*** “It’s hard to believe anyone would vote for me. People must really be very stupid.” [Donald Trump]
This post will provide just four May, 2026, examples of how INCOMPETENT, how Corrupt, how much contempt Trump has for ordinary Americans – like YOU. We have folders and envelopes FULL of similar stories. It seems EVERY day brings a new example of how Trump has declared war on ordinary Americans, on American democracy, is weakening and disgracing America. Not by me – but by the Preamble’s principles: “We the People”. created a new government to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare..” Trump doesn’t care about any of this.
1] “Intel shows Iran’s military stronger than Trump says”. [Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan; New York Times; 5/14/26]: “Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of thre 33 missile sites in maintains along the Strait of Hormuz…Iran has regained access to roughly 90% of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide…Trump and his military advisors overestimated the damage that the U.S. military could inflict..and underestimated Iran’s resilience and ability to bounce back.”
***. “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” [Mark Twain]
2] “Trump’s IRS suit could be settled”. [Andrew Duhren, Alan Feur; New York Times; 5/14/26]: “..a move that could involve the government directly providing taxpayer funds or another public benefit to the president…the possibility of the IRS dropping any audits of Trump, his family members or businesses..”…Depending on its terms, a settlement with the IRS could be among Trump’s most brazen efforts to bend the government to his personal will – an agenda often carried out through the Justice Department. Trump and his family have repeatedly disregarded Washington ethical guardrails aimed at preventing government officials from profiting from public office.” [NOTE: if memory serves, didn’t Trump says his was going to voluntarily disclose his tax data???]
***. “What do I care about the law? Haint I got the power?” [ Cornelius Vanderbilt ]
3] “Trump: Economic pain not a consideration for Iran War”. [ Erica Green; New York Times; 5/14/26]: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he does not think about the economic hardship Americans feel as a result of his war in Iran, and it did not factor into his negotiations to end it…..”I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,’ Trump added. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all”
[NOTE; Trump hopes that YOU will forget the HE canceled a settlement that PROHIBITED Iran from having a nuclear bomb !!!!!!! Perhaps because President Obama negotiated it – can’t have anything Obama did !!!]
***. “The basest and meanest of all human beings are generally the most forward to despise others. – So that the most contemptible are generally the most contemptuous.” [ Henry Fielding ]
4] “Tobacco’s big win, courtesy of Trump”. [ Christina Jewett, Kenneth Vogel; New York Times; 5/14/26]: “The industry has poured millions into his presidency…Donald Trump got an earful from a group of tobacco executives and lobbyists unhappy with the way the Food and Drug Administration was regulating their industry…He complained to [RFK, Jr., Oz]..about the FDA’s regulation of e-cigarettes..”…The message was received. Less than a week later, the executives got what they wanted….The new policy bypassed the FDA’s regular rule-making process.”
*** “People who contribute get the ear of the member and the ear of the staff. they have access and access is it. Access is power. Access is clout. That’s how this thing works.” [ retired U.S. Representative Romano Mazzoli; in “Economic Apartheid in America”; Chuck collins, Felice Yeskel ]
***. Donald John Trump is THE man our Founders feared. He is THE anti-George Washington. He is THE anti-Abraham Lincoln. He is THE man feared in JohnW. Dean’s “Broken Government” ;…”another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years, under the Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.” – This from a “life-long Republican” in the Nixon White House!!!!! YOU have ONE. chance left to prevent the Trump DICTATORSHIP from being even more destructive, more undemocratic. – In November, 2026, VOTE AGAINST EVERY REPUBLICAN. – because they have almost all. “Drunk the Koolaid,” are giving Trump whatever he demands. – like the. KNOWN. corrupt mid-decade. GERRYMANDERING.
***. “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXIII. – Trump Betrays His Voters, Destroys Middle Class
*** “The most perfect community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.” [ Aristotle ]
This post will BEGIN. to discuss evidence on how the Trump DICTATORSHIP policies are negatively impacting Americans. Leaving aside damage to the environment, relations with formerly friendly countries, undermining the rule of law, undermining democracy. – this post concentrates on. SOME. reasons most Americans are struggling financially. Often a headline alone is enough.
1] “The Middle Class Is Selling Blood Plasma to Get By” [ Kurtis Lee, Robert Gebeloff; New York Times; 4/5/26 ]: “As living costs rise, collection centers are increasingly opening in wealthier areas of the country.”
2] “The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class” [ Thom Hartmann; The Progressive Populist; December, 2025 ]: “Every major social program since the 1930s has been opposed by Republicans…Trump just de-unionized an additional few hundred-thousand federal workers…the middle class has shrunk to fewer than 50% of us, and it takes two paychecks to do it.”
3]. “The Town That Reveals All of Trump’s Bad Economic Ideas” [ bob Davis; New York Times; 4/26/26 ]: “The town is making a comeback..But the reasons have nothing to do with mr. Trump and his signature policies.”
4]. “Republic for Sale”. [ Sabrina Haake; The Progressive Populist; December, 2025]; “Thanks to Citizens United…Trump is indebted to hundreds of industry leaders from tech, auto, education, banking, arms, prison, healthcare, and fossil fuel sectors…Trump is targeting these federal agencies for privatization: USPS, VA, FEMA, TSA, National Weather Service, National Parks, TVA, CDC.”
