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More Detail on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful, UGLY Bill”

On July 3rd, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the single most inhumane piece of legislation in modern American history – a budget that strips healthcare away from 17 million Americans, takes food assistance away from 3 million Americans, eliminates school meal access for more than 18 million kids, adds nearly $4 trillion to national debt, sends electricity costs surging, and substantially raises health care premiums for older adults with ACA coverage.

All for what? Just so that 84 of the wealthiest people of the world get a tax break. So Donald Trump got what he wanted. His so-called  “Big Beautiful Bill” has now become law. Say goodbye to Medicaid, and say goodbye to SNAP.

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” slashes food and health benefits for the poorest Americans, while giving tax cuts to higher earners – blowing a hole in the nation’s safety net, accourding to healthcare experts and advocates for lower-income people.

Why it matters…  Experts say the cuts could unleash a tadal wave of pain – overcrowded emergency rooms, an increase in chronic health care issues, more medical debt, and more folks going hungry.

While a handful of the wealthiest people of the world get richer, the middle class and some of the poorest people of the world will die, because they will be denied health care. So now there is “No tax on tips” which gives just a few people a break, but that provision in the bill expires in a few years. But what about “Lower taxes for the rich” because of the bill. The bill extends the 2017 tax break that Trump gave to the rich in his first term. This bill cements this tax break permanently for the rich.

What happened about “No taxes on Social Security”? That provision was pretty much cut out of the bill, even though Trump promised that he would eliminate taxes on Social Security. A tax deduction on Social Security was added, but capped at $6,000. 95% of people who collect Social Security will continue to pay taxes on their benefit.

The people still do not know what’s in a bill that the Senate and House approved of and that Donald J. Trump signed into law. The lawmakers didn’t even have time to read the whole bill. But what is known is that the rich benefit and the middle class and poor are now behind the 8-ball.

So again, let’s go through some of the highlights that will haunt the Republican party in the mid-term elections.

  • $1.1 Trillion in Health Care Cuts.
  • 17 million losing health care.
  • Medicaid will disappear.
  • Kids with disabilities and the ones needing insulin are about to loose that.
  • All government assistance, including food stamps, housing and government assistance is lost just to give a massive tax break to 84 of the richest people in the world.
  • $4 Trillion tax cut for the rich would lock in many of the 2017 tax cuts passed in Trumps first term for the richest Americans.
  • It turbocharges funding for Trumps massive deportation.
  • It begins a seismic shift in the nation’s fiscal trajectory and raises the risk of a debt crisis. The national debt rises substantially, with $3.5 Trillion to $5 Trillion added.
  • In the Quinnipiac poll, only 29% support the bill, and 55% oppose it. The lawmakers that represent their people did exactly the opposite of what the majority wanted, just so that they could please Donald J. Trump. In a Fox News poll, only 39% support the bill, and 59% oppose it.
  • This bill will damage small cities and towns, many of which are Republican strongholds. Why? Because it stops money from being destined to local hospitals, approximately 1,000 hospitals across the country. Many of these hospitals will close because of the lack of funding. These hospitals are in rural areas, where the hospital itself is one of the largest employers in the area, and people will lose jobs. Towns will file for bankruptcy. They can no longer stay solvent.

Medicaid will no longer be approved for people that do not qualify for Medicare.

The so-called fiscal conservatives fell in line with the bill. The Republican party caved in. No longer can they ever own the moniker of being a fiscal conservative. The Republican party is a joke, and they do not represent their constituents, but instead they represent Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon, a tax cheat, a fraudster and a convicted rapist.

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.

Trump Threats Continue to TANK MARKETS

March 13, 2025

So what did Donald Trump’s threats cause today. Focusing on the markets, it was 100% predictable. The DOW ended the day down by 537 points, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 fell 1.39% and the Nasdaq Composite went down by 1.3%.

But Trump says that it doesn’t phase him. He indicated today that he is not going to bend on the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, vowing that any resulting economic disruption “won’t be very long.” His Treasury Secretary claims that Trump’s tariffs will bring back the economy. How, by some miracle?

The bottom line evident to everyone is that if Donald Trump does not start caring about the markets and peoples life savings, then the markets will continue to decline and the people will have very lasting pain. Trump says he doesn’t watch the markets, but of course that’s just another lie. In a very short period time, the markets have dropped over 4,000 points from their record highs. There are already talks about a recession. If we hit that point, not much can stop us to head towards a depression.

