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Trump's bankrupt empire

Donald Trump is not only President Bankrupt, but President Decline

09.04.2025 30

Salon

Tom Engelhardt

President Bankrupt

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by...

09.04.2025 7

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald J. Trump, President of Bankruptcy and Decline

Donald J. Trump, President of Bankruptcy and Decline
08.04.2025 7

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump 2.0: A First-Class Shock-and-Awe Experience

20.03.2025 2

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

President Decline, Baby, Decline

Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald...

25.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

We Won't Name a Mountain After Trump, But Maybe a Big, Deep Hole

24.02.2025 5

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction

31.01.2025 6

The Nation

Tom Engelhardt

Electing Trump as an Act of Collective Suicide

30.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

President Chaos Presiding Over Hell on Earth

Donald Trump is guaranteed to make this not only the hottest planet around but a planet of billionaires living in a new golden age (both of their...

06.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

[Un]Happy New Year

Honestly, as 2025 begins, isn’t it finally time to reimagine American history? So, what do you think of this: George Trump, Abraham Trump, Ulysses...

06.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket

Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like...

04.12.2024 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump's Final Spectacular Bankruptcy Will Be... All of Us

It’s a rather straightforward fact that this country is now visibly going down in a potentially big-time fashion and that, domestically speaking,...

03.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth?

Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into...

14.11.2024 7

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

2084: Creating a Dystopian Hell on Earth That Even Orwell Could Not Imagine

Honestly, who would have guessed that we humans might prove capable of making1984 seem like an upbeat fantasy?

12.11.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The Empire Is Going Down

He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with...

22.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump Is the Greatest Sign of US Imperial Decline Imaginable

Trump’s very victory in 2016 should have instantly been seen as a crucial sign of the weakening and potential collapse of this country’s position...

21.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

A Vote for Trump Is a Vote for Hell on Earth

A Trump victory could, in every sense, put us in a lost universe, floating not just in space but in a space growing hotter by the year.

27.09.2024 8

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Promises a Dystopia in Which Even Reality Becomes a Fiction

Our world has become mega-dystopian in so many ways it’s almost hard to fathom.

03.09.2024 40

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Candidate From Hell: Why Voting for Donald Trump Is a Suicidal Act

As president, he would undoubtedly prove to be a first-class global heat machine and voting for him would be the slow-motion equivalent of putting...

15.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The 2024 Election and the End of the American Century

It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for...

18.07.2024 2

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt