10-12-2025
Donald John Trump Radical Patriot?
Much has been written about President Trump (45 & 47). We may never know how much is based on accusations, slander, outright lies or truth? I’m pretty sure that what you think you know isn’t close to what or who he is in real life.
Most people assume (bad word to base your feelings on) that Donald Trump was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, given lots of money by his dad so he could go around pasting his name all over the place. People assume by his demeanor or his braggadocios style that he considers himself better than everyone else and as president his aim is to become the king of America.
I’ve never met Trump, nor even come close to being at one of his rallies. What I’ve read about his early life as a kid growing up in New York City in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s leads me to believe that he was no different than many of us.
Trump’s father Fred was a real estate developer in post-WWII era, building quality homes for veterans returning from the war. He wasn’t flashy or trying to impress anyone. He built houses.
As a kid, young Donald got in trouble skipping school, going into downtown New York City and caused his father a bit of grief, especially after catching Donald with a switchblade knife, leading to Fred enrolling Donald into military school for 5 years in an effort to settle him down.
According to his instructor, a WWII combat veteran young Donald was a gangling kid like the rest, nothing to hang your hat on. One thing he stressed was that winning wasn’t everything in life, winning was the only thing. Young Donald picked up on that and carried it throughout the rest of his life.
After military school Donald Trump went on to college, getting his degree in accounting. Donald wasn’t Fred’s first choice to turn over the company business. In fact his older brother would have been the logical choice but he had a serious alcohol addiction. So when the time was right Fred turned over the business to Donald.
One thing that Donald learned while working for his father was to do quality work and attach your name to it as a means of pride over workmanship. Donald took it one step further by branding the name TRUMP and making it a visual part of each real estate project in New York and around the world. Being a smooth talker and a real ladies man Donald Trump rubbed elbows with the rich and famous, so much so that they lined up to have their pictures taken with him.
Donald Trump seemed to be smitten with beautiful women and ended up marrying three times. As a father when he felt the time was right would take his children (Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka) down to the jobsite, entrust them to the foreman so that they learned construction literally from the ground up.
No silver spoon for them either.
Donald featured himself as the “deal maker” as attested to his book “The Art of the Deal”. He never passed up an opportunity to broker a deal where others had failed. One of his projects was fixing the old skating rink that had been under remodel and over budget for years. He had it completed in a few short weeks or months and spared no expense, yet keeping it under his winning bidding.
I remember seeing the Barbara Walters special on Donald Trump and he was unapologetic in touting his successes and his failures. Sometimes one must fail in order to learn.
Oprah once asked if Donald wanted to be president. He said no, because the one in office at the time was doing a terrible job, but if the country needed him we would run.
Donald Trump felt a call to run for president, but didn’t until his calling was independently verified by others. Once his calling was made known to him he could have refused or turned it down, but he must have felt it was the right time when he came down the escalator in 2015. Little did he know that the forces of evil would rise up to oppose him?
The 2016 election was a non-political long shot against the favored Hillary Clinton. The odds of winning were phenomenally low. It was a shock to the nation when Trump won the nomination and became POTUS #45.
Almost immediately resistance seemed to appear from every corner of the nation. Accusations of sexual misconduct were unsubstantiated and ultimate failed to derail his presidency. Political hijinks began popping up over the 4 years of his presidency, leading to 2 impeachments, an insurrection and judicial lawfare meant to end his political career while he was still in office and to prevent him from ever serving the high office a second term.
The 2020 election had a totally different outcome. It gave Donald Trump 4 years to contemplate how to make a second term more effective and time to gather his handpicked team, while still fighting the political lawfare of his detractors.
The 2024 election was in the bag for Donald Trump. The incompetence and ineffective campaigns of Biden/Harris did nothing to slow the Trump Train and on January 20th the inauguration of President Trump #47 started off with a bang, right out the gate as he torched Biden/Harris’s failures and said exactly what he was going to do starting that very day. Everything since then has been promises made, promises kept, from the border, immigration, national security, the economy and international relations.
What many people didn’t know is that Donald Trump is a dad and a grandfather who loves his family and his country very much and will do whatever he can for them to succeed. Trump’s commitment to God is very important to him.
One of Trump’s main missions is to drain the D.C. swamp, root out corruption, fraud, waste and abuse in government and to remove the migrants who came here unlawfully, beginning with the most dangerous criminal aliens and to balance international trade. Very important to him is to stop the killing of innocent civilians and military around the world.
What’s not true is what is being pushed by the radical left that Trump wants to be king or dictator.
What is true is his desire to Make America Great Again. – RTM
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