***. “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]
5] “To Pay Bills, Seniors Turn To Gig Work” [ Cathy Bussewitz; Associated Press; 4/6/26 ]
6]. “VA eliminates thousands of medical jobs…Despite promises to care for veterans..” [ Nicholas Nehamas, Andrea Fuller, Danielle Ivory, Ellen Barry; New York Times; 3/4/26 ]
7] “Brisk sales at Goodwill suggest shoppers worried”. [ Kim Bhasin, Sophia June; New York Times; 2/1/26 ]
8]. “With Grids Under Strain, Blackout Risk Rises for Millions of People”. { Brad Plumer; New York Times; 2/8/26 ]
***. “No society can..be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of..members are poor and miserable..It is but equity..that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people should have..a share of the produce of their own labor as to themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.” [ Adam Smith; yes – THE Adam Smith ! ]
9]. April 17, 2025 – 5:30 PM CBS News: there are 50 million Americans who are food insecure.
10] November 18, 2025 – 6 PM PBS News Hour: 44% of U.S. wokers are in low-wage jobs; 60% of U.S. workers live paycheck-to-paycheck
11]. January 30, 2026 – 6 PM PBS News Hour: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” cut back $911 million on services to adults with disabilities
12]. “Parents face tough child care choices”. [ Julie Weil, Joanna Slater; Washington Post Weekly; 1/25/26 ]
***. “We can either have a democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we cannot have both.” { Justice Louis Brandeis ]
13]. “Millions abandon pricier ACA coverage” [ Reed Abelson, Margot Sanger-Katz; New York Times; 5/10/26 ]
14]. “Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon” [ Lindsay Koshgarian; The Progressive Populist; January, 2026 ]
15]. “To Make America Healthy Again, Break Up Big Ag”. [ Amanda Starbuck; The Progressive Populist; May, 2026 ]
16] “Babies become ‘sitting ducks’ in outbreaks of measles”. [ Devi Shastri, Laura Unger; Associated Press; 4/25/26 ]
*** “We will move from a society based on the pretense..everyone is given an okay standard of living in which people are expected to fend for themselves…a world where..10 to 15 percent of the citizenry is extremely wealthy [and has fantastic lives]…” [Tyler Cowen, a “pro-market” economist; in Robert McChesney and John Nichols: “People Get Ready” ]
17] “EPA won’t consider lives saved in setting rules” [ Maxine Johnson; New York Times; 1/13/26 ]
18]. “The Trump Administration’s War on Science Has A Human Cost”. [ Jeneen Interlandi; New York Times; 3/1/26 ]
19]. “Manufacturers not seeing tariff payoff…Trump’s rationale of more factories opening hasn’t materialized” [ Josh Boak; Associated Press; 3/19/26 ]
20]. “Trump’s Betrayal of His Voters Is Now Complete” [ Joe Conason; The Progressive Populist; may, 2026 ]: Trump: “I said to Russell, Don’t send any money for day care because the United States can’t take care of day care.’ That has to be up to a state.’ We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people.”
*** “His entire life Trump has been a con artist. In “The Art of the Deal” he brags about deceptions that enriched him. He has boasted about not paying banks that loaned him billions of dollars. He lost a court case, had to pay back $25. million on his Trump University scam. [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Worse Than You Think” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXII. – “Trump’s Second Term Is a Cationary Tale”
***. “Character is the only secure foundation of the state.” [ Calvin Coolidge; Republican; 30th U.S. President ]
We have now put forward 181 posts on the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Our job is to present to. YOU, the average American citizen. as many different facts as we can find. Our goal is to make YOU think, and most of all. to raise questions about the direction the Trump DICTATORSHIP is taking America. Hopefully, YOU, and other Americans will see the DAMAGE being inflicted. – and. – protest, oppose, – and, most of all. – vote against the Trump DICTATORSHIP in EVERY way that YOU. can.
Donald John Trump is THE man our Founders feared. he is, without a doubt, THE anti-George Washington. This site has already presented words of critics, some Pulitzer Prize winners, some former U.S. government officials, some economists. – telling YOU that the Trump DICTATORSHIP is profoundly damaging the United states – as a democratic country, as a decent civil society, as a respected moral force in the world, as a forward-looking economy, as a society that respects and listens to scientific evidence.
This post presents excerpts from: “Trump’s Second Term is a Cautionary Tale.” [ Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 4/19/26 ]:
1] “To have spent any amount of time observing President Trump over the last month is to conclude that he is in over his head. The president is struggling with the consequences of his actions..”
11] “.. the most important question of the Trump years thus far: Will his legacy be durable and lasting? Does it represent a new template for American government going forward? or is it more like an unfortunate detour into a dark alley?……if we can escape these years intact and respond accordingly, we may find that Trump stands less as an example and more of a cautionary tale of what happens when we embrace unaccountable, unilateral authority.”
3] “..this is not a man in control of himself, or a president in control of the situation around him..so uninterested in governing that he has handed his power to a handful of deputies.”
***. “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
[ Niccolo Machiavelli ]
5] “This is not to say that Trump has been an inconsequential president, that he hasn’t presided over the wholesale destruction of large parts of the federal government, or that he hasn’t turned the sharp edge of the state against the most vulnerable people in the country.”
2] “When Trump launched his ‘short-term excursion,” he assumed that it would be. – in the words of a Pentagon official in the last Republican administration to launch a Middle East war. – “a cakewalk.” That, as Trump’s own intelligence agencies told him, was a mistake. Now, he is stuck. And lacks the skill and patience to find a way out of his self-inflicted catastrophe.”
*** “Emotionally he remains the thirteen-year-old troublemaker his father sent off to a military academy..”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]
4]. “Months before Trump won his second term, and well before he took office, the Supreme Court handed him the reins of the unitary executive. – the promise of an active, energetic administration free of what the court deemed unnecessary constraints. The president has used this power to run wild, trampling over constitutional government. But he has also, at the same time, shown himself to be the weakest and most ineffectual president of recent memory, less a man of commanding authority than, well, a buffoon.”
