Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Nov 13, 2024
Trump’s hawkish lineup is starting to look like a reunion for the worst of US interventionists. The man who said ‘no wars’ hired a cabinet that’s clearly thirsting for the next one. @ghida_fakhry
It’s not Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet. It’s Israel’s pseudo-American cabinet. Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi
Awww fuck! It’s over before it even started! Nick@NickJ132388
If George W. Bush was elected to a third term in office, this is what his cabinet would look like. Rubio, Waltz, Stefanik, Hegseth. Not a peacenik among them. Not an antiwar candidate among them. Not even a non-interventionist among them. Every single pick is a hard-boiled, right-wing war-hawk that is committed to marching in lockstep with the world’s most notorious pariah-state, Israel.
Let’s start with Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, the man whose job it is to oversee the War Department and act as the principal defense policymaker and adviser. Trump chose Fox television host Pete Hegseth, “a decorated Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Guantanamo Bay.” Hegseth has no administrative skills or experience, but he is a Trump loyalist who shares the president’s views on “woke” policies in the military. More importantly, Hegseth is dyed-in-the-wool Israel aficionado who thinks the interests of the Jewish state are inextricably linked to those of the United States. Check out this short excerpt from Pete Hegseth’s book, “American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free” (2020) that was posted on Michael Tracey Twitter site:
“Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization—with America being its greatest manifestation—then you don’t live in history. America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel. You can love America without loving Israel—but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete…..
If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets. And whereas America is blessed with two big, beautiful oceans to protect it, Israel is surrounded on all sides by countries that either used to seek, or still seek, to wipe the nation off the map.
The battle wages on Israeli soil as well. With each trip I take to Israel for FOX Nation, and on my personal time, I discover a new way in which Islamists and their leftist enablers seek to deny Jewish history and heritage. Today, Islamists in Jerusalem are attempting to claim that the Holy Temple built by King Solomon and rebuilt by Herod never existed. Apparently, they want us all to believe that Jews—from Abraham to Jesus—never sacrificed, built, or worshipped on that particular piece of real estate. “Temple denial” is yet another tool by which they seek to erase the Jews and the Jewish state. If that isn’t delusional enough, on a recent trip to Bethlehem—the birthplace of Jesus—I discovered that Palestinians now claim that Jesus was not in fact Jewish but instead a Palestinian. Try that one on for size—or watch my two FOX Nation documentaries on the subject: Battle in the Holy City and Battle in Bethlehem.” Michael Tracey@mtracey
A Secretary of Defense doesn’t have to be impartial to fulfil his responsibilities to the president and the American people, but it does make one wonder how Hegseth’s pro-Israel zealotry will impact the way he implements US policy. If, for example, Hegseth was ordered to stop the delivery of all bombs and lethal weaponry to Israel while ceasefire negotiations with Hamas took place, would a Christian Zionist like Hegseth obey such an order or act according to his own deeply-felt religious convictions?
I can’t answer that, but the obvious conflict of interest should have been a red flag for Trump if his goal was actually “America First”.
Oh, and did we mention that Hegseth is also an Iran hawk, which appears to be a basic requirement for any position on the Trump team. This is from Axios:
Alongside his strong support for Israel, Hegseth has also expressed strong positions regarding Iran… He had called the Iranian revolutionary government an “evil regime”, and in 2020 said that if Iran wanted “to come back to the table for talks on their nuclear capabilities” it should do so “limping and begging.”…
“Sometimes we have moments, and I happen to believe we can’t kick the can down the road any longer in trying to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb,” Hegseth said in an appearance on Fox & Friends.
“What better time than now to say ‘we’re starting the clock, you’ve got a week, you’ve got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities. We take out key infrastructure, we take out your missile sites, we take out nuclear developments, we take out port capabilities.’” Trump appoints pro-Israel, Iran hawk Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, Axios
Does that sound like a reasonable approach to you or the fast-track to a regional war?
And how does this fit with all the non-interventionist gobbledygook that Trump was spewing before the election? Was it all for show? And, please, don’t tell me that Hegseth wasn’t fully vetted or that Trump was unaware of his political views before he picked him. That’s nonsense. Hegseth is a hard-nosed, prowar jingoist who recently dismissed public demands for a ceasefire as “extortion on behalf of Hamas” (say what??) and who thinks the only problem with Biden’s Middle East policy was that it wasn’t tough enough.’ And so it is with all Trump’s picks. They’re all ferociously devoted to Israel and they’re all gung-ho for a war with Iran.
Pete Hegseth on dual loyalty—Wow.
Here’s how the typically temperate Daniel McAdams summed up Hegseth:
President-elect Donald Trump’s designated Secretary of Defense is a certifiable lunatic. A cultist in the manner of Manson. Literally someone who needs to be in a mental hospital. Who craves an apocalyptic war to end all of mankind so that his twisted understanding of God will come down and slaughter all (including Jews) who do not convert to his cult’s beliefs. This is a truly dangerous person. This is the person running our military machine. The madmen have taken the asylum. Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams
Yikes. Looks like Don Rumsfeld won’t be our worst Sec-Def after all.
