1988—Year of Destiny when I discovered that Trump was a Singular Genius Championing Tariffs Alone since the 1980s

Ellis Washington | May 5, 2025

“April 2nd, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.”

~ President Donald J. Trump, “Liberation Day” speech

“Imposing tariffs Trump puts the end to globalization. From now on mercantilism prevails on the world scale. Global decoupling. Another step to save the world from Globalist dictatorship.”

~ Dr. Alexander Dugin, Advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Mercantilism – An economic order that sees trade as national security.

~ Dr. Steve Turley

If tariffs are so bad, why do they [all the Nations of the world] have them? Or if the American consumers are going to pay all the tariffs, then why do they care about tariffs because they [the American consumer] are going to eat them.

~ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant

About the Author—Professor Ellis Washington, J.D.—I went to Harvard Law School for 1 year (1988-89) with future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, (b. 1960 – d. 09/29/2019), who was a secret descendant of the Rothschild Banking Cartel Family and a blood grandson of the German NAZI dictator, Adolf HITLER! who was also a Rothschild – but I took the opposite path in Life—New World Order, Communism, Treason, Pedophilia and Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. Christianity, Conservatism, Protecting the Children & TRUMPism. I repeatedly refused to take the “Satan OATH” which is why I’ve been blacklisted since 1989 – for over 36 years—for my entire legal and academic career, yet I Fight on! Why? To avenge Harvard University’s original 1692 motto—Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia {= Truth for Christ and the Church}.

How do We the People escape the 150-year Rothschild Chattel Slavery systems (e.g., Birth certificates [= Birth Bond Fraud], Death certificates, Social Security numbers bought, sold and trading people’s identities like animals on Wall Street) and Rothschild Debt Slavery systems (e.g., IRS, Income Taxes, Death Taxes, Fiat or Counterfeit currency not based on Gold or Silver, but based on NOTHING!

Cui bono?– Who benefits? Why are all national currencies of the world promiscuously printed at will by the Rothschild Central Bankers? Is it to fund perpetual False Flag Wars like — America, Israel, Gaza, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, China, Rwanda The Congo, and throughout the world, while keeping the entire world enslaved inside an existential – Birth-School-Labor-Taxes-Debts-Retirement-Death cycle of the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia Matrix? (1871-2021) Further answers can be learned by reading, studying and sharing the Truth of my Critical Thinking blog that on Winter Solstice (21 Dec. 2024) surpassed 25 million views! @ EllisWashingtonReport.com, Facebook, Twitter/X—#JesusIsGod (Isaiah 9:6) #DCActof1871

Prologue—YEAR 1988: The Time I Began to Fulfill my Destiny to Become a Conservative Intellectual

I believe that I first learned about Donald Trump from his New York Times Bestselling Book, The Art of the Deal (Nov. 1987). In early 1988 I began critically reading and studying that book with glee and soon learned about the war tactics and strategies of that legendary Chinese General Sun Tzu (544 – 496 B.C.) Although I had been a Conservative virtually all of my life, I really didn’t begin to understand about politics, philosophy law and political strategies until my senior year in college at DePauw University where, after a year of self-research and study in 1982, I codified my political philosophy as an intellectual epiphany with two essays published in our school’s Newspaper called The DePauw—

· Birth of a Conservative Intellectual – Part I (Jan. 1983)

· Birth of a Conservative Intellectual – Part II (Feb. 1983)

However, this intellectual epiphany experience becoming an educated Conservative had its ups and downs in that since this was during the precursor of the Age of the Internet, Email and later Social Media, I was pretty much left to my own devices to try to meet or befriend other Conservative intellectuals whose writings I admired. I didn’t know of any Conservatives in College or in Graduate School at University of Michigan, so I voraciously read any book, newspaper or article by Conservative writers that I could get my hands own. OF course I had a subscription to William Buckley’s National Review and The Conservative Chronicle Newspaper and was elated when Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh started his radio show I believe in Aug. 1988 the same month I went to graduate school and law school at Harvard for one year (1988-89) where I met future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, at that time a first-year law student.

*N.B.: Pictures: 1) Trump’s classic – The Art of the Deal (Nov. 1987, I read and studied it in Jan.-March 1988); 2) Me (Aug. 30, 1988) on my way to Harvard GSAS and Harvard Law [1988-89] where I did graduate studies in History and Law where I would be student with future POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama. I regret that I didn’t finish my PhD degree in History at that time. I like to think that choice would have given me a better life, or it might have just put a bigger target on my head?

