Trump’s First 100 Days – A Total Disaster – A Total Screwup

April 24, 2025

Just think about this for a minute. Trump has been very bad in trying to do the bad things he tries to do. Let that sink in. Most presidents, or shall I say every president before Trump has made it a goal to accomplish as much as they can do within the first 100 days that’s good for the country. It’s the ruler that the country can go by to determine the success of the presidency going forward.

Many of my friends just dismiss what goes on with Donald Trump. As they think since they voted for him and he won the election, they don’t have to follow what’s going on, because their leader, a convicted felon and rapist, can keep the country safe, and all will be well. But what Donald Trump has proven in his first 90 days is that there has been just a comedy of errors for just about everything he has done or has tried to do. What my dear friends fail to see these comedy of errors he has made since day 1.

30 SCREWUPS ARE LISTED BELOW and Trump hasn’t even completed his first 100 days.

1) Donald Trump came out of the gate on day one in his surprise to destroy the government as one of his orders was a White House memo ring the freezing of all federal grants and loans. But in less than 48 hours he had to take it back. He rescinded his own memo freezing Federal Grants and confusion and legal challenges. It was the first big thing he did, but he immediately had to take that back.

2) He puts somebody in charge of the FBI who he actually didn’t want to put in charge of the FBI.

According to the Wall Street Journal…

“The White House officials goofed on the White House website and listed the wrong man in charge of the FBI, people familiar with the matter said. Instead of correcting the error, officials let it stand, and the two men traded temporary titles…”

So they accidentally put the wrong person as the acting head of the FBI. Now that was super smart.

3) Then the CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires.

4) Trump made it impossible for the U.S. Postal Service to stop accepting packages from China. When he made the announcement, he had no idea of the implications of what he was doing. The Post Office alerted Trump that based on what he announced, the United States could no longer receive mail from China.  Obviously this had to be reversed. Real smart.

5) Trump and Musk fire the director of the National Security Agency (ASA). Nothing big here, but they happen to handle the safe transportation and storage of the U.S. nuclear weapons. This was a major screw up. Trump and Musk fire but then try to rehire nuclear weapons workers. Are you kidding me? What a screwup.

6) DOGE claims that it saved $8 Billion in one contract, but actually it was only $8 Million. They were only off by around 100,000%. Remember Trump only hires the smart guys starting with Elon Musk. That’s why the shares in Musk’s car company – Tesla, have now dropped 71% in value.

7) The Agriculture tries to hire fired workers tied to the bird flu response. The bird flu was spreading, but Trump and Musk fire all the professionals that could handle bird flue issues. He fires all of the bird flue people in the middle of the bird flu, another super screwup. How cool was that!?</?:/

8) Then, after Trump decided to end the Free Covid Test Program, he reverses his decision just a day later. The tax payers bought all of these unused tests, so Trump planned to incinerate the millions of tests. It would mean that if you wanted a test from that point on, instead of getting one that the taxpayers already paid for, you would have to deal out additional cash for a test. Now that was a real smart move.

9) Trump decides that the administration would end legal aid for migrant children. But then in just 24 hours, Trump reverses the decision. Trump realizes that it wouldn’t be possible to have migrant children appear in court without representation.

The administration has also again tried to take away lawyers to represent the migrant children and is still a live issue.

10) Trump cuts the program that helped the 9/11 first responders. Trump couldn’t defend that action, so this decision gets reversed too.

11) Elon Musk sends out email to all Federal Government employees to respond to a questionnaire, and that if they didn’t respond, they would be fired.  The Federal agencies just ignored the email. Trump and Musk could not back the threat.

12) Regarding the VA, Trump cuts liberal WOKE programs like cancer treatment, and support for veterans with cancer and burial services for veterans. Imagine that. Trump cuts burial services for veterans. After so many people rejected this rule, Trump reinstates the liberal programs that should have NEVER been cut. Real smart.

13) Elon Mush admits DOGE accidentally eliminated prevention measures combatting the Ebola virus.  Real smart.

14) Trump reverses course after putting crisis hotlines on hold. In a quote from the Federal News Network…

 “Due to an administrative error, job offers for some Veterans Crisis Line positions that were scheduled to be filled later this month were mistakenly rescinded. This issue has been addressed and VA is in the process of reissuing these offers”

What kind of administrative error cuts the suicide hotline? This was another major screw up.

15) DOGE deletes hundreds more from list of savings.

“Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts”

per the New York Times. Continuing,

“Late Sunday night, the group erased or altered more than 1,000 contracts it had claimed to cancel, representing more than 40 percent of all the contracts listed on its site last week.”

16) Trump then abruptly walks back his directive to fire thousands of Federal Employees. Why would he fire them in the first place. Did he have a real reason to, except to want to safe money to then be deferred to the wealthy in an upcoming tax cut”

“In a revised guidance issued to the heads of federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management…tries to rewrite history by claiming it never actually ordered agencies to fire probationary employees” per the HuffPost.

17) The next day

“At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the General Services Administration posted a list of 443 properties it was considering for sale – an inventory that ranged from an El Paso toll booth to the Food and Drug Administration’s research campus in Silver Spring, Maryland”

according to Bloomberg reporting. And then the report continues…

”In the next five hours, more than 100 properties were removed from the catalog, including the agency headquarters of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor and Veterans Affairs.” 

Now that was pretty smart, or shall I say pretty dumb. I guess we don’t need any of those agencies. But then the very next day, the entire list had been removed.

So did Donald Trump actually want to get rid of the headquarters of the Justice department, who knows. They put them all up for sale, then they took them all down. Do we ever know what Donald Trump wants to do, other than to destroy the Federal Government? The Administration pretended it didn’t even happen. They didn’t answer any questions, and didn’t explain anything. But facts are facts and this crazy administration cannot deny them.

18) So then we get back to tariffs. In a Los Angeles Times headline

“In dizzying reversal, Trump pauses tariffs on some Mexican and Canadian products. “

19) Then Trump attacks social security by cutting phone services in a report in the Washington Post

“Social Security scraps far-reaching cuts to phone services after Post report.”

20) How about this headline about social security, also in the Washington Post…

”More than 400 Social Security numbers, other private information revealed in JFK files.”

In that article it stated that

“The Social Security numbers and other private information of more than 400 former congressional staffers and others were made public Tuesday in the unreacted files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”

President Trump ordered the release of this information. No other president before Trump thought it necessary to reveal social security numbers in JFK files. Imagine as a former Congressional staffer that you realize that your social security information was now ‘PUBLIC INFORMATION’. So what they had to do next was to find out who the living individuals were whose Social Security information was now public and issue them new Social Security numbers. That was easy for the government to do, but just think on the confusion now given to these people with new social security numbers and all the documents they needed to update with the new number. After this happened, there was absolutely no explanation given to the public. Their names, their place of birth, there birthdays and hundreds of unreacted social security numbers were now public.

21) How about this most recent issue. From an article in the Atlantic publican by Jeff Goldberg in late March,

“The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”

22) And another stellar late screwup.  This one was in NPR.

“Trump administration admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison by mistake.”

So what does the Trump administration do with the dictator of El Salvador in the White House? They say that because the Maryland man will have to stay there now because the United States has no jurisdiction in El Salvador, even if the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the man must be brought back. It was stated in the meeting with the dictator that the Supreme Court ruled 0-9 that the Supreme Court favored the Trump administration. But obviously that was a lie. The vote was 9-0 against Trump. None of the migrants sent to El Salvador were given any rights before they were deported. Where was “Liberty and Justice for All” abided by in this country when that happened? It made no difference if they were illegal migrants or not, they deserved equal justice under the law. The government still hasn’t attempted to get the man back even after the judgement by the Supreme Court. So now thanks to Trump, we are in a Constitutional crisis.

I have been right about many things I’ve published on this website and mark my words, eventually someone will go to jail because more than one Federal judge in this country has cited CRIMINAL CONTEMPT, which means someone WILL go to jail if the issue is not resolved.  The Federal judges say if the man is returned to the United States, the criminal contempt would be expunged. Of course, because of Trumps immunity from the Supreme Court, he won’t be the one going to jail if someone has to. But whoever else was involved in sending the migrants to El Salvador, they are now facing jail time. But never fear, Trump will get them out.

23) Sticking to tariffs, in another headline in the Washington Post,

“Trump’s tariffs hit even remote islands. One is mainly home to penguins.”  I guess Trump wants penguins to pay tariffs.”

Super cool. If not blood ‘from a turnip’ or ‘blood from a human’ then why not…’Blood from a penguin’? Right?  They should be tariffed too.

24) Then a BBC report

“‘We’ll make mistakes’” says RFK as fired US health staff asked to return”.

25) A few days lager in the Economic Times publication

“Economists reveal major Math blunder in Donald Trump’s tariff formula that inflates impact by 400%, could spark global trade chaos.”

26) Then in another Washington Post article,

“National Park Service restores Underground Railroad webpage after outcry.”

It was just another screwup. When the White House couldn’t defend it, they quietly undid it and never revealed that they made a mistake. So much for transparency.

27) Then…

“DOGE cuts at a Florida manatee refuge have been reversed – for now, also found in the Washington Post.

38) Then in the AP

“Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs by mistake.”

That was just another screwup.

These announcements seem to be happen daily. The very next day after the administation claimed to cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs,

“Trump announces sudden reversal on tariffs, lowering most to 10% but hiking China’s to 125%.” 

But Trump warns his friends as he is even caught on camera advising his friends that he was going to reverse the tariffs, which would impact the stock markets and he and his friends could take advantage of the stock markets to make money. I think they call that ‘insider tradiing’, wouldn’t you think.

The mistakes this administration has made in less than 100 days is suffocating. Never before has an administration been so corrupt and unable to handle the duties they try to perform, but fail in every way because none of them are actually qualified in any way to serve. This administration is a joke. Of course Trump WILL NEVER take the blame for anything that happened, but he will blame someone else, and then fire them claiming that he fixed the problem. He says he will not fire the Defense Secretary Hegseth, but in due time he will, because he has to blame someone for recent WAR PLANS that were sent out on non-qualified government secured communication systems that were shared with a reporter that did not have any security clearance to know about the information he reported on, alerting the world that Trump screwed up again.

29) Then there is the Harvard thing. A letter was sent to Harvard by mistake, so the Trump officials say, about their WOKE policies. Harvard sues the administration for the accusations, but then Trump immediately backs down just as he had with tariffs.

Trumps popularity since he because president is sinking like a rock. There are multiple demonstrations every week across the country and now there is talk about Trump impeachment. Is anything going well for Trump. He brought this all up himself.

30) Last but not least, as I’ve been explaining since he has been talking about tariffs, even before he put them in effect, that it would destroy our economy. Now, since he actually put them in effect, the economy is spiraling, the stock markets have lost trillions of dollars, people’s retirements are being savaged, and people are revolting. That’s only what has happened in the first three months of Trump’s presidency.

Yes, democracy is being challenged her, by a confined autocrat that we now have in the Whitehouse. Even before Trump was elected for a second term, I warned about details found in ‘Project 2025’. Now a lot of what you find in that document is coming true.

What I’d hoped would happen now according to Trump’s own statements while he was running for president, would be the end of the Ukraine/Russian war. no tax on tips, no taxes on Social Security and even the price of eggs would go down, as Trump promised the economy would get better. All of his promises were lies.  Trump always gets away with his dirty deeds because the Republican Congress backs him up all the way.

The mid-terms, if we ever make it there, will be an eye-opener for the Republicans. I foresee now that the House and Senate will be taken over by Democrats, and I go as far as stating that the next president will be a Democrat. Because of Trump’s actions and the actions by the Republican Congress, they will loose ALL control of government in 2026.

Then and only then can this country try and come back from a totally disasterous Trump 2nd term in office.

Just Day #2 of Trump’s World Wide Tariffs – A Recession is now on the Horizon

April 4, 2025

The market freefall continues. Just yesterday, the DOW plunged by 2,035 points in a massive sell-off. Another $2 Trillion dollars just wiped out of the U.S. economy. A final report for the day will be coming after the markets close. Why does the markets continue to plunge? Because just as expected, China has retaliated with reciprocal tariffs aimed at the U.S. The tariff response is very high. What is the tariff imposed by China? Who cares at this point. What China has done was to make sure that its people don’t purchase American made products because they will be priced out of reach by most people in their country, and they will be forced to purchase anything besides U.S. goods. That’s how the Canadians are thinking too. Economists predict that a recession probability jumed from just 40% last week to 60% this week.

Why does China want to raise prices to their people. Actually, they don’t want too, as unfortunately China seems to know more about global trade than our president does. The end goal is to make sure that the Chinese people decide to purchase Chinese products instead on American made markets. That’s the idea behind tariffs. The demand for U.S. products will go down, and exports to China will go down. China will do what the American president thinks he can do better. The fact is that Trump most likely will not ever be successful, but the Chinese president most likely will because China will now have more willing trading partners than America. And if the Chinese president can’t do it all on his own, he will import from other countries, like he is already doing. The Chinese economy is surpassing America’s economy by a long shot. Canada and Mexico have made recent trade agreements with China, so they can import goods at just about no tariff rate attached. So China will be better off. America will not. Canada has decided to sell the oil to other countries instead of America. Previous to Trump’s trade war, Canada was sending 97% of all oil they produced to America. That’s no longer. What country in their right mind wants to trade with America right now. The answer is – NONE. Free trade will continue between the rest of the world, excluding the United States. So what’s left for America? As Trump sees it as temporary pain, the prices of goods will come down. If America can hold on as long as that will take, Trump may be right. The prices will come down because the supply of American goods will increase because other countries will not want to pay high prices for our products that they can purchase elsewhere at a lower price. American products with higher inflated prices will have to be purchased by U.S. consumers.  The U.S. buyer will not have much of a choice other than to buy American, as foreign products will become more expensive to buy. Since the products Americans will be purchasing more now will be made in America, the prices will go down. The ‘Supply vs. Demand’ formula no longer works in a ‘stagnation’ economy. The prices will have to come down to convince any American to purchase anything.

Unfortunately, America does not have the time to wait for this to happen. It can’t happen overnight. The auto industry is a prime example. Let’s take Ford Motors for example. Not a single Ford vehicle sold in this country can be made with parts ONLY made in America. If Trump put a 100% tariff on Mexico, Ford Motors would go out of business immediately. A percentage of parts put in Ford products are made in MEXICO. So in order for the cars to be sold in America, the part made in Mexico that are installed in Mexico will be tariffed and the parts, along with the vehicles will go up drastically in price. Tooling an economy in the U.S. that can handle making products totally in America like the automobile will take more time than Donald Trump has left in his 2nd term. Can the citizens of America wait for this to happen? Of course not. The markets are steadily dropping each and every day. 401K’s are dwindling, people are loosing jobs. Farmers are going to be decimated. China has just banned Soybeans from the U.S. Soy bean exports will drop considerabaly and some U.S. farmers will go out of business. Nothing short of a recession can happen if things don’t turn around.

Maybe Donald Trump has a trick in his sleeve to jump start the U.S. economy, but he has not given not even once ounce of the formula and the steps he is taking to accomplish this, other than to tariff the world.

The world economy is just what it states. It’s a world economy, and Trump doesn’t like it. He’s obsessed with tariffs. He did them in his first presidency, and he’s doing it again. China saw the first taste of tariffs from Trump in 2017. Now they are ready to confront him, and they are. Trump will never get the economy under control with the time he has left in office. The pain that America is experiencing will be felt for years to come.

Well, I didn’t realize that the stock markets have closed while writing this article. It’s even more dismal than yesterday, with the DOW dropping another -2,231.07 points, with the value dropping another 5.5 %, at least another $2 trillion in a single day.  More to come in the next article.

Since inauguration day, market losses now verge on $11 trillion. 

Markets Freefall – $2 Trillion Lost in a Single Day

April 4, 2025

The outcome is bleak, just 24 hours after Trump announced tariffs on the world. The stocks closed  yesterday with record losses, as the value of stocks within the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about $2 Trillion in value in just one day. This is a tremendous loss in the U.S. economy. The only one to blame is Donald J. Trump. The guy that was supposed to save the world from a disasterous economy “on day one” as Republicans put it during the elections, now is leading America to a recession. And this is only the beginning. Meanwhile, after Trump reins damage on the stock markets, he decided that he did enough for one week, and he left the White House to fly down to Mar-a-lago to take a hard earned vacation, relax and play golf, while the American people have to try and figure out what’s next. Life savings, 401K’s and people’s lives by the hour are being destroyed and Donald Trump could care less. Companies are already furlowing workers. Trump continuously claims that the country must feel ‘pain’ at first and it will only be in the short haul. He’s lieing again, and he knows it. The pain felt by Americans will be for a long time to come, way after he leaves office.

What he did create is a new world of dis-order. No longer is the world willing to follow America, whom they thought would protect them. Reciprical tariffs from other countries to the United States are soon to come. Expect China to hit back hard. This is what the voters got when they voted for Trump.

So what happened with the stock markets at the opening bell yesterday, March 3, 2025?

It can be described with one word… S H O C K !

The markets begain the day down -1200 points, already a disaster in the making. But the day was just starting, and before it ended, the DOW Jones Stock Exchange dropped -1,679 points or 3.98%. The S&P500 was down almost 5% and the tech market known as NASDAQ was down by 6%.

All three markets posted their largest single day loss since 2020.

So that’s day 1 of the markets since the Trump tariffs began affecting countries all over the world less than a day ago. But in general, since Trump became president, the DOW is down almost 8%, The NASDAQ down at least 16%, and the S&P500 down almost 11%.

All gains in the markets have been wiped out since Trump’s election in November.

And it will get much worse.  A graph below illustrates the responses from the 3 major markets in the U.S. since the beginning of Trump’s presidency. The 0% mark is the start of Trump’s presidency. The decreasing markets are not making the U.S. economy any better. The country is now bleeding its wealth. The United States is NO LONGER the envy of the world.

Markets Crashed from the First Moment today – No Liberation Day but a Promised Recession

April 3, 2025

Right on cue. As predicted, the U.S. stock market has tanked, as Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon destroys the U.S. economy that was once the envy of the world.

As the coward Trump is, he waited until the stock markets closed yesterday when he finally initiated his latest tariffs, this time affecting countries around the world. And yes, he says he doesn’t monitor the stock markets. Just another lie.  It is now officially known at the Trump International Trade War. Trump owns it. He cannot blame Biden or Obama. No smart president in his right mind would do such a thing, but Trump is literally sick, and he is now taking the country to a recession and a lower GDP of at least 3%. Before his election, the GDP was expected to grow by at least 3%. When the markets closed yesterday, i.e. the DOW was up by 235 points. Traders were hoping for the best, but knew what was going to come as soon as Trump went forward with his dire plan.

The DOW futures just before market opening in just 10 minutes is down by nearly 1200 points. A total disaster.

Time to pause this report, as the moment of recogning is fast approaching. I’ll continue with this note when the markets actually open in 8 minutes…

9:30AM ET (MARKETS NOW OPEN)

OK, the moment is here.   The DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE, known as the DOW, closed yesterday in the green from the previous day of 235 points, up by just .56%. This morning it has now opened in the negative of 1,111.22 points or -2.63% from yesterdays close of 42,225.32.  I’ve been predicting this moment for months. It opened today at 41,114.10. That is just a total disaster, completely brought on by Trump, who wants to make sure that Americans feel pain. The economy is weaker and EVERYTHING just got more expensive. So much for Donald Trump promising that the economy will get better and that he would lower prices.  Some businesses will be forced to close. At this moment of time, there is the highest unemployement filing in the country since 2021. This disaster all happened in the last 80 days, when Trump became president.

The other markets that Americans follow fell too, and not by just a little. Roughly two hours before the start of trade at 9:30AM ET this morning, futures for the S&P 500 plunged 190 points, or 3.3%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrrial Average and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index sank 3% and 4%, respectively.

I am literally sick about this result from Trumps egregous disregard to the American economy. Countries around the world will reciprocate in their own way with tariffs against the United States of their own.  Like I said, literally EVERYTHING has just become more expensive. It’s like jumping off of a cliff. Once you jump, you will continue to fall to your death. This is what is happening to us now.

Donald Trump is a disaster in all things related to the economy. He’s the guy that promised to address the high cost of living, and he stated that costs would go down on DAY 1 of his presidency. That is not happening. Costs are not going down, they are going up. Inflation is going up.  No doubt the stock market is colapsing, and what that means is that the retirement savings of every day Americans are disappearing by the hour. It is all because of Donald Trump’s reckless mis-managment of the economy, as he knew full well what was going to happen. Economists predicted it and now these tariffs that he imposed will raise the cost of everything for everyday Americans in many estimates of thousands of dollars per year. Who gets affected the most? Regular people like you and me will feel the ‘pain’, and it’s not going to go away any time soon. Of course rich guys like Trump and Musk could care less because the tariffs don’t affect Trump. They will affect Musk in a way as it will negatively impact his Tesla business but that’s just a drop in a bucket for the richest man in the world.

Trump was supposed to help grow the economy, at least that’s what people voted for him to do when he became president, but instead, he is crashing the economy in real time. Today is NOT liberation day, it’s RECESSION DAY, because that’s where we are headed.

Most people aren’t aware of these things until it affects them. Maybe they will wake up when the cost of gasoline goes through the roof. That’s coming. I haven’t been wrong in the past, and I’m not wrong now. It’s coming.

