Author: tomdolen

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIII – Donald John Trump Violates the Spirit of Christmas 24/7, 365

~ tomdolen


*** “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” [ Jesus Christ – John 13:34 ]

1- – “The Human Toll of Trump’s Aid Cuts” [ Nicholas Kristof; New York Times; 6/11/25]
– – “Children who are citizens deported” [ Marc Levy; Associated Press; 4/27/25 ]
– “”Head Start Under The Budget Gun…Trump administration’s planned spending cuts threatens to end 60-year old program that provides care for 800,000 kids” [ Jenny Gold, Kate Sequiera: Los Angeles Times; 4/27/25 ]
– “As markets fell, Trump played golf”. [ Dan Diamond; Washington Post; 4/8/25 ]

*** “City sidewalks busy sidewalks; Dressed in holiday style, in the air; There’s a feeling of Christmas; Children laughing; People passing meeting smile after smile…” [ “Silver Bells” ]

2]. – “Trump blames Reiner for his own death”. [Michelle Price; Associated Press; 12/16/25}
– “Top Aide Says Trump Has ‘An Alcoholic’s Personality'” [ Peter Baker; New York Times; 12/17/25 ]
– “Weather lab to be dismantled…White House calls the research center a source of ‘climate alarmism”. [ Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer; New York Timres; 12/18/25 ]
– “Heating Costs Rising Near 10% This Winter…Bills going up as government cuts aid to states to help low-income residents”. [ Ivan Penn; New York Timers; 12/18/25 ]

***. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming after you, and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.” [ Roberto Clemente, beloved HOF baseball player. An annual Roberto Clemente Award is given to a player deemed to be a positive public asset ]

3] “Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader and human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.” [ Omarosa: “Unhinged”; Trump first term official ]

*** “There’s no Christmas like a home Christmas with your Dad and Mother Sis and Brother there; With their hearts humming at your home commin’ and that Merry Yuletide spirit in the air’.” [“There’s No Christmas Like A Home Christmas” ]

4]. – “The Trump administration ..[said].. the Smithsonian is too focused on “how bad slavery was.” [Kelsey Ables; White House threatens Smithsonian funds amid content review”; Washington Post; 12/22/25 ]
– “White House aid cuts hamper food shelves” [Trey Newes; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/24/25 ]

– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, disease, food safety”. [Christina Jewett; New York Times; 2/22/25 ]
– “Trump, Musk and Cruelty to Poor Kids” [ Gene Nichol; The Progressive Populist; 4/1/25 ]

*** ‘So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in the world.” [ Isadora Duncan ]

5]. – “Trump Promised lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them” [ New York Times; Editorial; 11/23/25 ]
– “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job'”. [ Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25 ]
– “Black Friday spending shows widening economic divide”. [ Abha Bhattarai; Washington Post; 12/10/25 ]; [Lower-and middle-income Americans have been hit hard by rising costs…For the first time, the top 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all spending..” ]
– “Launching Affordability Tour, Trump Mocks Affordability” [ Matt Viser; Washington Post; 12/11/25 ]: [“Trump …returned to a comment he made easrlier in his presidency, saying that Americans needed to go without.” ]

*** “Here we come a-caroling, among leaves so green, here we come a-wandering, so far to be seen; Love and joy come to you, and to you, and to you glad Christmas too, and God bless you and you, a Happy New Year, and God send you a Happy New Year.” [ “Here We Come A-caroling” ]

6] ‘…Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests..” [ niece Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough” ]

***. “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.” [ Senator J. William Fulbright. ]

7]. – “Domestic violence services at risk” [Briana Bierschbach; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/25/25 ]
– “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work”. [ Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 2/10/25 ]
– “Vets are becoming face of Trump’s cuts, Dem’s fight”. [ Stephen Grover; Associated Press; 3/25/25 ]
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [. Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur; Washington Post; 2/11/25 ]

***. “People who love people, are the luckiest people in the world. We”re children needing other children, and yet letting grown-up pride hide all the need inside, acting more like children than children.” [ Barbara Streisand; “People” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXII – Lawsuits Filed to Stop Trumpism Corruption and Power Grab

~ tomdolen


***. “Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfectly despotic governments we have ever known.”” [ Edmund Burke ]

Since January 20, 2025 – the Trump DICTATORSHIP has proven that maxim, often far below the public radar. Below are SOME of the at least 18 lawsuits Public Citizen has filed against the Trump DICTATORSHIP by November 10.

1] “Stopping Trump from using taxpayer resources for partisan purposes; AFGE. v. Department of Education, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, October 3, 2025. Background & why the case is important: “When the government shut down on October 1, 2025, most civilian federal workers were placed in furlough status… Employees at thre Department of Education discovered..the agency changed their out-of-office emails to include language blaming “Democratic Senators” for the shutdown.

