WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP BECOME OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT?

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale now at Barnes and Noble and Amazon for $16.95. It’s a 300-page paperback book with 68 articles in nine categories and 70 pictures. My book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques Main Stream Media and the far-left of the Democrat Party.

I believe that President Trump will become our greatest president. Let’s take a look…

George Washington was our greatest President…without him there would be no United States of America. Abraham Lincoln was our second greatest for ending slavery and preventing the South from seceding from the Union and therefore keeping the United States as one country. Ronald Reagan was our third greatest because America was in a huge mess after Jimmy Carter’s presidency and he turned it around by cutting taxes and Federal regulations which grew the economy, and by rebuilding our military to the extent that the Soviet Union collapsed. The Gross Domestic Product (which is the measure of the size of the economy) almost doubled in the ten-year period from the time Reagan’s cuts in tax rates went into effect (1983).

I believe that Donald Trump will become our greatest President: he already knows the best policies to pursue for the U.S. to prosper…how to create a great economy, eliminate Federal budget deficits, handle sticky international problems, and strengthening our military, including getting the last 20 Israeli hostages freed and ending illegal immigration into the U.S. He perhaps can improve his dealing with Democrat leadership and the Propaganda Media and be more careful in his choice of words to protect himself from the “Deep State” and the likes of Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, etc.

A few of the President’s major accomplishments in his first term include his initiating and signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which stimulated the U.S. economy, big time. This came as President Trump terminated thousands job-killing useless regulations, initiating a huge increase (10 trillion dollars) in the Stock Market, creation of 7 million new jobs, low unemployment rate (3.5 %), increases in the Civilian Labor-Force Participation Rate, and growth in the Gross Domestic Product. Moreover, by giving the military more flexibility in fighting ISIS, areas formerly held by ISIS were recaptured. President Trump built an illegal-immigration-stopping wall on our southern border and attempted to end chain migration and VISA-lottery immigration. He also made huge increases in the military budgets for both FY 2018, ’19 and ’20, which significantly improved the military’s strength and readiness. He also negotiated great trade deals with China, Mexico, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc. and cracked down on China’s intellectual theft from America. He created 9,000 economic opportunity zones in inner cities and other poor areas and passed prisoner reform legislation to help prisoners be treated more fairly. Despite massive resistance, President Trump also temporarily stopped travel from China to the United States on January 31, 2020, in order to slow down the spread of the Coronavirus from China to America. Finally, in his first term he appointed three excellent Supreme Court justices and creatively using financial incentives, had Covid-19 vaccines developed in record time.

What does President Trump still need to do in his second term to become the greatest President in U.S. history? I believe that Trump made America great again despite everything the mainstream media and the Democrat Party did to stop him, like four ridiculous indictments. I think that Trump’s political enemies will be somewhat responsible for how he becomes great. There is a simple Arab saying that makes it clearer, “the greater your enemy, the greater the victory over that enemy.” President Trump has many powerful enemies.

After seeing what President Trump has accomplished in his first term, and watching him make scores of more improvements at his “Trump Speed” what else does he still need to do? This is what I believe he should do:

Continue eliminating ineffective government programs and agencies and reducing the size of the Federal workforce, especially the IRS.
Eliminate annual budget deficits and make a plan to pay down the National Debt.
Continue rebuilding the military to be stronger than it ever has been to counter China and stop its intellectual theft from America.
Significantly reduce or eliminate the opioid crisis,
Expose and end election and voter fraud,
Continue revitalizing and making safe depressed inner cities,
Clean up corruption in government and political parties,
Continue appointing more conservative judges,
Be more congenial, criticize in private, praise in public.
Add more Middle Eastern countries to the Israel-Arab Abraham Accords, especially Saudi Arabia.
Deport the illegal immigrants who are rapists, murders, and other criminals and possibly all of the recent illegal immigrants.

In today’s partisan political climate, it’s difficult to get much accomplished without great effort, but President Trump has gotten many things done despite his many enemies. We’ll know in a few years just how great a president, President Trump was. He has significant headwinds from Mainstream Media which has become completely corrupt, and election fraud which has become massive and pervasive. Since Mainstream Media hasn’t changed, the outcome of the presidential election depended mostly on how much of the election fraud was prevented. Thank you Lara Trump and the 230,000 volunteers that stopped the steal enough in the 2024 presidential election for Donald J. Trump to become our 47th president.