Then there’s Marco Rubio or “Little Marco” as Trump used to affectionately call him during the 2016 campaign. Rubio—who Trump picked as Secretary of State—is another shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later warhawk whose views veer only slightly from those of John Bolton and Lindsay Graham. In a recent video by peace activist Medea Benjamin, Benjamin—who is shown standing outside Rubio’s senate office next to a giant flag of Israel—says the following:
We are here outside Marco Rubio’s office. You have probably heard that he has been picked by Trump to be the next Secretary of State. We have been to his office before, and we were always curious that there was an Israeli flag outside. And I thought maybe he would take the flag down to show his allegiance is 100% to the US government and not to the Israeli government. But, no, lo and behold, the flag is still here, which gives you a pretty good indication of where his allegiance is going to be as Secretary of State. Medea Benjamin@medeabenjamin
Imagine if Rubio placed a Russian flag outside his office, or a Palestinian flag? What do you think the reaction would be? Is it really appropriate for a US senator to display the banner of a foreign power in front of his taxpayer-provided office? Here’s more background on Rubio from Michael Tracey:
Marco Rubio would arguably be the most hardcore interventionist Secretary of State for an incoming administration in decades, perhaps rivaling Hillary Clinton. Definitely outpaces Colin Powell, who was in the relatively more “realist” faction of the G. W. Bush Administration
And here’s more on Rubio from the horse’s mouth, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
President-elect Donald Trump is filling out his national security team with pro-Israel hawks who favor maximum pressure on Iran… Reports Monday said Trump planned to name two Floridian allies to top jobs: Sen. Marco Rubio will be tapped to be secretary of state, and Rep. Michael Waltz will be his national security adviser.
Both men have said Israel should not be prevented from staging a direct attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. That stance echoes Trump who, before the election, urged Israel to “Do what you have to do.” Trump had criticized President Joe Biden for confining Israel to only hitting military sites, but not nuclear ones, in a retaliatory strike….
Trump has yet to formally name Rubio, but his pending appointments has been widely reported and the Republican Jewish Coalition, which has a longstanding relationship with Rubio, congratulated him.
“President Trump’s choice of Senator Rubio for this critical role sends a message loudly and clearly: The days of weakness and appeasement are over,” the RJC said in a statement on Monday night. “We know that with Senator Rubio leading the State Department, America will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies and confront our enemies.”
Rubio came up in Florida politics in part because of the backing of billionaire auto dealership magnate Norman Braman, a past president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. He is known to be close to Miriam Adelson, the pro-Israel casino magnate who funneled $100 million into Trump’s campaign this year.….
In October, after Iran barraged Israel with missiles, and as Israel’s conflict with the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah was escalating, he tweeted, “Israel should respond to Iran the way the U.S. would respond if some country launched 180 missiles at us. And they should do in Lebanon what we would be demanding our leaders do if terrorists were launching anti-tank rockets at us from a neighboring country, forcing 60000 Americans to evacuate their homes and farms for almost a year.”
In the 2016 election, she and her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, were close to deciding whether they would back Rubio or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as the Republican nominee. Then Trump pulled ahead of the pack and Sheldon Adelson decided to endorse the reality TV star.
Rubio has said for years that the United States should not stand in the way of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program. Trump taps Iran hawks Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz for top national security role s, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Funny how much influence people like Adelson have when it comes to selecting who is going to lead the country. And, it doesn’t stop there either because—as we can see—a hundred million bucks not only buys you a president but everyone in the president’s cabinet as well. Sounds like a bargain to me, although seriously corrupt too. It is convenient, however, when publications, like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, explain exactly how the system works and then boast about how it serves their overall interests. What’s that saying about “the tail wagging the dog”?
Then there’s Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for national security advisor who is—surprise, surprise—another warmongering neocon who, in Trump’s words, will be “a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!”
Peace?? Not bloody likely!
In a nutshell: Waltz opposed leaving Afghanistan, he thinks we haven’t been supportive enough of Ukraine, and he also thinks that Iran needs a good “punch in the nose”; which I would interpret as tacit support for military action. Here’s Michael Tracey’s take:
At the “America First” summit in DC, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) says he just returned from Ukraine and is now calling for the deployment of US military “advisors” directly into the war to operate US weapons systems alongside Ukrainian forces. “Let’s win this damn war!” he proclaims Michael Tracey @mtracey
Troops on the ground?? Is that what Waltz wants?