See, Donald J. Trump on TARIFFS as a form of ECONOMIC NATIONAL SECURITY in April 1988 (also the year I went to Harvard (Aug. 1988) to War against the Democrat Socialist Party and against future POTUS Barack Hussein OBAMA)–In my 2024 essay, AN AMERICA JUDICIAL JUDAS–Part I, I wrote the following:

“And I bet $$$s to doughnuts that 98+% of you so-called Solipsistic, Socialist, Globalist, Democrat Party Academics and Racist “Elites” did NOT vote for President Donald J. Trump in 2016 or 2024… However, in a de facto way I did 36 years ago in Nov. 1988 along with George. H.W. Bush’s campaign manager, LEE ATWATER (1951-91) and his protegee (and my son’s namesake and Trump advisor, ROGER STONE) championed Trump for V.P., but Bush, worried about being upstaged by Trump insisted together with the GOP on Indiana Senator Dan Quayle (my fellow DePauw University Alumni)! Visit Stone’s revelatory website on politics, business and to learn about his iconic & impeccable style @ www.StoneZone.com.“

President Trump’s preoccupation with tariffs as both a weapon and a bargaining chip isn’t new. But the history of trade barriers in the US isn’t so clear cut. I now remember that 1988 was a PIVOTAL year in my Intellectual and Political development for it was that iconic and amazing Oprah interview of TRUMP (25 April 1988) that indelibly catalyzed my mind and made me to understand that Trump was a singular GENIUS that I should pay attention to, read about his iconoclastic ideas in his book on War strategies of the Chinese general and strategist, Sun Tzu [circa, 550 B.C.] chronicled in his iconic book, THE ART OF THE DEAL (1987) and support this man for POTUS 37 YEARS ago.

Trump, in his famous April 1988 Oprah interview boldly proclaimed a resurrection of TARIFFS to make all the other nations of the world to enact FREE & FAIR trade, to respect U.S., to pay U.S. to do business here, and to put America back as the #1 nation in the world:

Trump said the following on tariffs and international trade in the April 25, 1988 Oprah interview https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cPg-cmvOpHo –

TRUMP: “They knock the hell out of our companies,” Trump said in

the 1988 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

“I’d make our allies, forgetting about our enemies, the

enemies you can’t talk to easily, I’d make our allies pay their

fair share. We are a debtor nation. Something is going to

happen over the next number of years with this country

because you can’t keep going on losing two hundred

billion and yet we let Japan come and in and dump

everything right into our markets. It’s not free trade,”

Trump said. If you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell

something, forget about it, Oprah. Just forget about it. It’s

almost impossible. They don’t have laws against it. They just

make it impossible.

They come over here, they sell their cars, their VCRs, the knock

the hell out of our companies. And hey, I have tremendous respect

for the Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that’s

beating the hell out of you, but they are beating the hell out of hell out

of this country.

Kuwait, they live like kings. The poorest person in Kuwait, they live

like kings. And yet, they’re not paying. We make it possible for them

to sell their oil. Why aren’t they paying U.S. 25% of what they’re making?

It’s a joke.

That Oprah interview of Trump in April 1988 forever changed my LIFE! I was so impressed by Trump’s stance on tariffs in 1988 (which no other politician or economist dared to even mention) that in 1997 I named my first child, my dearest son, Stone Washington in part because of Trump’s first campaign manager, the irrepressible Roger Stone who like Roger Stone’s colleague, the legendary political advisor, Lee Atwater [1951-91](George H.W. Bush’s Campaign manager), myself and a few others REALLY wanted Bush to put Trump as V.P. on his 1988 Presidential Campaign. However, Bush (a very evil, boring, & uptight person) feared that Trump would upstage him… George Bush was right and 37 years later Donald J. Trump and his Tariff Wars are upstaging the WORLD

The two lists below by Trump initially seem to state two different objectives – one stated in negative terms, the other stated in positive terms. This is the essence of becoming a Trumpian, one must embrace two seemingly contradictory objectives and seamlessly merge them into a completed whole which is not an easy thing to do and brings to mind the term Cognitive dissonance. This will confuse both your allies and your enemies because your ideals are iconoclastic and your movements seemingly irrational, dangerous and even heretical. However, everything with Trump is The Art of the Deal, and thus every (or the majority) of interactions with him with other world leaders is striving to get an edge, an advantage to exploit for his (America’s) advantage.