2] “Stopping Trump from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau: NTEU, Et Al. v. Vought, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2025. Background & why this case is important: After Trump vowed to ‘totally eliminate” the Consumer protection Bureau [CFPB], OMB director Russell Vought set out to make good on that promise. The CFPB, which has recovered billions of dollars for American consumers, cannot be dismantled without Congressional action.” [NOTE: YOUR clue is “Recovered billions of dollars” for Americans like YOU. Question: why would an American govt that cared about YOU kill this agency?????????]

3]. “Protecting worker health: National Nurses united, Et Al. v. Kennedy, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, May 14, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are trying to dismantle the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], the country’s premier authority on occupational safety and health, protecting workers in high-risk industries…Among other things, NIOSH screens miners for black lung disease, provides medical monitoring to September 11 first responders and evaluates the safety of worksite protective gear…” [NOTE ; Ask YOURSELF – why would an American govt that cared for its people dismantle this agency?????????]

***. “The aggregate happiness of society, which is promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.” [ George Washington ]

4] “Ending Trump’s unlawful assault on foreign aid: AIDS Vaccine. Advocacy. Coalition, et Al. v. U.S. Department of State, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 10, 2025. Background & why the case is important: With an abrupt freeze on foreign assistance funding, the Trump administration halted lifesaving work around the globe, undermined vital U.S. interests and cost thousands of Americans their jobs.” [NOTE: our adversaries have already cashed in. This has, WILL. damage America’s image around the world. The world’s richest country has now turned its back on the world.]

5]. “Ending Trump’s gag order on public health agencies: Doctors For America v. Office of Personnel Management, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 4, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Putting politics, conspiracy theories and reactionary ideology ahead of the wellbeing of the American people, the administration ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health & Human Services to remove from their websites a broad range of public health information vital to physicians, clinics, public health officials and patients.” [NOTE: likely THE perfect example of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s. monumental cruelty and utter disregard for its own population]

6] “Protecting civil liberties in immigration proceedings: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. v. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, April 24, 2025. Background & why the case is important: The Trump administration closed the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office and Office of Immigrant Detention Ombudsman because they “obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission.” In other words, following the law and protecting rights is inconvenient for the administration.”

[Note: the 6 items above were all in a Public Citizen “Memorandum” sent to members]

Americans can’t keep up with all the criminalities, cruelties, craziness committed by the Trump DICTATORSHIP. That is part of their strategy – to. “flood the zone” with so many outrages, YOU can’t keep up. In the meantime, Trump, his cronies, his powerful wealthy donors and backers – the richer. It has been estimated that Trump alone, is, in less than a year, become about $3 billion richer!!!!!!!!!

***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.” [ Plato ]

!!! – Here are two more instances of corruption and cruelty:
– 12/18/25: “‘Powerful evidence’ against the president.” Special counsel Jack Smith said in testimony to Congress that his team of investigators had “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt”. Donald Trump had CRIMINALLY. CONSPIRED. TO. OVERTURN THE RESULTS. OF. THE. 2020. ELECTION.”
– 12/19/25: “Trump sets goals for ending citizenship.” “Immigration officers are given a. MONTHLY. QUOTA for denaturalizations.” [And we know from past actions, the Trump DICTATORSHIP. will, if it can’t find REAL evidence, make it up. – for people it doesn’t like.]

*** “Kill, destroy, sack, tell lies; how much you want. After victory nobody asks Why?” [. Adolf Hitler ]

[NOTE: On December 19, 1776, living under King George III, Thomas Paine published. “American Crisis”…….”These are the times that try men’s souls..” In December, 2025, suffering under the DICTATORSHIP of. King Donald I. – Americans are again experiencing……..”These are the times that try men’s souls..”………………….]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXI – “The Beacon 0f Democracy Goes Dark”

~ tomdolen


***. “What distinguishes America is not its greater or lesser goodness, but simply the unrivaled power to do that which is good or bad.” [ Mark Frankland; London Observer; 11/6/1977 ]

9] “American culture is n longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom, but with transactionalism and secrecy; the algorithems that mysteriously what you see, the money collected by anonymous billionaires, the deals that the American president is making with world leaders that benefit himself and maybe others whose names w don’t know. America was always associated with capitalism, business, and markets, but nowadays there’s no pretense hat anyone else will be invited to share the wealth.”

***. “The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.” [Thomas Paine; Common Sense; 1776]

This post presents excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum’s. “The Beacon Of Democracy Goes Dark”. [The Atlantic; November, 2025]. Read it and think. Read it and weep. Read it and pray for America. Read it and share it.

4] “The dramatic shift we have undergone in just a few months – away from a foreign policy based on democratic faith and toward the promotion of a more cynical, more authoritarian, view of the world – has hit these institutions hard. The fact that the Trump administration has tried to shut down all of America’s foreign broadcasters is telling.”