To me what is uncomprehensible is the fact that this country is declining from being on-top of the world economically to one of the least admired countries in the world. Many of our allies across the globe looked at America as the ‘beacon of light’ for democracy and freedom prior to Donald Trump, but now they are distancing themselves from America and the traitorous policies of Trump. Countries like Canada and Mexico feel betrayed and feel hurt.

I will concede that the Canadians and Mexicans haven’t been totally honest and reasonable regarding their taxes on products that Americans buy, but at least there was some kind of order in the past between the United States and our neighboring countries to keep the idea of free trade more than just a thought. The world seemed normal and people were accepting the world as status quo.

With Trump’s tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs, free trade is now about something that’s happened in the past. Yet, Donald Trump is trying to force the rest of the world to accept his trade practices, or else there will be a penalty to pay in the form of a tariff, when ultimately the American people will have to pay. Trump is realizing that the world doesn’t have to listen to him and they are not. Instead, they are picking other partners to trade with, leaving Trump and his America behind. Canada is now trading with the European Union, China and Japan, and for the most part is not charging a tariff on anything because these countries are not tariffing them. But Canada is now tariffing America, all because of Donald Trump.

The biggest trade problem in the world can be said in two words…

DONALD TRUMP

THE U.S. Economy Taking a Big Hit with Trump Tariffs

March 12, 2025

Today, the DOW fell again, but not before it started off in the green, slumped to almost 41,000 points, and then varied throughout the day, with a final figure below the start of the day. But, the loss today was negligible. Just .20% and just 82.55 points below the starting mark for the day of 41,350.93. The previous close was 41,433.48 on March 11.

So at least as the markets are concerned, the investors can breathe as sigh of relief, but there are still 2 days to go before the end of market close on Friday. The markets did fair today because the futures were good throughout the night, so the starting point today was higher at market open – 41,721.36. Because of the futures trading, the market began 370.43 points higher when it opened today but still couldn’t stay above water at the closing bell.

The problem is that Donald Trump created a catastrophe in the markets that will be hard to turn back or to even stop at this point. The DOW dropped over 1,500 points in just one 7 day period and even with the good start because of the futures markets, the DOW today dropped another .20% and still going in the wrong direction.  The U.S. economy will continue to reflect the pain people will experience because of Trump’s tariffs.

Trump claims that he doesn’t look at the markets. But you know that’s a lie. He watches the markets closely, but truly doesn’t understand the implications when the stocks go down and how much it affects the middle class and the poor. Within the last 30 days, the DOW has dropped almost 4,700 points. It’s known as the ‘Trump stock effect’.

Until Trump stops implementing new tariffs each week, and stops posting on X and TruthSocial the plans of his upcoming tariffs, the American people and businesses stand to loose lots of money and the economy will continue to sink.

But now the latest developments. This evening on March 12, 2025, Trump has initiated a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum coming into this country, from anywhere in the world. Now steel and aluminum prices will go up. Automobile prices will be hit and should be noticeable almost immediately. People will step back and not purchase automobiles,  because now they will feel they need to wait until prices go back down. So Trump is not done. His tool of destruction is the tariff, and with the modest drop today in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the week will continue to be volatile. Canada and Mexico immediately retaliated this evening with reciprocal tariffs on steel and aluminum. Unfortunately the markets should continue to tank tomorrow with this news.

So the modest losses of today with the DOW will now be stepped up and the day tomorrow will be a pretty terrible day on the markets. The markets will continue to fall, and now the destruction of our economy is getting into a territory that Trump may not be able to recover from. Again, Trump is not in step with the American people and doesn’t have much regard for their well-being, as they are feeling the ‘pain’ Trump claimed would come.

Starting around February 12th, the markets started to really start tumbling in a negative direction. On the very same day, the Russian markets started to peak. Trump made announcements about his upcoming tariffs and his stance about Ukraine, which sent stocks in Russia soaring. The Russian markets haven’t been this good since the beginning of the war 3 years ago. When Trump opens his mouth and supports Putin, their markets rally.

