*** “Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too….Let men be good, and the government can not be bad; but if it be ill, they will cure it. but if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and soil it to their turn.”
[William Penn]
This post presents excerpts from Ralph Nader’s “Tyrant Trump’s Biggest Legacy – Bringing Out the Worst in America” [ The Progressive Populist; August, 2026. We have said many times this now evident truth: Donald John Trump is a CANCER on the SOUL of America. The damage and evil he has done will live on for many years.. Trump has also poisoned how the rest of the world looks at America. Read the items below. – THINK on them. – think how Trump sabotages democracy, sabotages rational thinking, sabotages America’s future…………………..
1] “Championing the worst forms of energy – coal, oil, and gas. – and depressing solar energy and wind power….even paying ongoing wind project companies nearly a billion dollars in your tax dollars to stop construction!”
2] “Encouraging the worst corruption of the Pentagon – more waste, contractor fraud and abuse..”
3] “Brought out the worst from his toady Attorney Generals at the Justice Department…dismiss over 100 corporate crime cases…and made DOJ his personal law firm.”
***. ‘Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” [ George Washington ]
4]. “Encouraged the worst from the Environmental Protection Agency…greenhouse gases, motor vehicle gases, auto factories, and coal pollution are permissible for America’s children to breathe.”
5]. “Suppressed or canceled programs of scientific truth-seeking while publicizing pseudo-scientists who go far beyond healthy skepticism to peddle quackery..”
6] “Trump is self-servingly wrecking the Internal Revenue Service…grossly inadequate number of experts skilled in detecting complex corporate tax schemes and evasions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in TAX ESCAPES per year.”
***. “You do not have to think very hard to figure out what happens to a democratic society…when long-standing interpretations of the “rules of law” are mangled to reflect the personal desires of a handful of extremely wealthy people.” [ Aberjhani ]
7] “Trump has grievously brought out the worst from Congress, finishing off what is left of the separation of powers..”
8] “Trump brings out the worst from major corporations…allowing corporations to cheat, steal, harm, pollute, and violate with impunity almost any federal laws..”
9] “Worsening the architecture of the White House and nearby Washington, D.C., are major preoccupations of this egomaniacal dilettante. He illegally tore down the East Wing..”
*** “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.” [ Aristotle ]
10] “The Trumpeteer has brought out the worst in the mainstream media, giving preferential access to uncritical reporters, and restricting or prohibiting access to reporters who are steadfast and straightforward.”
11]. “From the people, he has celebrated vice over virtue, greed over charity, obscenity over decency, violence over peace, police and ICE brutality over more effective standards of prudence and restraint by law enforcers. As an open, brazen liar, a delusionary braggart, and a peddler of empty promises, Trump has troubled parents who see their youngsters mimic his abuses and foul talk.”
12] “He pardons hundreds of convicted violent criminals and other fraudsters and says he will pardon more crooks, even urging them to continue their lawless ways because he will pardon them..”
***. “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptional character.” [. Samuel Adams ]
13]. “Trump has violated seven of the Ten Commandments and is almost never seen in Church, yet Trump manages to bring out the most extreme hypocrites from the leadership of organized religion..”
14]. “His most fervent mission is to provoke biases and bigotry against recent immigrants and asylum seekers among millions of his voters who believed his lies about these desperate people, fleeing with their children from oppressive regimes and oligarchies..”
15] “Long after Trump is impeached and removed from office, his hateful, vengeful drive will bring out the worst from our country will linger and fester.”
*** “The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.” [ Tom Fitten ]
***. ‘..amid the Trump administration’s open marriage of public and private and criminal sectors in an astonishing replication of third-world kleptocracies..” [ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCVII. – Trump’s Character and Judgment Revealed in Dr. Fauci’s Diary
***. “It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]
This post presents excerpts from Anthony Fauci’s diary from 2020. YOU get raw data on this eminent scientist’s review of how it was to deal with Donald Trump early in the COVID-19 epidemic.