6] “The shift against these traditionally bipartisan institutions, against the belief that Americans should defend and promote democracy around the world, and against the democratic faith itself is part of something broader….Donald Trump appears much happier with dictators than with democratic allies.”

10] “The impact of this change around the world will be profound, far-reaching, and long-lasting. The very existence of American democracy inspired people in every corner of the planet, and the decline of American democracy will have the same effect.”

***. “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” [George Washington; 4/30/1789; First Inaugural Address]

1]. “Americans have promoted democracy just by existing. Human rights and the rule of law are in our founding documents…..In the 20th century, w moved from simply from modeling democratic ideals to spreading and promoting them as a matter of policy…..During the Cold War, we connected words such as freedom and rights…to our national identity.”

2] “After the Second World War, the dream of American freedom and prosperity strengthened what were initially shaky democracies in Western Europe and Asia, including recently defeated West Germany and Japan. Their political and economic success drew others into the fold.”

3]. “..by putting democracy at the center of our international and national identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system.”

5]. “…it remains the target of a small group of conspiracy theorists who have influence in this administration because they have a large following in X or have appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast.”

***. “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of or sympathy for the language of the founders, so he cannot be inspired by it. Since he doesn’t believe American democracy is good, he has no interest in an America that aspires to be a model among nations.” [Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy”]

7] “Vladimir Putin has banned media that spread “fake news’ – that is, accurate information….Rodrigo Duterte, called Rappler, a famous investigative-reporting site, a “fake news outlet”….In places as varied as Egypt and Myanmar, the fake charge of “fake news” has been used to destroy legitimate journalists.”

8]. “All these changes are part of a larger shift, a revolutionary transformation in the way Americans present themselves to the world, and the way they are therefore perceived by others. The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is…the social media platforms that pump conspiracy theories..”

11]. “More predictable is the impact on americans. If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party’s friends, then we have fewer reasons to work together at home. If we promote cynicism abroad, we will become more cynical at home.”

***. “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…” [Judge Learned Hand]

Of all the damages to America from the cancer of Trumpism. – what we are learning is this: the damage Trumpism has inflicted on the American soul may be the longest lasting, the most devastating, the most crippling. Trump is truly a CANCER. – a cancer that spreads, a cancer that strangles, a cancer that sucks the life out of us. Pray – on YOUR knees – that America manages to recover our soul……………………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXX – Undermining, Unraveling, Destroying American Rule of Law.

~ tomdolen


*** “No man is above the law and no man is below the law; nor do we ask anyman’s permission when we require him to obey the law.” [ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]

2] “Many judges said the politicization of judges, the Supreme Court’s expanding use of the emergency dockets and sustained criticism from the Trump administration have pushed the courts and democracy to a fragile tipping point – one where cooperation with rulings and adherence to the rule of law can no longer be assumed.”

“RETIRED JUDGES WARN THAT THE RULE OF LAW IS UNRAVELING”
[Brianna Tucker; Washington Post; 11/30/25]

If YOU are a caring, concerned, patriotic American. – this article is a MUST read. It is, unfortunately, NOT the first such reporting to be expressed. Note WHO is talking – retired judges. Legal experts have been expressing dismay and urgent concern that among the damages the Trump DICTATORSHIP has imposed upon America. – a critical, perhaps THE critical sabotage has been a wide-ranging program to DESTROY America’s “Rule of Law,” a fundamental American strength since 1789. Donald John Trump, and his powerful wealthy backers and donors, want American law bent to support their immoral, greedy, reckless, selfish purposes. If YOU don’t understand this – YOU don’t understand the depth and breadth of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s threat to American law, government, democracy, society, values, freedoms.

Following are excerpts from “Retired Judges Warn The Rule of Law is Unraveling”:
4] “All you have to do is look back on what occurred in Nazi Germany,’ said Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. In 1937, judges deemed by the Nazi regime as noncompliant with its laws were replaced, resulting in a overhaul of its judicial system.”

6] “Under Trump, many judges and other legal experts say that dynamic has degraded into unjustified criticism, with the president using social media and public speeches to attack judges who rules against his policies.”

9] “Several former judges called the increase in the Trump administration ignoring, defying or circumventing judicial decisions alarming and warned the trend severely weakens the separation of powers that has defined the United States for more than 200 years”

15]. “What he’s done with universities, what he’s done with law firms, what he’s done with the media…it’s changing our country,” Scheindlin said. “Our civil rights are not being protected, our voting rights, immigration rights, whatever they are, we’re losing them.”

