Mr. Trump. 29 December 2024
I believe you will recall that you won the presidency by receiving unflinching support from many tens of millions of Americans on dozen or more issues, but for none of those issues was their support more unanimous than for removing all illegal aliens from the United States and for the United States to stop causing wars and start staying out of other peoples’ wars. The second issue is the one I wanted to speak to you about on this occasion.
It is time, Sir, for you to square with your supporters and all Americans. “No more wars” means exactly that, and yet you never miss chance to threaten Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Syrians, and other Muslim peoples because they dare to defend themselves against their own governing tyrannies and/or the worst neighbor – Israel — that has existed as a nation state in the Middle East since 1945. In your first term, during the recent election campaign, and now in the pre-inauguration interregnum, you, too many of your cabinet members, and other of your appointees have formed a billionaires’ band playing the “I love Israel to death” song, as well as that raucous ditty “U.S. military might must be used to annihilate the foes of Israel and Zionism.” Perhaps you genuinely enjoy a job at which you so clearly excel; namely, being Israel’s most famous, bloodthirsty, and loud-mouthed international stooge.
Your first term demonstrated your readiness to throw genuine U.S. national security interests to the wind by supporting Israel’s every imperialistic decision and action. You and your administration, for example, recognized the legality of Israel’s imperial land-grab of the Golan Heights area, and you eagerly tugged your forelock at Israel’s command to move our embassy to Jerusalem. On the latter, I think it’s a safe bet that you and most other post-1945 presidents would have withdrawn our embassy from any country other than Israel if it consistently and joyously behaved as savagely as Israel does toward Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. You and all presidents since Nixon, on other hand, have abetted, approved, and funded just that sort of Israeli violence. Even your much-ballyhooed “Abraham Accords” certainly would have worked out in Israel’s interest, making it stronger, wealthier, and ever more capable of killing Muslim civilians and stealing more of their land.
What is it, Mr. Trump, that makes you so eager to be Israel’s mindless, pontificating shill? The faith of your daughter and her husband? The tens of million dollars in Jewish-American campaign contributions you received to help win the recent election? A simple envy of Netanyahu, his dictatorship, and his ability, when the whim hits him, to murder civilians at home and in other countries? Or could it be you are just a well-disguised Zionist?
And why is it, Sir, that you have on all occasions supported AIPAC, the ADL, and the SPLC and treated them as the defenders of Israel, rather as the eternal and lethal enemies of the United States, the role for which they were formed? These agents of a foreign power were tasked task by Biden and his fellow traitors to depict your supporters as “White Supremacists”, “Terrorists”, and “America’s enemies” and you did nothing to tell Americans that each of these anti-U.S. organizations were being paid by, at least, the Pentagon, the FBI, DHS, and DOJ to pretend to do “research” that found “hard evidence” showing most white Christian Americans fall into those categories of enemies. You would know – if you just fire-up your Ivy League-trained brain — that those organizations make long lists of Christian Americans for Biden’s brown shirts, especially highlighting those who oppose abortion, who intransigently oppose foreign wars, and who wildly oppose Israeli, Jewish-American, and all other foreign control of the federal government, many state governments, and much of our economic and academic elites. It is also worth your time to explain to the American people that the above-named agents of a foreign power are buying-off/bribing 534 of the 535 elected members of the two houses of Congress, making each of 534 members receiving such funds an agent of a foreign power, a traitor, or both.
Though I may be misremembering, Sir, I recall that you unequivocally sided with the organizations named above, and with those wealthy Jewish-Americans, who withdrew their massive donations to U.S. universities, when the leaders thereof did not support abrogating the First Amendment for all students protesting Israel’s deliberate murder of Palestinian women and children. What would move you as a presidential candidate, Sir, to side with such transparent and deadly foes of our Constitution and Bill of Rights? At least you might have mentioned that earlier those vengeful anti-U.S. Jewish Americans had no qualms, indeed, they were enthusiastic, about sending many tens billions of dollars to the same universities, if those schools would indoctrinate their students in the damnable tenets of socialism, anti-Americanism, Bolshevism, Communism, Wokism, abortion-on-demand, Israel-love, DEI, multiculturalism, an epic list of sexual depravities, and that truly demented and society-destroying Hillaryite motto “diversity makes us stronger”. Mr. Trump, does the Jewish-American funding of U.S. universities to enable this list of atrocities to be embedded by their shill professors in the minds of our students really strike you as desirable?