All we can do now is pray that Trump shows his cowardness once again when he finally drops the tariffs, hoping that other countries will drop theirs. Yes, he says he doesn’t look at the stock exchanges, but I would bet any money that he is now.

Trumps Claim – Liberation Day is Tomorrow April 2

April 1, 2025

Well, today is April Fools Day, and it is truly a day for fools. What’s being liberated is your wallet, your paycheck and the economy. In the few days up to ‘Liberation Day’, the stock markets have been very unsettled. On Thursday last week, the markets crashed with a 700 point fall. But on Friday and Monday, the markets responded positively. This is known as the ‘Calm before the Storm’.

Now, idiot Donald Trump is putting his tariff wars on a worldwide scale. Chaos is visable for everyone to see. His reciprical tariffs as he calls them are meant to hurt just about every country that does business with the United States. As if the markets haven’t suffered enough, Trump’s aim is to deliver ‘PAIN’ around the world. And Trump claims he doesn’t care about anyone or their personal wallets. He claims that he doesn’t watch the stock market, but everyone knows that’s a lie. If he really does not, that in itself is a tragedy, proving the point that he doesn’t care about Americans and their well being. He doesn’t care if inflation goes up. Maybe all he needs to do is talk to his co-commander and chief Elon Musk, and ask him how the trade wars are effecting his Tesla business.

Markets, traders and brokers react in advance of things. They calculate their decisions before the big event to be able to capitalize on what’s going to happen.

Just so you realize this, Trump has already destroyed the tax base of the Internal Revenue Service. To run our government, to pay on social security, veterans benefits, medicade and medicare, student loans, there are regulations surrounding how things operate. Donald Trump is destroying all the norms and protections that the American people have enjoyed since World War II.

Trump thinks he can tariff his way to liberate America to eliminate debt, but instead, he is doing just the opposite. He wants to tariff to the tune of 4 trillion dollars. That’s what the economists say, and people who understand better than I what Trump is trying to do here. The only thing I understand from all of this is that he wants the money to give tax breaks for the rich, although he claims that he will also balance the budget, which is impossible, mainly because of the tariffs he is now imposing on the American people.

The American people are SUCKERS. At least the people who voted for him are. Many who voted for him are now out of work. Their lives destroyed from the king they thought would save our economy. Now where is it?

Automobile reciprical tariffs posed by other countries to the U.S. will cripple the U.S. economy. Trump claims that we don’t need help from Canada or Mexico. Really!!! Does he not understand that EVERY American car today can not be assembled in America without parts that are made in Canada and Mexico? Reciprical tariffs from other countries will expode the cost of American cars. Goods and consumeables that come from both Canada and Mexico will soon be priced out of reach. Gasoline prices will soon explode. Canada now plans to cut off oil exports to the U.S. while they also plan to cut hydro-electric power to a few northern states that depend on Canadian power. But even before they completely cut off the power, they will tariff their energy to American consumers. Prices of energy have already gone up. So tell me where Trump is saving our economy.

Doesn’t Trump realize that Ford and GM make their cars in MEXICO? You can’t built an American made car using American made parts. World trade has evolved in such a way that all countries are dependent on each other. Maybe that’s not the vision that Trump has, but it’s the reality that we face at this moment. You cannot just turn off Canada and Mexico if you plan to build American made cars.  There is a high percentage of foreign imports, including from Japan, parts that are installed in American made cars. Foreign and GM cars that go across the border during producion are subject to tariffs and the cost of these vehicles will skyrocket. Even if all of the Assembly lines for American made cars were in the United States, which they are not, car productions would cease, because the United States is not tooled up at the moment to produce all parts that go in American made cars.

Now personally, I don’t believe that Trump will go through with this ‘liberation day movement’. Why do I believe that? Because Trump is watch the stock markets, even though the liar that he is says that he’s not watching. The world economies and stock markets are reacting negatively to what Trump is doing with tariffs.

Consumer confidence is down at its lowest in three years. Manufacturing confidence is down at its lowest in more than ten years. Most major investent banks have raised their expectations considerablly that a recession is coming. The odds given by these banks  put the odds now at about 40%. It’s hard to imagine that just 70 days ago when Biden was still President that the markets were booming and the United States economy was the envy of the world. Now, the world is nervously watching the U.S. economy crumble, and is looking for a new leader in world markets, sidestepping the United States as the country to envy.

SO, THE TRUMP RECESSION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. He will own it. His Republican party will explode because of it. Unfortunately, the American people will feel the ‘PAIN’ from it. But we have just under two years to go before Trump becomes a ‘lame duck’ and his Republican party will crumble. Hopefully by then, it will not be too late for the Democrats again to try and save the country. But I don’t believe it can happen now until a recession happens and if this president is allowed to act as he has done since the election, a depression will come next. Then maybe the only being that can save us the ‘our Supreme Being’, God himself.

Stay tuned for stock market updates starting tonight with the close of the market. But what I can tell you now that just about all the gains the markets gained on Monday has been extinguished, as the futures show  the DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE now down by 231 points or .55%. Stock futures for the S&P and NASDAQ markets are also down. Tariff anxiety lingers which is not a good thing. The markets will preface what the traders will feel on ‘liberation day’ in which millions or billions of dollars will be ‘liberated’ from Americans who support our markets, thanks to a president who claims he doesn’t care how we feel. Also, you may want to check your 401K value as the week goes on. If I’m right, it’s not going to be pretty.