THE. MAJOR. QUESTION for YOU; did ‘your” president seem to be concerned about the impact of tjis deadly disease on the American people. – or. – was his primary concern to “manage” the crisis so that it didn’t hurt his re-election campaign?
***. “The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]
1] Late February, 2020: Fauci “encouraged him not to underplay the seriousness of the situation since if it turns out bad, it would look like he is covering up…..I thought that he heard what I said, but the next day, he again underplayed it.”
2] March 27, 2000: “Very laborious press conference where the POTUS rambled on. He wasted the opportunity to just focus on the relief package and went into his diatribe against the previous administrations.”
3] March 28: “AMAZING interaction with POTUS…. I led the discussions since the POTUS kept referring to me. It was a disturbingly rambling discussion since he kept talking about TV ratings, and HC [hydroxychloroquine], and influenza and virtually everything else as I was trying to keep him on track [with the help of the VP]……I insisted through the rambling and lack of attention span that the POTUS explicitly say that this is NOT a quarantine.”
***. “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” [ Thomas Jefferson ]
4]. July 10: “..he had an “important meeting” with Mike Pence, during which Fauci told the vice president he would be “coldly honest.” “I then told him that he is completely losing credibility when we have >60,000 new cases with increased hospitalizations and deaths and he starts off at the Pressers saying “We are in a good place.”
5] July 15: “He wanted me to be ‘positive’. I took the opportunity to say, ‘Mr. President, with your permission, can I be absolutely frank with you? We have a problem and we need to own it. We need to admit that the situation is serious, otherwise we completely lose credibility….he was not entirely happy with this..”
6]. August 4: ‘..he had to directly explain to Trump – whom he described as “throwing around the F- word” and “raving that we are seeing more cases only because we are doing more testing”. – that increased testing does not cause cases. “All in all it was a manifestation that he is [desperate] and still does not understand the pandemic.” [NOTE: read this again, and again. this is how “your’ president thought, and governed]
***. “But McMaster and his team almost immediately realized the president wasn’t reading any of the briefing books, or even the concise three-page version….As one of Trump’s confidants said, “I cal the president the two-minute man. The president has patience for a half page.” [ Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig: “A Very Stable Genius” ]
7] August 8: “POTUS acting even more erratically. Keeps insisting that increased case numbers are due only to increased testing, ignoring the increases in percent positive, hospitalizations and deaths [ >1000/day}.”
8] November 1: “…Tony, you have to be positive. I do not want to keep you off TV, but when you are out there, you have to be positive.”
9] November 16, 2000: “Continual surge: 138,000 new infections yesterday. POTUS has no interest at all in the pandemic. He is focusing on blocking Biden from being POTUS. He is embarrassing the USA.” [NOTE: read THIS again, and again… Trump “has no interest at all in the pandemic.” “Your” president doesn’t care about you and your family getting very sick. – it’s more important to prevent Biden from taking over. – as in January 6…]
***. “If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.” [ Jimmy Carter; 39th U.S. President ]
II. Please think on the following, from. “the Atlantic,” July/August, 2024, pages 21-28. Dr. Fauci reviews general handling of COVID-19:
“Although the CDC struggled, there was no mistaking the message delivered on February 25 by its director of immunization and respiratory diseases, Nancy Messonnier. She told reporters that a pandemic in the United States was no longer a matter of if but when, and that we should prepare to close schools and work remotely. “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,; she announced. Nancy did the right thing: She told Americans the truth. But not surprisingly, her statement caused a firestorm. The media erupted, and the stock market plummeted nearly 1,000 points. Trump was furious. The next day, he announced that Vice President mike Pence would take over for Alex Azar as the head of the White House coronavirus task force.”