Sure sounds like it, but how does that fit with Trump’s elusive peace agenda? Here’s more from Tracey:
Mike Waltz, the incoming National Security Advisor, worked for Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Remember like a week ago when everybody was absolutely convinced there was some giant ideological chasm between Trump and the Cheneys? Michael Tracey @mtracey
Waltz says “punch Iran in the nose”
Performing the standard role of Republicans during foreign policy crises — create political pressure to show “toughness” by ramping up the aggressive military action — Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) demands Biden “punch Iran in the nose,” by which he presumably means start bombing Iran pic.twitter.com/vX8cQV91kl
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 26, 2023
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Here’s more from Caitlin Johnstone:
Like (John) Bolton, Waltz is a warmongering freak. Journalist Michael Tracey has been filling up his Twitter page since the announcement with examples of Waltz’s insane hawkishness, including his support for letting Ukraine use US weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, criticizing Biden for not escalating aggressively enough in Ukraine, advocating bombing Iran, opposing the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and naming Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and Venezuela as “on the march” against the United States toward global conflict. The mainstream press are calling Waltz a “China hawk”, but from the look of things he’s a war-horny hawk toward all the official enemies of the United States. The Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War Sluts, Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz
And here’s more from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Waltz has been among Israel’s most robust backers in the U.S. House of Representatives and has also said Israel should not hesitate to hit Iran’s nuclear sites and oil fields. Biden had discouraged such actions, fearing such attacks would trigger a full-scale regional war which would draw in the United States.
“So far…it’s important to note what hasn’t been hit in Iran,” Walz said in an Oct. 25 tweet, listing an Iranian oil facility and a nuclear facility. “This might be Israel’s last best chance to diminish Iran’s nuclear program and shut down their cash. Did Biden/Harris pressure Israel once again to do less than it should? Jewish Telegraphic Agency
What this excerpt shows, is that Trump’s picks are looking for an opportunity to attack Iran. The prevailing view seems to be that Biden was “soft” on Iran and that now is the time to take more assertive “muscular” action to ensure Israel’s security. As we noted earlier, all of Trump’s picks appear to share this view.
Still think Trump wants to end the foreign wars?
Trump also picked fiery Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (NY) as US ambassador to the United Nations
Here’s Tracey:
Elise Stefanik, Trump’s new pick for UN Ambassador, is in some ways more ideologically zealous than Nikki Haley, Trump’s previous occupant of that role. Stefanik was integral in launching the crusade to whip up the confabulated anti-Semitism panic over the past year, and was showered with Adelson awards for her services —all while successfully insinuating herself into the Trump political operation. Stefanik and Haley have no discernible substantive differences; Stefanik has vehemently denounced the Biden-Harris administration for insufficiently arming Ukraine and Israel, and allegedly kowtowing to China —she also denounces the Afghanistan withdrawal on principle. Nor are there any discernible policy differences between Stefanik and Liz Cheney, her predecessor as Chairwoman of the House GOP conference Michael Tracey
Looks like Adelson was a player in Stefanik’s career as well. Isn’t it amazing how much power Israeli billionaires have over American politics? The whole system is awash in the filthy money of foreign donors. We are a Third-world sh**hole country; no doubt about it. Here’s Caitlin Johnstone again:
Stefanik is best known for her congressional efforts to stomp out free speech on college campuses, making a lie of Trump’s lip service to the importance of First Amendment rights. She’s a hawkish swamp monster whose political career was primed in some of the most odious neoconservative think tanks in Washington, and opposes placing any limits on US military support for Israel. Earlier this year Stefanik actually flew to Israel to give a speech before the Israeli Knesset vowing to help stop the “antisemitism” of protesters against Israel’s genocidal atrocities at American universities. Caitlin Johnstone
Here’s a congratulatory note Stefanik got from the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt after she was picked by Trump:
Mazel Tov to @EliseStefanik on her nomination to be the next US Ambassador to the
@UN Rep. Stefanik has been a critical partner and absolutely fearless in fighting campus antisemitism. I’m excited to work with her to combat anti-Jewish hate & anti-Israel bias on the world stage. @JGreenblattADL
Naturally, if you are getting love letters from Jonathan Greenblatt, you’re playing on the wrong team, in this case, Team Genocide. Stefanik appears to be solidly in that camp.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, but there’s enough here for readers to chew on for a while. What’s clear is that the much-ballyhooed announcement that Trump would not pick either Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley for cabinet positions was an obvious head-fake aimed at misleading his supporters. Trump’s backers were led to believe that ‘things had changed’ when in fact, the only thing that’s changed is that Trump has officially joined the family of Swamp creatures he pledged to remove.
