*** “Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.” [ Steven Cooper ]
This post presents excerpts from Philip Coggan’s. “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump.” Coggan is a former “Economist’ and ‘Financial Times’ journalist for 35 years, author of several books, winner of multiple awards. He lives in London, U.K.
1. “The tariffs, or Trump tax, are a mistake in many different ways. But the most important error is a fundamental misunderstanding of the global trading system.”
2]. “…the Court of International Trade in the U.S. ruled that Mr. Trump has exceeded his authority by imposing tariffs when the power should belong to Congress…the ruling emphasized the one consistent theme behind all the president’s actions: chaos.”
3]. “Mr. Trump has made the goods Americans buy more expensive, and disrupted the global economy, without doing anything to help those who voted for him.”
4]. “Most modern economists would advise Mr. Trump against his trade policies – but he relies on his own instincts and the support of a narrow coterie of acolytes.”
5] “…in particular, Mr. Trump effectively imposed an embargo on his own economy.”
***. “Over the past 200 years – protectionist countries fall behind.” [ President Ronald Reagan; 1988 radio broadcast ]
6] “…footwear manufacturing also warned that the sheer scale of the tariffs would lead to closed businesses, lost jobs, higher prices and shortages on shelves. There was simply no prospect that production could be moved back to the U.S. in any reasonable timescale…Mr. Trump had even placed a tariff on the machinery and materials needed to make footwear in the U.S. this is not, to say the least, an example of joined-up thinking.” [NOTE: read this again!!! – here YOU have the essence of Trump DICTATORSHIP INCOMPETENCE. “We” are being ‘governed” by idiots.]
7] “An academic study that examined the effect of tariffs in more than 150 countries over a fifty-year period found that tariff increases were followed by adverse effects on output and productivity that were economically and statistically significant. Tariff increases were also followed by higher unemployment and greater inequality. They are self-inflicted wounds.”
8] On pages 10-11, Coggan presents six major points on WHY Trump’s tariffs are destructive, including Trump’s tax cuts for the rich will make the trade deficit worse; his tariffs “make no sense” in the era of global supply chains; will likely reduce productivity; the burden will fall on lower income consumers – many of them Trump voters.
9] “By declaring ‘America first’, and bullying its allies, Mr. Trump has dissolved this informal empire [ the post-1945 American lead trading system]. This is bad news for democracy in general.”
10] “Mr. Trump’s approach also undermines the image of the U.S. as the embodiment of the liberal democratic system. He bypasses Congress, attacks the courts and the free press, and only believes in elections when he wins them…Mr. Trump’s authoritarianism, by eroding U.S. soft power, has an economic impact too.”
***. “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” [ Alexandre Dumas ]
[NOTE: this summary of Coggan’s thinking covers ONLY the first 15 pages of his 116 pages. This is bad enough, do YOU need more facts? Coggan ends with “The Man Without A Plan.” Another chapter: “Where The Jobs Went.” “Analysing Donald Trump’s economic policy is rather like nailing jelly to the wall.” How much more DAMAGE can the Trump DICTATORSHIP do to the American economy, to America’s world-wide reputation??? ]
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – And: INCOMPETENCE, CCX -Losing Credibility And Foreign Friends – Trump Shoots America In The Foot!!!!!!!
*** “..Trump’s language and conduct has at times presented risks to national security…Many of Trump’s former top Cabinet officers and aides have said publicly that Trump should not be president again and should not even be on the ballot.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “War” ]
NOTE: We have added ‘INCOMPETENCE’ to the description of the Trump DICTATORSHIP because, as we have said many times, Donald John Trump fails THE test written in the U. s. constitution’s Preamble: “WE the People.” create this government to “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty..” The CHALLENGE: specifically – Which, if ANY, Trump DICTATORSHIP policies and laws have done ANY of this? Just one example: when Trump took office in January, 2017 – the U.s. national debt “…was approximately $19.95 trillion..” In August, 2026 YOUR U.S. national debt is now over $40 trillion, “an all time high..” And – American is paying over $1 trillion in interest EVERY year!!!
This post presents excerpts from “Blaming Canada Is No Longer a Joke,” by Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance for Canada, in the New York Times, 8/2/26. Most Americans know Canada is America’s most important ally and friend. Read….then re-read this….then THINK. – what is this former high-ranking Canadian official telling YOU??? This is ONE indication on what the reckless STUPIDITY of one Donald John Trump, unfortunately U.S. president, has done to America’s world-wide reputation.
From 1945 to 2016, America built a POSITIVE reputation world-wide. – because of our generosity, openness, support for democracy around the world. This “soft power” was a MAJOR advantage for America, for Americans. In less than two years, the Trump DICTATORSHIP has trashed this. People, world-wide, will NOT forget what Trump has done – in YOUR name. Indeed, substantial changes – not to America’s benefit. – are already occurring because of Trump’s reckless and STUPID words and actions.
2]. “Mr. Trump’s tariff offensive has a clear purpose: to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit…The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president’s tariffs are in fact part of the point. True power is being able to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all…Mr. Trump is keen to establish himself as the world’s apex predator.”
3] “Mr. Trump has made his view plain. His Washington doesn’t have allies. It has only satraps, enemies and equals – the latter a singular group that includes just china and on some days, perhaps, Russia.”
7]. “..the irony is That Washington is abusing its allies at precisely the moment when it most needs them. As the war with Iran is demonstrating, even the United States is weaker when it gores it alone.”
*** “I’ve served the man for two years. I think he’s a long-term and immediate danger to the country,” a senior national security official told us.” { Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig”. “A Very Stable Genius” ]
8] “..for a lot of its longtime members, that list of like-minded democracies doesn’t feel like much of an alliance anymore. A Pew survey published last month showed that in most of the 36 surveyed countries, China was viewed more favorably than the United States. That included Canada, where 33 percent of respondents saw America favorably, compared with 44 percent for China. People in France, Germany and Britain took a similar view.”
9] “..given Mr. Trump’s choice to play by China’s rules and force smaller countries to suffer or submit, the poll shouldn’t be much of a surprise.”