III. “Nationally, a study by the American Medical Association determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.” [ Gene Lyons: “Silencing Scientists, Doctors in the Name of ‘Freedom'”; The Progressive Populist; ll/1/23 ]
*** “And you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” [ John 8: 32 ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCVI. – The Immorality of Monetizing The Presidency, II. – Some Numbers
*** “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]
This post continues examining the UNPRECEDENTED. GREED. of Donald Trump and those around him in MONETIZING the U.S. presidency. They’re doing things commonly seen in “banana republics” and other authoritarian regimes. In just over one year, the Trump clan and various associates have managed to make BILLIONS of dollars. They’ve also sabotaged what the world used to think about American morality and decency. They’ve quite literally sold their soul for a few pieces of gold……… Following are some excerpts providing facts.
I. “All Told, Mr. Trump Has Profited From His Return To The Presidency By An Amount Of Money Equal To 16,822. Times The Median U.S. Household Income.” { New York Times. editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic”; 1/25/26 ]
***. “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” [ I Thessalonians 5: 22 ]
II. 5] “It is hard to wrap your head around that the president of the United States would engage in this level of self-enrichment at the expense of so many of his supporters, said Lee Reiners, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner..” [ Eric Tipton, Andrea Fuller, David Yaffe-Bellamy: “President cashed in, others not so much”; New York Times; 7/5/26 ]
6] “As of the middle of last year, according to Chainalysis…58 investors in the $Trump coin had made profits in excess of $10 million, totaling an estimated $1.1 billion – most of them early traders who got out before the coin crashed in value. At the same time, some 764,000 crypto wallets, most with small holdings, lost money on $TRUMP…” [ Tipton ]
1] “a large chunk of the $2 billion haul President Donald Trump took in last year came as hundreds of thousands of his fans and other investors bet on a speculative cryptocurrency called 4TRUMP, hoping its value would soar with his return to the White House. But while Trump amassed an eye-popping $636 million from the cryptocurrency, known as a memecoin, many of his followers who heeded his call to purchase the coin came out losers.” [ Tipton ]
*** “The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.” [. George Bernard Shaw ]
2] “The president’s 927-page financial disclosure showed how Trump and his family reaped huge financial rewards in 2025 through his money-losing Trump Media venture and a separate cryptocurrency firm called World Liberty Financial, even as routine investors suffered vast losses.” [ Tipton ]
3] “In a way, Trump’s cryptocurrency windfall is a reflection of the speculative nature of the crypto industry, in which executives behind these often highly volatile ventures are at times able to generate huge profits at the expense of smaller investors, who often lose vast sums…” [ Tipton ]
4]. “Former federal financial regulators said Trump has taken that to a new extreme, structuring his crypto ventures so he always made money on the front end, according to disclosures from ther companies, no matter what happened to the business in the long run.” [. Tipton. ]
***. “The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.” [ Zeno. ]
III. 1] “In the first three months of the year, President Trump’s brokerage accounts placed ore than 3,600 trades, as they bought and sold a wide variety of stocks and bonds, according to a disclosure form released last month….Some of the trades early this year also appeared to be well timed, notably a purchase of Dell shares that came months before the company secured a lucrative government contract.” [ Ben Protess: “Documents Offer Insight Into Trump’s Stock Trades”; New York Times; 6/21/26 ]
2] “Unlike every other president since the 1970s who has owned individual stocks and businesses, Mr. Trump did not put his assets into a blind trust. The decision to forgo that ethical guardrail potentially allows him to know what stocks he owns, and to influence their performance with policy announcements or contracts even if he cannot direct how or when they are traded…..”The whole point of having a blind trust is so your virtue can never be called into question,” said Jeffrey A. Engel, the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. he added that “President Trump does not feel obliged to follow the same norms and rules as everyone else.”