6] “Trump’s White House has also slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for new medicines and technologies in a crushing blow to scientific research in the United States.”
7]. “..these grim facts of Trump’s tenure should not blind us to the way his unilateral action betrays the weakness of his regime. Trump works almost exclusively through executive orders… In areas where Trump cannot political actors to obey his demands. – where there is no legal basis for his authority. – he struggles to do anything of consequence.”
***. “Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, maybe had it more right than he knew when he said understanding Trump meant understanding Alice in Wonderland.” Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “Rage” ]
8] “He’s doing little to nothing with Congress, period…Some of this is no doubt strategy, with destruction as a fait accompli, but most of it reflects his inability to engage the legislative process. The weakness we see abroad is the weakness we see at home, and vice versa.”
9] “Nothing underscores Trump’s weakness as a executive more than the war with Iran….It is the imperial project of a would-be authoritarian.”
10] “For as much as Trump is uniquely unsuited for the tremendous power of his office, it is also true that the idea of the unitary executive rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the American political system.”
***. “Early on, briefers were told not to send lengthy documents. Trump wouldn’t read them. Nor should they bring summaries to the Oval Office..PowerPoint was preferred because he is a visual learner…Then officials were told that PowerPoint decks needed to be slimmed down. The president couldn’t digest too many slides. He needed kore images to keep his interest. – and fewer words. Then they were told to cut back the overall message [on complicated issues such as military readiness or the federal budget]. to just three main points. Eh, that was still too much…Come in with one main point and repeat it. – over and over again, even if the president inevitably goes off on tangents. – until he gets it. Just keep steering the subject back to it. ONE point.” [ Anonymous: “A Warning” ]
[NOTE: Remember. – this is President Trump he’s talking about, in his FIRST term, NOT a kindergarten student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does this “thought process”. of an American president, related on pages 28-34, help YOU understand why this article said: “Abroad and at home, the president is in over his head.” ?????]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXI. – Trump Makes Inequality [Affordability] Worse
*** “American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created. Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it does not do. Government has the power to move money from the top to the bottom and the middle, or vice versa.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winning economist Joseph Siglitz: “The Price Of Inequality” ]
Stiglitz is NOT the only economist to say this. – because. NUMBERS. say this. The May 8, 2026 PBS News Hour: labor’s share of earnings continues down – has reached “a record low” share. And t his: “..the top 10 percent hold two-thirds of total household wealth and are worth an average $8.1 million. The bottom half of households, measured by wealth, hold just 2.5 percent of the total and are worth $60,000 on average.” [ Abha Bhattaral, Rachel Lerman, Federica Cocco: “Millionaires: Not What They Used To Be”; Washington post weekly; 4/26/26 ]
And, of course, NO Trump DICTATORSHIP policies will really help the bottom 80%. We know, knew in 2017, that Trump’s signature tax cut would make things worse, add to the national debt – it did. His “Big Beautiful Bill” is ugly, will make that damage permanent. Soon, YOU will hear cries that “we need” to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. Trump’s “Project 2025″ fueled administration is cutting all kinds of government services to YOU to pay for his obscene billionaires’ tax cuts. Second term Trump damage: 66,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the last year.” [5/9/26]
***. “The Betrayal of the American Dream” is the story of how a small number of people in power have deliberately put in place policies that have enriched themselves while cutting the ground out from underneath America’s greatest asset – its middle class…preferential tax law provisions have showered on the wealthy and.. they will hollow out the middle class for years to come…We are no longer the democracy w once were. We have become a plutocracy.”
[ Double Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Barlett and James Steele ]
This post presents excerpts from: “Why †he ‘K-shaped’ economy is not OK” [Edward Lotterman; St. paul Pioneer Press; 4/26/26 ]:
12] “So why the ever-increasing difference in growth between overall output and that of median income received? Because much of the increase in overall household income has been captured by the highest-income 10% of households.”
1] “..the K-shaped economy..refers to an economy that is moving in two different directions for different groups of people…over time, the upper arm of the “K” moves up, the lower down, signifying not only that the rich are getting richer, but their distance from the poor is getting ever greater.”
8] “Good times lasted for 25 years and produced 80 million new citizens, better clothed, better fed and with better health and education than any other time in our nation’s history. There was no K-shape to that economy, virtually everyone was becoming better off.”
***. “In terms of wealth and income, America in the 1950’s and 1960’s was more egalitarian than it had been in more than a century…those same decades were also the high point of social connectedness and civic engagement. Record highs in equality and social capital coincided…Conversely, the last third of the 20th century was a time of growing inequality and eroding social capital…The timing of the two trends is striking: Sometime around 1965-70 America reversed course and started becoming both less economically and less well connected socially and politically.”
[ Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett: “The Spirit Level”. NOTE: this book, an international best-seller, was attacked by Right-wing elements. – because. – it told too much truth ]
9] “In the quarter century from 1950 to 1975, output of the U.S. economy grew by 3.8% a year. In contrast, in the most recent quarter-century, that from 2000 to 2025, output growth did not make 2.2% a year. That difference…is huge. The U.S. economy in 1975 was 2.54 times as large as it had been in 1950. In contrast, the economy in 2025 was only 1.7 times larger…”
10] “..if the U.S. economy had grown as fast under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden as it had under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, inflation-adjusted GDP would be $38.8 trillion, not $23.8 trillion. That 63% greater total would have amounted to over $43,000 greater available goods and services to every man, woman and child in our population of 349 million people.”