***. “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” [ Earl Warren; Chief Justice; U.S. Supreme Court ]

1]. “When the White House blasted a federal judge as “partisan” for dismissing the criminal cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James this week, it was an attack that has become common in President Donald Trump’s second term. For many retied federal and state supreme courSocietyt judges, it was another example of the president’s assault on the judiciary and further erosion of the rule of law.”

3] ‘..some of them warn that Trump’s clashes with judges echo how leaders in foreign countries sought to undermine the strength of their courts – from right-wing court reforms in Hungary to attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shift power away from the judiciary.”

5]. ‘…warned that the public often fails to see the consequences of a weakened rule of law and diminishing judicial branch until it is too late.”

7] “Although attacks on the judiciary aren’t new, the increased frequency and intensity could drive jurists from the bench earlier than in previous generations, the retired judges say.”

8]. “..threats against federal judges reached near-record levels in Fiscal Year 2025, according to data from the Marshall’s Service.”

10] “For decades, the Justice Department has been expected to function independently from theWhite House to ensure impartial decisions. But since taking office in early February, Attorney General Pam Bondi has….”

11]. “Bondi’s lieutenant, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, characterized the Justice Department’s relationship with the judiciary as an adversarial one at a Federalist Society conference earlier this month. “It is a war..”

12] “Many judges said one of the most harmful shifts away from procedural norms within the judicial branch stems from the Supreme Court’s increasing use of the emergency docket, also known as the “shadow docket.”

13] “The nation’s highest court has issued a historic rate of emergency orders throughout the second Trump administration.”

14] “The shift away from standard procedures in cases creates a trickle-down effect through the court system….lower courts are left scrambling to interpret how those orders may effect cases they are adjudicating.”

*** “The worst tyranny is that of misapplied laws.’ [ Metternich ]

***. “Those who suppress freedom always doso in the name of law and order.” [ John Lindsay ]


Team Right Wing might now be in the final stages of their 50-year campaign to undo the increasing perfection of American democracy, which peaked in the 1947-73 mass middle class prosperity inspired by New Deal programs and progressive court rulings. This was “too much democracy”. for theFAR RIGHT. A key, perhaps THE key, was appointing “conservative judges” beginning with Nixon; furthered by Reagan and Bush I, Bush II. AND – now America is cursed by Trumpism and all of its hangers-on. Many, but not all, “judges” and “justices” appointed by Trump have strong anti-democratic, plutocratic, theocratic leanings, which they have been imposing on YOU, YOUR children, YOUR grandchildren.

*** “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” [ Clarence Darrow ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIX. – The ‘con job” that YOU are paying higher prices on. virtually everything !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen

*** “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
[ Albert Einstein ]

YOUR president, one Donald John Trump, wants YOU to believe that prices YOU ARE PAYING on many/most items, some critical survival items – is in YOUR IMAGINATION !!!!! Trump asserts this is all a big Democratic ‘hoax,” a “con job,” false facts – because the Dems are out to persecute him, even worse, ‘hate America.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

Is this Trump BIG LIE lie number 35,xx1 ????? Or – have people stopped counting ???

For YOUR perspective, YOU might want to check on these headlines:

1]. “How the letter. K. describes the shape of the U.S. economy…The wealthy get richer, the poor struggle more.” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 12/3/25]. More on this later. YOU might want to research the ECONOMIC. FACTS behind WHY economists have documented this.

2]. “As shoppers seek lower prices, Walmart sales rise.” [Jordyn Holman; New York Times; 11/21/25]. Think on this quote: “Higher income shoppers are continuing to shop at Walmart, a sign they are also looking to save money where they can.” The wealthy shopping at Walmart !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3]. “Consumers’ Pain Motivates Trump To Act on Prices….Affordability Effort….Offering New Policies and Messaging as Tariffs Sap Wage Gains”. [Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 11/16/25] !!!!! Trump needs to come out with – new messaging!!!! – i.e. – high prices are really a “hoax,” a ‘con job” !!!!!!!! He won’t help YOU – he just wants YOU to think that he really cares !!!!!!!!! Believe that, and I have this bridge to sell………

4]. “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job’… “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody,’ he says, blames Biden” [Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25]. “Trump called the issues of affordability a “fake narrative” and ‘con job’ created by Democrats to dupe the public.” !!!!! SO – when YOU shop. – the higher prices YOU ARE PAYING – are a “fake narrative” – it’s all in your mind!!!!! YOUR credit card bill lies – you didn’t really pay that much!!!!! Does ANYTHING more accurately portray Trump’s CONTEMPT for ordinary Americans – like YOU ????????????/

5] “Survey shows shoppers have less jingle…half say it’s harder to buy the gifts they want.” [Josh Boak, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux; Associated Press; 12/13/25]. “About 4 in 10 are dipping into their savings more than at other times….Roughly 9 in 10 U.S. adults, 87%, say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for groceries…” SO – there must be a lot of really stupid American adults, right? They’ve been “duped” by those sneaky, diabolical Democrats into THINKING they’re paying more, but not really paying more. – because they fell victim to the Dem’s “con job” !!!!!