Trump Devastation Continues in America

March 23, 2025

Well, I’m done talking about the stock markets until April 2nd. I think everyone gets the drift. Donald Trump is destroying America. Let’s talk about him!

Trump is a FRAUD.

Trump is a CON-ARTIST.

Trump is a SEXUAL-PREDATURE.

Trump is a HORRIBLE PERSON who is an IDIOT.

Trump is a COVICTED FELON who is the President of the United States.

I cannot and will not ever support such a sick individual.

TRUMP’S PLAN IS NOT WORKING !

Canada has his number. Mexico has his number. Europe has his number.  The Federal judges have his number. Even the Supreme Court has his number. Yet, he’s such an IDIOT that on April 2nd, he plans to go through with his tariff plan that will be sent to countries around the world. He will continue to be sued, and eventually SCOTUS will put Trump and Elon Musk in their place !   IT’s COMING !

April 2nd will become the NEXT big news around the world, as stocks will again crash, so hard they may even close the markets early on April 2nd. Everyone knows that Canada plans to reciprocate every added tariff that Trump puts on Canada, so it’s about to get much worse for the American consumer. Trump claims that the United States does not need Canada. But we actually do. If the markets collapse on April 2nd, watch Trump cave in and remove the tariffs he just put in effect just 24 hours earlier. He’s testing the patience of the world now, and the world will not take his bull sitting still. They will ALL fire back!

Can the economy ever recover? Trump already caused people to loose at least $5 Trillion dollars who support the stock markets. And 401K Accounts and pensions are getting raped. Medicade in on the chopping block and the future of Medicare is uncertain. There is no end in sight, except an oncoming recession, followed by a depression if the markets can’t settle down. It is inevitable.  We cannot stay on this path. So many jobs have been lost.

Trump signed an executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship was explicitly added to the Constitution in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted following the Civil War.  His action is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. But he doesn’t care because he believes his newfound executive powers of presidential immunity given by SCOTUS oversees any action that he makes as president, so he believes he now has the right, regardless of what the U.S. Constitution says. 

USAID is Gone!

Several FBI Agents are gone! Probationary Employees are Gone!

According to government data maintained by OPM, 220,000 Federal employees had less than a year on the job as of March 2024. They are gone!

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs lost 1000 temporary employees. They are gone!

The civilian workforce is heading to a 5 to 8 percent decline. GDP is no longer growing.

There has been $900 million dollars in cuts in the departments of Education services. Just gone!.

About 350 Federal Employees that maintain and guard our nuclear weapons are now gone!

The Center of Disease Control and Prevention has lost about 1300 probationary employees which is 1/10th of the agency’s workforce.

Probationary employees were also fired at public health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but HHS has not released a final number.

From the Department of Homeland Security, 405 people lost their jobs, why, because they were probationary.  They are gone!.

The Internal Revenue Service will lay off thousands in the middle of tax season. They will be gone, just when you need them during tax season.

The National Parks service has laid off about 1000 people.

The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau has been shut down. Completely gone!

The Agriculture Department has been hit. There were at least 2000 Non-Fire Fighting Employees terminated.

Trump put a 90-day hold on most foreign assistance right after he was elected. All Federal Grants and Loans have been frozen as of last month.

Trump has fired 17 Inspectors General.

The Department of Justice fired at least a dozen attorneys that served in politically appointed positions that pursued prosecutions of Trump before he was president. He fired them because they tried to prosecute him!

Trump just signed an executive order to close down the Department of Education, which he has no authority to do. The U.S. Congress voted and approved the formation of the Department of Education, and he cannot get rid of it with a stroke of a pen. It can only be elimitated by 2/3 of a vote in both the U.S. House and Senate. Lawsuits are now pending. 

Now that he’s destroyed so many people’s lives, but now it’s back to tariffs. Another option can be that Donald Trump will again CHICKEN OUT and not put out more tariffs to countries around the world on April 2nd.

As an ignorant idiot and con-artist that he is, I think that even Trump will see the catastrophic damage he is causing to America, or is he just not smart enough to realize how this country is bleeding Democracy thanks to his policies and the permanent damage he is causing to people’s lives?

Canadians are told by their Prime-Minister not to visit the United States this year, and to make other vacation plans. Canadians are no longer flying the American flag next to the Canadian flag. Rather than accept higher tariffs on imports, Canada is refusing to receive the goods. They have taken American imported liquor off of their shelves. Trump is causing long-term damage to our closest friend and neighbor – Canada.

This is nothing less than a trade war that is back-firing on Donald Trump. He is becoming to be known as “The Art of the No-Deal”.

American prices are about to skyrocket. Food, fuel, merchandise from retail stores, restaurants, car dealerships, computers and utilities are now going up. The egg prices he vowed to go down are now going up. Fuel has jumped 50 cents per gallon in the last 30 days.

So this is the guy that’s going to fix the economy. In what way? I’m still trying to figure out why people thought it was broke, and now they our economy to a fraudster that has gone bankrupt many times. So many people voted for this fool.

Trump’s meme coin has absolutely crashed in the market, going from about $45.00 a share to now only $11.65 as of this post. The stock has lost billions of dollars.

He has destroyed peoples savings, the very people that have supported him to become president.

Trump was right. He said there will be “pain” before things get better. Well, the pain has arrived, and his hard supporters are also really feeling it now.

What about his media company called ‘TruthSocial’? He claims that’s his voice is the real voice of America, as he continues his con-artist skills to get people to sign up and donate money to him. He claims that he has never let people down. Really, Mr. Trump?

The stock price for Trump Media, known on the NASDAQ Market as ‘Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) down down 40.48% in value to date in 2025, now setting at $20.25 per share, down $13.77 per share.

This is devastating news if you invest in Trump Truth Social. So in his mind, he’s not letting people down. But in his supporters minds now that have been directly affected by the markets, they are now looking at Trump in a different light.

Unfortunately, people who support Trump are realizing the hard way that Trump is not a good leader in America. Actually he belongs in prison. You cannot trust such a con-artist and convicted felon that he is. It is unimaginable to me on how SICK this specimen of a human being is. All of the billionaires are going down the dark road now, loosing money along with his followers.

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, stock shares are now down at least 50% worldwide. The prices of the Tesla has gone up 100% in Canada. The sales of Tesla in China are just about extinct. China has their own electric vehicle made by a company called ‘BYD’ that is so much cheaper in China, that there is no competition. Exports of BYD vehicles from China to other countries is picking up big time. Even import fees to these other countries from China still make their vehicle more popular than the Tesla. These Chinese vehicles use a Blade Technology, and the Chinese have figured a way to charge their electric car in just about 5 minutes of time and there are literally millions of charging stations across the country that can handle the charging requirements of the Chinese car.

The world is about to leave America behind, Thanks to Donald J. Trump! And Americans will continue to feel the ‘pain’ long after Trump is finally gone.

Canada Openly Distancing Themselves from the United States

March 21, 2025

To understand how Donald Trump’s policy regarding Canada has ultimately torn the two countries apart, Charlie Angus of Canada has announced a travel advisory warning against U.S. travel due to increased detentions and deportations of Canadians in the United States. Without a doubt, the U.S. – Canadian relations are on decline and in full display for the world to see. Canadian airlines is now canceling flights to the U.S. and there has been a significant drop in Canadian tourists in the United States.

Obviously, thanks to Donald Trump, the political landscape in Canada is shifting, with the Conservative Party’s support for Trump backfiring, leading to a rise in support for the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Mark Carney. So now realizing that supporting Trump is suddenly not popular amongst the Canadians, Pierre Poilievre, a leader in the Conservative Party in Canada is now distancing himself from Trump and his controversial statements, including his support for privatizing healthcare.

Canada is now in the midst of what is called Snap Elections to be held in April, and because of Donald Trump, the Liberal party in Canada is now pretty popular with the electorate.

Immediately below, is a speech given to Canadians by Charlie Angus who is not a leader, but a worker, but is swaying Canadians to to stay away from the United States…

“Over the last 3 months, our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist a an independent, democratic nation.

DONALD TRUMP thought we were going to be an easy mark that would be a pushover. Oh how wrong he was, and now Canada, standing up to him has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology. So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada.

What concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit. We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals, citizens being kidnapped through the legal detention by ICE. And it’s not just Canadians. We see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors.

I am here today to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States, if at all possible.

And to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today. Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law, because of what we’re seeing, with the U.S. harassing Canadians, is not the actions of a democratic nation.

People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they’re somehow progressive or woke. That’s not the actions of a democratic nation.

That is the creep of totalitarianism, that is the creep of fascism. And we need to call that out.”

What Trump has done to the United States is horrible. It’s sad as an American to see what the Trump regime has done to this country. It’s humiliating. Thanks to Trump, the U.S. stand in the world is as low as it’s ever been. There are reports that European military powers are currently planning and working on a five to ten year plan to replace the United States in NATO. The U.S. is presently just one out of 32 NATO countries. Canada has joined NATO in 1949 when it was formed, along with the United States. Many countries like Canada are boycotting the United States as well.

The Canadian people are taking Charlie Angus’s advice. Flights from Canada to the United States have DROPPED by 85%. This is definitely going to affect the United States, the GDP and the tourism industry, and the beneficiary is going to be places like the Caribbean and other places where Canadians are going to go. They are going to spend their hard earned money at places that actually respect them. It’s really unfortunate that we’re seeing such horrific behavior.

Regarding Canadian politics, the thought of DONALD TRUMP has become a curse, and anyone supporting Donald Trump like the Conservative Party in Canada has, needs to know by now that their success in the upcoming elections is now extremely negative to their chances of election. Donald Trump did this and the Republican Party in Canada has Donald Trump to blame. U.S. tourism will crash this summer.

Wall Street hanging by a Thread

March 17, 2025

It wasn’t the greatest day on Wall Street today, as the DOW kept some modest gains throughout the day and ended in the positive.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a positive gain of 353 points, up .85% ending at 41,841.63. But the markets were jittery to say the least, as it was up at one point by 483 points, but in the last minutes of the open market, the DOW dropped.

The one basic reason why it did go into the tank today is because Donald Trump kept his mouth shut and didn’t proclaim more tariffs. But with that said, he promised he was going to make a statement to institute reciprical tariffs on any country that is imposing tariffs on the United States. In an attempt to destablize the markets, Trump will definitely achieve his goal ob April 2nd the date he picked to make the announcment.

Without a doubt, with just a few weeks to go, I can absolutely tell you that the markets will crash on that day.

Recently, Trump has received some very strong pushback fron Canada. The Canadians are not taking Trump’s threats lightly. They have been hurt, insulted, and not respected as a soverign nation by Trump. He claims that Canada does not have anything that we need and that everything that we import from Canada, we can get at home.