10]. “Would-be future American leaders who recognize the value of allies and think all will be forgiven when the White House has a new occupant need to appreciate the depth of the damage done by its current resident.”
*** “Tillerson was never told why he was fired…It had earlier leaked out that Tillerson had called Trump a “fucking moron’ at a July 20, 2017, Tank meeting. Probably nothing could have triggered Trump’s insecurities more.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “Rage” ]
4]. “Inside the United States, the pressing question is whether the country will remain a democracy. That matters to the rest of us, too, of course.. But even if democracy eventuallly prevails inside the United States, America’s old friends will wonder whether Trumpism permanently reshaped Washington’s relationship with the rest of the world.” [NOTE: read this again – the reputation of YOUR country is no longer in our hands. Trump has offended and alarmed SO MANY other nations – it will be difficult tor repair his damage.]
5] “Will a post-Trump try to rebuild genuine partnerships with its like-minded allies, based on the idea that win-win outcomes are possible and that even superpowers need to honor their treaty arrangements? or is Mr. Trump saying out loud what most Americans have really thought of their allies all along?”
6]. “After all, in its 250th year, the Republic really is flirting with authoritarianism.”
*** “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander-in-chief.” [Pulitzer prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think”]
1] “At a time when Americans rank inflation and affordability as their top economic concerns, adding another tax on consumer goods. – which is what tariffs are. – is self-defeating.”
***. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” [ Edgar Allan Poe ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCIX. – NUMBERS Reveal How STUPID, How DESTRUCTIVE, Trump’ Economic Program Has Been, WILL. BE
*** “The necessities of life occasion the great expenses of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the central part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expenses of the rich… It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expenses, not only in proportion t their revenue, but something more in that proportion.” ] Adam Smith – yes, THAT. Adam Smith !!!!! ]
This post presents excerpts from “Our supercharged budget deficits are unsustainable”. [Bloomberg Opinion; 8/16/26]. Read this, paragraph by paragraph, THINK, this is a point-by-point, FACTUAL, indictment of the Trump and Republican economic plan. It partially describes WHY. YOU. feel economic pain now; tells YOU much worse is to come. Much of this is very simple. – we are. NOT. taxing the upper 1-5% as Adam smith said we should 250 years ago. The American national debt. EXPLODED. post-1980. WHY? See Reagan, Bush, Trump tax cuts for the OBSCENELY rich – read the NUMBERS, 1947-80 versus 1981-2026 – the top “marginal” bracket WAS about 81%. Reagan cut that in half, Bush cut some more, Trump cut some more. IRS leaders testified “we” are. NOT. collecting $1 trillion in COLLECTIBLE taxes EVERY year!!!!! . See Republican cuts to IRS enforcement!!! These missing tax dollars are NOT from Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lunchpail – they ARE from Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bigbucks. We can have this same conversation about the financing of Social Security and Medicare.
1] “Over the last two years, this Congress has worsened the nation’s fiscal trajectory dramatically. its main accomplishment, last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act [OBBBA], will by itself increase deficit spending by at least $4.1 trillion from 2025 to 2034. Add another trillion or so once many of the law’s “temporary” tax cuts are inevitably extended, and the U.S. will soon be looking at annual deficits approaching $3 trillion and a debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding post-war highs.” [ Bloomberg Opinion; 8/16/26 ]
2]. “Making matters worse, lawmakers have twice slashed Internal Revenue Service funding, by a total of about $32 billion Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office imply that each dollar these measures rescinded from tax enforcement could lead to about $3.27 in lost revenue, meaning they’ll actually add about $73 billion in net deficits. A huge reduction in the agency’s workforce hardly helped.” [NOTE: how many profitable businesses would operate this way – actively working to reduce their own profits!!!!!!!!]
***. “I need to pay higher taxes. I’ve paid, in absolute, more taxes over ten billion [dollars], than anyone else, but you know, the government should require people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes.” [ Bill Gates ]
3]. “Although the OBBBA’s backers touted some $900 billion in Medicaid savings, achieved largely by slashing coverage, this merely slowed the program’s annual growth rate and was dwarfed by the bill’s tax cuts. A rescissions bill also cut overseas aid and public broadcasting funding – at significant cost to national prestige and soft power – saving a grand total of $9 billion through 2035. Even these meager efforts have been partly negated by repeated splurges.” [NOTE: another example of Republican/Trump Scrooge- like greed and incredible STUPIDITY.]
4] “In addition to the tax cuts, the Secure America Act enacted in June included about $70 billion in duplicative funding for immigration enforcement and border security. This latest bill, as passed by the House, would add some $73 billion to pay for the war in Iran, among other things; a $12 billion bailout for farmers harmed by the administration’s trade policies; and $10 billion for dubious “election security” measures. [The Senate’s stalled blueprint would double the latter amount.]. [NOTE: read this sentence by sentence – so the Trump/Republican STUPIDITY, and INCOMPETENCE sinks in. Farmers have said repeatedly; they don’t want bailouts – they want stable markets.]
*** “…there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]
5] “For its part, the White House has worsened this picture at almost every turn. Its immigration crackdown alone could increase deficits by $500 billion over a decade. Its Department of Government Efficiency, created to cut spending, may have done the exact opposite: Its claimed savings have been largely illusory while one analysis found that costs it imposed – from lost productivity and chaotic personnel decisions. – may have reached $135 billion last year.”