[ Protess; 6/2/26 ]
*** “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [ James. I: 8. ]
IV. “Trump netted $2B in his Ist year back.” [ Ben Protess, Andrea Fuller, Eric Tipton, David Yaffe-Bellany; New York Times; 7/2/26 ]
V. A. PARTIAL. itemization of “YOUR’. president’s MONETIZATION of a U.S. presidency:
– $23 million: name licensing – $28 million: Melania documentary -$400 million Qatar Boeing 747-8
– $90.5 million: legal settlements from major tech and media companies. – $867 million; cryptocurrency
– $466 million: World Liberty Financial {New York times editorial: “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic” ]
*** “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain…the character of an “Honest Man.”
[ George Washington; 8/28/1788. ]
VI. “There are official diamond-studded gold watches for $100,000, promoted by President Trump…The industry is a cornerstone of mr. Trump’s political movement..”….The president has built a merchandise behemoth unmatched by any other American politician….Mr. Trump and his family have made millions from the products. – more than $1 million from guitars and at least $2.8 million from the watches alone…he misses few opportunities to market the wares..” [Tiffany Hsu, Stuart Thompson: “Inside the Sprawling World Of MAGA Merchandise”; New York Times; 4/15/26 ]
2] “This is so concerning not just because of how it might impact Trump’s specific decisions, but because it might suggest that public service in general is just another way to get yourself ahead and make more money,” said Daniel I. Weiner, an ethics and campaign finance expert at the Brennan Center for Justice…”That can open the door to a sort of systemic corruption that really can, over the long term, undermine people’s faith in democracy.” [ Hsu, Thompson ]
***. “So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible, would cheat even God himself.” [ George Bancroft ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCV – The Immorality of Monetizing the Presidency, I – The Violation of Ethics
***. “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government ae trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [ Henry Clay; 1829 ]
This post, and the next, BEGIN to examine the “unprecedented” CORRUPTION of Donald Trump and those around him in monetizing the U.S. presidency. They are doing things commonly seen in “banana republics” and other authoritarian states. This is just one more way that the Trump DICTATORSHIP is debasing America and what it was understood that America stood for. They have NO. SHAME.
Following are excerpts from some of many articles providing the facts:
I. “In many ways, Gorman said, his acts are a “betrayal of the American social contract: that those who lead the country prioritize country over self. – a premise that goes back to George Washington.” [ “Moneymaking run unrivaled in U.S. presidential history”; Eric Tipton; New York Times; 7/2/26 ]
*** “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [ Wendell Philips ]
II. 4] “It is impossible to know how often Mr. Trump makes official decisions, in part or entirely, because he wants to be richer. And that is precisely the problem. A culture of corruption is pernicious not just because it is a deviation from government in the public interest; it also destroys the state’s democratic legitimacy. It undermines the necessary faith that the representatives of the people are acting in the interests of the people.” “Trump’s Cash Grab Undermines Our Republic”; New York Times editorial; 1/25/26 ]
5] “The demands of avarice gradually corrupt the work of government as officials facilitate the accumulation of personal wealth. Worse, such a government corrupts the people who live under its rule. They learn by experience that they live in a society where the laws are written by the highest bidder. They become less likely to obey those laws and to participate in the work of democracy. – speaking, voting, paying taxes. The United states risks falling into this cynical spiral as Mr. Trump hollows out the institutions of government for personal gain.” [1/25/26′ Times editorial]
1] “One year ago, Donald Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself. President Trump has never been a man to ask what he could do for his country.”
[ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
2]. “ALL TOLD, MR. TRUMP HAS PROFITED FROM HIS RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY BY AN AMOUNT OF MONEY EQUAL TO 16,822 TIMES THE MEDIAN U.S. HOUSEHOLD INCOME.” [ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
3]. “Mr. Trump’s hunger for wealth is brazen. Throughout the nation’s history, presidents of both parties have taken care to avoid even the appearance of profiting from public service. When President Harry Truman left office in 1953, he did not even own a car. He and his wife returned to Missouri by train and lived for a time on his Army pension. he refused to take any job that he regarded as commercializing his public service..” [ 1/25/26; Times editorial ]
***. “He is a man of splendid abilities but utterly corrupt. he shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.”
