***. “..one of the traits that had led Trump to the White House on full display: his extraordinary capacity to say things that were not true. He always seemed to have complete conviction in whatever product he was selling or argument he was making. He had an uncanny ability to say with a straight face, things are not as you’ve been told or even as you’ve seen with your own eyes. He could commit a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker: “I Alone Can Fix It” ]. [NOTE: read this again, and again – for many observers, THIS is a capsule of who Donald John Trump is ]
This post presents excerpts from: “Buyer’s remorse sets in over Trump” [ Dan Merica, Cat Zakrzewski; Washington Post Weekly; 3/22/26 ]. Americans are waking up to the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, Incompetence, Dishonesty of the Trump DICTATORSHIP !!!!! The Big Lie that “Trump cares about me” is exposed more and more. Trump is costing YOU money!!! One analysis soon to be posted: Trump’s 2027 Pentagon budget request is estimated to cost EVERY American household about $4,000. There are MANY other Trump DICTATORSHIP “costs.”
1] “Joshua Byers was hopeful when he voted for Donald Trump in 2024. The 26-year old document clerk believed the former and future president when he said he would lower prices and improve the lives of the working class….
“I feel betrayed”…”
2] “But with prices stubbornly high, a belief that Trump is overly focused on international conflict and concerns about how federal officials are implementing the president’s immigration policy, they also said they are questioning why they voted in the first place..”
3] “I wouldn’t even say it’s a living,” James Wiest, a 23-year old arcade technician from Mooresville, North Carolina, said of his life…”It’s more survival.”
***. “Trump is not Adolf Hitler, but he shares many of Hitler’s disorders, addiction to lies, and appeal to wounded followers through the dehumanization of target groups. In Trump’s case, these include African Americans, Muslims, women, Hispanics, and migrants.” [ Bandy lee, editor: “The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump” ]
4]. “A Washington Post – ABC – Ipsos poll released last month found 70 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds disapproved of Trump’s handling of the presidency, compared with 29 percent who approved.”
5] “I don’t really want to vote anymore,” Byers said…I don’t want to feel responsible for taking a vote and feeling misled, or misjudged, or making a wrong move.” [NOTE; what effect will THIS ‘COST’ have on American democracy????? ]
6] “Young voters are also more likely to disapprove of the Iran war, according to a Washington Post poll released Tuesday. a majority of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 say they oppose the military campaign in Iran…”
***. “Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” [ Niccolo Machiavelli ]
7] “Lilly Burrow, a 23-year-old teacher from Charlotte who voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024, said..she initially supported the strikes because she thought they were intended to change the regime in Iran. But her view has since shifted, and now she believes the United States is “doing Israel’s dirty work.”
8] “Wiest, a Republican, said he feels demoralized and is unlikely to vote in the 2026 midterms. “I agree with his idea of making America great again, but the way he is going about…it’s not who I thought would be running this country,”…and he does not care about what we are mad about.”
9] “Byers and others in the focus group said they got much of their news about the 2024 election from social media, including online influencers…a constant stream of pro-Trump content..” [NOTE: so – “our’ president is elected by loads of amateur “journalists,” unqualified to say what they do, to repeat Trump’s lies without questioning….}
*** “He is incredibly suggestible, skimming ideas and thoughts and statements from other people and repacking them as his own; campaign aides once called him a “sophisticated parrot.” He has sown willingness both to believe anything is true, and to say anything is true. he has few core ideological impulses, but is often willing to suppress them when it’s useful for another purpose. He makes vague statements that allow people to project what they want in his words, so two sides he same issue could claim his support.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Maggie Haberman: “Confidence Man” ]
10]. “Those same influencers who helped Trump connect with young voters during the election are now using their platforms to criticize the war in Iran and reconsidering their actions in the election. Rogan, who endorsed Trump after his 2024 interview, on Tuesday called the Iran war “so insane” and said Trump had “betrayed” the Americans who supported him.”
11] “Andrew Schulz, one of the cohosts of “Flagrant,” has criticized Trump since last year for doing the opposite of what he promised on the campaign trail.”
12] “Naturally, Americans are furious about it, right?” Schulz said. “Because we’re like, ‘How the f— does this benefit me? I can’t even afford to pay for college. i can’t buy a home. I can’t pay for health insurance. And we’re going to spend billions on a war in a country i can’t even point out on a map.”
***. “When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” [ Euripides ]
13] “Ross, who wore a white MAGA hat during his 2024 stream with Trump, also has expressed regret for having associated himself with the campaign.”
14] “..Faith Peavey, a 21-year-old American Sign Language interpreter and Republican who said she voted for Trump in 2024 with ‘caution…”It has definitely been frustrating to see him doing things that were not things he promised to do and not doing things that he promised to do,” Peavey said.”
*** “In the end the Party would announce that two and two make five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
[ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]
With Justice For All 