11] “..inflation-adjusted per capita GDP grew by 72% from 1985 to 2015. But inflation-adjusted median household income – that received right at the middle of all households from lowest to highest income. – only grew by 25%…working people are not reaping the financial benefits that their own labor is producing.”
***. “During the 20th century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both kore fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. Incomes rose in sync. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests.’ [ Kurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses” ]
2] “..higher-educated, higher-income households that, on average, include cohorts of people, especially the baby boomers born from 1946 through 1964…they have had it better than any other birth cohort in U.S. history.”
3] “Boomers’ adult children are not doing as well as their parents and their adult grandchildren even worse. In relative terms, they have lower incomes and lower net worth than their boomer forebears did at the same age. It is harder for them to find work and much harder to rent or buy shelter. Basic medical care and insurance coverage chew up a larger fraction of earnings than in the past……..general inflation…..Student loans….”
4] “and the worst is yet to come. There are a few general issues that determine how well any certain birth cohort does over their lifespans: First, how productive is the overall economy…..Second, how is total income..actually divided up?…. Third, do circumstances arise that..impose greater costs…. Fourth, are the relevant factors “cyclical” or ‘structural”? ‘
*** “From the end of World War II through the 1970s..average incomes..of the bottom 50 percent of earners rose by 129 percent…During the same three-plus decades, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose ..about 58 percent. And the gap between the two groups was narrower than it was before or afterward. After 1980..growth for the bottom 50 percent of earners cratered, totaling a mere 21 percent over the next thirty-five years, while the incomes of the top 1 percent of earners nearly tripled [194 percent].” [ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
5]. “The economy bobbled repeatedly from 1920 to 1940. The twenties roared in some industries…The generation of sailors and doughboys had the deck stacked against them….after the stock market crash starting in 1929, the whole country and world were in depression.’
6]. “The economy boomed during World War II. but fears of returning to depression because of returning military forces..were common. This motivated passage of the GI Bill to keep many vets out of the labor market by sending them to school…our status as the one undamaged industrialized nation in the whole world combined with productivity boosts from millions of better-educated veterans and from defense-oriented technological research stoked a fire under the economy.”
7] “G>I> Bill mortgages jump-started homebuilding. Constructing thousands of miles of highways modeled on Germany’s autobahns, together with thousands of new hospitals with delivery rooms for babies, and tens of thousands of grade schools, high schools and universities plus technological advances in agriculture, all shifted our nation into boom gear.”
***. “…years-long assault by Republicans on the Internal Revenue Service.’ Bush II hired private contractors, who ‘..ended up costing the federal government money.” Republicans then ‘slashed 20% of the IRS’s budget and 22% of its staff from 2010 to 2018. For people making more than $1 million, the number of tax audits dropped by 72% – and the money the IRS collects from audits fell by 40% Biden’s new IRS commissioner..told Congress the agency is leaving on the table $1 trillion a year in uncollected taxes because it doesn’t have enough staff.” [ Washington monthly; July-August, 2021 ]
[ “American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXX. – Trump’s Blatant Cruelty Toward Afghans Who Helped America
***. “Of all the vices to which human nature is subject, treachery is the most infamous and detestable…The greatest wrongs will not justify it, as it destroys those principles of mutual confidence and security by which only society can subsist.” [ L.M. Stretch ]
Of all the cruelties perpetrated by the Trump DICTATORSHIP, the tragedy of blocking Afghans who risked their lives and families , now waiting, after being promised sanctuary – lives in America. U.S. military vets have organized on their behalf. This will NOT be pleasant reading; but as an American patriot – YOU must read this story – because YOU are the only ones who can save these deserving people. Please contact your political reps. Thank you.
It gets worse. Read “America’s Secret Veterans” – New York Times magazine; 4/23/26. Read about these Afghan men who fought for America. Read about how the CIA “trusted them completely, ” how CIA personnel defend them against the Trump DICTATORSHIP.””
This post presents excerpts from: “In danger, in limbo, and now in fear” [ Megha Rajagopalan, Eileen Sullivan, Zolan Kanno-Youngs; New York Times; 4/23/26]:
10]. “Who is going to fight alongside the U.S. when the U.S.betrays the people who stood alongside us?”
14] “Discussions over the Afghans are separate from the deportation deal, but both are examples of what has become a hallmark of Trump’s immigration strategy: moving people to faraway places, even when those countries have human rights abuses or authoritarian governments.”
2] “The Afghans have been living in limbo in Qatar for more than a year. They were taken there after being evacuated by the United states for their own safety because they supported U.S. forces during the war against the Taliban..”
4] “We think this is just them wanting to send these people back to Afghanistan, where they know they will face certain death. They know the Afghans are not going to accept the DRC,” VanDiver said…”
***. “Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]
1] “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Donald Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Congo, which is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”
3] “More than 600,000 refugees, mostly from the Central African Republic and Rwanda, are currently in Congo…Human rights activists say the country is not equipped to take in more..”
5] “The discussions highlight the long-standing tension between America’s obligation to Afghans, who face grave danger in retaliation for helping U.S. forces during the war, and the Trump administration’s pledge to curtail immigration.”
***. Cunning nad treachery are the offspring of incapacity.” [ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ]
6] “More than 190,000 Afghans who aided the U.S. effort resettled in the U.S. between August 2021 and mid-2025, after passing background checks.”
7] “But a group of more than 1,100 Afghans are being housed in a former U.s. military base in Qatar…The U.S. government brought them here in late 2024 and promised them a path to settlement in the United states if they passed further checks.”
8]. “Qatar was intended as a stopover, but many of the Afghans found themselves in limbo after the Trump administration ended policies that would have enabled them to resettles in the U.S.”