6]. “Perhaps most egregiously, Congress has sat by as the White House has imposed a global tariff regime, at an annual cost of $900 or so per household. It’s true that tariffs raise revenue. Yet they do so in a way that’s uniquely misguided: They tax a base that erodes over time while impeding the investment and productivity growth needed to stabilize debt in the long term. For all that, they might yield $2.1 trillion over 10 years. – or less than 9% of projected deficits.” [NOTE: but Donald John Trump absolutely LOVES tariffs – and he owns the U.S. government, so ‘we” must have tariffs]
[NOTE; this writer lived during the 1947-73 U.s. middle class [STATISTICAL] age. those of you younger have NO CLUE what America was like then: a mixed blue and white collar society where most people made enough to get by and enjoy life. Think in terms of. THEFT. What we had then has been DELIBERATELY. DESTROYED. by the rich. To BEGIN to understand the FACTS behind this, read Kurt Andersen’s “Evil Geniuses,” read Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s. “American Amnesia,” read Donald Barlett and James Steele’s “The Betrayal of the American Dream,” read David Cay Johnston’s “Free Lunch. How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense [And stick You With the Bill]”. Continue to elect Republican con men like Donald John Trump and the current Republicans. – and, you’ll get more of this theft, greed, and misery.]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCVIII. – “Tyrant Trump’s Biggest Legacy – Bringing Out the Worst in America”
*** “Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too….Let men be good, and the government can not be bad; but if it be ill, they will cure it. but if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and soil it to their turn.”
[William Penn]
This post presents excerpts from Ralph Nader’s “Tyrant Trump’s Biggest Legacy – Bringing Out the Worst in America” [ The Progressive Populist; August, 2026. We have said many times this now evident truth: Donald John Trump is a CANCER on the SOUL of America. The damage and evil he has done will live on for many years.. Trump has also poisoned how the rest of the world looks at America. Read the items below. – THINK on them. – think how Trump sabotages democracy, sabotages rational thinking, sabotages America’s future…………………..
1] “Championing the worst forms of energy – coal, oil, and gas. – and depressing solar energy and wind power….even paying ongoing wind project companies nearly a billion dollars in your tax dollars to stop construction!”
2] “Encouraging the worst corruption of the Pentagon – more waste, contractor fraud and abuse..”
3] “Brought out the worst from his toady Attorney Generals at the Justice Department…dismiss over 100 corporate crime cases…and made DOJ his personal law firm.”
***. ‘Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” [ George Washington ]
4]. “Encouraged the worst from the Environmental Protection Agency…greenhouse gases, motor vehicle gases, auto factories, and coal pollution are permissible for America’s children to breathe.”
5]. “Suppressed or canceled programs of scientific truth-seeking while publicizing pseudo-scientists who go far beyond healthy skepticism to peddle quackery..”
6] “Trump is self-servingly wrecking the Internal Revenue Service…grossly inadequate number of experts skilled in detecting complex corporate tax schemes and evasions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in TAX ESCAPES per year.”
***. “You do not have to think very hard to figure out what happens to a democratic society…when long-standing interpretations of the “rules of law” are mangled to reflect the personal desires of a handful of extremely wealthy people.” [ Aberjhani ]
7] “Trump has grievously brought out the worst from Congress, finishing off what is left of the separation of powers..”
8] “Trump brings out the worst from major corporations…allowing corporations to cheat, steal, harm, pollute, and violate with impunity almost any federal laws..”
9] “Worsening the architecture of the White House and nearby Washington, D.C., are major preoccupations of this egomaniacal dilettante. He illegally tore down the East Wing..”
*** “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.” [ Aristotle ]
10] “The Trumpeteer has brought out the worst in the mainstream media, giving preferential access to uncritical reporters, and restricting or prohibiting access to reporters who are steadfast and straightforward.”
11]. “From the people, he has celebrated vice over virtue, greed over charity, obscenity over decency, violence over peace, police and ICE brutality over more effective standards of prudence and restraint by law enforcers. As an open, brazen liar, a delusionary braggart, and a peddler of empty promises, Trump has troubled parents who see their youngsters mimic his abuses and foul talk.”
12] “He pardons hundreds of convicted violent criminals and other fraudsters and says he will pardon more crooks, even urging them to continue their lawless ways because he will pardon them..”
***. “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptional character.” [. Samuel Adams ]
13]. “Trump has violated seven of the Ten Commandments and is almost never seen in Church, yet Trump manages to bring out the most extreme hypocrites from the leadership of organized religion..”
14]. “His most fervent mission is to provoke biases and bigotry against recent immigrants and asylum seekers among millions of his voters who believed his lies about these desperate people, fleeing with their children from oppressive regimes and oligarchies..”
15] “Long after Trump is impeached and removed from office, his hateful, vengeful drive will bring out the worst from our country will linger and fester.”
*** “The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.” [ Tom Fitten ]
***. ‘..amid the Trump administration’s open marriage of public and private and criminal sectors in an astonishing replication of third-world kleptocracies..” [ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCVII. – Trump’s Character and Judgment Revealed in Dr. Fauci’s Diary
***. “It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]
This post presents excerpts from Anthony Fauci’s diary from 2020. YOU get raw data on this eminent scientist’s review of how it was to deal with Donald Trump early in the COVID-19 epidemic.
THE. MAJOR. QUESTION for YOU; did ‘your” president seem to be concerned about the impact of tjis deadly disease on the American people. – or. – was his primary concern to “manage” the crisis so that it didn’t hurt his re-election campaign?
***. “The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]
1] Late February, 2020: Fauci “encouraged him not to underplay the seriousness of the situation since if it turns out bad, it would look like he is covering up…..I thought that he heard what I said, but the next day, he again underplayed it.”
2] March 27, 2000: “Very laborious press conference where the POTUS rambled on. He wasted the opportunity to just focus on the relief package and went into his diatribe against the previous administrations.”
3] March 28: “AMAZING interaction with POTUS…. I led the discussions since the POTUS kept referring to me. It was a disturbingly rambling discussion since he kept talking about TV ratings, and HC [hydroxychloroquine], and influenza and virtually everything else as I was trying to keep him on track [with the help of the VP]……I insisted through the rambling and lack of attention span that the POTUS explicitly say that this is NOT a quarantine.”
***. “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” [ Thomas Jefferson ]
4]. July 10: “..he had an “important meeting” with Mike Pence, during which Fauci told the vice president he would be “coldly honest.” “I then told him that he is completely losing credibility when we have >60,000 new cases with increased hospitalizations and deaths and he starts off at the Pressers saying “We are in a good place.”
5] July 15: “He wanted me to be ‘positive’. I took the opportunity to say, ‘Mr. President, with your permission, can I be absolutely frank with you? We have a problem and we need to own it. We need to admit that the situation is serious, otherwise we completely lose credibility….he was not entirely happy with this..”
6]. August 4: ‘..he had to directly explain to Trump – whom he described as “throwing around the F- word” and “raving that we are seeing more cases only because we are doing more testing”. – that increased testing does not cause cases. “All in all it was a manifestation that he is [desperate] and still does not understand the pandemic.” [NOTE: read this again, and again. this is how “your’ president thought, and governed]
***. “But McMaster and his team almost immediately realized the president wasn’t reading any of the briefing books, or even the concise three-page version….As one of Trump’s confidants said, “I cal the president the two-minute man. The president has patience for a half page.” [ Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig: “A Very Stable Genius” ]
7] August 8: “POTUS acting even more erratically. Keeps insisting that increased case numbers are due only to increased testing, ignoring the increases in percent positive, hospitalizations and deaths [ >1000/day}.”
8] November 1: “…Tony, you have to be positive. I do not want to keep you off TV, but when you are out there, you have to be positive.”
9] November 16, 2000: “Continual surge: 138,000 new infections yesterday. POTUS has no interest at all in the pandemic. He is focusing on blocking Biden from being POTUS. He is embarrassing the USA.” [NOTE: read THIS again, and again… Trump “has no interest at all in the pandemic.” “Your” president doesn’t care about you and your family getting very sick. – it’s more important to prevent Biden from taking over. – as in January 6…]
***. “If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.” [ Jimmy Carter; 39th U.S. President ]
II. Please think on the following, from. “the Atlantic,” July/August, 2024, pages 21-28. Dr. Fauci reviews general handling of COVID-19:
“Although the CDC struggled, there was no mistaking the message delivered on February 25 by its director of immunization and respiratory diseases, Nancy Messonnier. She told reporters that a pandemic in the United States was no longer a matter of if but when, and that we should prepare to close schools and work remotely. “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,; she announced. Nancy did the right thing: She told Americans the truth. But not surprisingly, her statement caused a firestorm. The media erupted, and the stock market plummeted nearly 1,000 points. Trump was furious. The next day, he announced that Vice President mike Pence would take over for Alex Azar as the head of the White House coronavirus task force.”
III. “Nationally, a study by the American Medical Association determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.” [ Gene Lyons: “Silencing Scientists, Doctors in the Name of ‘Freedom'”; The Progressive Populist; ll/1/23 ]
*** “And you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” [ John 8: 32 ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCVI. – The Immorality of Monetizing The Presidency, II. – Some Numbers
*** “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]
This post continues examining the UNPRECEDENTED. GREED. of Donald Trump and those around him in MONETIZING the U.S. presidency. They’re doing things commonly seen in “banana republics” and other authoritarian regimes. In just over one year, the Trump clan and various associates have managed to make BILLIONS of dollars. They’ve also sabotaged what the world used to think about American morality and decency. They’ve quite literally sold their soul for a few pieces of gold……… Following are some excerpts providing facts.
I. “All Told, Mr. Trump Has Profited From His Return To The Presidency By An Amount Of Money Equal To 16,822. Times The Median U.S. Household Income.” { New York Times. editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic”; 1/25/26 ]
***. “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” [ I Thessalonians 5: 22 ]
II. 5] “It is hard to wrap your head around that the president of the United States would engage in this level of self-enrichment at the expense of so many of his supporters, said Lee Reiners, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner..” [ Eric Tipton, Andrea Fuller, David Yaffe-Bellamy: “President cashed in, others not so much”; New York Times; 7/5/26 ]
6] “As of the middle of last year, according to Chainalysis…58 investors in the $Trump coin had made profits in excess of $10 million, totaling an estimated $1.1 billion – most of them early traders who got out before the coin crashed in value. At the same time, some 764,000 crypto wallets, most with small holdings, lost money on $TRUMP…” [ Tipton ]
1] “a large chunk of the $2 billion haul President Donald Trump took in last year came as hundreds of thousands of his fans and other investors bet on a speculative cryptocurrency called 4TRUMP, hoping its value would soar with his return to the White House. But while Trump amassed an eye-popping $636 million from the cryptocurrency, known as a memecoin, many of his followers who heeded his call to purchase the coin came out losers.” [ Tipton ]
*** “The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.” [. George Bernard Shaw ]
2] “The president’s 927-page financial disclosure showed how Trump and his family reaped huge financial rewards in 2025 through his money-losing Trump Media venture and a separate cryptocurrency firm called World Liberty Financial, even as routine investors suffered vast losses.” [ Tipton ]
3] “In a way, Trump’s cryptocurrency windfall is a reflection of the speculative nature of the crypto industry, in which executives behind these often highly volatile ventures are at times able to generate huge profits at the expense of smaller investors, who often lose vast sums…” [ Tipton ]
4]. “Former federal financial regulators said Trump has taken that to a new extreme, structuring his crypto ventures so he always made money on the front end, according to disclosures from ther companies, no matter what happened to the business in the long run.” [. Tipton. ]
***. “The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.” [ Zeno. ]
III. 1] “In the first three months of the year, President Trump’s brokerage accounts placed ore than 3,600 trades, as they bought and sold a wide variety of stocks and bonds, according to a disclosure form released last month….Some of the trades early this year also appeared to be well timed, notably a purchase of Dell shares that came months before the company secured a lucrative government contract.” [ Ben Protess: “Documents Offer Insight Into Trump’s Stock Trades”; New York Times; 6/21/26 ]
2] “Unlike every other president since the 1970s who has owned individual stocks and businesses, Mr. Trump did not put his assets into a blind trust. The decision to forgo that ethical guardrail potentially allows him to know what stocks he owns, and to influence their performance with policy announcements or contracts even if he cannot direct how or when they are traded…..”The whole point of having a blind trust is so your virtue can never be called into question,” said Jeffrey A. Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. he added that “President Trump does not feel obliged to follow the same norms and rules as everyone else.”
