused on diversity initiatives. In a classic Trumpenstein move, Trump met with Brown in a luxury box at the Army-Navy football game, and after the meeting went exceptionally well, Trump was said to be “rethinking” such plans. Trump told his aides that he thought Brown was “doing a good job.” We saw this kind of thing throughout Trump’s first term in office, where he allowed far too many Obama holdovers to remain in their positions. Now, Gen. Brown is Black, which probably impressed the “racist” Trump. Trump couldn’t stop talking about how low the Black unemployment rate was when he was in office. Nobody has pardoned more Black rappers than Trump. Nobody has rescued more Black rappers.

Trump’s appointment of Indian-American Sriram Krishnan to the position of senior White House advisor on AI (Artificial Intelligence) policy created a bit of an uproar in the MAGA community. Especially upset was Laura Loomer, the young right-wing influencer who was close enough to Trump to start farfetched rumors of an affair. Citing Krishnan’s non-MAGA credentials, Loomer stated, "I can’t imagine someone donating to a Democrat who said Trump should be impeached over Ukraine then getting a promotion to go advise Trump in the White House. Truly shocking." Asking, “should MAGA stay home in 2026?” Loomer added, "I want [Team Trump] to let us know who is a priority. The MAGA base or an anti-Trump Democrat congressman who gets donations from tech bros and voted to impeach Trump? I just want to know what to tell voters in 2026 when they ask me if they should vote."

Those old enough to remember will recall the “is it live or is it Memorex?” commercials. At this point, we should be asking, “is it Trump or is it Trumpenstein?” Are we getting the guy who picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who my friend Dr. Sherri Tenpenny loves, to lead the National Institutes of Health? Or the guy who chose Marco Rubio, as much a globalist neocon as Trump’s golfing partner Lindsey Graham, for the crucial position of Secretary of State? Unlike the first time around, when Trump chose only Never Trumpers, this time he is alternating between the kinds of choices most of us wanted and expected, and more Trumpenstein 4d chess head scratchers. How, for instance, do you hire someone who wanted you impeached? I will give Trump credit for resisting the allure of neocon queen Nikki Haley. But did all his picks- good and bad- have to be such strident Zionists?

Does this cartoonist read my Substack?

It appears as if MAGA leaders are at war with the MAGA base. At least the new MAGA technocrats. The guy Musk told off in such profane fashion had something like 10,000 followers on X. That’s not a whole lot more than I have. Will Musk stoop to an unconventional cussing out of a mere community college dropout like me? I don’t expect Trump to step up and scold Musk or Vivek for such shameful antics. I don’t expect him to counsel that it isn’t politically wise, at the very least, to essentially call his base “deplorables,” like Hillary Clinton did. He’ll probably just threaten Iran or badmouth Nancy Pelosi again. This is some “opposition” to the “Woke” tyranny that we have here. At least Biden is being consistent. Consistently evil- pardoning murderers on his way out of office. He represents the Evil Party, so that makes sense. Trump represents the Stupid Party, so he should be consistently….stupid.

The only sure thing about the Trump/Trumpenstein II administration is that it will be utterly devoted to the interests of Israel. He may not MAGA or MAHA, but the Giant Orange Man will definitely MIGA. Will World War III be thrust upon him before he even enters office, giving him a handy excuse to once again do nothing? Will his gung ho pick Tom Homan really deport millions? Will his hilarious choice of WWE CEO Linda McMahon oversee the demolition of the Department of Education? Will Trump ever mention The Great Replacement? Every good “racist” should at least touch on the subject. Will a single swamp creature be prosecuted? Will new American factories come with the tariffs? Will he pardon the J6ers? Will Robert DeNiro no longer be able to find work? Will Whoopi Goldberg finally leave the country? While it frustrates and disappoints, the Trumpenstein Project does keep us entertained.