Trump presents himself as a great businessman and is making horrendous deals right, left, and center for the United States of America.
Here is the history of Trump, the oh, so successful New York businessman: He has declared bankruptcy six times. Robert O’Harrow of the Washington Post discussed Trump’s Taj Mahal opening in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin.” In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt.
PolitiFact uncovered two more bankruptcies filed after 1992, totaling six. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Trump Entertainment Resorts also declared bankruptcy in 2009, after being hit hard during the 2008 recession.
Interestingly enough, Trump and his family seem always to have pocketed or benefited financially from these bankruptcies.
Even if Trump is right to renegotiate our trade deals around the world, he cannot be right by destroying our peaceful relationships with every country.
He is running this us, the United States of America, as he ran all of his businesses, into the ground.
The Enemy Within
What has happened to decency in America?
What has happened to the America that went to war against Hitler and his illegal deportations and killing of 6 million people in World War II?
How is it possible that Americans are not rising up en masse to stop the illegal deportation of American citizens or people under legal protected status or anyone for that matter without due process?
Of course we don’t want criminals in the Country, but due process has been one of the features of American decency since this democracy began.
Imagine a country where the President has the right to virtually kidnap and deport anyone for no reason with absolutely no regard to the law.
This is not democracy, this is autocracy. This is Hitler, 1933. This is Trump, today.
Liberty Lost
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant, who fled gang violence, obtained legal status in 2019 to become a U.S. citizen, has now been illegally deported by the Trump administration with no cause, no reason. Since his deportation, the same administration, led by Donald J. Trump, has refused a court order to bring him back from his illegal deportation.
The President has committed a crime.
He has abused his executive power and violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which give citizens of the country, with or without legal status, the constitutional right to due process. Abrego Garcia was initially deported by the Trump administration due to their belief that he has associations with the “terrorist” Salvadoran gang, MS-13. However, those claims have been proved false; “Abrego Garcia had no criminal record, and the Trump administration [has since] admitted his removal was due to an ‘administrative error.’”
Trump has exceeded his executive powers. He should use those same powers to bring the man back from the mega prison in which he’s being illegally detained, and make amends to him and his family.
The administration has violated the law, the court, and the rights of the American people. The crime needs to be more expeditiously investigated. Speed up the courts. Save this man’s life.
Bravo to the Sen. Chris Van Hollen for traveling down to El Salvador to not only see how he can bring Abrego Garcia back to America, but also to simply see how he’s doing. Hopefully, this puts pressure on other senators to follow suit.
Every day this country looks more like Hitler’s Germany. Is this acceptable to the people of the United States of America? Stand up, America, and fight before it’s too late!
Notes:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5364887/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-court-order
https://substack.com/app?utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&utm_source=email
The Man is a Traitor
It is clear Trump committed TREASON against the United States when he sat by and encouraged his followers to attack the capitol on January 6th, 2021.
What is unclear is why he has not been prosecuted for treason.
President Trump today and every day is working toward the destruction of the United States.
One of Trump’s first actions for his second administration was to pardon all the rioters who committed treason from any sentencing.
It is clear that Trump had to become President of the United States in order to avoid prosecution and a jail sentence.
If the Congress and the Senate of this Country did their job properly this President would be impeached.
Slash & Burn
If you don’t believe Trump’s single aim is to destroy America, its democracy, and all of its public services, then check out the following:
One of the core ways they are going about revolutionizing the government is through the work done by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE.” DOGE employees, most of whom have no government experience or qualifications for such work, have been going through data systems, shutting down programs and, in some cases, whole agencies, all under the guise of eliminating excessive government spending. Their slash and burn program is depleting government agencies of thousands of necessary federal workers. In addition, “as Jacob Bogage at the Washington Post reported on March 22, billionaire Elon Musk’s [DOGE] has cost the government $500 billion [between severance packages, backpay, legal fees, etc].”
Musk also calls people who benefit from government programs the “parasite class.” Presumably that’s why he’s eager to cut back Medicaid. But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children.
That he views public servants as his enemy and the people who benefit from public programs as “parasites” tells you all you need to know about Musk.
Additional agencies that DOGE has combed through and gutted include: the Department of Education, Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Treasury Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the list continues to grow every day.
“For forty years, Republican politicians could win elections by insisting that government spending redistributed wealth from hardworking taxpayers to the undeserving because they did not entirely purge the federal programs that their own voters liked. Now Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are purging funds [from] programs his supporters care about—and threatening to throw the country into an economic tailspin that will badly hurt Republican-dominated states.”
It is out of sheer ignorance and revenge that Trump has encouraged this dismantling of the social system that has been the envy of the world and that has truly made America great.
Notes:
Oh Say Can You Not See
Donald J. Trump is a wannabe dictator. The first thing that dictators do is to destroy the educational system of the Country that they govern.
Since most dictators, like Trump himself, are only semi-literate, they require an illiterate public over whom they can wield their ill-gotten power.
The United States educational system has been ranked as 6th in Reading, 12th in Science, and 28th in Math by the OECD.
It is clear that only an uneducated public could have voted for Donald Trump.
Probably the only book he’s ever read in his life is Mein Kampf and his only aspiration in life is to be a total dictator.