[ Protess; 6/2/26 ]
*** “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [ James. I: 8. ]
IV. “Trump netted $2B in his Ist year back.” [ Ben Protess, Andrea Fuller, Eric Tipton, David Yaffe-Bellany; New York Times; 7/2/26 ]
V. A. PARTIAL. itemization of “YOUR’. president’s MONETIZATION of a U.S. presidency:
– $23 million: name licensing – $28 million: Melania documentary -$400 million Qatar Boeing 747-8
– $90.5 million: legal settlements from major tech and media companies. – $867 million; cryptocurrency
– $466 million: World Liberty Financial {New York times editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic” ]
*** “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain…the character of an “Honest Man.”
[ George Washington; 8/28/1788. ]
VI. “There are official diamond-studded gold watches for $100,000, promoted by President Trump…The industry is a cornerstone of mr. Trump’s political movement..”….The president has built a merchandise behemoth unmatched by any other American politician….Mr. Trump and his family have made millions from the products. – more than $1 million from guitars and at least $2.8 million from the watches alone…he misses few opportunities to market the wares..” [Tiffany Hsu, Stuart Thompson: “Inside the Sprawling World Of MAGA Merchandise”; New York Times; 4/15/26 ]
2] “This is so concerning not just because of how it might impact Trump’s specific decisions, but because it might suggest that public service in general is just another way to get yourself ahead and make more money,” said Daniel I. Weiner, an ethics and campaign finance expert at the Brennan Center for Justice…”That can open the door to a sort of systemic corruption that really can, over the long term, undermine people’s faith in democracy.” [ Hsu, Thompson ]
***. “So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible, would cheat even God himself.” [ George Bancroft ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCV – The Immorality of Monetizing the Presidency, I – The Violation of Ethics
***. “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government ae trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [ Henry Clay; 1829 ]
This post, and the next, BEGIN to examine the “unprecedented” CORRUPTION of Donald Trump and those around him in monetizing the U.S. presidency. They are doing things commonly seen in “banana republics” and other authoritarian states. This is just one more way that the Trump DICTATORSHIP is debasing America and what it was understood that America stood for. They have NO. SHAME.
Following are excerpts from some of many articles providing the facts:
I. “In many ways, Gorman said, his acts are a “betrayal of the American social contract: that those who lead the country prioritize country over self. – a premise that goes back to George Washington.” [ “Moneymaking run unrivaled in U.S. presidential history”; Eric Tipton; New York Times; 7/2/26 ]
*** “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [ Wendell Philips ]
II. 4] “It is impossible to know how often Mr. Trump makes official decisions, in part or entirely, because he wants to be richer. And that is precisely the problem. A culture of corruption is pernicious not just because it is a deviation from government in the public interest; it also destroys the state’s democratic legitimacy. It undermines the necessary faith that the representatives of the people are acting in the interests of the people.” “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic”; New York Times editorial; 1/25/26 ]
5] “The demands of avarice gradually corrupt the work of government as officials facilitate the accumulation of personal wealth. Worse, such a government corrupts the people who live under its rule. They learn by experience that they live in a society where the laws are written by the highest bidder. They become less likely to obey those laws and to participate in the work of democracy. – speaking, voting, paying taxes. The United states risks falling into this cynical spiral as Mr. Trump hollows out the institutions of government for personal gain.” [1/25/26′ Times editorial]
1] “One year ago, Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself. President Trump has never been a man to ask what he could do for his country.”
[ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
2]. “ALL TOLD, MR. TRUMP HAS PROFITED FROM HIS RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY BY AN AMOUNT OF MONEY EQUAL TO 16,822 TIMES THE MEDIAN U.S. HOUSEHOLD INCOME.” [ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
3]. “Mr. Trump’s hunger for wealth is brazen. Throughout the nation’s history, presidents of both parties have taken care to avoid even the appearance of profiting from public service. When President Harry Truman left office in 1953, he did not even own a car. He and his wife returned to Missouri by train and lived for a time on his Army pension. he refused to take any job that he regarded as commercializing his public service..” [ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
***. “He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. he shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.”
[ John Randolph ]
III. 3] “The Trumps. – and the Kushners, and many others associated with the first family. – have gaslighted the American public with such bogus “explanations” of their grift-gorging for many years. Everyone in the Trump circle, including Cabinet officers such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has long known that the president is a crook.”
[ Joe Conason: “The Ultimate Insider’s Massive Stock Trades”; The Progressive Populist; July, 2026 ]
1] “A new filing with the Office of Government Ethics, released on May 14, showed more than 3,500 specific trades in Trump’s name during the first quarter of 2026, with a value between $220 million and $750 million. this represents by far the largest series of securities transactions by a sitting president in American history….it adds up to 60 trades per day, while he issues executive orders, talks with foreign leaders, shifts tariffs, and gives policy directives that directly affect the value of his holdings.” [. Conason ]
2] “What outraged ethics experts was not just the volume of Trump’s market activity but the obvious overlaps between his actions and policies and the equities that he bought and sold.” [ Conason ]
***. “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” [ Ken Poirot ]
IV. 1]. “Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president….The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.” [ Jason Horowitz: “Trump’s Profit In Presidency Shatters Norm”; New York Times; 7/5/26 ]
2]. “That reluctance to acknowledge any conflict now makes it harder, experts said, for anti-corruption investigators in countries big and small to combat behavior that the United states, until Mr. Trump’s presidency, once condemned. “How the U.S. behaved was quite influential in shaping international norms”…Now Mr. Trump’s windfall has undermined the idea “that there is a standard to which we should all be aspiring”…” [ Horowitz ]
3] “Since Watergate..the United States had helped set the international anti-corruption norms. Now..Mr. Trump was setting a different standard that could have the effect of demolishing democratic guardrails and clearing the way for others’ conflicts of interest. “This,’ mr. Sanchez said, “is what is being lost.” [ Horowitz ]
***. “The first of qualities for a great statesman is to be honest. And if it were possible that this opinion were an error, i should rather carry it with me to my grave that to believe that a man cannot be a statesman without being dishonest.”