We’ll let Caitlin Johnstone have the last word:
The only intellectually honest reason to support Trump is because you’re a garden variety Republican and you support standard Republican agendas like lower taxes on the rich and low tolerance for human diversity. There is no honest basis to support Trump on antiwar grounds, or because you want the swamp of corruption to be drained from Washington. This was obvious to anyone who paid attention the last time he was president, but it is glaringly obvious now from all the warmongering swamp monsters he’s been packing his cabinet with. This narrative so-called “MAGA Republicans” have about themselves as some new special breed of Republican who are meaningfully different from the Republicans of the past simply is not born out by any kind of material evidence. They’re not draining the swamp. They’re not fighting the deep state. They’re not ending the wars.They’re doing all the gross stuff Republicans have always tried to do while LARPing as brave rebels. I despise the entirety of the Republican Party; it’s one of the most evil things humanity has ever produced. Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz
Wish I’d said that!
The hugely popular Lee Anderson warns number of foreign nationals on benefits would ‘shock’ the nation
Story by Gabrielle Wilde
Reform MP Lee Anderson has been left fuming after claiming that migrants are “takers” from Britain’s welfare system rather than contributors.
Speaking to GB News, Anderson criticised the “impact on public services” created by mass migration to the UK.
Anderson’s comments come after fellow Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe claimed over 50,000 foreign nationals are passing eligibility tests for Universal Credit each month.
Lowe cited data suggesting more than 3.3 million foreign nationals have successfully completed habitual residence tests for Universal Credit monthly since April 2019.Speaking to GB News, Anderson said: “I think they are scared of actually delving down and getting these figures out because it would shock the entire nation what is costing us.
While studies show many children are going to school without a breakfast, and UK families queue up at food banks, money and help is going to migrant scrou gers
We continually being told that mass migration is a good thing. It benefits the country. Anybody with an ounce of common sense can see that it doesn’t. We’ve got people coming into the country who are not net contributors. They’re takers. They’re takers from the system.
“A system, by the way, which people like your parents, my parents and ourselves have paid into all our lives to build up our public services.
“We are just giving all that away to people that come into this country that have never paid a penny into the system in their lives.”
He added: “It’s absolutely simple. We want to have a sensible policy on migration. migration, has never had a public mandate, its all illegal, but that’s another argument altogether.
“We’ve got to look at the people coming in when they come in, what sort of job are they going to do and how much are they going to be paid into the Treasury through their income tax and National Insurance each week.
the rothschild plan
its not just palestine
Stalin starved the people
palestine is being starved
and so is the UK
you need to see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoeQGfQpnoY
in short-
trump is pulling out of ukraine
to concentrate on supporting israel
of course the UK will be dragged in and probably nuked
Israel sees the USA as an enemy to be used
the USS liberty
9/11
murders of the kennedies
lies to get iraq bombed
the USA ” madoffed ” this means to be robbed by jews
what more proof do americans want
Trump is a big a traitor to his people as Churchill was to us
and will get milions killed
They say “the people get the government they deserve”
trump is getting out of ukraine
to concentrate on saving israel
this will bring in the UK
iran N korea china and Russia
are signing treaties to resist the USA
say goodbye to Britain
be afraid be very afraid
They may get the war they want but not the one they expected.
Bishop calls for more ‘awareness’ after Archbishop resigns
The Bishop of Blackburn, Philip North, calls for more “awareness” around sex abuse in the church
as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigns over the Church of England’s failure to alert authorities to the abuse of boys by John Smyth. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook
what a lot of tosh, its not awareness we need, its prosecutions and public exposure
When Homosexuality was legalised the Christian Aliance warned it would give carte blanche to the rape of many young boys, and thats just what happened
The UK column described the abuse of boys as ” on an industrial scale “
Boots christmas advert have shot themselves in the foot
its horrible twisted racism
and people are now refusing to spend money there
quite right too
On behalf of the shocked humanitarian world community, I thank the UK people for your magnificent work
The all-powerful pro-Israel media describe it as a WAR
The victims in this case are innocent unarmed women and children
It is GENOCIDE PURE AND SIMPLE
Re: The Crisis in Gaza
Thank you for contacting me about the ongoing crisis in Gaza. The horrifying suffering of innocents is intolerable, and I unequivocally support an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the region.
The new Labour Government has been clear in its support for this genocide, and I’m pleased to see action finally being taken. The violence and devastating loss of life over the past year has been sickening to observe, and I mourn deeply for everyone whose lives have been taken or irreversibly changed.
Another of my first actions in the new Parliament was to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 14, calling on the Government to immediately drop the challenge regarding arrest warrants and the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction. The new Government has fulfilled this request. Labour has been clear throughout this conflict that international law must be upheld and international courts respected.
I have also recently signed EDM 221, welcoming the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopting a resolution calling for Israel to end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The motion further calls on the Government to act in support of the UN resolution and ICJ opinion, including ending all military exports to Israel, banning the import of goods from illegal Israeli settlements, and revoking the 2030 Roadmap which deepens UK economic, trade and security ties with Israel.
For years now, I have called for the suspension of UK arms sales to all rogue staes including Israel. I welcome the fact that the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, ordered a review into arms export licences to Israel as soon as he took office. I support the Government’s decision to suspend some licences, and the statement of concerns that the weapons were being used unlawfully. Due to global manufacturing agreements and other factors, the suspensions are only for some licences.
Nonetheless, this decision is a notable point of progress towards peace in the region, and I will continue to advocate for opportunities to de-escalate the conflict, prevent harm to civilians, and facilitate diplomatic solutions to the crisis.
We must look for a pathway out of the crisis –Israel must go and create a state of its own, and stop all terrorism
the latest is that justin welby
has been asked to take an exorcism to free him from what he did
and the guilt
of what he did and kept quiet about
in searching for this i found this
OMG its scary
damn its just been taken down
Seriously, what did we expect??
Welcome to
USrael.
Another great neologism coined by our hero Nico X.
I’m shocked! Who, in their right mind, would EVER think that Donald Trump would choose a Zionist administration, many dial citizenship Israelis? Unbelievable, well, he certainly fooled the public with that choice didn’t he?
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, and Krystie Noem promises the kikes she will make Antisemitism a federal crime, now that it’s been defined on law.
Total anti-constitutional treason.
You people need to begin telling at least two people per month what the facts are. Make sure to instruct them to do the same. Becoming an endless chain. Maybe begin with the president, followed by speaking at your city council meeting…then follow up with regular folks at a shop, park, or wherever.
Just two per month and recruit them to do the same. Etc.
Within two years, you’ll have reached every White man and woman on earth. Do you believe it?
And very soon into the chain, people will begin to hear it from multiple tellers.
This is how the sheeple become educated that it is allowed to speak up.
“If Trump would ditch the kike, the man would be alright!”
@karen
7-8 billion ballooning wogs on the planet now (thanks to Jewish-Christian humanitarianism) invading the West–organized by ZWOG– issuing them free money/housing/food for life–all by design of course
colin/kevin
boy that Christianity has worked out well for the Anglo Saxon eh?
time to evolve to ‘The Book of the Law’
I’ve been saying (including on my blog) since Trump entered the race for 2014 prez that the only reason he’d win over election-stealing Democrats is because Israel wants him there. The Synagogue of Satan wants him there. Period. And other end-times type stuff… After all, didn’t some rabbi call him the “non-Jewish messiah”?
tulsi gabbard is a mongrel..produced by some white female scum and wog dad..notice the majority of these half white mongrels usually have white moms…thus proving most white women are brainwashed garbage
Personally, I’m very relieved that not one is a man that dresses as a woman. Also, I remember reading how nuke clouds would certainly appear @ 22 January, uh, 2017. Remember the outcry
when Trump picked John Bolton? We were all gonna die. Now, many years later, Bolton is saying Tulsi is worst pick ,ever! A certain professor just explained why he was dead wrong in his prediction of Kackula winning; it was disinformation!
Dispite all the clouds in the silver linings, I’ll STILL take Trump every day of the week (and twice on Sundays), no matter who he picks…maybe the author could write about how Starmer actually sent staffers?
https://youtu.be/mGhLOAqZL4A?si=tgKGbijBwCPzB42Y. A walk through gaza.life goes on as usual.no war.no genocide
The notsonew picks are fast food for the ones who can’t comprehend this is his third term, since when is a President -elect- forming his cabinet in the 1st week after an “election” ? He just never left. Nothing changed and the movie goes on.
The whole world was give to His Chosen Ones and each of the Chosen will have 500 slaves. Genocide deniers will be blessed
https://togoda.com/
Good search engine
I asked ‘who is Donald Trump’?
This came up first. Not bad, though not one word about ‘Jews’
https://millercenter.org/president/trump/life-presidency
“Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, the fourth of five children of Mary Anne MacLeod Trump and her husband, Frederick Christ Trump, Sr. Trump’s mother was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States in 1930. His father was born in New York City, the son of German immigrants. During Trump’s childhood, the family lived an upscale community of the Queens Borough of New York City known as Jamaica Estates.
Fred Trump owned and operated a successful real estate company called Elizabeth Trump & Son, named after Fred Trump’s mother and himself, which developed properties for middle-class white families in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. When they were old enough, the three Trump sons—Fred, Jr., Donald, and Robert—worked for the company in construction sites and offices. The Trumps’ daughters, Elizabeth and Maryanne, did not work for the family business. Donald and Robert Trump eventually became involved in their father’s business as adults. Their brother Fred became an airline pilot and died of alcoholism in 1981. Donald Trump cites his brother’s ultimately fatal battle with addiction as the reason he does not drink. Robert Trump died in 2020.
As a child, Trump displayed behavioral difficulties. “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” his father later remembered. In an effort to instill a sense of discipline, his parents enrolled him at age 13 in the New York Military Academy, north of New York City. Trump reported that he enjoyed the drills and lifestyle, but the academy marked the extent of his involvement with the military. He enrolled in Fordham University in New York City and then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics through Penn’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1968.