9]. “THry had the expectation that within weeks †hey’d be relocated to the U.S.”..”
*** “Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe, you make them hope.” [ Marilyn Monroe ]
11]. “Some of the people left at the camp have been fully vetted; others have not, VanDiver said. but Trump’s immigration policies have made it impossible for any of them to come to the United States now.”
12]. “Andrew Sullivan, a military veteran and the executive director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit group that has been working to resettle Afghans, said some have been deemed ineligible for reasons that have nothing to do with national security. For example, one woman turned 21 and is no long eligible to be included on her father’s visa..”
[NOTE: the cruelty of this is monstrous – what normal human does this???]
13]. “Our belief is that if, if they can pass security vetting, they should be coming to the United States,” Sullivan said…”
***. “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.” [ William Hazlitt ]
[NOTE: for more perspective on the Corruption and Cruelty of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – reflect on pardoning 1,600 rioters who tried to overthrow the U.S, government – and killed and injured over 100 police officers. – or admitting dozens of white South Africans alleged to have been “victims” of discrimination [none of whom risked their lives and families to help the U.S. fight a war]. – and refusing the Afghans who DID risk everything.]
*** “Humanitarianism is a link that binds together all Americans…Whenever tragedy or disaster has struck in any corner of the world, the American people has promptly and generously extended its hand of mercy and help. Generosity has never impoverished the giver, it has enriched the lives of those who have practiced it…And the bread we have cast upon the waters has been returned in blessings a hundredfold.”
[ Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican; 34th U.S. President ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, corruption, Craziness, CLXXIX – Trump as Incompetent, Stupid, Dangerous War Leader, XI
***. ‘..psychiatrist Prudence L. Gourgueschon, a former president of the American Psycoanalytic Association, proposed judging Trump’s fitness for office using the United States Army Field Manual on developing leaders. She distilled..five crucial qualities needed to lead: – Trust -Discipline and self-control – Judgment and critical thinking -Self-awareness – Empathy. Not one of these is part of Trump’s nature.” [Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think”].
WHY did the United States go to war with Iran? What decision-making processes were conducted? WHO were the key people voicing opinions? WHO pushed for war? WHO voiced caution, and or, opposition to war?
This post presents excerpts from: “Behind The Scenes. As Trump Took U.S. To War With Iran”. [Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman; New York times; 4/12/26 ]: [NOTE: this might be THE article on those and other crucial questions. If YOU want to know more about WHY America is at war – then this article is a MUST read]
8] “But Trump would often seem to hear only what he wanted to hear.”
1]. “This account of how Trump took the United States into war reveals how the deliberations inside the administration highlighted the president’s instincts, his inner circle’s fractures and the way he runs the White House…And it shows how, in the end, even the more skeptical members of Trump’s war cabinet..deferred to the president’s instincts, including his abundant confidence that trhe war would be quick and decisive.”
5] “The CIA director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Rubio cut in. “In other words, it’s bullshit,” he said Several others jumped in, including Vance, just back from Azerbaijan, who also expressed strong skepticism about the prospect of regime change.”
*** “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” [ Isaac Asimov ]
13] “Tucker Carlson..had come to the Oval Office several times over the previous year to warn Trump that a war with Iran would destroy his presidency…”I know you’re worried about it, but it’s going to be OK,” the president said. Carlson asked how he knew. “Because it always is,” Trump replied.”
11]. “In front of his colleagues, Vance warned Trump that a war against Iran could cause regional chaos and untold numbers of casualties…Vance raised other concerns, too. As vice president, he was aware of the scope of America’s munitions problem…that no amount of military insight could truly gauge what Iran would do in retaliation when the survival of the regime was at stake. Moreover, he thought there seemed to be little chance of building a peaceful Iran in the aftermath.”
12]. “Beyond all of this was perhaps the biggest risk of all: Iran held the advantage when it came to the Strait of Hormuz. if this narrow waterway carrying vast quantities of oil and natural gas was choked off, the domestic consequences in the United states would be severe, starting with higher gas prices.”
***. “The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears tobe one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.” [ Robert Lynd ]
2] “Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to almost certain victory: Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks. the regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz, and the likelihood that Iran would land blows against U.S. interests in neighboring countries was assesses as minimal….Besides…..” [read this again. it appears to have had a decisive impact on Trump – how much have real events shown this to be accurate?]
3]. “The intelligence officials had deep expertise in U.s. military capabilities, and they knew the Iranian system and its players inside out. They had broken down Netanyahu’s presentation into four parts. First was decapitation – killing the ayatollah. Second was crippling Iran’s power to project power and threaten its neighbors. third was a popular uprising inside Iran. And fourth was regime change, with a secular leader installed to govern the country. The U.S. officials assessed that the first two objectives were achievable…They assessed that the third and fourth parts of Netanyahu’s pitch…were detached from reality.”
6] “The president then turned to to Caine, “General, what do you think?” Caine replied, “sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”
*** “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. but if you must be without one. Be without the strategy.” [ General Norman Schwarzkopf ]
7] “As the small team of advisors who were lopped into the plans deliberated over the following days, Caine shared with Trump and others the alarming military assessment that a major campaign against Iran would drastically deplete stockpiles of U.S. weaponry. Caine saw no clear path to quickly replenishing these stockpiles. He also flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it. Trump had dismissed that possibility on the assumption that the regime would capitulate before it came to that. The president appeared to think it would be a very quick war.” [NOTE: read this again – WHO is correct? WHO is working from data and rational thinking – and WHO is working from assumptions and wishful thinking???]