[ John Adams; 2nd U.s. President ]
V. The Good News!!! American are catching on to †his Trump CORRUPTION. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll July 8-13, 2026, revealed this: “Trump’s overall approval rating stands at 37 percent, identical to what it was in April. His disapproval is 61 percent.” Of 28 categories of Americans, only 4: “Republican,” “Lean Republican,” “White evangelical Protestant,” “White Catholic”. favored Trump. “Rural’ was split: 50-48%.
[ Washington Post Weekly: “Broadly negative reviews for Trump”; 7/19/26 ]
VI. The Bad News: “Fed Shows Working Families Fall Behind As Trump Chooses To Keep Prices High”. “The Beige Book, a monthly report on consumer spending…showed a continuation of the trend that accelerated after President Donald Trump joined Israel in attacking Iran…The report notes that regional contacts at the Federal Reserve’s districts described middle-income households as “squeezing more life out of every dollar before deciding to spend it,’ while low-income families and individuals “showed greater financial strain..” { Dispatches; Progressive Populist; July, 2026 }
[NOTE: “Your’ president has monetized the U.s. presidency to the tune of over $2 billion in his second term, and counting…… YOU are struggling to feed and house YOUR family. – as are over 60% of Americans. Not only Trump’s war, but A.I. will increase YOUR electric bills and prices of consumer goods – and – pollute YOUR water, and YOUR peace of mind. These are SOME of the costs of enduring the Trump DICTATORSHIP…………….. ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCIV – The STUPIDITY. of Trump “Making America Dispensable”
*** “Wooden-headedness consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by the facts.”
[ Double Pulitzer Prize winner; Historian; Barbara Tuchman ]
Donald John Trump has done much damage to America, and the world. Domestically, America MIGHT. be able to repair its democracy. BUT – Trump’s incredible STUPIDITY. of saying that climate change is a “hoax” [ in the face of unprecedented damage]; his arrogant treatment of [former] friendly nations; his coziness with other dictators; his STUPIDITY in saying, thinking, acting as if the United states can successfully enact an “America First” foreign policy may prove to be fatal to the American experiment in democracy.
***. “Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, we cannot ensure its domestic tranquility, or provide for its common defense, or promote the general welfare, or secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But joined with other free nations, we can do all this and more.”
[ John F. Kennedy; 35th U.S. President; 7/4/1962 ]
This post presents excerpts from “Trump Is Making America Dispensable” [ Jon finer; New York Times; 7/12/26]. The results of Trump insulting and demeaning other nations; of his ignorant ideological framework; of his tariffs, bullying nations, and now his RECKLESS war on Iran. – will NOT be good for America in any sense. His 8 years as president might well be seen as the beginning of the collapse of America as a world power. America, “thanks” to Trump, is no longer seen with the same affection and respect the world had for us before 2016. Finer reports on what has ALREADY happened, is happening, will happen. YOU are watching the DISASTER unfold……………………..
1] “Three years later, de-risking from predatory superpowers remains the fundamental challenge facing European leaders, but China is no longer the main country of concern: The United States is.”
2] “It is not just Europe backing away from the United States. Leaders of America’s partners in Asia and the Middle East are quietly doing the same. The second Trump administration’s ostentatious corruption, trade conflicts, military adventurism and mercurial artificial intelligence regulation have produced a new moment in international affairs: a nearly global grand strategy of countries distancing themselves from the world’s most powerful nation.”
3]. “For the United States, which has called itself the “indispensable nation” for decades, this represents a sea change. Countries have long sought the protection of America’s mighty military and access to its markets and technology. That in turn has benefited our economy and national security.”
*** “There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.” [ Isaiah. 48: 22 ]
4] “..in a world where big countries increasingly weaponize the dependence of small countries, and self-sufficiency is its own form of power, the global de-risking is already hurting Americans at home….The lost war against Iran…contributed to a $132 billion hit to American consumers, according to Moody’s.”
5] “Mr. Trump’s immigration policies are also driving countries away. Four million fewer visitors came to the United States in 2025 than in 2024, an estimated cost of more than $8 billion. America is hemorrhaging future skilled labor as enrollment by international university students dropped 17 percent last fall from the prior year, already costing universities at least an estimated $1 billion, and potentially costing the country hundreds of billions in future revenue.”
6] “The chilling effect is spreading. As Mr. Trump muses about making it a 51st state, Canada has embarked on a “new strategic partnership” with China, opened its market for the first time to 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles and joined a more than $150 billion European defense fund aimed at breaking the dependency on the American defense industry.”
*** “The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” [ Will Rogers ]
7] “In East Asia, where Mr. Trump has paused the sale of arms to Taiwan in deference to President Xi Jinping of China, Taipei and allied capitals are recalibrating their relationships. Japan is overhauling its concept of national defense to develop greater offensive strike capabilities. South Korean contractors are displacing American arms sellers around the world.”
8]. “India is deepening commercial ties with Europe, the Middle East and even, grudgingly, China. India is one of a growing number of countries sufficiently worried about reliable access to American frontier A.I. models that it is considering Chinese or domestic alternatives.”
9]. “But nowhere is the push to de-risk from the United States more costly to both sides. – and disadvantageously timed. – than on the continent that coined the phrase. Once unthinkable conversations are underway in European capitals. European officials tell me they are quietly developing plans for responding in the event of a full-blown trade war with America…”
*** “Before we engage ourselves, we must know what we are doing, and once we have engaged ourselves, we must prevail, or the impact will be catastrophic.” [ Henry Kissinger; former U.S. Secretary of State ]
10]. “..the divisions Mr. Trump is causing are different. In 2021, for example, Australia agreed to invest billions of dollars in the U.S. submarine industry, on the promise that new boats would appear near Perth somewhere in the mid-2030s. Fewer countries are willing to make such long-term bets on America anymore…”
11]. “Some costs of the world’s de-risking from America are already hitting home. Others won’t be evident overnight. Allies were right not to join Mr. Trump’s unnecessary Iran fiasco, but our ability to deter future conflicts is weakened by our greater isolation. Lacking a clear alternative partner, most countries will hedge gradually, rather than immediately “decoupling” from the United States.”