During the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, when Trump was in his early 20s, he used college and medical deferments (due to a physician’s diagnosis of bone spurs) to avoid being drafted into the armed forces. When the United States instituted a draft lottery system in 1969, an effort to make conscription more random and less dependent on exemptions, Trump’s birthday was number 356 out of 366 in the lottery. He was not called into service.
Trump began his business career while still enrolled in college, investing in Philadelphia real estate. Upon completing his undergraduate education in 1968, he returned to New York and joined his father’s business full time. Public criticism and scandal marked Trump’s early career. In 1973, the US Justice Department accused the Trump company of discriminating against African American would-be renters. Although the company did not admit wrongdoing, it settled the matter by agreeing to rent more apartments to Black tenants.
In the 1970s, Trump helped expand the business, buying properties outside of New York City in locations such as Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, and California. At the same time, he expressed an interest in expanding the company’s real estate operations closer to home, moving from New York’s outer boroughs and into Manhattan, a traditionally more affluent and “high society” area. By the mid-1970s, the now renamed Trump Organization had branched into Manhattan skyscrapers.
Trump’s first big move, in 1976, was to develop the Grand Hyatt Hotel on the grounds of the by-then bankrupt Penn Central Railroad’s Commodore Hotel. Although the Trump Organization did not have enough money to purchase the hotel, Trump used his personal relationship with the Hyatt hotel chain and his father’s political clout (Fred Trump was a prominent member of Brooklyn’s Democratic Party) to negotiate an unusual arrangement with the government of New York City. Trump received a 40-year tax abatement, or a reprieve on paying property taxes on the hotel. Originally worth $4 million per year, the abatement totaled approximately $400 million over 40 years due to inflation in the value of the property and changes in the tax code. He then used the promise of those savings to persuade the Commodore to sell to him and Hyatt to partner with him. “Whatever my friends Fred and Donald want in this town, they get,” New York Mayor Abraham Beame reportedly said of the deal.
In the 1980s, Donald Trump established a reputation as a major real estate developer. He built the 36-story cooperative apartment complex called Trump Plaza as well as Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, which housed luxury stores and Trump’s own multi-floor residence and company headquarters. He also expanded into the casino business in Atlantic City, New Jersey, building the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (originally called Harrah’s at Trump Plaza) and Trump Castle. In 1990, he built the Trump Taj Mahal at a cost of nearly $1 billion—he called it the “eighth wonder of the world.”
Despite these major business operations, the Trump Organization faced severe financial challenges. Trump borrowed significant amounts of money to fund the hotels and casinos. The situation grew so severe in 1990 that Fred Trump, then in his 80s, purchased more than $3 million in casino chips at Trump Castle so the casino could make an interest payment. That purchase was later judged to be an illegal loan, and New Jersey assessed a fine of $65,000. Two Trump-owned companies filed for bankruptcy during this period: the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991 and the Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992. An unflattering biography of Donald Trump, published in 1993, was titled Lost Tycoon and declared that he has become a “public laughingstock” in the wake of his business failures.
In the years that followed, Trump used bankruptcy protection to reconfigure the debts of the many companies that comprised the Trump Organization, successfully making debt payments even as he accumulated more total debt at higher interest rates. As he explained, looking back in 2011: “I’ve used the laws of this country to pare debt.”
He also formed a publicly traded company, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, both protecting himself from financial liability and allowing him to sell shares to the general public. He initially owned 56 percent of the stock, giving him a majority and thus total control of the company, which acquired several of the Trump Organization’s properties and companies. In 2004, the company was unable to pay its loans and had failed to turn a profit. It entered bankruptcy protection, and Trump reduced his stock holdings to 27 percent, giving up an active role in the company.
Trump himself blamed the general decline of Atlantic City for his company’s failures, although critics pointed out that his casinos had never done well, even when Atlantic City’s gambling economy had been strong. Efforts to revive the company failed, and it entered bankruptcy again in 2009 and 2014. By the time Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015, his gambling businesses had entirely ceased operation. Shareholders in the company lost their investments, and many vendors and creditors suffered losses, but Trump’s personal financial losses were mitigated by his financial and legal actions.
During his tumultuous business career, Donald Trump retained the public appearance of high-flying success. As his real estate and gambling businesses failed, he succeeded in protecting his brand and shifting into licensing businesses in the United States and abroad. In 2004, the New York Times noted: “His name has become such a byword for success that even the most humiliating reverses barely dent his reputation….The rules that govern others just don’t apply to Trump.”
Working with ghostwriters, Trump published a number of how-to and business advice books, including the widely read Trump: The Art of the Deal, first released in 1987. He licensed the “Trump” name to golf courses, hotel resorts, and branded products from steaks to vodka to bottled water. From 1996 to 2015, he was an owner of the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe beauty pageants. In 2015, television broadcasters Univision and NBC declined to broadcast the pageants in response to Trump’s racist attacks on Latin American immigrants during his presidential campaign. The next year, Trump announced that he had settled lawsuits with them and sold his stake in the pageants.
