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A Friends False Belief about Donald Trump

I have a Republican friend who lives in Wisconsin named Scott K. who likes to blame presidents from the past, and ignore all of the bad things that the present Republican President Donald Trump has done to our Democracy. He sends me lies in the form of text messages. My friend Scott K. has his blinders on. He doesn’t recognize all the things Trump has done in just under two years as our president in his second term, let alone accounting for everything he did in his first term. Here’s what he says, and I quote him from a text he sent me not even related to Donald Trump.

“The only insurrection was caused by Pelosi, and finally she and her husband are having to pay for all their insider stock trading.”

There isn’t even once ounce of truth to my friend’s statement.

I guess my friend wants to forget the following at the same time he likes to just piss me off…

The January 6 United States Capitol attack, widely characterized as an insurrection or attempted coup, occurred on January 6, 2021. The event began at approximately 12:53 p.m. and lasted until the Capitol was secured around 5:40 p.m. (UTC−05:00) in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Pelosi didn’t cause the insurrection. She was in session to confirm Joe Biden as President of the United States when Trump’s sickos attacked the Capital.

So what Scott H. claims is a total lie

The people who attacked the Capital entered Nancy Pelosi’s office and ransacked it and destroyed government property. They defecated in her office. Then Trump gets re-elected and pardons every one of the insurrectionists the first day of his presidency. Anyone who does anything in his name will face no accountability as long as he is president because of his immunity given to him by the Republican led Supreme Court.

Key Facts:

Cause: The attack was driven by false claims of 2020 presidential election fraud made by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to prevent the certification of Joe Biden‘s victory.

NOW HERE IS A FACT that my friend Scott K needs to know…

Nancy Pelosi has never been fined or prosecuted for insider trading.

So what Scott K said in his text message is a lie.

Scott, find me the proof and I’ll remove this statement. While her husband’s stock trades have faced intense scrutiny and allegations of benefiting from insider information, no formal charges or penalties have been issued against her. The existing STOCK Act of 2012, which governs congressional trading, carries a maximum penalty of only $200 for late financial disclosures, a fine that has resulted in zero prosecutions in over a decade. But with that said, I’ll concede and say she wasn’t very ethical either, and for that matter, which Congressman in the House or Senate are actually ethical these days. But to restate this, Nancy Pelosi has never paid a red cent for insider stock trading. Here’s what I say…”All are crooks.” I’ve told my friend this time and time again, yet Scott K. wants to blame every Democrat he decides to without any credible proof.

But Donald J. Trump takes ‘the cake’.

Maybe my friend Scott K. hasn’t read the news lately, on all the money Trump has made with Meme Coin. But let’s go there for a moment to educate him on it. What I’m including here is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

President Donald Trump has made at least $2.2 billion in revenue during his first year back in office (2025), according to federal financial disclosures released in July 2026. Some analyses, such as one by Forbes, estimate his total intake closer to $2.4 billion including asset sales, while other trackers suggest his family’s ventures have generated up to $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth since his January 2025 inauguration.

Cryptocurrency is the primary driver of this wealth, accounting for approximately $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion of his income through ventures like World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP meme coin. This represents a roughly 250% increase from his 2024 revenue of $622 million, with significant additional earnings coming from international licensing deals ($125 million) and legal settlements ($117 million).

While the White House maintains that the president operates via a “blind account” and faces no conflicts of interest, critics describe the scale of enrichment as unprecedented in modern U.S. history. The reported figures reflect gross revenue and proceeds rather than net profit, and exact tax liabilities remain unknown as Trump has not released his tax returns.

No other president in U.S. history has abused his power as president as he has with his financial ventures and then never reported them on his tax returns.

No single federal law completely prevents a sitting U.S. president from earning gross income or profits from stocks, but several constitutional provisions and proposed legislation aim to limit such financial gains.

The Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7) prohibit presidents from receiving gifts, payments, or profits from foreign or domestic governments without Congressional consent, though their application to private stock market gains remains legally contested. Qatar gifted a Boeing 747-8 jet to the United States for use by President Donald Trump as a temporary Air Force One. The aircraft, valued at approximately $400 million, was donated by the Qatari royal family in May 2025 as an “unconditional” gift to the U.S. Department of Defense. The new jet is now being fitted with the protections needed in an Air Force One jet, and the American people pay for the upgrades. It should not be personal property owned by Trump after he leaves office, but he plans to either use it to replace his personal jet or to retire it in a museum created in his name.

The Domestic Emoluments Clause restricts additional compensation from U.S. or state governments beyond the fixed presidential salary. Donald Trump receives a statutory annual salary of $400,000 from the U.S. government, paid monthly, along with a $50,000 non-taxable expense allowance and additional funds for travel ($100,000) and entertainment ($19,000). However, during both his first and current terms, he has formally accepted only a symbolic $1 salary, donating the remainder of his official compensation to various federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Park Service.

Regarding foreign income, reports indicate significant financial benefits to Donald Trump from abroad.

A House Oversight Committee report found his businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his first presidency, while Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) estimates the total likely benefited him to the tune of $13.6 million. In 2025 alone, his businesses reportedly earned an unprecedented $2.24 billion, marking a 280% increase from 2017, though the specific portion of this revenue directly attributable to foreign government payments in the current term is not explicitly detailed in the available data. No other president in American history has made money from foreign governments while in office.

The Foreign Emoluments Clause bars benefits from foreign states unless Congress approves. This also applies to the jet that Qatar gave to Trump. But Trump thinks nothing of not following the law. He accepted the jet anyway and we the citizens are paying for the overhaul.

The Ethics in Government Act requires financial disclosure but does not mandate divestiture or blind trusts for presidents. Where are Trumps financial returns for 2025. He never plans to give financial disclosure to keep his income private.

The STOCK Act applies to Congress and federal employees but does not explicitly bind the president against stock trading.

Proposed bills like the NO PROFIT Act (introduced June 2026) seek to impose a 100% tax on presidential stock gains unless assets are in a qualified blind trust. While historical practice shows most modern presidents have used blind trusts to avoid conflicts, there is no enforceable statutory ban preventing a president from personally profiting from stock investments while in office. But just so you know, Donald Trump does not have a true blind trust. Unlike every U.S. president since the 1970s, Trump has never placed his assets in a blind trust that would hide their contents from him and be managed by an independent trustee.

Revocable Trust Structure. Instead of a blind trust, Trump utilizes a revocable trust managed by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, along with former CFO Allen Weisselberg. This arrangement allows Trump to withdraw money at will, retain ownership of his businesses, and potentially revoke the trust at any time, offering no barrier against conflicts of interest.

Knowledge of Holdings. Although Trump has referred to his investments as a “blind account,” federal disclosure documents signed by the president in 2026 confirm he knows exactly what stocks he owns. If it was a ‘blind Trust’ Trump would not know. Filings reveal he executed 3,642 individual stock transactions in early 2026, including trades in companies regulated by his administration, which contradicts the definition of a blind trust where the owner is unaware of specific assets.

The bottom line here is that

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP IS CORRUPT

He is not like any other president in U.S. history. He is not transparent and doesn’t want anyone to know about his business dealings. He personally profits whenever he can and has no shame in doing it. While the American people are struggling financially, Trump is living his dream.

Scott, instead of texting me that garbage, try and be a real friend. We both know that we will never agree with politics, so why bring up my ire in text messages like that. If you continue to do that, then I will have no recourse than to refute everything you say that is factually wrong in articles on this website like this very article.

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 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.

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.