*** “There are certain persons for whom pure truth is a poison.” [ Andre Maurois ]

YOU might want to read, just a little, of Pulitzer Prize winner Maggie Haberman’s. “definitive biography” of one Donald John Trump: ‘Confidence Man…The Making Of Donald Trump And The Breaking Of America”. [get the updated version through the 2024 election]

Before reading “Confidence Man”. – YOU might want to think. – WHY – did a Pulitzer Prize winner title a Trump biography. “confidence Man” ?????????? Just WHAT does she know?????

OR –
YOU could have already read Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse ThanYou Think…What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America”

OR. –
YOU could research. WHY – some people have said Trump makes up numbers that sound good…………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVIII – “How Billionaires Took Over Americn Politics”

~ tomdolen


*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]

This post is intended to begin to open YOUR eyes to the magnitude of political influence amassed by America’s wealthiest people. It is expressed in tax code corruption, in laws not enforced, in laws written by and for the rich, in ‘supreme court” rulings like “citizens United,” and much more.

Following are some excerpts from “How Billionaires Took Over American Politics”. [Beth Reinhard, Naftali Bendavid, Clarence Morse, Aaron Schaffer; Washington Post Weekly; 11/23/25]. If YOU care about America, American society, American government, American justice – this is a MUST read.

1] “In an era defined by major political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics…leading to a record-breaking surge of donations by the ultrarich in 2024. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times..”

3] “..in three landmark decisions, starting with 2010’s Citizens United vs FEC, federal courts gutted post-Watergate campaign restrictions, clearing the way for donors to contribute unlimited money to elections. As a result, U.S. politicians are more dependent on the largesse of the billionaire class than ever before, giving one-four-hundreth of 1% of Americans extraordinary influence over which politicians and policies succeed…driving up campaign costs and eroding public confidence in American democracy.”

9] “..at least 17 billionaires, collectively worth more than $1 trillion, claimed coveted seats in the Capitol Rotunda – a historic concentration of wealth that seemed to herald a new class of American oligarchs, there to celebrate a president known for publicly rewarding his allies and punishing his opponents…..”It was so striking and so out in the open that the rich people are running the country”…….”

11] “..under Trump, the first billionaire president, the ultrawealthy have set up shop inside the corridors of government more openly than ever before…Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in U.S. history..”

***. “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.” [ Theodore Roosevelt, Republican 26th U.S. President ]

2] “Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America. Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.”

4] “Donations are not the only path to power for the ultrawealthy; following Trump’s lead, some billionaires are parlaying their financial clout into public office. At least 44 of the 902 U.S. billionaires on Forbes magazine’s 2025 list, or their spouses, have been elected or appointed to state or federal office in the past 10 years..”

5] “America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultrarich… A little more than a decade ago, there were half as many billionaires in the U.S., with a total worth estimated at $2.6 trillion when adjusted for inflation.”

*** “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]

6]. “Overall, billionaires have rallied behind Trump’s Republican Party. More than 80% of the federal campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans went to Republicans…Trump himself raised 15 times as much from the 100 richest Americans in 2024 than he did during his first presidential campaign, in 2016.”

7] “..over the past half-decade, many of tech’s wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration’s criticism and policing of their industry…”

8] “When Trump first ran for office in 2016, he pitched himself as someone whose personal fortune made him uncorruptible. [ stop laughing !!!], and he promised to break the power of elites in Washington and “drain the swamp.” [stop laughing, you’re going to hurt yourself !!!]

***. “The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.” [. Adam Smith – yes – THE. Adam Smith. ]

10] “Billionaires didn’t acquire their influence in D.C. overnight. President Bill Clinton aggressively courted Wall Street, then signed a sweeping financial deregulation and a trade deal strongly backed by wealthy Americans. President George W. Bush also relied heavily on affluent donors, then pushed through tax cuts that benefited the rich, as well as the Troubled Asset Relief Program to bail out big banks. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate in the post-Watergate era to reject public campaign financing and instead raising huge sums from private donors.”

12] ‘..Trump has championed a deregulation and tax cut agenda that is bringing huge benefits to wealthy Americans..DOGE..slashed the regulatory state that polices – and infuriates – billionaires, along with their business activities. The IRS has lost thousands of workers, which cripples efforts to pursue tax cheats…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created to ensure that financial institutions treat their customers fairly, is on its deathbed. .Trump’s main legislative achievement, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, locked in lower tax rates for corporations and allowed the children of the super-rich to inherit $15 million tax-free, while cutting Medicaid programs that benefit the poor and the elderly.”