Mr. Trump, your greatest, and seemingly deliberate, failure has been not only your refusal to explain to Americans the obvious fact that Israel and its wealthy Jewish-American supporters have been the enemies of the America republic since Israel was founded in 1948. You also have not, in addition, publicly spoken of the fact that the base of America’s dire Israel problem lies not only with that arrogant, racist and war-mongering state and its wealthy Jewish-Americans billionaires, but as importantly with the relentless avariciousness of American politicians at all levels of government and all walks of life in which Israel and their Jewish-American acolytes need to force their cooperation via compromise-operations, payoffs, or threats. Mr. Trump, there is no chance of America becoming what the Founders intended, a peaceful and non-interventionist country, but always willing to defend itself if attacked, until the United States sheds itself of binding ties with Israel and NATO, ties that demand America’s participation in wars whether or not U.S. interests are at risk and without the crystal-clear and iron-clad constitutional responsibility of Congress to debate and publicly vote yes-to-no on a proposal to go to war. The Constitution says, Mr. Trump, if there is not a majority Congressional vote for war, there can be no war. Currently, U.S. post-1945 presidents are less presidents than they are Warlords. Perhaps that status appeals to your imagination, and, if so, wars on Israel’s behalf are clearly the way to cement your own war-lordship and thereby continue the destruction of the Constitution’s most vital provisions.
Finally, Mr. Trump, it is worth remembering that Israel’s major claim when demanding U.S. and really universal aid in all the wars and killing it uses is the claim that “Israel has a right to exist.” That assertion, Sir, is the purest of pure ahistorical horseshit. There is precisely no historical record of a nation-state surviving just because it publicly, tiresomely, and endlessly repeated the claim that it has a “right to exist.” Are we really saying, Sir, that if Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito – or Saddam, Kaiser Wilhelm, Mullah Omar, Bashar al-Assad, Gaddafi, or Ho Chi Minh, for that matter — had simply broadcast radio speeches claiming that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had “the right to exist” that, in recognition of that right, the United States and its allies would have agreed and – as they have in the case of Israel – then started attacking countries and targets chosen by Berlin and Tokyo. Only a madman – or a well-compensated mad man — could find that a correct course of action. Yet that is precisely what the United States government has done via presidential and congressional defiance of the Constitution – under both parties — vis-à-vis Israel since 1948.
I have chosen, Mr. Trump, not to leave this piece as simply a well-earned criticism of your lack of respect for genuine and commonsense American national security interests, Christianity, the liberty of American citizens, the proper constitutional behavior of a president, even though you have added to those faults your own sickening butt-kissing of Israel, its leaders, and the Jewish-American moneybags who pay the bills. So, to end on a more helpful note, I am appending some reading suggestions for you and your advisers; perhaps the latter could summarize them for you. I can promise you, Mr. Trump, that you, your team, and those people who you are now poised to govern, would greatly benefit from such a review of the literature below.
Start, naturally, with George Washington’s Farewell Address, a work as vitally relevant to the republic’s survival today as it was 1796; the speeches of Virginia’s great non-interventionist John Randolph of Roanoke; the war-related, pre-World Wars speeches of Republican Senators William Borah and Robert Taft; the startlingly accurate work of journalist John Flynn, on how the New Deal and Roosevelt’s war opened a path toward Fascism in America; a selection of the fiction and non-fiction works of Gore Vidal; the brilliant anti-imperialism writings of Mark Twain; and, for an understanding of why war inevitably causes the destruction of American culture, society, unity, economic well-being, liberty, and patriotism, see the invaluable non-fiction and fictional works of Bill Kauffman, the poet and novelist Wendell Berry, and the philosopher Richard M. Weaver.
As a lead-in to the foregoing, I have appended below a speech made by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh – latter promoted to General – in Des Moines, Iowa, on 11 September 1941. The speech is titled “Who are the War Agitators?”. The speech provides a brilliant example of the arguments and true intentions of non-interventionists; namely to persuade as many Americans as possible that, to preserve the republic, the U.S. government must resolutely stay out of other peoples’ wars, and to avoid electing presidents – like FDR – who will connive, deceive, and seek aid from foreign powers to force Americans to enter wars in which the republic has very few if any genuine national interests at risk. The FDR regime, its media operatives, and its allies — or masters? — in the British intelligence services responded to this speech with a deliberate effort that ruined the previously splendid, heroic, and well-earned reputation of Colonel Lindbergh, who until the time surely was considered the greatest American in the first 41 years of the 20th Century. The FDR-directed response to the speech also is one of the greatest, most obvious, and best-documented examples of a federal-government planned and managed effort to severely limit the right of free speech on the topic of non-intervention at times when the sitting president is eager to get the United States into an interventionist war.