Trump appears to be doing more for Russia’s economy than he is for the U.S. economy. Trump opens his mouth, initiates tariffs that affect Americans, and our economy suffers while the stock markets sink. There are 30 major companies represented on the DOW JONES stock exchange, and only 11 of the 30 made positive gains in the market today. So 19 companies had losses in their market shares. Trump’s ignorance is on show for the whole world to see. He is treating the U.S. economy like one of his businesses. And on this course it will also go bankrupt as did many of Trump’s businesses over the years.

I’ll report on the futures market soon, and what to expect tomorrow.

Trump Posts One TRUTH ON TRUTH SOCIAL, The Rest are LIES

March 7, 2025

Here is what Donald Trump just posted today on Truth Social…

Wow..  What a statement.   If it were anyone else writing it, you would believe it. The only thing I can say is “What an ignorant S.O.B”.

Let’s pick that statement apart, shall we…

He starts with a ‘Truth’ on Truth Social. Now that’s a first. Can you believe it, Donald Trump is telling the truth. Yes, Russia is ABSOLUTELY “pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield right now”. They were today, yesterday, and every day since he was president, and even before by some 3 years or so. Ukraine is in ruins. Is he stating ANYTHING that we don’t already know? The answer is ‘NO’ but now he’s admitting it. Why because he is nothing but a failure regarding negotiating peace. He claimed the war would be over on ‘Day 1’ of his presidency. And the American people fell for it. He never once invited Ukraine to the peace table, NOT EVEN ONCE. Again, what a coward Donald Trump is.

So now he wants to consider large scale Banking Sanctions and TARIFFS on Russia. Wow, this guy is actually sick. Just because he fails miserably on pushing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, now he uses his most beloved word again, “TARIFFS”. He’s been in office for 3 months now, and he’s finally saying something on the order that he wants to PUNISH PUTIN. Can anyone believe that? I don’t. Trump is a liar and a fool. Trump IS a disgrace to America, and to Democracy.

Then to complete his statement, he says that he is “considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED.”

The end of that sentence is something that Donald Trump will burn in HELL for. He says this, indicating that they need to come together to come up with a mutual agreement. I thought that was ‘Marco Rubio’s job’ I thought it might be the Secretary of State’s job. Trump has been discouraging this ever since he gained control of government.

Where was Ukraine when Trumps delegation went to speak to Putin. The president of Ukraine was not even invited. Why? So that Putin and Trump could come up with such a concocted statement such as the one I’m discussing here. Trump never planned on sanctioning Russia.

He states “To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you.!!!

Why would he say that even if it were his true wish? Oh my God, it’s because he knows that Russia is now taking advantage of the fact that Trump himself has decided to stop sending weapons to Ukraine so they cannot truly defend themselves. This was his tactic from the beginning. And now that he realizes that the people of the United States knows that Trump actually supports Putin, making this statement clears Trumps name. Really?

President Trump is not only a coward, but an ignorant one. He thinks we don’t know what he’s doing. He’s trying to get Ukraine to come to the table on Russia’s terms. He wants President Zelinsky to concede, give up all the land that Putin has taken from him and then call it a peace. And at the end, Trump will finally get to take FULL CREDIT for it, saying that if it weren’t for him, there never would be peace. Really !!!?    TRUMP IS AN IGNORANT AND COWARDLY MAN.

And one final note. Trump doesn’t think that people are looking at the stock market now that he’s lifed tariffs from Canada and Mexico. Well the traders on Wall Street don’t buy Trump’s lies. The market continues to fall. Right now the DOW is teatering at being at the even mark. There will be ups and downs in the market all day today which everyone knows will happen, including Trump. Noone trusts Trump. The American people have lost their faith in him and so has the world.

 

Donald Trump is a WEAK COWARD !

March 6, 2025

You might get the impression by the title of this article that I’m a little upset. Well, you are right.

Trump backed down again,  and of course I’m glad that he did, just one month after he backed down the first time over tariffs. I’m not mad because he backed down. I’m mad because of the chaos he has personally created, the pain that people have already suffered, and now he can stop the pain by HIS choosing, when he didn’t have to inflict it in the first place. He thinks he is more than a king. He thinks he is God. He feels he has the right to play with our lives at his whim. That’s why I am mad. TRUMP IS EVIL.

The second thing I’m mad about is because the U.S. Congress is allowing the president to initiate tariffs, when in fact POTUS does not have that power. It belongs to Congress and ONLY Congress can initiate a tariff. So why are we going through this? It’s because Republicans control all three branches of government so they continue to be silent and let Trump do his damage because they themselves are also COWARDS.