The first meme below shows a Truth Social post by President Trump titled Non-Tariff Cheating. Now remember for nearly 55 years the Deep State was leveraging China to replace America as the Globalist Super Power of the world going back to when President Nixon (allegedly a Conservative Republican) first open the doors to China right after taking America off the Gold standard – I believe to be two of Nixon’s greatest political blunders. Nevertheless, in Trump’s smooth New York style he clearly and succinctly states 7 examples of China using unfair trade practices to take advantage of America and all the U.S. Presidents over the past 55 years – Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump45, Biden did nothing or virtually nothing to confront China in a substantive way about the annual $1 Trillion trade deficit until Trump47’s second term (Jan. 20, 2025 – now).

Now there is word that China is literally begging Trump to come to the negotiating table, however, China needs to read it own literature by the ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu to understand that Trump isn’t interest in resuming trade talks with China UNTIL those 7 steps are fulfilled by iron-clad trade language (including making reparations to America for the Trillions stolen from U.S. due to these 7 unfair trade practices fomented by the amoral Communist Chinese Party over the past 55 years is just the BEGINNING of negotiations!

After 3 months are Trump’s tariffs working? As we come to his first 100 days in office. The tariffs have only been in place since his Executive Order enacting tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on 1 Feb. 2025. For a timeline of Trump’s tariffs on the world see this article on PBS.org. Trump is a master of understanding Human Nature which was echoed by Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant who stated regarding tariffs—

Indeed, Global trade means getting the best deals for your country while using tariffs as a form of economic national security to protect your own homegrown businesses, farmers and industry.

Epilogue—1988, the Year I used Trump’s Book and Oprah Interview on Tariffs to help me understand what real Conservative Philosophy (including the Deep State Shadow Government) was all about

Trump is like an American Prophet. He said as much when he stated recently this aphorism for the ages—

Trump has always been ahead of the curve. Q and QAnon has had chatter that Trump’s father was actually the only general Adolph Hitler feared, yes, the irrepressible GEORGE PATTON. The looks are undeniable. I’m certain that Trump has already had a DNA analysis done to confirm what biology obviously already dictated.

Was the Legendary World War II General George Patton President Trump Real Biological Father?

Below is some commentary on this Patton/Trump connection from my article series – Real News for Real Patriots from the Judy Byington Report—Part 51—

*N.B.: REMEMBER! For years I have proclaimed that – To Correctly Understand History start from Aristotle’s ‘First Principles’ and Carefully study the Genealogy of the 13 Royal Illuminati Bloodline Families—Since this article was published in 2012, 5 years before Donald Trump became president (01/20/2017-01/20/2021), I feel reasonably secure in stating that Trump’s genealogy does not descend back to King John of England (Reign: 1199-1216). Information I’ve viewed from declassified military intelligence sources has Donald Trump being the biological son of America’s greatest war hero, GENERAL GEORGE PATTON and his nurse/secretary, Jean Gordon, was Trump’s biological mother. The resemblance is undeniable!

Tragically neither parent lived to see Trump’s first birthday! On 21 December 1945, shortly after the end of World War II General George Patton (1885-1945) died in a mysterious jeep accident that many historians now believe was a Deep State conspiracy to murder. His lover (and his niece by marriage), the then 21-year-old Red Cross nurse, Jean Gordon(1915-46) likewise died under mysterious circumstances on 8 Jan. 1946.

I’m not certain if she actually died sometime after Trump was born on 14 June 1946 and her actual death was fabricated and hidden by the White Hat Military Intelligence Alliance (of which General Patton doubtlessly belonged) in order to secure the safety and critically important future of this newborn baby, Donald J. Trump and to arrange for a proper adoptive family to raise him to become America’s future champion of Freedom and Liberty and the downfall of the demonic Deep State and the Satanic New World Order. However, in my opinion more research is needed on this enigmatic part of Trump genealogy here.

*N.B.: General George Patton and Donald Trump (L); Nurse Jean Gordon and General Patton (R). The physical similarities between General Patton and Donald Trump are uncanny and remarkable and of course Trump shares his father’s brilliant strategic military mind which he transfigured to legendary heights as a legendary business man who help build the skyline of New York and even greater heights when he became POTUS on Nov. 8, 2016 where he is considered the greatest U.S. president in history.