[ John Randolph ]
III. 3] “The Trumps. – and the Kushners, and many others associated with the first family. – have gaslighted the American public with such bogus “explanations” of their grift-gorging for many years. Everyone in the Trump circle, including Cabinet officers such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has long known that the president is a crook.”
[ Joe Conason: “The Ultimate Insider’s Massive Stock Trades”; The Progressive Populist; July, 2026 ]
1] “A new filing with the Office of Government Ethics, released on May 14, showed more than 3,500 specific trades in Trump’s name during the first quarter of 2026, with a value between $220 million and $750 million. this represents by far the largest series of securities transactions by a sitting president in American history….it adds up to 60 trades per day, while he issues executive orders, talks with foreign leaders, shifts tariffs, and gives policy directives that directly affect the value of his holdings.” [. Conason ]
2] “What outraged ethics experts was not just the volume of Trump’s market activity but the obvious overlaps between his actions and policies and the equities that he bought and sold.” [ Conason ]
***. “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” [ Ken Poirot ]
IV. 1]. “Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president….The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.” [ Jason Horowitz: “Trump’s Profit In Presidency Shatters Norm”; New York Times; 7/5/26 ]
2]. “That reluctance to acknowledge any conflict now makes it harder, experts said, for anti-corruption investigators in countries big and small to combat behavior that the United states, until Mr. Trump’s presidency, once condemned. “How the U.S. behaved was quite influential in shaping international norms”…Now Mr. Trump’s windfall has undermined the idea “that there is a standard to which we should all be aspiring”…” [ Horowitz ]
3] “Since Watergate..the United States had helped set the international anti-corruption norms. Now..Mr. Trump was setting a different standard that could have the effect of demolishing democratic guardrails and clearing the way for others’ conflicts of interest. “This,’ mr. Sanchez said, “is what is being lost.” [ Horowitz ]
***. “The first of qualities for a great statesman is to be honest. And if it were possible that this opinion were an error, i should rather carry it with me to my grave that to believe that a man cannot be a statesman without being dishonest.”
[ John Adams; 2nd U.s. President ]
V. The Good News!!! American are catching on to †his Trump CORRUPTION. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll July 8-13, 2026, revealed this: “Trump’s overall approval rating stands at 37 percent, identical to what it was in April. His disapproval is 61 percent.” Of 28 categories of Americans, only 4: “Republican,” “Lean Republican,” “White evangelical Protestant,” “White Catholic”. favored Trump. “Rural’ was split: 50-48%.
[ Washington Post Weekly: “Broadly negative reviews for Trump”; 7/19/26 ]
VI. The Bad News: “Fed Shows Working Families Fall Behind As Trump Chooses To Keep Prices High”. “The Beige Book, a monthly report on consumer spending…showed a continuation of the trend that accelerated after President Donald Trump joined Israel in attacking Iran…The report notes that regional contacts at the Federal Reserve’s districts described middle-income households as “squeezing more life out of every dollar before deciding to spend it,’ while low-income families and individuals “showed greater financial strain..” { Dispatches; Progressive Populist; July, 2026 }
[NOTE: “Your’ president has monetized the U.s. presidency to the tune of over $2 billion in his second term, and counting…… YOU are struggling to feed and house YOUR family. – as are over 60% of Americans. Not only Trump’s war, but A.I. will increase YOUR electric bills and prices of consumer goods – and – pollute YOUR water, and YOUR peace of mind. These are SOME of the costs of enduring the Trump DICTATORSHIP…………….. ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCIV – The STUPIDITY. of Trump “Making America Dispensable”
*** “Wooden-headedness consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by the facts.”
[ Double Pulitzer Prize winner; Historian; Barbara Tuchman ]
Donald John Trump has done much damage to America, and the world. Domestically, America MIGHT. be able to repair its democracy. BUT – Trump’s incredible STUPIDITY. of saying that climate change is a “hoax” [ in the face of unprecedented damage]; his arrogant treatment of [former] friendly nations; his coziness with other dictators; his STUPIDITY in saying, thinking, acting as if the United states can successfully enact an “America First” foreign policy may prove to be fatal to the American experiment in democracy.