How sick is this guy? Does he not realize that Canada delivers at 97% of all oil exports directly to the United States? Doesn’t he realize that presently Canada is supplying electricity to 3 border U.S. states? Doesn’t he realize that Canada provides the necessary minerals that are needed in production of automobiles and computers and most electronics that the U.S. manufactures at home?

Trump has an end goal in mind. At the top of his list are his rich buddies that he wants to give a tax break to. He believes all the cuts he is making in government will pay for the tax breaks for the rich.

He’s gutting many government agencies in an attempt to crash the market so that prices will have to go down. His self induced resession will turn into a Trump depression.

Already, mortgage prices are down by at least 1% across the board, but that is actually a bad sign that Trump is succeeding in his goal to gut America.

Meanwhile, his popularity has hit rock bottom amongst Democrats, and the Republicans, many who have voted for him in the election are not far behind. Many recognize that they made a bad choice. The man that they trusted to FIX the economy is now gutting it.

Many laid off workers and closed businesses within the Federal government are now a reality, and Trump , along with his buddy Musk are not done yet.

Luckily, the courts are stepping in, while Trump has been defying court orders regarding deportations and the Judges involved are reversing Trumps orders to deport people and to close businesses. Trump has presidential immunity, and he’s exercising it, thinking that no judge can touch him as long as he wants to disobey judges orders when he performs illegal actions while under the cloak of the presidency.

As usual, I go off in a tangent sometimes when there is so much news about Trump these days that I can’t stay on topic.

Getting back to the markets, let’s see what another day gives us with tomorrows trading. At the moment, the DOW futures also known as the E-Mini Dow Continuouse Contract is down by 25 points setting at 42,200. Futures begain at 42,225. I will watch it throughout the night and report again in the morning.

 

The DOW Rebounds – A Great way to End the Week

March 14, 2025

Again, what happened today was totally predictable. Donald Trump did not issue any new tariffs and the markets rebounded and in big fashion.

When Trump keeps his mouth shut, the country benefits. That does not mean that the markets are out of the woods yet, even though all three major markets, the DOW, S&P500 and tech heavy NasDAQ have all rebounded. At a final minute tally, the Dow finished the day up by 1.65% for the day closing at 41,488.19. What a sharp difference from yesterday’s trading as it ended yesterday at 40,813.57.

So yes, the market rebounded at least for one day, while adding 674.62 points. It saved the week from total annialation. For what’s been happening lately, that’s quite impressive. The usual winners were NVIDIA Corp and American Express stocks. These are known as staple stocks, in which other major companies try to rally with and emulate their businesses and practices around these companies that always seem to be on top.

What does NVIDIA offer to the markets that’s so appealing?

One product would be the implementation of AI. This form of technology that seems to take over the mindset of intellectual thinking adds computer logic to the human formula to come up with a product that is far superior than if the result was created by just the human mind.

NVidia has been into the computer scene for quite a while now and they seem to have all the answers to keep things rolling smoothly and going in a positive direction. When you check the markets recently, Donald Trump’s political maneuvering continued to shake global markets and rattle US consumers. But even during Trump’s tariff statements that seem to crash the markets each day, NVidia seems to alway be able to pull through, or at least I should say that they pull through more times than they fail too.  Every company has their bad days, but if I had money to wager on a stock just a few months ago, I would have put my bet with NVidia. Today, their performance was stellar, as shares are jumping, now up 3.5% as they are building servers with AI capability.

American Express has been one of the companies that are always on top and always a good bet to perform well in the markets.

Since I mention Donald Trump quite a bit in this website, I wanted to say something that is happening that is POSITIVE and most likely BECAUSE of Donald Trump.

Graph showing 30-year and 15-year mortgage rates going down from Jan 5 to March 2 2025.

 

Investors are exhausted after recent financial market chaos, but there’s one perk for weary homebuyers and that is lower mortgage rates. The 30- and 15-year mortgage rates have both steadily dipped for six weeks straight alongside bond yields. Actually that is teriffic news. Way to go Donald… But I would suffice to say he does not even realize that he actually is the reason for something good that’s happening. I think even ‘The Donald’ would be suprised.

DOW FUTURES – MARCH 14, 2025

As of this writing at 12:46 CDT here at the moment, the Dow futures look POSITIVE. It shows now being up by 208 points, which is .5% of the total holdings of the stock.

Unless something really happens on a positive note during trading when the markets open, the DOW will drop again by another 500-700 points.

In order to stop this, something really good has to happen that would really make news. But the facts are that the only thing we are talking about here most of the time recently is TRUMP TARIFFS. That talk will not help the stock markets but that’s pretty much all that’s making Trump news at the moment.

We benifit from a global trade market, and Donald Trump doesn’t want to trade in a reasonable fashion globally. He would rather make all of his competitors throughout the world move their businesses to America, and then as he says, there would be no tariffs for whoever moves here.

He’s also mentioned the fact that Canada should be our 51st state, and that they wouldn’t have to pay any tariffs if they were annexed to the United States. The same with Greenland. Trump wants to take over Greenland, which will never happen, in order to excavate the minerals he has lost because his poor tarrifs to Canada and now the lack of cooperation between the two countries. If he truly was their friend, he would be able to obtain the minerals he would like to have without Canada being annexed to the United States. Again, it’s another imposiblity, and another pipe-dream of Donald Trump.

In short, when Trump mentions tariffs, the market tanks. When he keeps his mouth shut for at least 24 hours without any threats, the markets will rise. Let’s see where it goes today.