9] “Back in office for a second term, Trump’s confidence in the U.S. military’s abilities had only grown. he was especially emboldened by the spectacular commando raid to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro…Within the Cabinet, Hegseth was the biggest proponent of a military campaign against Iran…Rubio, however, did not try to talk Trump out of the operation.”
10] “Nobody in Trump’s inner circle was more worried about the prospect of war with Iran, or did more to try to stopit, than the vice president…..he had described a war with Iran as “a huge distraction of resources” and “massively expensive..”…..What the vice president pushed for was a limited, punitive strike…thought a regime change war with Iran would be a disaster. His preference was for no strikes at all.”
14]. The final situation room meeting of February 26. Read the account of this meeting, the column under “I think we need to do it.” Participants say nothing of significance against war. They leave EVERYTHING up to Trump’s judgment. Which is most unfortunate. – because numerous psychiatrists, mental health experts, historians, analysts, largely agree. – “judgment and critical thinking”. – is something Trump DOES NOT have.
[NOTE: – remember this: “…the notion, that his team is working to protect him from himself, has since become one of the defining narratives of the Trump administration…President Trump should not be shocked that wary aides and cabinet members saved his presidency..many times.” [Anonymous – a senior Trump administration official: “A Warning”. – BUT – this was in the FIRST Trump term. – NOT the second, filled with “loyalists” ]
*** “While discussing “Fear’. on television, I was asked for my bottom-line summary of Trump’s leadership. “Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis, I said.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner bob Woodward in “Rage” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXVIII – Trump’s Contempt for the American People
*** “Never since the scandal-ridden administration of Ulysses S. Grant has there been an executive branch as nakedly given over to self-dealing as that of Donald Trump….no family has mixed business interests with public office like the Trumps. The appointment of close family members who are also corporate executives to ill-defined but top-level White House jobs is a first…His daughter Ivanka Trump has also served as an inspiration to dictators around the world.”
[ Sarah Chayes: On Corruption In America” ]
This post presents excerpts from. “Trump Holds the American People in Total Contempt” {Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 4/26/26}:
1] “To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.”
9] “With Trump..the misconduct is the concern. You might even say that his corruption, like his cruelty, is the point.”
2]. “..Trump’s corruption, which is so vast as to be a new phenomenon in American politics. The president and his family have leveraged his office to the tune of nearly $4 billion. They have received hundreds of millions of dollars from a network of branded cryptocurrency assets. Investors include large corporations, foreign nationals and state actors hoping to curry favor with the administration.”
*** “Trump perked up at the mention of bribes and got rather agitated. He told Tillerson he wanted him to help him get rid of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act…..Looking at Tillerson, Trump said, “I need you to get rid of that law”….”Mr. President,” he said. “I’m not the guy to do that.”….Trump..turned to Stephen Miller….”Stephen, I want you to draft an executive order and repeal that law.” [Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig: “A Very Stable Genius”]. [NOTE: this is an actual 2017 Oval Office conversation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How much ore do YOU need to know???]
3] “..consider the president’s pardons. Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, a crypto firm, was convicted in 2023 fro violating the Bank Secrecy Act. After Trump returned to office, Zhao – whose company donated software to World Liberty Financial so that it could start its own cryptocurrency. – lobbied for a pardon. In October of last year, Trump granted the pardon, raising the possibility that Zhao could recover his court-ordered fines. – $4.3 billion to the U.S. government as punishment for allowing criminal actors to use Binance for a broad array of illicit transactions, including child sex abuse, illegal narcotics and terrorism.”
4]. “Trump’s various projects. – his monuments to himself. – also appear to be little more than state-sanctioned opportunities for graft. The president has collected hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy donors and large corporations for his proposed ballroom, presidential library and triumphal arch. Tens of millions of dollars marked for the library are unaccounted for..”
5] “Last but far from least is the president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S., for damages for leaking his tax returns to the public in 2019 and 2020. [NOTE: which Trump promised to do in some speeches!] According to a recent news report, lawyers for the president are in talks with the I.R.S. to settle. This is tantamount to presidential looting of the Treasury, little different than if Trump had stolen the money outright.”
***. “Meanwhile, the big-business strand of America’s emerging kleptocratic network was awarded control of the agencies whose job is to protect the public from the worst effects of those very businesses” profit-seeking practices. The executives – and lobbyists-turned-government-officials went straight to work rewriting the rules in ways designed to maximize the gush of money into their collective coffers, not ease the burdens on ordinary Americans.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption In America” ]
6] “Despite the general reputation for graft that pervades the 19th century, it is hard to find anything like the personal corruption of Trump, even among Gilded Age presidents.”
7] “Looking through the 20th century, there is, of course, the administration of Warren G. Harding….Harding himself did not appear to be personally corrupt…”
8] “To walk through subsequent presidents is to get a similar picture. Is there gross misconduct? Yes. After all, Richard Nixon was forced to resign. Was there graft and petty corruption among other higher and lower officers in each administration? Also yes. But do we see anything like the self-dealing and naked personal enrichment of Trump and his family? No, we do not.”
10]. “Trump is a type, one of many figures around the world whose nationalist, patrimonial political movement is little more than a cover.”
