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No, Donald, Iran is not Venezuela, and there’s no Delcy Rodriguez clone there to save your butt. Sadly, our president is finding it much more difficult to stop a war than it is to start it, especially when those Iranian hardliners hold sway over every decision. Shoulda thought about that at the start, Mr. President. But, oh, no, you thought you could replicate the instant success of your Venezuelan coup, but it might take two to four days instead of two to four hours. Wrong! The latest development in the ongoing Middle Eastern saga sees Hezbollah firing missiles on Northern Israel, and  Israel responding by bombing Hezbollah enclaves in Beirut, Lebanon. This got Trump’s ire up, and in a post indicated that it was no big deal for terrorists to bomb Israel’s sovereign territory. After all, hasn’t everyone already evacuated or taken shelter? On Truth Social, Trump said the Hezbollah attack was “very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process.” Further, the Israeli attack on Beirut “should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran.” Once again, we find Donald

I have President Trump beat in one regard — not necessarily one to be envious of — in that I’m six months older than Sir Donald. He turns 80 on Sunday; I accomplished the feat on Christmas Eve 2025. I bring this up because the Wall Street Journal, in today’s edition, has an article about troubling signs regarding the president’s aging. The article implies that he exhibits symptoms that indicate “Bye-bye, Mr. President,” a diagnosis and hopeful outcome that the Demofiends and far-left media keep promoting. Here’s one symptom that I know is no big deal: bruising. I’ve read that Trump takes aspirin daily as a stroke and heart disease palliative. I have also done so for more than two decades, and I can say that once you thin your blood through aspirin intake, you can bruise very easily. I get bruises just rubbing up against a doorframe, and I mean gently rubbing up. So, I don’t take bruising as a sign of anything except aspirin consumption. The article also mentions dozing off. Admittedly, this may well be a sign of old age, but I remember dozing off in my 20s and 30s. Now, at 80, I can doze off

Okay, here I go with a revolutionary idea, so before anyone comes looking for me for treason or something, let me confess to just playing around with my imagination. No harm, no foul, as Chick Hearn (who he?) used to say on Lakers telecasts. Today, when SpaceX went public, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. Demofiends, of course, are already cursing him, and if they get the political power, they’ll no doubt go after him criminally and financially. Remember, they did all they could to dispose of him when he was serving as Director of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under President Trump. I thought he was on the right track with DOGE — reduce federal spending by a cool trillion dollars. Instead, I think he managed to get only $9 billion cut before his term expired. Worse, I don’t think Trump ever had his back. Trump, if you haven’t noticed, is not only a big tax rate reducer but also a big government spender. He wants $1.5 trillion next year for the Department of Defense/War, for instance, but I actually think that is a great idea. We need to upgrade and replace our weapons stockpile, which was