His indiscriminate withholding of funds in order to cause fear and intimidation across Universities nationwide is evidence of his dictatorial plan to control the minds of Americans for the greater glory of Donald J. Trump himself.
He has clearly committed conspiracy against the United States and has subsequently forgiven all of his co-conspirators.
It is perfectly clear that it is Trump’s aim to reduce the level of education in America and bolster the illiterate portion of the population who supported him to begin with.
Only We the People of America can save our Country by urging our congressional representatives to unite, whether Democrat or Republican, in an effort to stop this maniac from totally destroying our Nation.
In other words, it doesn’t matter what party you belong to, this man is a despot.
Notes:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shame-of-columbia-university
Echoes of the Past
Anyone who lived through the second World War will recognize the ear marks of a rising dictator. WWII was fought to contain Hitler. He had destroyed the German democracy and the Weimar constitution by forcibly asserting himself as its chancellor. He then went on to conquer the rest of Europe, and was in the process of taking over England and the United States of America.
It is the misfortune of America and the result of an uneducated public that we’ve, again, elected Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. And his true motives become clear by looking at his most recent lawless evacuation of a large group of American residents – residents whom Trump declared to be “enemy combatants” and shipped off to a “concentration camp” in El Salvador. Sound familiar?
Obviously, none of us want to house enemies within our midst. However, it is not within the province of the president or any other official of the executive branch to remove these people, or anyone, without due process. This is what makes America, America. “If members of the executive branch are allowed to issue truth claims that have the consequence that human beings [forcibly] leave the United States, we are in a dictatorship. If we accept that the executive branch can simply deport anyone they call a ‘foreign alien terrorist,’ then none of us has any rights.”
Trump has become judge and jury. It is Trump who has alienated NATO and Canada (our closest neighbor). It is Trump who befriends Putin, the enemy of the people. America beware. Trump is on a mission to define,” …what is true and what is false and who is human and who is not.”
Plainly speaking, President Trump is sewing the seeds for a dictatorial regime that will destroy the America that we’ve known.
Notes:
https://substack.com/app?utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&utm_source=email
The Footprints in the Sands of Time
Elon Musk, who was not born on American soil was afforded American citizenship.
He is now taking advantage of the very system that allowed him to become the wealthiest man in the world.
He has 14 children born by spreading his tainted sperm from one woman to another.
It may be a demonstration of his sexual potency but certainly not of his parental ability.
It is easy to spawn children, but it is not easy to parent.
Elon Musk is an example of a man who is not able to keep his zipper closed.
A perfect example of irresponsibility.
This man who is South African by birth and was granted citizenship in the United States is in the process of helping his cohort, the President of the United States, to destroy the very Nation that made his success possible and is depriving others in this Nation of that same opportunity.
His irresponsible behavior in life has certainly not given him the knowledge or insight to be the unelected “co-president” of the United States.
He must be deposed.
God Shed His Grace on Thee
The great era of America the Beautiful is over.
In the short 49 days that Trump has been President he has managed to alienate every ally in the world except Putin.
Trump is Putin’s “thing”.
He is Putin’s puppet and the price is being paid by the loss of America.
One of Trump’s professors at Wharton was once quoted saying that he had never had a dumber student. Well, it is clear that America has never had a dumber President.
In the 49 days that Trump has been President his abysmal ignorance has already isolated America.
He has destroyed America’s relationship with its closest neighbors and oldest allies- both Mexico and Canada.
He has helped Putin to destroy the Ukraine.
NATO has taken steps to unite itself and distance from America.
He has destroyed the Agency for International Development (USAID).
He is continuing to gut government services that are important to Americans’ health, safety, and economic security.
And it has only been 49 days.
Before the advent of Trump, America was admired by the world for its progressive views and financial prosperity as well as its impressive social programs.
Today, after only 49 days, the world has turned its back on America.
America, thanks to Donald Trump and his henchman Elon Musk, now stands alone, with no allies and no friends to support it.
This man, Donald Trump, out of ignorance and egotism, has destroyed the fabric of America.
Americans. Impeach him.
Take Back Our Land!
It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, should be impeached immediately before they have the time and opportunity to completely destroy America and turn it over to Putin.
If the events of Friday’s meeting in the oval office between Trump, Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky taught us anything, it’s that Trump is Putin’s thing. He is owned by Putin. His only desire is to turn Ukraine and then America over to Putin and Russian domination.
Remember that when Trump tried to borrow money in the late ’90’s, no one would help him. Ultimately, it was only the Deutsche bank that lent him money. This bank was totally funded by Putin. Trump is not interested in doing anything to benefit the US. His disgusting behavior toward Zelenskyy made it clear and obvious that he is only interested in benefitting Putin.
This man must not be president of the United States of America for one day longer. He will destroy this country. He will abandon NATO completely. He will cause a world war, and America will be completely isolated with no allies.
It is up to the people of this country to pressure every elected official—from mayors to governors to the senators and congresspeople—to impeach Donald Trump. Force him to face the 37 indictments against him, and let him spend the rest of his life fighting his way out of a jail sentence.
It is sad and disgusting that the United States of America should be represented by a person who is a traitor to his country and whose only interest is in himself. He is the enemy of the people. He must be deposed.
People of America: hit the streets! Demand his impeachment, as well as that of his henchman, JD Vance. And Elon Musk? Keep him as far away from government as possible!