***. “..Trump himself..is at once a symptom..of America’s increasingly corrupt system, and an exaggeration of it so extreme as to seem like a grotesque aberration…Trump’s bald use of his office to patronize and promote his businesses. – including raking in ‘kick-ups”. from lower echelons…outstrips anything I have witnessed in a developing country. As does his penchant for surrounding himself with men entwined with foreign criminal networks, and his don-like demand for fealty…Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country’s history.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption In America”]. [NOTE: Chayes was “special assistant on corruption to Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; advised David McKiernan and Stanley McChrystal]
[“Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country’s history.” – let that sink in. Read this article in full. Read Chayes” book. Understand her context and experience for things she wrote.]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXVII. – Trump Further Blows Up The U.S. Tax System
***. “My megarich friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.” [Warren Buffett: “Please Tax Me. I Can Take It”; New York Times; 8/16/2011]
This post BEGINS to examine the CORRUPTION of the U.S. tax system. For much of its existence, the rich, connected, and corporations have sought to cheat on taxes. Like much else in post-1980 America, the corruption of “our” tax system has been driven by far-right ideologues, with much “encouragement” from the rich, and considerable help from a CORRUPT U.S. “supreme court” [legalized bribery]. Republicans are DOCUMENTED to have done most of this. Below are some excerpts of evidence explaining how the tax burden has been shifted on to ordinary citizens.
1] “The Republican tax plan would deliver a major benefit to the top 1 percent of Americans….Despite repeated promises from Republican lawmakers that the plan is designed to provide relief to the middle class, nearly 30 percent of taxpayers with incomes between $50,000 and $150,000 would see a tax increase….Meanwhile, the study found that 80 percent of the tax benefits would accrue to those in the top 12 percent.” [Carolyn Johnson: “Tax analysis: Tump plan gives little to middle”; Washington Post; 9/30/17]
2] “In 2027, 70 percent of middle-income taxpayers will get a tax hike. – but just 8 percent of those making more than $5 million will.” [Mother Jones; March-April, 2018]
3] “A report released March 24 projects that the IRS is set to lose over $500 billion in tax revenue over the next tax season as a result of actions taken by President Donald Trump and his top donor Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group..” [ “Dispatches”; The Progressive Populist; April 15, 2025 ]
4] “Trump administration to slash IRS staffing in half” …..”a significant cut that could jeopardize the agency’s ability to complete its basic mission of collecting taxes….while corporations and rich Americans may face less scrutiny from the thinly staffed tax agency.” [Andrew Duehren; New York Times; 3/5/25]
***. “The only reason God put Republicans on earth is to cut taxes.” [President of Club for Growth Stephen Moore; “Realtime with Bill Maher”; HBO; 4/25/ 2003]
5]. “The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes….Economic studies have shown that for every dollar spent by the IRS, the agency returns between $5 and $12….A 2024 report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that the IRS found savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing the tax returns of very wealthy taxpayers..” The LB&I division, which has “the highest return on investment” was disproportionally going to be cut. [Andy Kroll: “How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save”; The Progressive Populist; April 1, 2025]
6] “Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “FRAUD” on the Courts”. [Andy Kroll; The Progressive Populist; April 15, 2025]
7] “The turn away from audits of big partnerships is part of the IRS’s broader chaos, which has been accompanied by a slew of tax giveaways to industry in Trump’s new term. Big companies are benefitting from the gutting of regulations and the agency is pulling back from a crackdown on various shelters.” [ Jesse Drucker” “Push to audit private equity and venture capital falters”; New York Times; 1/1/26 ]
***. “Taxes: Making sure that the poor and middle-class pay their fair share of corporate handouts. “Tax Relief: “Relieving major corporations of any tax burden whatsoever so that they may reinvest their earnings in larger compensation packages for their CEO’s.” { “The Real Republican Dictionary” ]
8] “A team of academic economists and IRS researchers in 2021 found that the top 1% of U.S. income earners fail to report more than 20% of their earnings to the IRS.” [ Fatima Hussein: “IRS touts audits of rich tax dodgers”; Associated Press; 7/15/23 ]
9] ‘..a new study finds that at least 55 of America’s largest companies paid no U.S. taxes last year on billions of dollars in profits….Many also received millions of dollars in tax rebates.” [ Patrica Cohen: “At least 55 firms paid no U.s. taxes in 2020’; New York Times; 9/4/21 ]
10] “Firms move HQ overseas then exploit tax loophole”. [ Steven D. Solomon; New York Times; 2/15/16 ]
***. “Nothing is more important in the face of war than cutting taxes.” [ Republican Rep. Tom Delay; 3/12/2003 ]
11]. !!!!!!!! READ. THIS – AND GET ANGRY. “The United states is losing approximately $1 trillion in unpaid taxes every year, Charles Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, estimated Tuesday, arguing that the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats….Most of the unpaid taxes are the result of evasion by the wealthy and large corporations, Rettig said.” [ Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 4/14/ 21 ]. [NOTE; this is the yearly debt interest payment !!!!! ]
12]. “Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said the IRS hopes to increase audit rates on wealthy individuals to 2011 levels, before congressional Republicans slashed its budget for five consecutive years.” [ Jacob Bogage: “IRS aims for more audits of rich”; Washington Post Weekly; 4/9/23 ]
13]. “IRS to cut estate examiners. Bush administration to fire 157 lawyers, 17 others who audit wealthiest filers” [ David Cay Johnston; New York Times; 7/23/2006 ]
***. “The tax system is becoming a tool to turn the American dream of prosperity and reward for hard work into an impossible goal for tens of millions of Americans and into a nightmare for many others. Our tax system is being used to create a nation with fewer stable jobs and less secure retirement income. The tax system is being used by the rich, through their allies in Congress, to shift risks off themselves and unto everyone else. And perhaps worst of all, our tax system now forces most Americans to subsidize the lifestyles of the very rich, who enjoy the benefits of our democracy without paying their fair share of its price.” [ Double Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “Perfectly Legal” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXVI. – Pete Hegseth versus George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Ben Franklin. – on free speech !!!
l]. Former Army National Guard Major Pete Hegseth: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday castigated members of Congress in both parties for questioning the war in Iran….”The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of Congressional Democrats and some Republicans.”
