Off the Cuff: Dear President Trump, Appoint Me!

Dear President Trump,

First, I love you, man! You and I have a lot in common, including that numerous people have told me we look like siblings. Perhaps our genealogies intersect at some point.

The primary thing we have in common is we are both paradigm-busters. You, in government; me, in what is oxymoronically known as mental health.

For going on fifty years, I have been a lone voice in my profession, psychology. I began my paradigm-busting in 1976 when I began writing a nationally syndicated newspaper column on what is called “parenting” (I harbor pathological loathing for the term). When I retired the column in 2023, it held the distinction of being the longest-running syndicated column to be written continuously by the same individual in American newspaper history. Not shabby.

I retired the column, but I am not retired. I continue to write, but everything I produce is now self-published on the Internet.

I am a psychologist, but I do not believe in psychology; furthermore, I do not promote ANYTHING psychology has said about children and their upbringing. Psychology has been a wrecking ball in America – especially the family – and I have dedicated my career to doing whatever possible to rectify that.

Objective, research-based evidence of the general efficacy of any psychological therapy is seriously lacking. I don’t believe psychologists should be recognized as expert witnesses in legal matters. I do not believe psychologists should be allowed in America’s schools. I do not believe psychologists should be eligible for insurance reimbursement. I don’t think 99.9 percent of psychologists (and that is probably a conservative figure) know what they are doing.

I am 100 percent convinced that the profession of psychology is guilty of deceptive business practices and should be investigated by the DOJ for violations of the RICO Act. State psychology licensing boards should be disbanded, and psychology should be de-listed as a restricted profession. Psychology is a farce. Take it from a psychologist. (Obviously, I am not well-liked by my colleagues, which pleases me to no end.)

The pseudo-profession of psychology adheres to no meaningful practice standards. It’s theories and therapies are not confirmed by research. Psychological diagnoses have no objective reality. The ubiquitous “biochemical imbalance” is a fiction. Psychological tests are bogus. The medications being used to supposedly “treat” mental and emotional dysfunction do not reliably outperform placebos. I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point, so I’ll stop there.

Psychology is a pseudo-science that has caused more problems than its practitioners know how to solve. The American family is the primary victim of the general fraudulence of psychology (and America’s mental health industry in total).

In the 1970s, when I was in graduate school, America’s mental health industry persuaded parents to buy into an ongoing progressive parenting experiment that has brought about a ten-fold deterioration of child mental health. Today’s parents and teachers are dealing with emotional and behavioral issues that were virtually unheard of when you and I were children: e.g., tantrums in public places, belligerent disrespect and defiance, children assaulting parents and teachers, et cetera.

Ironically, when, concerning any individual child, those problems reach a certain level, parents and schools turn for help to members of the very profession that caused the problems in the first place. Invariably, those mental health professionals engage child and family in a wholly deceitful process of testing (fraudulent), diagnosing (unscientific), and medicating (criminal). It should be obvious to any astute observer that this process isn’t accomplishing anything of value other than lining the pockets and purses of the people who engineer it.

Making America Great Again begins with the American family, and making the American family great again begins with the retro-rehabilitation of American childrearing. That must involve restoring absolute parent authority, restoring commonsense and biblical principle to childrearing practice, and communicating to children, lovingly but unequivocally, that they are second-class citizens with no voting rights until they emancipate.

I am writing to propose that you appoint me to head the newly-created Department of Family Renewal (DOFR). Like Elon, I will take no salary. Consider me a Volunteer for America, the greatest country in human history, now led by one of the greatest presidents in its history. And yes, I’m buttering you up, but I am not engaging in hyperbole.

With great admiration and confidence in your unique abilities and gifts,

John K. Rosemond – Family Psychologist, Author, Speaker, Husband (56 years), Father, Grandfather

Copyright 2025, John K. Rosemond