***. “Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, we cannot ensure its domestic tranquility, or provide for its common defense, or promote the general welfare, or secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But joined with other free nations, we can do all this and more.”
[ John F. Kennedy; 35th U.S. President; 7/4/1962 ]
This post presents excerpts from “Trump Is Making America Dispensable” [ Jon finer; New York Times; 7/12/26]. The results of Trump insulting and demeaning other nations; of his ignorant ideological framework; of his tariffs, bullying nations, and now his RECKLESS war on Iran. – will NOT be good for America in any sense. His 8 years as president might well be seen as the beginning of the collapse of America as a world power. America, “thanks” to Trump, is no longer seen with the same affection and respect the world had for us before 2016. Finer reports on what has ALREADY happened, is happening, will happen. YOU are watching the DISASTER unfold……………………..
1] “Three years later, de-risking from predatory superpowers remains the fundamental challenge facing European leaders, but China is no longer the main country of concern: The United States is.”
2] “It is not just Europe backing away from the United States. Leaders of America’s partners in Asia and the Middle East are quietly doing the same. The second Trump administration’s ostentatious corruption, trade conflicts, military adventurism and mercurial artificial intelligence regulation have produced a new moment in international affairs: a nearly global grand strategy of countries distancing themselves from the world’s most powerful nation.”
3]. “For the United States, which has called itself the “indispensable nation” for decades, this represents a sea change. Countries have long sought the protection of America’s mighty military and access to its markets and technology. That in turn has benefited our economy and national security.”
*** “There is no peace, says the Lord, for the wicked.” [ Isaiah. 48: 22 ]
4] “..in a world where big countries increasingly weaponize the dependence of small countries, and self-sufficiency is its own form of power, the global de-risking is already hurting Americans at home….The lost war against Iran…contributed to a $132 billion hit to American consumers, according to Moody’s.”
5] “Mr. Trump’s immigration policies are also driving countries away. Four million fewer visitors came to the United States in 2025 than in 2024, an estimated cost of more than $8 billion. America is hemorrhaging future skilled labor as enrollment by international university students dropped 17 percent last fall from the prior year, already costing universities at least an estimated $1 billion, and potentially costing the country hundreds of billions in future revenue.”
6] “The chilling effect is spreading. As Mr. Trump muses about making it a 51st state, Canada has embarked on a “new strategic partnership” with China, opened its market for the first time to 50,000 Chinese electric vehicles and joined a more than $150 billion European defense fund aimed at breaking the dependency on the American defense industry.”
*** “The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” [ Will Rogers ]
7] “In East Asia, where Mr. Trump has paused the sale of arms to Taiwan in deference to President Xi Jinping of China, Taipei and allied capitals are recalibrating their relationships. Japan is overhauling its concept of national defense to develop greater offensive strike capabilities. South Korean contractors are displacing American arms sellers around the world.”
8]. “India is deepening commercial ties with Europe, the Middle East and even, grudgingly, China. India is one of a growing number of countries sufficiently worried about reliable access to American frontier A.I. models that it is considering Chinese or domestic alternatives.”
