Donald J. Trump: A One-Man Wrecking Ball Encased in Gold Trappings

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on April 9, 2025

An Editorial Opinion

Once upon a time, America was the most admired and respected country in the world.  After 79 days in office, President Donald Trump has turned America into an international pariah.  He is a one-man wrecking ball who has encased himself in gold trappings.

Trump has spent his first 79 days in the White House designing the Trump Golden Statue, the Donald J. Trump Commemorative $5,000 Golden Dollar Bill, and the “Trump Gold Card.” Many Washington insiders say Trump is consumed with exercises in self-glorification.

Trump has betrayed all of America’s allies, except for Israel and Hungary.  Trump has repeatedly threatens Mexico and Canada -- our immediate neighbors, traditional allies, and trading parters in the Western Hemisphere. 

Trump is attempting to seize the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada under a modern-day version of “Manifest Destiny.”  

Trump has declared a trade war against 180 countries, including China (which holds $859 billion of America’s $36.2 trillion national debt).  As a result, Wall Street is tanking.

Trump pardoned 1,600 January 6th rioters because they were “patriots.”  He is compensating them for being unfairly swept up in the federal criminal justice system after they destroyed property on the Capitol grounds and some of the rioters critically injured the police officers who defended the Capitol. Trump has cast the police officers, prosecutors, and judges who brought the rioters to justice as "very bad people."

Trump has bullied every nation, except North Korea, Russia, Israel, and Hungary.  Russia and Israel have pimped Trump like a $10 streetwalker in the 1972 Super Fly movie.

Trump has reduced Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to a group of mindless, "ass-kissing" sycophants.  Trump has an obsession with reducing everybody to "ass-kissing" status. Last night, Trump attended the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner where he bragged that world leaders are “kissing my ass” as they try to negotiate trade deals.

Trump has stacked his Cabinet and White House advisors with undistinguished, unqualified, and lightweight flunkies who spend more time with their plastic surgeons than their staffs.

Trump has ignored the Constitutional “checks and balances” on presidential power much like he ignored the terms and conditions in the business contracts that were voided during his 6 bankruptcy filings.

Trump has South African apartheid beneficiary Elon Musk and far-right white nationalist provocateur Laura Loomer openly advising him on domestic and international affairs.  What is worse, Trump follows their unsound advice.

Finally, Donald Trump has stripped once respected Republican members of Congress of their dignity, independence, and sensibilities. They must now join a Jim Jones-like MAGA cult that has elevated Trump to "Jesus Christ" status, or get primaried by a Trump-backed candidate.