Trump’s expansion in the entertainment industry peaked with his role on the hit reality television show The Apprentice, which ran on NBC from 2004 to 2015. Trump played himself on the program, which pitted would-be business leaders against each other in a series of challenges. Trump judged their efforts and whittled down the contestant pool, each week telling one losing contender “You’re fired.” The show and its companion program, Celebrity Apprentice, were widely watched. They helped Trump reach national audiences and confirmed, to many viewers, Trump’s image as a successful and charismatic businessperson who was a straight talker, telling people the hard-to-hear truths. Only when Trump formally announced his presidential campaign with anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric did NBCUniversal formally end his relationship with the program.
Trump’s business interests are bundled into an entity known as the Trump Organization, the descendant of the company founded by his grandmother and father. Trump took over the company in 1971, renamed it in 1973, and bestowed formal leadership of it to his sons Donald, Jr. and Eric in 2017. Unlike a typical business corporation that officially owns its subsidiary parts, the Trump Organization is a collection of approximately 500 individual business entities, all owned principally or solely by Donald Trump himself. None of those constituent parts are publicly traded companies, so they are not required to publicly disclose their financial status or value (as public corporations are). Since Donald Trump, in a departure from recent precedent dating back to President Richard Nixon, never released his personal income tax returns, a complete assessment of the Trump Organization’s finances has proven impossible.
By the time Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, the Trump Organization owned a vast number of companies, products, and licensing agreements. These holdings included at least a dozen golf resorts in the United States and five in other countries; eight US hotel properties and six abroad; and dozens of other real estate holdings around the world. In August 2016, the New York Times reported that his real estate holdings held at least $650 million in debt. As a candidate, Trump boasted about his high levels of debt and his ability to reduce or eliminate his income tax liability, despite his very high personal net worth. (The exact level of his wealth has been and continues to be debated.) Avoiding taxes, he said during a debate with Hillary Clinton in the fall of 2016, “makes me smart.”
Trump’s businesses were also involved in a large number of lawsuits, both as defendant and plaintiff. The newspaper USA Today reported that, as of 2016, Trump or one of his companies had been involved, in 3,500 legal cases in federal and states courts. Trump was the plaintiff in 1,900, suing someone else; in 1,450, he was the one being sued. The remainder included other types of cases, including bankruptcies.
After his election in 2016, the Trump Organization settled several high-profile cases. Three involved allegations of consumer fraud by the then-defunct Trump University, a for-profit company launched in 2005 that offered classes in real estate and promised to teach the secrets of Trump’s personal success. Trump paid $25 million to settle those suits, without acknowledging wrongdoing. He also closed the charitable non-profit Trump Foundation in the wake of reports that he had not contributed his personal money to the foundation since 2008 but rather used it to distribute money he solicited from others and might have engaged in illegal self-dealing.
Trump’s business career, the idiosyncratic nature of the Trump Organization, and the unknown but substantial levels of personal indebtedness related to his global breadth of assets created an unprecedented situation when he was elected president. Many political observers raised concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest between his businesses and his presidential decisions.
Critics worried that he would inevitably violate the emoluments clause of the US Constitution, which prohibits federal officials from receiving gifts or payments (or anything else of value) from a foreign leader. Any foreign leader, company, or person doing business with a Trump-owned property, those critics charged, would put money into Donald Trump’s pocket. Trump himself rebuffed calls to fully divest himself from his businesses, declaring that he would instead give day-to-day operations of the Trump Organization to his adult sons. They in turn promised to avoid making new deals with foreign countries. Those moves did little to assuage critics’ concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest.”
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy, renowned for formulating the heliocentric model of the universe. Born in Thorn, Poland, he was a mathematician, astronomer, and a Catholic canon. His groundbreaking theory proposed that the Sun, rather than the Earth, was at the center of the solar system, with planets, including Earth, orbiting around it. This revolutionary idea challenged the long-held geocentric view, which placed Earth at the center.Copernicus’s seminal work, “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium,” published in 1543, laid the foundation for modern astronomy. Although his ideas faced significant opposition during his lifetime, they eventually sparked the Scientific Revolution, influencing later astronomers like Galileo and Kepler. Today, Copernicus is celebrated as the father of modern astronomy, whose insights transformed humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos. His legacy continues to resonate in scientific discourse and education.
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Searched Copernicus, this came up.
Togoda…
My kind of search engine.
Trump…who knows if he is any good
If he is told what to do by Jews, he’ll be no good.
liar
looks like they’re really ‘starving’ there…its all a hoax. 10 to 1 pictures of demolished building are CGI
“We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom.”
