By Ray Cardello for May 7, 2026, Season 35 / Post 19

For a man that the Democrats say is unfit for office and in severe mental decline, Donald Trump is proving to be an incredible manipulator and is recalibrating the geopolitical makeup of the Globe with a surgeon’s precision. Democrats are mistaking the fact that they do not understand the level at which Trump and his administration are operating, and rather than attempt to understand it, it is far easier to call the brilliant man crazy. It is more than ironic that the only person on the Left who understands the chess match that Trump is playing is John Fetterman (D-PA), who many felt, including this author, was unfit for office after his stroke and bout with depression. The Democrats have been doing this since 2015, and it has really not aged well. Trump is operating at an advanced AP level while the Democrats are riding the short bus. Their constant claims about Trump being in mental decline and requests for his Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office underscore their lack of mental acuity and absence of sound alternative solutions. This is the same group that tried to convince the world, which was watching Joe Biden age and waste away before our eyes, that he was still the brightest man in any room.

Trump does repeat the same talking points often, talks in hyperbolic terms, and may be the victim of too much media coverage, the majority of which is tainted and biased. But those of us who strongly support the President, which is still almost all of the Republicans in the country, key on Trump’s accomplishments rather than his tone and demeanor in his self-assessments. Unlike Biden, Trump may very well be the smartest guy in the room, and that infuriates the Left and fuels those who are suffering from TDS.

The Democrats charge that Trump has put America into another needless war in the Middle East. These people had no issue with Obama signing a useless treaty with Iran that allowed them to continue building the nuclear bomb they were close to using on Israel, Europe, or even their allies in the Middle East. These people have no allegiance or respect for anyone other than themselves. While Obama gave Iran two large planes full of cold U.S. cash, Trump has given them a tough negotiating team and an ultimatum to give up any efforts at a nuclear weapon or face annihilation. Trump is being patient, maybe too patient, for them to realize he means what he says, and they had better give up the uranium they have enriched so far.

I say too patient, because the American people do not have the resolve or strength to see a global situation play out. They demand immediate results with no pain. Even the temporary pain at the gas pumps is too much for the soft American people. Just think if they had to endure the rationing and constraints put in place that allowed us to win World War II, or eleven in Omar Ilhan’s world. If Trump continues to avoid the inevitable and take out the rest of the Iranian regime and infrastructure, his Party will be punished at the ballot box in November, and the balance of his Presidency will be lost.

Trump has settled 8 global conflicts, removed a cruel dictator in Maduro of Venezuela, oversaw the elimination of Chinese control of the Panama Canal, is crippling Iran’s oil production and exporting, and is eliminating its nuclear threat against the world. The Venezuela and Iran situations have put a severe crimp in China’s offensive military aspirations and allowed the people of Taiwan to sleep a little sounder. Trump has exposed NATO and the United Nations for the feckless, money-grabbing organizations they are, and shown all of Europe that they are defenseless without the support of the United States military. Trump has also used Iran to showcase our tremendous military might and technical superiority to the point that China, Russia, and North Korea will think twice before pushing the belly of America. A strong U.S. makes for a safer world and is one of the tenets of the MAGA movement. The movement is far more than a red hat, and its leader, Donald Trump, is not only mentally fit for the job but is skating circles around the Democrats.