*** “…thanks to Donald’s penchant for division, and devastating uncertainty about our country’s future have created a perfect storm of catastrophes that no one is less equipped than my uncle to manage. Doing so would require courage, strength of character, deference to experts, and the confidence to take responsibility and to course correct after admitting mistakes. His ability to control unfavorable situations by lying, spinning, and obfuscating has diminished to the point of impotence in the midst of the tragedies we are currently facing.”
[ Mary L. Trump: “Too Much And never Enough. How My Family Created the World’s most Dangerous Man” ]
*** “Trump’s rash behavior makes his presence in the Oval Office a clear and present danger to the safety and security of not just the American people but the rest of the world, too.”
[ double Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “The Making of Donald Trump” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCI. – Trump, Republicans INTENTIONALLY Blow Up U.S. National Debt
*** “..the right’s..overriding mission, at which they’ve succeeded smashingly, is to make sure the rich get richer [and big business bigger], and the most direct, unambiguous, universal way of doing that is by keeping their taxes low, no matter the costs… Fiscal responsibility rhetorically pops back to life for Republicans only when they’re out of power in Washington, and only as an argument for achieving their secondary goals of reducing Social Security and Medicare benefits and preventing any major expansion of health or education or other social programs.”
“Irving Kristol, that mastermind and key promoter of remaking the political economy, had candidly announced this new strategy of the right. – right-wing fiscal recklessness, forcing the left into defensive restraint. – in a Wall Street Journal column back in 1980..” [ Kurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses ].
This post examines how the Republicans have blown up the U.S. national debt in the last 45 years. It was less than $1 trillion when Reagan was inaugurated. Reagan, Bush, Trump tax cuts have produced a $39 trillion U.S. national debt. According to the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data system, when Trump was inaugurated January 20, 2017. – the U.s. national debt was $19,944,429,217,107. The IMMORAL Trump tax cuts of 2017 and 2025, plus annual $1 trillion interest payments have DOUBLED YOUR. national debt. The consequences are many…..
***. “The second Vice is Lying, the first is running in Debt.” [ Benjamin Franklin: “Poor Richard’s Almanack” ]. [NOTE: Thus Donald John Trump is. GUILTY of THE top two vices !!!!!!!!!!! – and YOU pay for them.]
This post presents excerpts from: “They Blew Up the Debt, Stalled America’s Future, and Stuck You With the Bill. All to Enrich the Top 1% and Win Elections” [ Thom Hartmann; The Progressive Populist; June, 2026 ]:
2]. “This year, America will spend over a trillion dollars just ti pay interest on the current $39 trillion national debt, a debt entirely the result of a 45 year-long GOP scam designed to make the rich richer and elect Republicans, all the while simultaneously screwing Democrats and average working class people.”
9]. “The combined Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts, along with Bush’s two wars add up to more than our current national debt of – $39 trillion. And the only way to fix all this without causing horrible pain for the American people is to undo those three president’s tax cuts and take America back to the tax system we had in 1980.”
10] “..Trump..once bragged: “I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.”
***. “Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.” [ Thomas Paine; 1792 ]
4] “…here’s the “lost opportunity cost”. of what that trillion dollars a year we now pay in interest…on the GOP’s Debt could do for America:
– First, it could guarantee universal childcare and early childhood education nationwide that would free millions of parents to work and start businesses…”
- Second, it could make all public colleges, universities, and trade schools tuition-free, while also wiping out existing federal student loan debt over time.”
– Third, the U.S. could could establish a universal healthcare system or at least a robust public option with zero premiums and minimal out-of-pocket costs, ending medical bankruptcies and improving public health outcomes.”
– Fourth, it could fully fund a national infrastructure modernization program, repairing every deficient bridge in the country, rebuild highways, expand mass transit, and replace aging water systems, including lead pipe removal nationwide.”
– Fifth, a trillion dollars a year could finance a rapid transition to clean energy: building out solar and wind at scale, modernizing the grid, subsidizing home electrification, and accelerating EV infrastructure to catch up with China.”
– Sixth, it could end homelessness in America, with massive savings in healthcare and policing.”
***. “The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”
[ Andrew Jackson; 7th U.S. President ]
– Seventh, we could provide a guaranteed basic income [ – $500 to $1,000 a month ] to every adult American or a more targeted version for lower- and middle-income households, dramatically reducing poverty.”
– Eighth, it could expand Social Security and Medicare benefits significantly – raising monthly checks, lowering the retirement age, or both – while shoring up the system’s long-term solvency.”
– Ninth, the U.S. could also fund universal paid family and medical leave, so no one ever again has to go to work sick or choose between a paycheck and caring for a newborn or a sick relative.”
– Tenth, it could dramatically increase teacher pay, reducing class sizes, modernizing school facilities, and providing universal free school meals.”
– Eleventh, it could launch a large-scale affordable housing initiative, building millions of. units, stabilizing rents, and helping first-time buyers with down payments.”
– Twelfth, it could rebuild and expand public health infrastructure, including pandemic preparedness, local health departments, research funding, and domestic manufacturing of critical medicines and supplies.”
*** “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible.” [ George Washington; September 17, 1796 ]
1] “Republicans in May proposed an appropriations bill that will allocate a billion dollars to pay for Donald Trump’s Golden Epstein Dance Hall [ a.k.a. “Ballroom”]. Every penny of it will be borrowed and we’ll be paying interest on that money for the rest of our lifetimes unless something dramatic changes.”
3]. ‘..by 2030, Fortune magazine reports, we’ll. be paying $2 trillion in interest at the current rate of burn, as Republicans add more and more items to the national debt every day.”
5]. “And even after doing several of…[the 12 things mentioned above in #4 ]…at once, there’d still be room for things like universal broadband, modernizing the postal system, expanding national parks and conservation efforts, and funding scientific research at levels that could accelerate breakthroughs in everything from cancer to renewables to clean water.”