Wall Street was the greatest example today that has caught on to Donald Trump’s tactics and what it would take to get him to back down from tariffs. Trump watched the stock market intently today, and just 20 minutes from closing, he makes the announcement that he is suspending his own tariffs. But by then, it was too late. Does Wall Street know that he means that he won’t initiate them again?  The markets still crashed. Well they don’t have to guess, because in his announcement, he stated that he was suspending the tariffs until April 2nd. No big deal right? Even though it just so happens to be a few days before TAX DAY. That is and will be ANOTHER stupid and cowardly move by president Trump if he implements tariffs right before tax day, or ever for that matter.

Wall Street knows that Trump is a pathological liar. When it comes to economics, Trump doesn’t understand a thing. So why did he back down? For one thing, the actual definition of a tariff forced him to back down. SO HE REALLY KNOWS WHAT A TARIFF IS! It doesn’t hurt the countries exporting to the United States, it hurts the American consumer who will use those products. It hurts people who purchase imported goods. That’s who it hurts. When the stock markets started to tank because of tariffs today, and millions of people and major businesses were being immediately effected, Trump backed down and now every country in the world knows that Trump is a COWARD. He stopped the tariffs just one day after he implemented them. It was important for him to inflict “pain”. Donald Trump labeled himself a coward when he initiated tariffs that he knew would hurt the American people and that he couldn’t posibilly continue with them, long term. He now realized that he can’t keep them in place in short term. Everyone knew that Trump would back down. And on April 2nd, he will back down again, but maybe a miracle will happen and he won’t initiate tariffs at all. He knows that the only citizens that will be most effected, especially by our closest neighbor of Canada will be the U.S. citizens. Will he ever apologize for implementing “PAIN” on the American people? Trump doesn’t even know what a simple apology is. He should be on the side of Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, Ukraine and people within Europe. But he’s not. He’s on the side of Putin. All democratic countries are outraged.

So why in his right mind does Trump continuously hurt his citizens? He takes pleasure out of it. He thinks it’s right that his people have to experience “PAIN” as he stated more than once and even indicated this admission in his ridicules 99 minute speech to a joint session of Congress last night. He rambled on and on in the longest speech to joint members of Congress, EVER. He always has to do everything more, including the ability to inflict punishment on his people.

Did you notice that he didn’t mention Medicaid and Social Security even once? Again, that will be in another post. Why not? But I’ll briefly touch on it here. Because he didn’t want to say publicly in that speech what he planned to do with those programs.  It’s right out of the 2025 Republican playbook. But it’s no secret. He wants to cut the funds from both programs, and let’s not forget about Social Security. Just before the speech last night, he mentioned Social Security and stated that there would be no cuts. Like I said, Trump is a pathological liar. If he had his way, he would take funds from Social Security and believe me when I say that he will try. Mark my words., or prove me wrong.  If Social Security is still around in another 6 months, your benefit will be drastically reduced, and at the same time Medicaid may not exist, with many slashes to Medicare. Costs for everything concerning medicine, services and anything medical will go up. But of course, Donald Trump just doesn’t care. He has the government take care of his medical needs at taxpayers expense of course.

Regarding imports, let’s talk about  an import that Americans take advantage of every day and cannot live without. I will also discuss this in detail in a later post. That would be about COFFEE. Do you realize that not one ounce of coffee is every grown here in the United States? Really! Think about if the American people couldn’t make a cup of coffee in the morning because we could no longer import coffee. What would happen to Starbucks in the United States and Starbucks World Wide?  Do you know that Starbucks employs almost 500,000 people world wide. People working to support coffee products total into the millions of people. No coffee, lost jobs, and lots pissed off people. There would be massive layoffs and business closings if we didn’t have that simple luxury of coffee. That’s what you would have. But Trump’s idea is that America should not be buying a single thing from another country. Not even coffee beans. He wants America to be completely self sufficient. That would be great in a Perfect World, but we all know that this is not the case. Every country in the world except North Korea, including Russia is involved in international trade, but Donald Trump doesn’t want that, because he wants everything his way or no way. He’s doing a super great job trying to isolate the United States of the America from the world. He’s trying to play God, but what he is demonstrating is that he is a Coward, not a leader that anyone can respect. He thinks he needs to be in the news each and every day. If the news is not about him, it’s not important. Even his Republican base is abandoning him because his policies and his actions are affecting them too, not just Democrats. Many voted for him, and now he’s taking their jobs. Why would he care? He will never run for re-election under the present rules in the Constitution unless he gets the ability to change the Constitution in his favor. And he is such an autocrat that he will try to do that at the end of his term, unless he finally gets tired enough as being the oldest president of the United States. After all, the way he is thinking, because the Chinese President XI now to be  China’s permanent president just because he said he wanted to and has decided never to step down, Trump thinks he can do that too. Who cares what the Constitution says, because Donald Trump doesn’t care what’s in the Constitution. Will anyone stop him. Yes, tough times are ahead, but Americans need to push through all this nonsense and in four years, welcome in Democracy while hopes are up that the Democratic countries around the world will accept us back with open arms.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk Now Targeting Social Security