–On 11 September 1941, Colonel Lindbergh said to his audience:
“It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict.
That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war.
At this time, as the war is about to enter its third winter, it seems appropriate to review the circumstances that have led us to our present position. Why are we on the verge of war? Was it necessary for us to become so deeply involved? Who is responsible for changing our national policy from one of neutrality and independence to one of entanglement in European affairs?
Personally, I believe there is no better argument against our intervention than a study of the causes and developments of the present war. I have often said that if the true facts and issues were placed before the American people, there would be no danger of our involvement.
Here, I would like to point out to you a fundamental difference between the groups who advocate foreign war, and those who believe in an independent destiny for America.
If you will look back over the record, you will find that those of us who oppose intervention have constantly tried to clarify facts and issues; while the interventionists have tried to hide facts, and confuse issues.
We ask you to read what we said last month, last year, and even before the war began. Our record is open and clear, and we are proud of it.
We have not led you on by subterfuge and propaganda. We have not resorted to steps short of anything, in order to take the American people where they did not want to go.
What we said before the elections, we say [illegible] and again, and again today. And we will not tell you tomorrow that it was just campaign oratory. Have you ever heard an interventionist, or a British agent, or a member of the administration in Washington ask you to go back and study a record of what they have said since the war started? Are their self-styled defenders of democracy willing to put the issue of war to a vote of our people? Do you find these crusaders for foreign freedom of speech, or the removal of censorship here in our own country?
The subterfuge and propaganda that exists in our country is obvious on every side. Tonight, I shall try to pierce through a portion of it, to the naked facts which lie beneath.
When this war started in Europe, it was clear that the American people were solidly opposed to entering it. Why shouldn’t we be? We had the best defensive position in the world; we had a tradition of independence from Europe; and the one time we did take part in a European war left European problems unsolved, and debts to America unpaid.
National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America. But there were various groups of people, here and abroad, whose interests and beliefs necessitated the involvement of the United States in the war. I shall point out some of these groups tonight, and outline their methods of procedure. In doing this, I must speak with the utmost frankness, for in order to counteract their efforts, we must know exactly who they are.
The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.
Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire. Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country.
I am speaking here only of war agitators, not of those sincere but misguided men and women who, confused by misinformation and frightened by propaganda, follow the lead of the war agitators.
As I have said, these war agitators comprise only a small minority of our people; but they control a tremendous influence. Against the determination of the American people to stay out of war, they have marshaled the power of their propaganda, their money, their patronage.
Let us consider these groups, one at a time.
First, the British: It is obvious and perfectly understandable that Great Britain wants the United States in the war on her side. England is now in a desperate position. Her population is not large enough and her armies are not strong enough to invade the continent of Europe and win the war she declared against Germany.
Her geographical position is such that she cannot win the war by the use of aviation alone, regardless of how many planes we send her. Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
As you all know, we were left with the debts of the last European war; and unless we are more cautious in the future than we have been in the past, we will be left with the debts of the present case. If it were not for her hope that she can make us responsible for the war financially, as well as militarily, I believe England would have negotiated a peace in Europe many months ago, and be better off for doing so.
England has devoted, and will continue to devote every effort to get us into the war. We know that she spent huge sums of money in this country during the last war in order to involve us. Englishmen have written books about the cleverness of its use.
We know that England is spending great sums of money for propaganda in America during the present war. If we were Englishmen, we would do the same. But our interest is first in America; and as Americans, it is essential for us to realize the effort that British interests are making to draw us into their war.
The second major group I mentioned is the Jewish.
It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany. The persecution they suffered in Germany would be sufficient to make bitter enemies of any race.
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy both for us and for them. Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences.
Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastations. A few far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not.
Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war.
We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
The Roosevelt administration is the third powerful group which has been carrying this country toward war. Its members have used the war emergency to obtain a third presidential term for the first time in American history. They have used the war to add unlimited billions to a debt which was already the highest we have ever known. And they have just used the war to justify the restriction of congressional power, and the assumption of dictatorial procedures on the part of the president and his appointees.
The power of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the maintenance of a wartime emergency. The prestige of the Roosevelt administration depends upon the success of Great Britain to whom the president attached his political future at a time when most people thought that England and France would easily win the war. The danger of the Roosevelt administration lies in its subterfuge. While its members have promised us peace, they have led us to war heedless of the platform upon which they were elected.
In selecting these three groups as the major agitators for war, I have included only those whose support is essential to the war party. If any one of these groups–the British, the Jewish, or the administration–stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement.
