​Trump is on the Right

By Ed Raymond

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There might be room for Trump on Mount Rushmore after all

During King Donald’s first term he told Kristi Noem, then a congresswoman and now his secretary of homeland security, his dream was to be on Mount Rushmore some day. On January 28, 2025, Florida Congresswoman Anna Pauline Luna (is that short for lunatic?) introduced such a bill. “The bill is intended to honor Trump for his impact on America and the historical significance of his leadership and for his bold leadership and steadfast dedication to America’s greatness,” Luna stated.

I see our former governor and present Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in an interview with Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law, assured the family there was enough room on the mountain for the tribute. Although President Thomas Jefferson owned 600 slaves in his lifetime and had six children with a young black slave named Sally Hemings, he did say all men are created equal in the Declaration of Independence. President Theodore Roosevelt thought that American Indians were inferior and disorderly, but he did create national parks and tried to control Wall Street greed. President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863 to make them equal to whites.

Trump always said his main effort, MAGA, was directed at making America great again. I could never get him or his supporters to name a time when the country was great. Was it before slavery, during slavery, or after slavery? Was it before the Civil War, before WWI, during and after WWII, or after the Iraq War?

With Project 2025 dominating his second term with culture wars, immigration, deportation policies, and tax cuts for the rich, there seems to be a new acronym forming—MAWF. It was notable when he signed the BBB (Billionaires Breed Bastards) bill into law on the White House grounds, the 35 to 40 members of his administration standing behind him and applauding the bill signing were all white. When you can’t name a time when the country was great, you might as well work on making it white. That is, Make America White Forever.

When Orwell’s “1984”becomes Trump’s 2084 and replaces Big Brother

Some part of “The Chosen One’s” anatomy on the memorial should be just to the right of Lincoln — but for another reason. It would symbolize the end of our democracy and the American Empire that started with President George Washington around 250 years ago. He’s on the left side. In that Trump’s buttocks were kissed by a plethora of politicians more than any other part of his anatomy, the marble on the right side should be carved and sculpted into the shape of his buxom buttocks and painted or dyed a dull orange.

The Muslims have religious holidays scheduled every year when Muslims must attend services in Mecca once in their lifetime to celebrate their religion. The Trumplican National Committee, after he wins a life term, could pass a canon that every Trumplican would have to visit the memorial once in their lifetime, climb to their Big Dicktater’s huge orange backside and kiss it. There could be lots of money raised by the White House Mall and Trump Organization operating the concession.

With Stephen Miller at his right-hand playing Goebbels, Goering, Heydrich and Himmler all-in-one, Trump can make America great by following the fake history described in Orwell’s “1984”created by Winston, the person responsible for revising and inventing history. Orwell’s Oceania is ruled by Big Brother, has no law, only crimes. Nothing is illegal because social pressure exerts control over everything. Criticism of the state is forbidden. All thought is suppressed. Original thinking is absent because citizens are deemed incapable of having ideas. Sound familiar? After the end of Trump’s second term there will be only 56 years to 2084, so a son and a grandson could fill those intervening years as Big Brother “dicktators.”

The psychopathic star of “Apprentice” is conducting a war on reality

Forty-five American presidents have promised to be president to all the people. But “The Chosen One” of many fundamentalist Christians and conservative Catholics at a BBB-passing celebration rally in Iowa on July 4, was told all Democrats hated him.

His response: “Well, I hate all Democrats.” As he bloviated through his usual babbling bullshit at what was just another political rally, he “obliterated” any thought he was president of all Americans. He has been waging war on reality all his life. He was wearing his red cap and shouting about Making America Great Again (MAGA) and Making America White Forever (MAWF). Perhaps Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, a “sickofant” who usually purses his lips as he finds a TV spot behind Trump at events, should tell him that Democratic senators represent about 204 million Americans while Trumplican senators represent 150 million.

Writing and speaking of bussing buttocks, Bibi Netanyahu just nominated the world’s most malignant narcissist for the Nobel Peace Prize for bombing Iran and sending munitions to help Israel kill 17,000 children and 40,000 adults, wounding thousands (so far)and levelinghospitals and most street addresses in Gaza and for helping to starve out the Gazans. Eight hundred Gazans have been killed in June alone trying to get food for children. The Big Dicktater has 338 competitors for the Peace Prize. Perhaps later Netanyahu will give Gaza to the Trump Organization so it can build “big beautiful” resorts on the Mediterranean.

