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Make Sure Everyone Knows: This Destructive Bill Is the Trump Trash Fire

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The narrow passage of the Trump-GOP 1,100-page bill that spells death, destruction, and deprivation to the American people—including MAGA voters and innocents abroad—should destroy the Trumpster Republicans in the 2026 congressional election.

However, by then it will be too late for poor American children facing President Donald Trump reducing the food stamp programs; the 15 million Americans being thrown off Medicaid; the damage to or the termination of many clean solar energy and wind energy sales; the body blow to electric car prospects; the young Americans benefitting from AmeriCorps, Job Corps, student loans, and VA medical benefits. The Trump cuts will also undermine housing assistance programs, Meals on Wheels, disability assistance programs, and Head Start. Millions of desperate humans overseas are already cut off suddenly from USAID medicine, food supplements, clean drinking water, and other lifesavers that cost a few dollars per life saved. Tens of thousands have already died. (See Nicholas Kristof’s articles: “Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.” “White House Billionaires Take On the World’s Poorest Kids.”).

Why is Trump (Elon Musk is now vehemently against the bill) doing this to all the people—red states, blue states? Why is he opening the air and water pollution spigots; stoking the greenhouse gases of the oil, gas, coal infernos (“Drill Baby Drill”); damaging people’s health everywhere? Didn’t Trump constantly pledge to his voters last year the paradise, the prosperity, the peace touted in his MAGA—Make America Great Again rhetoric?

If the Democrats had a strategic sense, they would PUT THE TRUMP BRAND ON EVERY DAMAGING, CRUEL, VICIOUS IMPACT ON INNOCENT PEOPLE, CHILDREN, MOTHERS, AND FATHERS, AND THE ELDERLY.

Of course, he lied, fooled, flattered, and flummoxed enough voters. Sadly, the feeble corporate Democrats allowed Trump to gain the White House and achieve his real objective, which is MATA OR MAKE AMERICA TRUMP AGAIN.

As Mark Green and I, (See, “Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” 2020) together with scores of psychologists observing Trump over the years, described this failed gambling czar, airline owner, university owner, etc., as a dangerously unstable, egomaniacal, vengeful person fueled by daily lying and fantasies who promotes harmful policies supporting him and other corporate greedhounds.

Trump’s bellowing, snarling, false accusations and broken promises in thousands of tweets, utterances, phone calls, and speeches demonstrate that he is a fascist dictator, willing to issue illegal executive orders and dictates.

What are Trump’s goals?

First, he wants to use the White House as a massive business opportunity to make him and his family fabulously wealthy. He wants more tax escapes for the wealthy and giant corporations; privileged personal family investments in crypto-currency that he is now de-regulating; to sell memorabilia, including Bibles (he has violated 7 out of the 10 Commandments and never goes to Church); to cut profitable deals with rich Arab nations and billionaires looking for favorable treatment; and to freeze federal minimum wages and pull down worker rights all to feed his and his class warfare friends’ insatiable avarice!

Second, Trump wants VENGENCE—taking it out on critics, political opponents, prosecutors, and using immigrants as a mass media scapegoated diversion that whip his core MAGA loyalists into a constant frenzy. His pathological vengeance includes going after universities, law firms, mainstream media owners who are, respectively, studying, suing, or reporting his daily crimes, obstruction of justice, shredding of the Constitution, and federal statutes that may produce challenges to his tyranny,........

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