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NOT YOUR FATHER’S DEMOCRAT PARTY

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Mike Russo

Hillary’s America gives a detailed account of the history of the Democrat Party. The DVD version is entertaining as well as informative.

My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale for $16.95 from Amazon and also can be ordered from most book stores. It’s a 300-page paperback book with 68 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. The book analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques main stream media and the far-left of the Democrat Party.

I remember discussing the 1960 Presidential election with my father after watching the very first T.V. Presidential Debates, trying to decide who would make the better President, Richard Nixon or John Kennedy. Both candidates had similar positions on issues. Though inexperienced, Kennedy was youthful, energetic, good-looking, and came across very well on television. Nixon was more dour and did not look good on T.V. However, my dad and I thought that Nixon’s experience trumped Kennedy’s and that this was the most important factor to consider.

Of course, Kennedy was elected President and, aside from his mishandling of the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco, governed well. Although his father, Joseph Kennedy, bought the election for his son by buying votes in Cook County, Illinois, as well as in Texas,, President Kennedy, aside from his womanizing, was basically an honest and effective president, and consequently is still beloved to this day by many millions of people. President Kennedy was one of the first presidents to cut taxes to stimulate the economy, something that no Democrat President would do today (though Democrat President Bill Clinton drastically cut the Capital Gains tax in the mid-90’s resulting in huge increases in trading stocks and consequent vastly increased revenues to the federal government (and budget surpluses).

Upon President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President and served out the remainder of Kennedy’s first term. His escalation of the Vietnamese war was unpopular but his Civil Rights legislation was (legislation that President Kennedy originated). Johnson allegedly said that “this will have the N****** voting Democrat for 200 years. African-Americans had been previously voting Republican for 100 years after Republican President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (the Democrat Party was the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jim Crow laws).

After Republican Gerald Ford became President when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Jimmy Carter became the next Democrat President in 1976. Both inflation and interest rates skyrocketed under the Carter Administration, and when Carter persuaded the Shah of Iran to allow the Ayatollah Khomeini out of exile in Paris and back into Iran, Khomeini quickly fomented revolution and took over Iran. Fifty-two hostages were taken from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, were held for 444 days, and only released 30 minutes after Republican Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President in 1981. President Carter was thought to be a religious person, better suited to be the Nation’s preacher.

President Reagan reduced tax rates (which resulted in the Gross Domestic Product of the U.S. doubling in 10 years), strengthened the military (including the Strategic Defense Initiative, “Star Wars”), cut back Federal regulations, and created Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA). All of these got the economy booming.

Republican President George H.W. Bush subsequently served as president from 1988 to 1992 and had U.S. troops push Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait and back to Iraq in the first Gulf War..

Democrat Bill Clinton became President in 1992, governed as a moderate, and was considered a successful President despite his tryst with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, which eventually led to his impeachment. Under his Presidency there were 4 years of Federal budget surpluses from his reducing the Capital Gains Tax and to Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, Budget Committee Chairman, John Kasich, and the Republican House and Senate. His support of the popular welfare reform led to greatly reduced welfare rolls and consequently to his re-election in 1996.

After Republican George W. Bush served as President from 2000 to 2008, Democrat Barrack Obama became President in 2008 on a slogan of “Hope and Change,” after serving as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for 2 years, and moved the Democrat Party to the far left. He was re-elected in 2012 and served as President for four more years. As President, Obama pushed through the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) that mandated very poor healthcare unaffordable for most people except those receiving subsidies. In addition, Obama pushed the Dodd-Frank law that destroyed 40% of community banks, shut down many coal-fired generating plants and consequently lost about one million jobs, wasted billions from the Federal budget by investing in failed “green energy” “kick-back” plants like Solyndra, emphasized man-made climate change instead of sun-caused climate change, increased the National debt from $9 trillion to $19 trillion, decreased the strength of the military to its weakest in decades, did not leave a small residual military force in Iraq which resulted in terrorists regaining a strong foothold in the region, negotiated a really bad deal with Iran which would have led to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and possibly a nuclear war, and did not take the threat from ISIS seriously, etc..