I can imagine Nixon hating all Democrats, but he was smart enough not to say it in public, only on his secret tapes. So, what if King Donald hates me? No big deal. I have thick skin. But if he does hate all Democrats, it proves he is a jerk, prick, asshole, malignant narcissist and socio-psychopath all wrapped in a MAGA flag who is totally unqualified to lead any organization in the Divided States of America. Many men and women say so and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used by psychiatrists and psychologists to treat people says so. Read it — and listen to some of the two dozen women who have charged him with sexual harassment and/or rape. He still owes one of his victims $88.3 million.

Will Project 2025 Make Americans Rich and White Forever (MAWF)?

Labor journalist Hamilton Nolan, who has been analyzing the American government and economy for decades, writes for The Guardian and In These Times and previouslyfor The New York Timesand The Washington Post. You may want to read his book, “The Hammer: Power, Inequality and the Battle for the Soul of Labor.” The following paragraph is from a column on July 1, 2025:

“Two hundred and fifty years of civic investment in the USA is now over. Like all private equity firms, the Republican Party of 2025 is here to loot. Generations of Americans built this country — the immigrants, the workers, the inventors, the visionaries, the winners and losers whose combined sweat and suffering produced the wealthiest nation in the world. It is the view of the Trump administration and its supporters, these businessmen masquerading as politicians, that the time has come to withdraw all of that wealth and put it in their own pockets. As anyone in business knows, if you stop investing in a business and use all of the capital to build yourself a mansion instead, the business will collapse. It will not be passed on to future generations. It will not continue to perform its tasks. The workers will get screwed. They don’t care. The vampires have their fangs bared. They are ready to suck America dry.”

Some people are amazed that the Grumpy Old Politicians (GOP) still support the world’s oldest “tariffic” toddler who knows no history or how to govern. But King Donald supports big tax cuts because he wants one. Those greedy people with annual $1 million incomes will get a tax cut one thousand times greater than Americans in the bottom quintile of incomes. The BBB project (I call it Billionaires Breed Bastards) literally takes food out of the mouths of poor people which then morphs into cash to fill the pockets of the rich. That’s accomplished by slashing Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps) by almost a trillion dollars. Nolan calls it “class war made flesh.”

Will we ever keep the water in the swimming pools?

There’s an old news story going around that Lena Horne (or Dorothy Dandridge) was a star singing in a Las Vegas hotel and instead of sleeping in a segregated hotel. Supposedly, she dipped a foot in the swimming pool. Somebody saw her and the pool was immediately drained, sanitized and filled.

I think it all happened in Chicago instead of Vegas. I was a member of a national AAUP committee on student teaching that had meetings in the Conrad Hilton in downtown Chicago because we had members from both coasts. The story: Horne was unable to stay in the hotel even though she was a headline entertainer there. So, one night after her show, she was seen dipping a foot into the hotel swimming pool. It was a familiar story in the Chicago hotel. They didn’t want the pool contaminated. I use the story to indicate we have made some movement in race and DEI. But not much.

When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, his first major accomplishment was building a “detention facility” at Dachau to hold political prisoners. A sign at the entrance today proclaims its purpose in 1933: “From the very beginning the camp was a place of brutality. During the first years, most prisoners were political opponents of the Nazi regime.”

In the beginning they weren’t criminals or traitors. They were called “undesirable immigrants.” They were trade unionists, Communists, Jews, Catholics, writers, teachers, homosexuals and students. They were not Aryans, the “true Germans,” according to the Nazis, the National Socialists. They were anyone considered a threat. On April 29, 1945, the American Army liberated 32,000 prisoners and captured 300 guards at Dachau, often used as a detention center for death camps over the border.

They also found 30 railroad cars filled with decomposing bodies. All of the prisoners were emaciated and suffering from every disease known to man. Remember: the Milleresque Waffen SS young men machine-gunning naked Jews at the side of a deep pit half-filled with the dead adults, children and babies, had been part of the leading European human culture.

In July of 2025, President Trump visited a detention facility built in the Florida Everglades by Governor Ron DeSantis designed to hold 5,000 undocumented “alien” immigrants at one time waiting to be shipped to other countries with prisons that would accept them, like the 40,000-cell death prison of El Salvador. Surrounded by swamps, heat, humidity, alligators, pythons, mosquitoes and the diseases of many, the American Alligator Alcatraz could turn out to be the Dachau of the Christian White Nationalist crowd trying to Make America White Forever (MAWF). Of course, “it can’t happen here.”