Dealing with Donald Trump for the last six years now has been almost too much to bear. Do you remember when Kamala Harris warned that another Trump presidency would bring instability, higher costs, attacks on democratic institutions, and reckless leadership? Maga dismissed those warnings as exaggerated campaign rhetoric.
Now, as Americans deal with greater uncertainty, many of those warnings are sounding less like fear-mongering and more like a forecast. Trump said he will target and punish those who disagree with him or refuse to bend to his will. He’s been doing just that. He calls these Americans the enemy within and says that he would use the American military to go after American citizens. Journalists whose stories he doesn’t like. Non-partisan election officials who refuse to cheat by finding a few extra votes for him. Judges who insist on following the law instead of following him. It is for reasons like these that General Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Donald Trump’s top general, has called Trump. and I quote, “fascist to the core.”
Vice-President Harris was going to give $20,000 if you were buy your first house. But the voters chose the “eating the cats and the dogs” guy.
“They’re eating the cats.” “They’re eating the dogs.”
That’s who you thought was a better choice. And now we’re at war and everything is more expensive. Great choice, right?
Back in 2024, do you remember what MAGA said? If you vote for Kamala Harris, gas is going to go up, groceries are going to get higher, and we’ll be at war with Iran within one to two years? And yes it happened. No, the election did not go in Kamala’s favor, but her prediction was right on. Trump is responsible for doing all those things.
Trump could give a rats ass about the American people in his second term, with presidential immunity given to him by a right wing court, and not having to worry about another election. He’s not accountable to anyone, not even to his constituents.
Trump said he was going to put America first. Instead, he put Israel first, then he went to Venezuela , now we are in a war with Iran where I predict that Trump will commit war crimes. He’s claimed that he wants to take over Greenland. He claims he plans to hit Iran more than ever before. He will steal their oil. He will attack their infrastructure, bridges highways, powerplants and harm the citizens of Iran. It’s a war crime just to talk about it, but Trump may actually be doing it. He’s already mentioned these facts on video tape, and in writing.
Harris and other Trump critics raised concerns about tariffs, inflationary pressure, foreign policy instability, reproductive rights, executive overreach, immigration enforcement, and political retaliation. It’s all come true. She knew exactly what was in for the people if Trump was elected.
MAGA supporters, including my friend Scott K, laughed, and dismissed the concerns, and insisted Trump would bring lower prices, peace, and economic strength. The warnings were not hidden in complicated policy documents that nobody could find. They appeared in debates, interviews, campaign speeches, news coverage, and countless conversations before Election Day.
Voters were offered two very different versions of leadership. Harris emphasized stability, working family support, housing affordability, health care protections, and institutional responsibility. Trump emphasized disruption, punishment, loyalty, and confrontation. MAGA chose the spectacle. And now when supporters quietly disappear or pretend they never enthusiastically defended Trump, people remember.
Political embarrassment does not erase political responsibility. Kamala Harris was a prophet. Everything that she predicted Donald Trump would do, he has done in less than 18 months. He has started new wars. He has driven up inflation, not just at home, but global inflation as well. He has driven up energy prices. He is spiraling us into the biggest recession that anyone has ever seen since the Great Depression.
So tell me MAGA? Tell me Scott K. What did you get out of Trump so far since he’s been president for a second term? First thought, he gave you a never-ending war in Iran. What has he done to save lives? Almost two dozen soldiers are now dead because of his war with Iran. He got rid of programs like US AID, which saved thousands and thousands of lives worldwide, but now people are dying and why? It’s because he and DOGE killed the program. The Trump administration has terminated or defunded dozens of federal programs across health, science, education, housing, and foreign aid, often citing ideological opposition to “woke” research, diversity initiatives, or perceived waste. Key eliminations include over a dozen CDC health-tracking programs, hundreds of millions in cancer research grants, and the withdrawal of U.S. funding from the World Health Organization. It’s like a nightmare that the American people have to live in real life.
What else did MAGA approve of when they voted for Trump? And they even knew ahead of time, but still elected a pedophile in the White House. You have an “Orange” man running rampant, gas prices are soaring, and now finally there are definite signs that MAGA is leaving him, along with the people in Washington.
What Trump voters could have instead of all the promises that Trump didn’t keep were $6,000 for your first child, $20,000 as your first home buyer, and universal healthcare for yourself.
Instead, you put a man in the White House who was hanging around Jeffrey Epstein, messing with underage girls.
MAGA supporters were not uninformed. They heard the warnings, they saw Trump’s first term, his legal controversies, his attacks on opponents, and his admiration for unchecked power. They decided those concerns mattered less than defeating Democrats, rejecting a woman candidate, or supporting someone who promised to punish the people they disliked.
So here’s where you come to a fork in the road. People can reconsider their politics. They can admit they were wrong. They can leave MAGA and help repair the damage. What they cannot reasonably expect is for everyone to forget the warnings they mocked or the harm they helped enable. Regret is meaningful only when it produces reflection and action.
I sincerely hope that my friend Scott K. in Wisconsin sees the light. I’m hoping one day he will admit he was wrong about Trump, and wrong to falsely criticize Harris and Obama . His Facebook page look like a billboard of hate for Obama and Biden. I’ve thought about this long and hard. Over the years, Scott and I have been good friends, and we consistently talk to each other on the phone after working together. But the conversations have been getting harder and harder for me to stomach because texting and phone conversations seem to lean on the political side these days. I sincerely wished to visit Scott again this summer, but my intuition tells me that when we see each other this time, we would discuss politics and we are on total opposite sides of of fence with our confronting beliefs. That’s a recipe for disaster.
So unfortunately, I won’t be going to Wisconsin this year. Maybe when Scott finally sees the light and admits that Trump was bad for the country will I even consider visiting him again. And when I do, there must be no politics. I’ve always told him that people have the right to believe in the politics that they believe in. But to consistently support a criminal president, a sex offender, a fraudster, a war monger all in one is just too much for me to accept in a friend. And when he criticizes past Democratic presidents, that a step gone too far.
When Trump is gone, America will erase him from their memory, although it will be hard to do considering how much he harmed his own people, even his own party. Many people cannot and will never forget the harm he has done to the citizens of this country. But I predict all the gold will be gone from the White House. Future presidents will not want to be reminded of a past president that isolated America from its neighbors of Canada and Mexico and the whole world for that matter with his needless tariffs. Trump’s portrait will be removed from the White House. He will loose his top security clearance and will no longer be privy to classified documents. Court proceedings against Trump may resume. He may find himself arrested and on a plane to the Hague if he happens to travel to a county that would be obligated to arrest him and turn him over to Netherland authorities. Last count, there are 124 countries that would do just that. If arrested, he would be charged with murdering citizens of countries he attacked, most likely Iran.
The Hague is the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the world’s first and only permanent international tribunal established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Often referred to colloquially as the “world criminal court,” it is headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, and began operations on July 1, 2002, under the Rome Statute.