March 5, 2025

Today we got a reprieve from the falling stock markets, as the Dow went up almost 500 points, thank God. But it wasn’t for what Trump said last night in his message to the joint session of Congress. Trump can’t help himself. He doesn’t know what to say and when to say what it would take to HELP the markets. Everything that Trump does causes pain to the American people, and recently he stated as such saying that the country needed to experience some pain before things got better. The reason for the stock market rise was because two of the 30 major companies that comprise the DOW had quarterly reports show minor gains. That is just one day out of the last 7. But for the last week of trading, the markets dropped over 1300 points, so the slight recovery that was experienced today what just what it was, a temporary reprieve from what’s about to happen. So instead of talking about the stock markets tonight, and the economy, let’s shift gears and talk about Social Security because I sincerely believe that Trump is targeting Social Security next.

It is possible with Trumps threatening reductions of the SS workforce,  they really want to cut Social Security? This is fact. It is at the top of Trump and Musk’s minds. It is possible that in a very short time under the influence of DOGE, the Social Security administration may cut up to 50% of its workforce, laying off more than 7,000 people. They will be closing down social security offices in red states and blue states. That is already occurring as offices throughout the country are already closing.

Trump’s partner in crime – Elon Musk, calls Social Security “One massive Ponzi scheme”. In other words, he is calling it fraud.

Then wouldn’t you know, Donald Trump in his Tuesday speech to Congress claims that he found “probable fraud” in Social Security.

So the following statement is what Trump actually said…

“We are identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and the people we love rely on.”

My questions now directly go to Donald Trump. If you found it, then where are the arrests?Where is DOGE when they are really needed. Where are all the people, and the fraud which you claim you are finding? Show me just one check written to a dead person.

Actually what is happening is that they are making this stuff up so that they can gut social security. If you found it, then expose it. Don’t threaten seniors and discuss interfering in the Social Security Administration that pays retirees the money that they rightfully deserve. But Trump’s actions worry ALL Americans. He is causing so much unrest with the American people. Trump’s end game – to divert Social Security funds to go directly to the rich, in the form of tax cuts, and another way to help reduce the National Debt. Why would any president do that. Your hard earned money cannot be used to reduce the national debt, but if you listen closely to Trump’s speech last night, you will learn that he claimed that he WILL balance the budget in his second term. With what, your Social Security money?  By providing massive tax cuts to the rich?

Trump is so full of S H _ T, that he can’t even pay his own bills, he can’t pay his own workers in all his past businesses. He filed for bankruptcy at least a dozen times. Trump Steaks.. Trump University… and the list goes one. It’s not so funny now that the country has to listen to a fraudster and a convicted felon tell the American people on how he will be helping them.

Back in October 2024, Elon Musk admitted that “Trump’s plan will collapse the U.S. economy, and says that it’s necessary for everyday Americans to experience “temporary hardship”.  That is what Elon Musk said. So back in October of 2024, they literally claimed that they were going to crash the economy, and now they are doing it. Now they got there hands into social security.

Elon Musk now has access to your personal files, and he is using algorithms and crawling around into EVERYONES Social Security files and claiming to have found enormous amounts of fraud, waste and abuse. That statement was made by Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a recent “Meet the Press” interview, that massive fraud was found within the Social Security System. So if you claim it, prove it and this administration may be respected in the future.