***. “You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They’re too damn greedy.”
[ Herbert Hoover, Republican. 31st U.S. President ]

A future post will concern material from “Tax The Rich!” [ Morris Pearl, Erica Payne and The Patriotic Millionaires]. It will feature “Tax Tricks,” “Corporate Tricks<” Tax Lies. We leave YOU with this quote to chew on:
“According to the study [Martin Gilens], not a single policy supported by the majority of voters but opposed by the rich and the business community ended up being passed into law.”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVII – “Trump Falls Short of His Populist Rhetoric”

~ tomdolen


*** “I play to people’s fantasies. people may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]

This post is based on “Trump Falls Short Of Populist Rhetoric” New York Times 11/30/25 editorial. Excerpts below. Read the ENTIRE article.

1] “president Trump talks like an economic populist, forever promising to help consumers, small business owners and, especially, workers….declared himself “the champion of the American worker.” But in his second term, as in his first, Mr. Trump is failing to deliver on that talk.” [NOTE: he DID deliver for fellow billionaires by making his obscene 2017 tax cuts for them PERMANENT. ]

5] “One of the bitter lessons of the past century is that authoritarian regimes have often relied on the concentration of corporate power to consolidate political power. The consolidation of media ownership makes the government more powerful, because it is easier to pressure a few big companies than a fragmented host of independently owned stations.. That possibility is not merely theoretical when the president is attempting to intimidate the media in myriad ways.] [ Do YOU think at least part of Trump’s goal in defunding public radio and TV just might help achieve his aims to eliminate ALL independent groups who could oppose or refute him???????????????]

***. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” [ Lenin ]

2] “The Trump administration is decimating the federal agencies that police corporations and protect workers and consumers…..under Mr. Trump, there is mounting evidence that the government is cynically wielding its antitrust authority – one of the most important checks on excesses of corporate power – as a means of punishing its enemies, rewarding its friends and consolidating Mr. Trump’s political authority.” [NOTE: read this again. This is WEAPONIZING government power against its citizens. Its also an open COUP against American democracy.]

3]. “None of that was regulation in the public interest…We agree with Anna M. Gomez, the sole Democrat on the F.C.C.’s board, who criticized the agency for “imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law.” [Note: disabling the government from the inside]

4]. “..the F.C.C. is working to clear the way for a media merger that should have raised concerns about the concentration of corporate power….A company that owns a lot of TV stations can more easily..exert [control] over what Americans see on their TVs.” [Note”. do YOU think this is good for democracy???]

*** “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” [ Edmund Burke ]

6] “Outside the media, the Trump administration has shown little interest in curbing corporate power…..the Trump record is mostly disappointing….Hewlett Packard hired a number of lobbyists with close ties to mr. Trump, who negotiated with aides to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, bypassing the departments antitrust lawyers.”

7] “Regulators have also set aside efforts to protect workers and small businesses. {under Trump they abandoned Biden era rulings on ‘noncompete’ rules that protected workers by suppressing their wages]

8]. “..one of the Biden administration’s final acts of antitrust enforcement, the F.T.C. sued Pepsi, arguing that the company was offering better deals to Walmart than to smaller grocers….This spring, the F.T.C. dismissed the Pepsi lawsuit.” [Note; is it possible that Walmart can offer lower prices because of. unseen government aid, just asking, YOU tell me………….]

*** Trump: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” [George Will: “Dismal marks, only two months in”; Washington post Weekly; 3/23/25}

9] “congress enacted the nation’s antitrust laws to ensure that private power did not become so concentrated as to threaten the public interest. Government took the side of the people against the powerful.”………. Under the cover of populist rhetoric, Mr. Trump is subverting the nation’s long-standing commitment to those principles. In his hands, laws created to limit the concentration of economic and political power are being used to further its concentration. This administration is not governing in the interest of the people. It is acting in the interest of Mr. Trump.”

***. “The public be damned.” [ William H. Vanderbilt ]

*** “They who possess the prince possess the laws.” [ John Dryden ]

Do YOUR own, FACTUAL, research. WHY do many experts, historians, analysts. [REAL ones, not R-W hacks] say the United States is on the verge, or is IN a second “Gilded Age”????? [the 1865-1901 era of MASSIVE and unrestricted GREED and CORRUPTION. At the end abetted by the “Lochner” era Supreme Court – which leads YOU to research the corrupt Roberts ‘court’ track record of favoring big business and trhe rich – see ‘Citizens United” and more]
ALL of this has been, is being, done under Republican control and “justices.” The elections of 2026 may be YOUR last chance to save American democracy – by restoring what the Founders WANTED, created – when they instituted “checks and balances.” If YOU elect ANY Republicans in 2026 – YOU are giving King Donald I two more years to complete the Trump DICTATORSHIP, and corporate control over YOUR life.