***. “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” [ Thomas Jefferson; 7/12/1816 ]
6] “It all started in the 1970s when Republican strategist Jude Wanniski noted that Republicans were viewed as Grinches while Democrats. – who’d brought the people the minimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, free college, and dozens of other popular programs – were viewed as Santas. His solution was twofold: have Republicans become the “tax cut Santas”. while forcing Democrats to “shoot their own Santa” in the face by cutting back on those gift-like programs.”
7] “The Two Santas scheme has two parts: “When a Republican is in the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor, running up the debt as hard and fast as possible. All this deficit spending…produces “good times”. by stimulating the economy like crazy, making Americans think Republicans are good with economics when in fact they’re only good at spending borrowed money. “When a Democrat is in the White House, start screaming about the debt and how ‘our children will have to pay for this!!!” to force that president and the Democrats in Congress to “shoot’ their own social programs by cutting them back, producing hard times and reducing the deficits.” [NOTE: hw many people voted for Trump – saying he was “a good businessman”!!!!!!!!!!!]
8]. “To justify all this deficit spending, Wanniski invented a term “supply-side economics,” arguing that tax cuts for the morbidly rich would pay for themselves as wealth “trickled down” to average working people, and Art Laffer handily supplied a “curve” that seemed technical and scientific. The media lapped it up. It was all, of course, bullsh*t…”
*** “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.” [ Supreme court Justice Louis Brandeis ]
[NOTE: do the research!!! – get the REAL, un-spun NUMBERS. – on income distribution, especially 1947-73; on the average top marginal rates, 1933-1980. – cut in half by Reagan, bush, Trump. We don’t have record numbers of billionaires by accident !!!!!!!!!!! We don’t have a $39 trillion U.s. national debt by accident !!!!!!!!! We don’t have large numbers of potential U.S. blue collar workers unemployed in crafts their fathers were !!!!!!! WE don’t write these posts – all 201 of them – for fun. We want you, Mr. and Mrs. American – to begin to learn the truth.
Bottom line: the unprecedented mass blue and white collar American prosperity – HAS. BEEN. DELIBERATELY. SABOTAGED. AND STOLEN. AWAY. – by the greedy top 1%, by the Far Right, by the Republican Party. Do your own research. The intent is recorded, the programs – G.I.Bill, Social Security, etc. – are recorded. Trump is simply, hopefully, the final conclusion of this decades long PLANNED. THEFT. Trump is now destroying much of the basis for a real democratic society – one that cares about its citizens. Trump is destroying YOUR democratic government right before your eyes – much of this programed by “Project 2025” – itself a project of the Far Right.
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness
*** “In a president, character is everything.” [ Peggy Noonan; Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan ]
From January 20, 2025 to June 17, 2026 – this site posted 200 times on the Trump DICTATORSHIP. We are slowing down – summer vacation, etc.
BUT –
THE primary reason is this: in doing our research, compiling our 200 posts – the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – is beginning to corrode us mentally. Being exposed to Trump’s personality, rhetoric, actions, policies, above all his LIES. – is corrosive. It is depressing to see an American president say and do these things as intensively as we have. To make our posts – we did research for perspective on who and what Donald Trump is. – compared to other presidents; compared to what American politics and society considered “normal”; compared to what normal Americans consider to be decent, considerate, fair.
*** “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” { Mark Twain ]
We have repeatedly said this: judging Any president or American government actions. – apply this test: The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: “We the People…a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..”
ANY U.s. government action, policy, law – that DOES NOT achieve these objectives is – Unconstitutional, UnAmerican, destructive, and corrosive to American liberty, society, government.
The Eisenhower freeway system passes the test. The Trump tax cuts for the rich of 2017 and 2025 DO NOT. Because, among other things: they FAIL to ‘..promote the general Welfare..” Few, if any, Trump actions have done so.
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”
[ Ludwig von Mises ]
Donald John Trump is THE anti-George Washington; THE anti-Abraham Lincoln; THE anti-Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not because we say so – but because the EVIDENCE, the plain public record says this. No objective American can say Trump’s character and actions are even close to these three men. using public records. – few observers, with a straight face, can say Donald John Trump is close to many of the previous 40 other U.S. presidents.
***. “Openly monetizing the presidency is a true Trump innovation….Mr. Trump’s scheming will define him and his family…All that will be left is his reputation. Mr. Trump has made that synonymous with corruption forever.”
[ Noah Schachtman; New York times; 5/24/26 ]
No other American president has ever been accused of openly fomenting an insurrection to stop an election. No other American president made a reported fortune of $1-4 billion in just a few months in office. No other American president created, allowed ‘a pardon industry” that freed many convicted of serious white collar crimes. No other American president routinely insulted and demeaned American citizens so publicly. No other American president has LIED. so often. – over 30,000 in one term; is anybody counting 2021-2026 Trump fabrications?
*** “Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country’s history.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
Some recent illustrations of Trump’s corrosive effect on America, headlines alone:
1] “How Trump Weighed suspending a Legal Right” [ Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan; New York Times; 6/18/26]
2] “Trump Escalates Push On voter ID”. [ Michael Gold, Dustin Wolf; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
3] “True to Form, President Unsettles G7 Summit”. [ Mark Landler; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
4]. “U.S. Pays $765 Million to Not Build 4 Wind Farms” [ Brad Plumer; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
5]. “Protester says he was beaten, shackled for days”. [ Alan Feuer; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
6] “Meloni says Trump ‘fabricated’ claim”. [ Nicole Winfield; Associated Press; 6/20/26 ]
7] “Flu sickens 160 at Air force base after end of vaccine mandate” [ Greg Jaffe, Maggie Haberman; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
[ NOTE: this happens almost EVERY day during the Trump DICTATORSHIP !!! ]
*** “Most of Trump’s failings can be explained by a simple truth: He cared more about himself than the country.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker: “I Alone Can Fix It” ]
YOU can help SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. – on November 3, 2026. – vote against EVERY. Republican running for Congress. – just this one time, please. YOU do not want to experience an unrestrained, unaccountable. TRUMP. DICTATORSHIP. for two more years. YOUR democracy just might end if YOU don’t act…………
With Justice For All 
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