9]. “But nowhere is the push to de-risk from the United States more costly to both sides. – and disadvantageously timed. – than on the continent that coined the phrase. Once unthinkable conversations are underway in European capitals. European officials tell me they are quietly developing plans for responding in the event of a full-blown trade war with America…”
*** “Before we engage ourselves, we must know what we are doing, and once we have engaged ourselves, we must prevail, or the impact will be catastrophic.” [ Henry Kissinger; former U.S. Secretary of State ]
10]. “..the divisions Mr. Trump is causing are different. In 2021, for example, Australia agreed to invest billions of dollars in the U.S. submarine industry, on the promise that new boats would appear near Perth somewhere in the mid-2030s. Fewer countries are willing to make such long-term bets on America anymore…”
11]. “Some costs of the world’s de-risking from America are already hitting home. Others won’t be evident overnight. Allies were right not to join Mr. Trump’s unnecessary Iran fiasco, but our ability to deter future conflicts is weakened by our greater isolation. Lacking a clear alternative partner, most countries will hedge gradually, rather than immediately “decoupling” from the United States.”
*** “…thanks to Donald’s penchant for division, and devastating uncertainty about our country’s future have created a perfect storm of catastrophes that no one is less equipped than my uncle to manage. Doing so would require courage, strength of character, deference to experts, and the confidence to take responsibility and to course correct after admitting mistakes. His ability to control unfavorable situations by lying, spinning, and obfuscating has diminished to the point of impotence in the midst of the tragedies we are currently facing.”
[ Mary L. Trump: “Too Much And never Enough. How My Family Created the World’s most Dangerous Man” ]
*** “Trump’s rash behavior makes his presence in the Oval Office a clear and present danger to the safety and security of not just the American people but the rest of the world, too.”
[ double Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “The Making of Donald Trump” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCIII. – The Trumpian Tyranny Increases
***”Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.” [ William Hazlitt ]
We are now 17 months into Trump’s second term – the atrocities come almost on a daily basis. The climate of fear in Washington announced by a Republican senator [“We are all afraid”]. Trump perverts the “justice’ system to take revenge on numerous people who only did their jobs pursuing his wrong doings [ “I only need 12,000 votes.”]. It has been said by several people that under Trump “Cruelty is the point.” Upset with protesters, Trump is reported to have asked, “Can’t we just shoot them in the legs?” Some have described the Trump DICTATORSHIP as “a coup.” Trump has surrounded himself with people chosen for their ‘LOYALTY.” A well-known author said of one of those “loyalists”: “X could be one of the figures leading us into a new and violently authoritarian future.” It is well known that a “conservative” think tank provided Trump with a blueprint for his second term – one report found Trump had enacted 53% of that domestic plan. And so VERY much more………………
This post presents excerpts from two articles: “Asylum seekers see same tactics here as in home countries”. [Sonya Funna Evelyn; Minnesota Star Tribune; 6/26/26}. and “A malicious chapter in the history of American justice”. [David French; New York Times; 6/23/26].
***. “Every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” [ Matthew 7: 17-18 ]
1]. “Our clients in Minnesota are primarily asylum-seekers who fled torture. the summer of 2025 they were already warning clinicians that what they were seeing with federal immigration enforcement – masked and armed agents taking people off streets in unmarked vehicles – were the conditions they had seen back in the countries they fled.” [Evelyn: “Asylum seekers…”
2] “..today, as we saw in Minnesota, we are challenged in ways we could not have foreseen back in 1998: The tactics of the most dangerous regimes on Earth are being used on the streets in the U.S. At the same time, the callous withdrawal of American foreign aid funding is resulting in the spread of deadly disease and death; the goodwill benefits of its protective “soft power” gone in an instant.” [Evelyn: ‘asylum seekers..]
*** “There is no king, who, with a sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.”
[ Thomas Jefferson: 8/13/1786 ]
2] “..the Chicago case is indicative of the fight for justice in the Trump administration. For every high-profile case that goes to the Supreme Court, there are dozens of other, smaller cases in federal courts across the country in which the Trump administration lies, bends the rules, slanders innocent citizens and otherwise abuses the legal system to persecute its political opponents.” [ French: “A malicious chapter…]
8] “..one thing is clear: The federal government has lost the benefit of the doubt. Or, as [judge] Perry said in Chicago, “I do believe deeply in the presumption of regularity and that most government attorneys are doing the best they can to do the right thing. That trust has been broken.”