*** “Power must never be trusted without a check.” [ John Adams; Founder; 2nd U.S. President ]

*** “The true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.” {Alexander Hamilton; Founder; Washington administration official]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVI – Trumpism. Soils. American. Honor

~ tomdolen

***. “Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

This post concerns the monumental cruelty and dehumanization currently being done in YOUR name by ‘your’ government in its horrendous and despicable program to “cleanse” America by arresting and terrorizing of the 52 million immigrants, temporary visitors, green card holders, people holding work, student and tourist visas….

Yes, our borders, any borders, need to be controlled. With Trumpism, as in virtually all other policies – the question is HOW it is done. And – as in many/most Trumpist policies, we soon see CRUELTY, STUPIDITY, LIES, CRAZINESS.

This post is based on. “The System Is Meant To Break You”. [ Sarah Wildman; New York Times; 11/23/25]. As a caring and patriotic American – YOU should, you MUST – read the entire article. PLEASE.

5] “The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status. If a woman returning from a vacation with her young children can be suddenly removed from her family and her life, how can we believe that any of us will remain safe?”

12] “The Department of Homeland Security maintains that 70 percent of immigration arrests have targeted criminals. The Migration Policy institute and other monitoring groups have found the opposite: As of September, those groups found, some 71.5 percent of people held in detention had no criminal record. Of the rest, many have a record of minor infraction, such as driving with a broken taillight.” [read this again – THIS is the. BIG. LIE ]

14] “…conditions in U.S. immigration detention centers. The report identified more than 500 cases of abuse and neglect, including inhumane treatment of children and pregnant women, between January and August…a second report in October, noting cases of medical neglect and a dire lack of potable water and acceptable food.” [CRUELTY]

15] “The utter disregard for whether people pose any danger to the community or any flight risk is new.”

16]. “But the reason for her detention was a guess. “Never once did we receive any written notice for why she was officially detained.”

17] “”..Ms Rosa…was then transferred to a rat-infested women’s jail in Maine.” [ CRUELTY ]

18] “Then she was released – burt she did not walk out to her lawyer, nor her husband. She was left outside in the rain, with no phone and no money, disheveled and frantic. She walked to a nearby mall and begged a kindly passer-by to use a phone to call her family.” [ CRUELTY ]

***. “Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.” [ Nani ]

1]. “Ms Rosa..has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States since she was 9 years old; she s now 43. Just weeks before the trip to Cancun, she had renewed her green card without incident. her husband and daughters are American citizens.”

2]. “None of the people we spoke to had a criminal record….All were treated like suspected violent criminals.”

3] “..something different is happening now in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.”

4] “What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras.”

6] “There was a disquieting sameness to the horror that was described to us.”

7] “..the Trump team promised the largest mass deportation in American history, a pledge to expel one million people a year, starting with violent criminals. None of the people we spoke to fit that description.”

*** “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.” [ General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ]

8]. “then the rules seemed to change.”

9]. “the administration is not only deterring newcomers from entering the UnitedStates; it is also effectively encouraging noncitizens who are already here to leave.”

10]. “If you want to produce the deportation numbers that the administration is after, you cannot get those numbers if you focus solely on deporting people who have serious criminal records.” [ THE. BIG. LIE ]

11] ‘..vastly broadening the category of criminality…” [. So – you change the rules, so you HAVE a million ‘criminals” !!!]

13]. “The American immigration detention system has never been known for its humanity.”

***. “Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.” [ Lodovice Ariosto ]

Then – there’s this, from Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist……………..”

And – “the immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country….how can we believe that any of us will remain safe.?” [. ‘..the bell tolls for thee…”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXV – Nursing is No Longer Classified As a “Professional Degree” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen


*** “Where there is no knowledge, ignorance calls itself knowledge.” [ George Bernard Shaw ]

YOU can’t make this stuff up !!!!!!!!! Nurses don’t need education and training ????????

Does the Trump DICTATORSHIP have a “Department of Fools” ??? – who regularly churn out stupidity ???

Around November 20, 2025 – multiple news media reported something like this: “The Trump administration has announced that nursing is no longer classified as a “professional degree.”

SO – when YOU go to the dentist – do YOU want just anybody off the street poking around in YOUR mouth???????

Look up ‘hygienist” – the I-net says: “a licensed healthcare professional..” Read more and YOU find this involves a 2-4 year educational program. Do YOU think that states think that might be a good idea ??????

Look up “nurse’ – the I-net says: “a licensed healthcare professional..” Read more and YOU find this involves several years; 3 years for a registered nurse.

World Book Encyclopedia has a 4-page article on “Nursing,” including information on education required.

When YOU go in for surgery of any type – do YOU want just anybody off the street working with the dentist or surgeon?????????