On January 20, 2017, Republican Donald Trump was sworn in as President and subsequently implemented policies which grew the economy by over 4%/year Gross Domestic Product (GDP), after only about one and a half years in office. This after eight years of President Obama having an average of 1.9% GDP growth/year. The stock market went from about 18,000 Dow Jones Industrial Average to over 28,000 in less than three years from the day Trump was elected President. Moreover, President Trump and the Republicans in Congress significantly cut taxes on individuals, businesses and corporations which resulted in the economy growing at an unbelievable rate to the extent that I believed that budget deficits would disappear by the end of 2024 if Trump were re-elected in 2020. Finally, one of the most important accomplishments was his “Operation Warp Speed” that produced vaccines for Covid-19 in nine months, rather than the 3-4 years that it would have otherwise taken.

Joe Biden, however, became President in January 2021 and immediately began reversing President Trump’s policies. After only a few months in office the country began falling apart, with huge surges in illegal immigration and drugs, huge increases in government deficit spending and its consequent inflation, China and Russia challenging the U.S. all over the world, etc. Today’s Democrat Party is for open borders, Sanctuary Cities, high taxes, late-term abortions, Socialism, government-run healthcare, and fraudulent elections; and against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), law enforcement, gun ownership, low taxes, energy independence, and a strong military.

From Conservative Democrat President John Kennedy to Far-Left Democrat President Joe Biden, the Democrat Party is no longer the Political Party that your father might have voted for….it has become a far-left party for the very wealthy whose dark agenda was quickly destroying freedom in the United States. This was possible only because of the corrupt Mainstream Media and Big Tech enabling it. See Elon Musk’s recently-released Twitter emails between Twitter and the FBI and “Big Tech” corporations colluding on suppressing political speech that it disagreed with.

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UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Mike Russo

What do governor Andrew Cuomo, mogul Harvey Weinstein, former Senator Al Frankin, and Jeffrey Epstein, all have in common? All have been accused of sexual harassment! From hearing victims’ sexual harassment stories, I believe it’s very important to first clearly define exactly what sexual harassment is. Having done Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) counseling collateral-duty (part-time), while working full-time as a program analyst with a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, I’m familiar with the clear definition of sexual harassment by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, at 29 C.F.R. 1604.11, as follows:

Sexual Harassment is conduct in the form of “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature” when such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostlite, or offensive working environment.”

Except for its legal implications, it’s not important to someone who feels harassed, frightened, or intimidated, whether s/he has been technically and legally sexually harassed. The following very relevant quote is taken from an article by Mortimer Zuckerman that appeared in the May 23, 1994, issue of US News and World Report:

“That sexual harassment exists is unquestionable, but that many acts of sexual misconduct are overdramatized is also true. To avoid trivializing those who suffer the real thing, we must reject the idea that any unwanted advance or remark constitutes harassment. There is a difference between an unwanted encounter, which may upset a woman, and pressure applied — such as threatening a woman’s job security — or ongoing demeaning treatment. Those wrongly accused have their own ordreal in trying to prove a negative.”

When I was working for a U.S. Department of the Interior bureau in Denver, I also belonged to a public speaking club where someone accused me of “inappropriate behavior.” Moreover, even before hearing my rebuttal, the club voted me out, whereupon I hired a lawyer to help me get my “due process” rights that were listed in the club’s charter. In working through the details of the case, my accuser could not cite any examples of what I did that was inappropriate. I sought advice from many people on how to handle the incident. The psychiatrist I consulted advised that, since the woman had recently gone through a horrible divorce, she was taking out her anger on me. I also read many books on communication problems between the sexes, including the excellent, You Just Don’t Understand, by Deborah Tannen in order to make sense of why she accused me.

CONCLUSION

Both men and women need to learn how to deal with sexual harassment. Men need to understand that women can destroy their lives and therefore they need to be more considerate of women’s feelings and perceptions and educate themselves on how and when many women become uncomfortable with some of their actions, such as using foul language, coming on too strong, and being too aggressive. One of man’s basic evolutionary roles was to protect women; it’s wrong to harass them.

Women need to educate themselves on sexual harassment and how to handle various situations in a manner that eliminates the problem with a minimum of anguish.

Finally, for those trying to judge what the truth is in a potential sexual harassment encounter, remember to not completely believe anyone because of his/her gender; just listen to all sides and follow the evidence.

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