I do not believe that any two of them are powerful enough to carry this country to war without the support of the third. And to these three, as I have said, all other war groups are of secondary importance.
When hostilities commenced in Europe, in 1939, it was realized by these groups that the American people had no intention of entering the war. They knew it would be worse than useless to ask us for a declaration of war at that time. But they believed that this country could be entered into the war in very much the same way we were entered into the last one.
They planned: first, to prepare the United States for foreign war under the guise of American defense; second, to involve us in the war, step by step, without our realization; third, to create a series of incidents which would force us into the actual conflict. These plans were of course, to be covered and assisted by the full power of their propaganda.
Our theaters soon became filled with plays portraying the glory of war. Newsreels lost all semblance of objectivity. Newspapers and magazines began to lose advertising if they carried anti-war articles. A smear campaign was instituted against individuals who opposed intervention. The terms “fifth columnist,” “traitor,” “Nazi,” “anti-Semitic” were thrown ceaselessly at any one who dared to suggest that it was not to the best interests of the United States to enter the war. Men lost their jobs if they were frankly anti-war. Many others dared no longer speak.
Before long, lecture halls that were open to the advocates of war were closed to speakers who opposed it. A fear campaign was inaugurated. We were told that aviation, which has held the British fleet off the continent of Europe, made America more vulnerable than ever before to invasion. Propaganda was in full swing.
There was no difficulty in obtaining billions of dollars for arms under the guise of defending America. Our people stood united on a program of defense. Congress passed appropriation after appropriation for guns and planes and battleships, with the approval of the overwhelming majority of our citizens. That a large portion of these appropriations was to be used to build arms for Europe, we did not learn until later. That was another step.
To use a specific example; in 1939, we were told that we should increase our air corps to a total of 5,000 planes. Congress passed the necessary legislation. A few months later, the administration told us that the United States should have at least 50,000 planes for our national safety. But almost as fast as fighting planes were turned out from our factories, they were sent abroad, although our own air corps was in the utmost need of new equipment; so, that today, two years after the start of war, the American army has a few hundred thoroughly modern bombers and fighters–less in fact, than Germany is able to produce in a single month.
Ever since its inception, our arms program has been laid out for the purpose of carrying on the war in Europe, far more than for the purpose of building an adequate defense for America.
Now at the same time we were being prepared for a foreign war, it was necessary, as I have said, to involve us in the war. This was accomplished under that now famous phrase “steps short of war.”
England and France would win if the United States would only repeal its arms embargo and sell munitions for cash, we were told. And then [illegible] began, a refrain that marked every step we took toward war for many months–“the best way to defend America and keep out of war.” we were told, was “by aiding the Allies.”
First, we agreed to sell arms to Europe; next, we agreed to loan arms to Europe; then we agreed to patrol the ocean for Europe; then we occupied a European island in the war zone. Now, we have reached the verge of war.
The war groups have succeeded in the first two of their three major steps into war. The greatest armament program in our history is under way.
We have become involved in the war from practically every standpoint except actual shooting. Only the creation of sufficient “incidents” yet remains; and you see the first of these already taking place, according to plan — a plan that was never laid before the American people for their approval.
Men and women of Iowa; only one thing holds this country from war today. That is the rising opposition of the American people. Our system of democracy and representative government is on test today as it has never been before. We are on the verge of a war in which the only victor would be chaos and prostration.
We are on the verge of a war for which we are still unprepared, and for which no one has offered a feasible plan for victory–a war which cannot be won without sending our soldiers across the ocean to force a landing on a hostile coast against armies stronger than our own.
We are on the verge of war, but it is not yet too late to stay out. It is not too late to show that no amount of money, or propaganda, or patronage can force a free and independent people into war against its will. It is not yet too late to retrieve and to maintain the independent American destiny that our forefathers established in this new world.
The entire future rests upon our shoulders. It depends upon our action, our courage, and our intelligence. If you oppose our intervention in the war, now is the time to make your voice heard.
Help us to organize these meetings; and write to your representatives in Washington. I tell you that the last stronghold of democracy and representative government in this country is in our house of representatives and our senate.
There, we can still make our will know. And if we, the American people, do that, independence and freedom will continue to live among us, and there will be no foreign war.” (1)
–Endnote:
–1.) Charles A. Lindbergh, “Who are the War Agitators”, Des Moines, Iowa, 11 September 1941, http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp. (NB: This is a terrific and thoughful website on Lindbergh, his life, his accomplishments, and his never-ending readiness to take private and public jobs that allowed him to help the United States better defend itself, often at a risk to his own life. It also provides useful information on his wife and family and about the America in which he lived and worked.