Classroom work: student nurses study such subjects as anatomy, chemistry, nutrition, pharmacology, physiology, and sociology, as well as the fundamentals of nursing care.” SO – under the Trump DICTATORSHIP – does this mean nurses working on YOU no longer have to do this ?????????????

“Operating room nurses assist surgeons during operations. These nurses must react INSTANTLY AND ACCURATELY. to the surgeons’ request for operating instruments. SO – under the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s. “wisdom” we can put just anybody into the operating room ??????????


Face the FACTS – we in America are now “governed’ by FOOLS, ideological. IDIOTS, good-looking. LIARS, CORRUPT tax-cutters fro the already obscenely rich. YOU are witnessing, on virtually a daily basis, an advanced ‘democracy”. based on math and science slide into “Banana Republic” stupidity, craziness, cruelty, and above all massive and unending CORRUPTION.


Ask YOURSELF – what type of. FOOLS. would even think about saying nursing is no longer a professional healthcare profession????? WhenYOU were born, how many nurses were involved in YOUR healthcare??? WHO makes hospitals function????? WHO cleans YOUR teeth in order to prevent cavities???????

THIS – is an obvious illustration of the type of “thinking” now going on in the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Now, please, judge EVERY Trump DICTATORSHIP action, policy, announcement, rhetoric. with this STUPIDITY in YOUR mind. Re-examine EVERY Trump action since January 20, 2025, in this light.

The Trump DICTATORSHIP is populated with FOOLS, LIARS, INCOMPETENTS……..

***. “I play to people’s fantasies.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of the Deal” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIV – “Trump’s Rap Sheet vs. the People”

~ tomdolen


*** “The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time. [ David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winner: “It’s Even Worse Than It looks” ]

1] “Donald Trump’s conquering of the country is complete. The blows he’s inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal.” [ Jamie Stiehm: “Trump’s Rap Sheet vs. the People”; The Progressive Populist; September, 2025 ] Excerpts follow on specifics:
– “The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell – or a deep chill – for honest government officials.
– “He shut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, headed by a woman.
– “He’ll no longer enforce pollution laws, giving fossil fuels open season.”
– “He fired the Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a woman admiral.”
– “He decimated the federal workforce.”
– “He slashed climate and weather national services as the air gets hotter, floods rise faster, blazews burn longer, and hurricanes cause havoc. Hes threatened to curb the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
– “His volatile tariffs are hurting consumer prices and jarring the world trade system, creating uncertainty.”
– “Trump compelled the Senate to confirm his criminal defense lawyer, Emil Bove, to the federal bench, 50-49.”
– “He’s taking away health care for at least 11 million people. [ after the 2026 midterms ].”
– “He fired the librarian of Congress, a Black woman, and the Kennedy Center president, a woman – in overnight emails.”
– “He dismantled our helping hand around the world, the U.S. Agency for International Development.” [our foreign enemies LOVE this!!!!!]
– “He’s seizing federal funds from top universities.” [ this damage will unfold over years ]
– “The mainstream media bends over backwards, mainly in legal payoffs, to pacify his rage.” [too much truth]
– “He’s abducting residents with no criminal record.”
– “Trump’s Supreme Court stripped a constitutional right – reproductive rights – away from citizens for the first time in history.”

*** “If Fascism came to America, it would be on a program of Americanism.” [ Huey P. Long ]

2] For perspective, consider these charges from “The Declaration of Independence”. against King George III:

– “He has refused his Assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.”
– “He has obstructed the Administration of Justice..”
– “He has made judges dependent on his Will alone..”
– “He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.”
– “He has affected to render the Military independent and superior to the Civil Power.”
– “He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution..”
– “For cutting off our trade with all Parts of the World. – for imposing taxes on us without our consent; for depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury; for transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses..”
– “He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of His Protection and waging War against us.”
– “He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us..”
– “In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free people.”

*** “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the People.” [ U.S. Representative, Senator, Secretary of State. – Henry Clay ]

[NOTE: What’s the practical difference between King George III, and King Donald I ??? George ruled by “divine right”; Donald rules by “Project 2025,” says God’s protecting him.. George was surrounded by rich nobles. Donald is surrounded by rich billionaires
King Donald I talks about “my judges,” “my generals,” “my Justice Department,” ‘my legislators.” King Donald I’s best foreign friends are dictators; he just pardoned an ex-leader convicted of smuggling “tons’ of cocaine into America. King Donald I attacks, persecutes, prosecutes ANY person or group telling the truth about him – what kings and dictators do.
YOU tell me – when Congresspeople say “we’re all afraid”; when the acknowledged goals of Trumpian rhetoric and actions are FEAR and CRUELTY – what’s the practical difference between King George III and King Donald I ???? ]

*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, Founder, 4th U.S. President]