[ Robert Jimison: “Iran war has cost U.S. $25B so far”; New York Times; 4/30/26 ]
2] Commander in chief, American Revolutionary War Army. George Washington, later Ist U.S. President: “For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”
3] Four Star General, World War II U.S. Army Dwight Eisenhower, later 34th U.S. President: “Here in America we are descended in blood and spirit from revolutionaries and rebels. – men and women who dared to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
4] Colonel, Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th U.S. President: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
5] Founding Father Benjamin Franklin: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
Nuf. said………….
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXV. – Trump Blows Up The National Debt
** “To contract new debts is not the way to pay old debts.” { George Washington ]
The U.S. national debt for 1789 – 1980, when Ronald Reagan became president was less than $1 trillion. America had paid for the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, recovery from the 1930’s Great Depression, built the Eisenhower freeway system, gone to the moon, instituted Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and much more.
This post begins to examine how Republicans blew up the national debt deliberately, disarmed the IRS, lowered taxes on the rich. The record is statistically clear, and, like much else, the Trump DICTATORSHIP made the national debt crisis much worse. – and. – of course, lied about it.
Below are some beginning excerpts, laying out the FACTS for YOU:
1] “..74 percent of the debt was run up under the last three Republican presidents and..no Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower ever submitted a balanced budget to Congress.” { economist Edward Lotterman: “Cynicism and self-delusion will bankrupt this nation”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 4/23/09 ]
2] “The tax cuts championed by President Donald Trump are helping push the nation toward an unprecedented level of debt, heightening the risk of another financial crisis, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.”
[ Evan Halper: “Tax cuts accelerate U.S. toward a debt crisis”; Los Angeles Times; 6/27/18]
3] “The amount of corporate taxes collected by the federal government has plunged to historically low levels in the first sic months of the year, pushing up the federal budget deficit much faster than economists predicted. The reason is President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.” [ Jim Tankersley: “New tax law does a number on the debt”; New York Times; 7/29/18 ]
4]. “Trump also insisted that a new round of tax cuts would lower the debt. – a claim disputed by most mainstream economists, and undermined by the actual budgetary effects of the tax cut he signed into law..” [ Jeff Stein: “Trump’s budget ideas don’t add up”; Washington Post; 9/8/24 ]
5]. “..the eight Clinton years had the fastest average growth in inflation-adjusted GDP since the 1960s, a rate nearly twice as high as over the 23 years since. We threw that sustainability away with tax cuts in 2001, 2003 and 2007.”
[ economist Edward Lotterman: “Wanted: Political cover for the inevitable”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 10/13/24 ]
***. “Thanks to the half-revolution adopted in July 1981, more than a trillion dollars has already been needlessly added to our national debt. – a burden that will plague us indefinitely. Our national savings has been squandered to pay for a tax cut we could not afford…borrowed enormous amounts of foreign capital…the U.S. economy will most surely grow much more slowly. By turning ourselves into a debtor nation for the first time since World War I, we have sacrificed future living standards.” [ David Stockman: “The Triumph of Politics”. – he was Reagan”s budget director!!!!! ]
6] The 2017 Trump tax cuts added $2.5 trillion to the national debt by 2024 analysis. They now represent 6-8% of the current 2026 debt. If they are made permanent, the cost could increase by another $4 trillion over the next ten years.
[ Internet – 4/29/26. some estimates are for a much higher debt from Trump’s tax cuts. ]
7]. “..Donald Trump’s proposal to further reduce the U.S. corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% would make the bottom half of the nation’s income distribution poorer while boosting the fortunes of those at the very top, according to analysis published Oct. 3 by economists at American University.” [ Dispatches; The Progressive Populist; November l, 2024 ]
8]. “Suply-side cultists and Republicans had forecast gloom and doom from the Bush and Clinton tax increases, but the result was the last real prosperity our nation has had.” [ economist Edward Lotterman: “Deficits matter; more than elections”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 7/8/24 ]
9} “Trump cuts force cities to scramble. Minn. communities rethink infrastructure projects amid uncertain federal funding”. [ Sydney Kashiwagi; Minnesota Star Tribune; 4/7/25 ]
10] “How the GOP may pay for the tax cuts”. [ Jacob Bogage; Washington post Weekly; 1/5/25 ]: “Nonpartisan scorekeepers project that Trump’s campaign platform would add up to $15 trillion to future borrowing [the national debt]” Listed below are are “10 policies that Trump and Republicans have floated..” NOTICE WHO GETS HURT AND WHO DOESN’T GET HURT!!!!! “Impose new tariffs. Repeal clean energy programs. Cut ‘unauthorized’ programs. Cancel student loan forgiveness. Eliminate the Education Department. Cut food stamp benefits. Impose Medicaid work requirements. Withhold anti-obesity drugs. End child tax credit for noncitizens Cut IRS funding [NOTE: cutting IRS funding will acyually cost more than it would save !!!]
*** “Having added to the national debt, the wealthy are now funding initiatives that decry the deficit and call for cuts in programs that provide safety nets for middle-class Americans such as Social Security and Medicare.” [ Double Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Barlett & James Steele: “The Betrayal of The American Dream” ]
{NOTE; and then. – this. – the interest on the Republican created national debt. – $1 trillion WASTED. paying the interest on the national debt EVERY. year. Because. – instead of properly and fairly taxing the rich and corporations. – we’re borrowing it. Much more on the failure, the CORRUPTION, of not fairly taxing them will be in post CLXXVI on the Trump DICTATORSHIP. ]
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