Stocks Continue to Fall while Trump Lies to Joint Session of Congress

March 5, 2025

As was the case on Monday, Dow Futures are ahead, but just like on Monday, the stocks will again tumble. There is no stability, and with the tariffs in effect, the markets do not have a chance to level out. All they will do is fail. It is now March 5th, after Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last night,  proclaiming that he is doing what the voters wanted him to do, because he claims he had a mandate during the election.  One major problem with his speech was that it was full of lies.

Regarding the futures, the Dow Jones is up right at this moment by .46% or 195 points. S&P futures and Nasdaq futures each added about .7%. This is what is happening now. But the speech by Trump to a joint-session of Congress was disturbing.

During his speech, it was obvious that he was ad libbing during parts of his speech.  He obviously was trying to highlight his ambitious vision for America, which is what he wants everyone to believe.  The address was marked by interruptions with several Democrats, including Jasmine Crocket and Maxine Waters, walking out. Trump’s claims about the economy Social Security and tariffs were fact-checked revealing significant discrepancies. Then Alyssa Slotkin’s Democratic response emphasized the importance of the middle class, national security, and democracy, uring citizens to stay ingaged and hold elected officials accountable. The discussion also touched on the need for a focused response to Trump’s claims. Slotkin’s speech was one of the better Democratic responses.

Trump did not share or have prepared remarks shared with the media. He was obviously ad libbing when he was making economic decisions, when he said that the American people would have to bear with him, that there would be little disturbance, and that there will be an adjustment period. He was suggesting that the roiling that we saw in the markets is something that he knows he cause, but he knows people will not mind.  But what is actually going to happen starting today, prices will be higher on just about everything. His tariffs that he didn’t highlight in his speech, will cause misery to the American people. He ran on lowering prices, not raising them.

For the record, the worst inflation in this country was in 1980, and the economy left for Trump after Biden was considered worldwide as the best economy in the world. But instead, he implied that his economy of his first term was better than Biden’s single term in office. The best economy of the world was described that way in the ‘Economist magazine’ as the envy of the world

Trump then attacks Social Security. I’ve said this prior to his speech last night that Trump and Musk will eventually attack Social Security and when it is interrupted, it can fail. Trump is claiming massive fraud within Social Security and that there was overpayment in the millions, which for the record is completely false.

Trump claimed that the big three auto industries in this country love his policies, where in fact the CEO of Ford Motors, Jim Farley, said that Trump’s tariff policies would “blow a hole in the U.S. auto industry. Who would you believe, proven liar Donald Trump or the CEO of Ford Motors?

Regarding to support to Ukaraine, the U.S. has only committed about $125 billion to Ukraine’s defense, Europe has committed about $259 billion, the the president lied when he said that America has committed more more to Ukraine’s defense. Near the end of his speech he mentioned that last night before his speech to Congreee, Trump claimed that the president of Ukraine plans to do what it takes to end the war, including to give precious metals to the U.S. as partial repayment. He said that the president of Ukraine is now open to peace talks, and do whatever is necessary to prevent further bloodshed. After the White House meeting that ended in failure between the President of Ukraine and Trump, I hardly believe that Ukraine is ready to submit to the United States.

Trump claims that Joe Biden closed over 100 power plants, which is another outright lie. There were more utility sized power plants up and running in the United States when Joe Biden left office than when he achieved office.

Oil and gas production in the United States hit an all time record under President Joe Biden. Also, DOGE has never claimed that they have saved hundreds of billiions of dollars in savings. The largest items they have claimed to achieve as savings in the US budget have been debunked and they’ve been taken down. But even they don’t falsely claim hundreds of billions of dollars worth of savings. But Trump makes that claim, which is a total lie.

And then on top of all that he said, I can recall him making a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if he as president had something to do with that. The fact is that DOGE cut amongst other things, funding for ongoing research into pediatrics.

Another thing that was immediately noticeable was when he mentioned that Elon Must is the head of DOGE. As noone would think this was really important since Musk seems to act more of a president at times than does Trump himself, but now the matter will end up in court, because Trump claimed to the court that Elon Must has no control of DOGE. So, it’s just another lie that Trump was caught in, as his statement in front of Congress was directly contrary to what the administration has overtly swarn to a federal judge about the leadership of DOGE. I’m hoping that the courts really put Putin in his place and criminalizes the organization.