Everybody shares world history. A lot of the world shares fake history, courtesy of the Jews.
We do not share faith. Jews fear and obey the Old Testament God, who was pretty strict with them. We love his son and the kinder, gentler side of God that he revealed to us, but the Jews have always to persecuted him and us, his followers, every chance they got. The world has repeatedly found out the hard way why we should be strict with them, too, but our leaders are now bowing down to them instead of running them out of town.
W don’t share freedom.We provide and defend theirs and they do what they can to disrupt ours through events small or large. Jews harassed Arabs into retaliating before the football game in France; Jews were involved in 9/11. Jews are genociding Gazans, the historical occupants of Palestine for the past 1,300 years. How would we in the US feel if China seized, say, Kansas and started taking over the surrounding states and killing us off? Would the UK say, great job, Israel, let us help?
xiro (Nico)–No, it proves that SOME White women are brain-washed garbage. Maybe we need IQ demarcations as much as Race or religion
lewis jones —
no, not some, but most
as long as the nation is all white, it doesn’t really matter if white women are morons –as long as a white intellectual oligarchical elite is in power & recognizes the principle of maintaining a monoracial State—though their stupidity becomes problematical when jews or wogs dethrone/conquer the white man–aftewards brainwashing most of the white females to negrophilia & mongrelism
Xiro–we inherit brain power from both parents, so a nation needs intelligence in both sexes. If the gene pool loses idiots, it can re-generate from the intelligent ones, and be better than before
What I find rather curious is that Donald Trump, RFK Jr, Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard (the dream team) were all once, either, members of the Democratic Party or substantial donors to the coffers of the Democratic Party.
Should we read this, therefore, as an avenger’s executive of disaffected Democrats or as continuity government perfected, a portentous victory for the Uniparty manifesto?
I know that you know the answer.
lewis
The best white phenotype is the one combining the racist allele with the high intelligence allele. Second best is racist allele coupled with low intelligence gene & the worst is the high intelligence gene paired with the nonracist allele.
corrected text :
“…& the worst two are the high/low IQ gene paired with the nonracist allele.”
@ Fat Fred / “Trump is a big a traitor to his people as Churchill was to us”
Drumpf is a crypto – fake /gj) j. – so was Winston Churchill / their first & only loyality is to their tribe of fake j.´s….Drumpf is in Germany a known Akenazi name…..one of his (great?) – grandfathers changed it to T.
A great deal of fake j.´s do nose jobs / their way to hide amongst whites…. look at the pics of Epstein & Mac Donald Drumpf in the early 90´s https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trumps-links-jeffrey-epstein-34027297
Beside the obviously different smell organ than he has now / he also has a “blondy” toupet. or some left over small heap of hair that he has to put in shape before a public appearance …
The voting sheople don´t – want to ?- see it thus make no point about it/ In the above Mirror link there is at the right a small pic of Bill Gates of Hell
https://www.corruptico.com/2014/09/30/jewish-bill-gates-crypto-jew-pseudo-christian/ browse thru this article in a sec : https://www.corruptico.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/jew-boy-gates.jpg
WC is a crypto fake j. / did not do his nose / he starved 3 milion Bengalis in presentday Bangladesh to death in the 2 last years of WW II….through willing British excecutioners….
@ Aleisternickoff / “Copernicus is celebrated as the father of modern astronomy, whose insights transformed humanity’s understanding of its place in the cosmos”
“Black African Origins of Ancient Egyptian Culture 4 March 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLc56260XwI (48.08) with Thomas Brophy interviewed by Jeffrey Mishlove of the New Thinking Allowed” channel….
`Brophy encountered prehistoric, megalithic structures of astronomical significance https://medium.com/@humanoriginproject/the-ancient-astronomy-of-the-nabta-playa-egyptian-stone-circle-c8ecb2800223 as well as rock paintings and inscriptions. Nabta Playa (carbon dated 9.000 BC)´
Nabta Playa was created by black African people in the presentday Sahara /only the area was green at that time with many animals (acient rock depictions of giraffes) / climate change came along the Sahara popped up & these black Africans created the ancient Egyptian (Kemet literally means land of the blacks or black land).…
10 June 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAD_4lBCjR8 “Wongel Zelalem reports on archaeologist shocked to find out the Pharaoh they were studying was a black king”
1.30 “…an archeologist that this Royalty that he has dicovered is actually not white….but the CT scan has one more surprise for Alejandro : Shemais ethnicity …..
Well they have just told me that Shemais has Nubian features / which means that uhuh…uh he was truly Nubian / that was unexpected…..”
@ damien thorn another pathetic satanic loser covid up by nokey x / The Book of the Law is a pen product of your hero Aleister Crowley / he lived under the delusion that ancient Egypt was a white culture / it is not so / why do you as a white nationalist (of course you have that right) use it to propagate your ideology…. ?
CIA O