4] “The indictment was important enough that Todd Blanche, then the deputy attorney general, announced the charges, and they fit perfectly with a MAGA narrative that the real problem on the streets wasn’t with rogue federal officers but with out-of-control leftist activists. – the all-powerful antifa of right-wing fever dreams.” [French]
*** “We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.” [ Isaiah 26: 15 ]
5] “Prosecutors..had already handed the judge a redacted copy of the transcripts. In other words, they had blacked out key portions of the proceedings. This prompted the federal judge in the case, April Perry, to require the government to produce unredacted copies and to require any prosecutor “who participated in the decision to redact portions of the grand jury transcripts’ to appear before her in person.” [ French: “A malicious chapter…]
6]. “The unredacted transcripts were damning. The judge found that federal prosecutors had behaved improperly in at least three ways. they’d engaged in the forbidden practice of “vouching,” in which prosecutors essentially tell grand jurors to trust them….Prosecutors had also impermissibly spoken to grand jurors outside the jury room….And finally, prosecutors had dismissed from deliberations those grand jurors who had disagreed with the government’s case….To make matters worse, prosecutors had redacted all this evidence. There was an obvious cover-up.” [French]
7} “Don’t think for a moment that the Trump administration’s corruption and incompetence were confined to that case. The Chicago Sun-Times maintains a database of criminal charges related to Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration immigration crackdown in Chicago, and it’s astounding. Out of more than 30 cases filed so far, two resulted in guilty pleas, five resulted in deferred prosecution agreements [slaps on the wrist], and two are still pending. Twenty-four other cases have failed. Twenty were dismissed. Grand juries refused to indict in at least three, and one resulted in acquittal.” [ French ]
*** “Tyranny is by far the worst of treasons. – The prince who neglects or violates his trust is more a brigand than the robber-chief.” [ Lord Byron ]
1] “NEW: Trump administration takes rare step to quell controversy over prosecutorial misconduct in dropped criminal case against Chicago-area anti-ICE protesters. Feds won’t fight defense demand to pay bill for activist’s legal fees.” Here’s why it’s so notable. In our legal system, prosecutors rarely pay a criminal defendant’s legal fees, even when the government loses the case.. Defendants tend to be reimbursed only when they can prove serious prosecutorial misconduct. It’s even rarer for prosecutors to AGREE to pay those fees. Experienced lawyers will read that tweet and know a single, simple truth. Something very bad went down in Illinois.” [ French ]
3] “On Oct. 23, 2025, a federal grand jury indicted a group of six protesters, including current and former Democratic public officials, charging them with conspiring to ‘injure” a federal officer “in his person or property.” [ French ]
*** “Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against equity, is the most insupportable.” [ Sir Roger L’Estrange ]
[NOTE: Again. – THE test for evaluating the Trump DICTATORSHIP is given YOU in the Preamble: ‘..promote the general Welfare..” YOU tell us; how do Trump DICTATORSHIP policies ‘..promote the general Welfare.., and secure the Blessings of Liberty..” for ordinary Americans, or this country????????? Not in rhetoric – but actual results.]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCII – The “supreme court” Makes Up More Legal GARBAGE To Empower Trump
***. “Republicans care most about those who will only get richer because of government help. The government is truly broken…and another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years under the Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.”
[ A “lifelong” Republican who knew Bush and Cheney personally, worked in the Nixon White House – specifically gave this quote to John Dean to use as the book’s closing statement in “Broken Government How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches” ]. [NOTE: with every passing day, every asinine “supreme court” decree, virtually every Trump DICTATORSHIP action – YOU are now seeing this fearful prediction come true]
This post will present excerpts from 6/30/26 reactions to yet another Roberts ‘supreme court” UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNDEMOCRATIC. ruling violating the OBVIOUS intent of the Founding American Generation to create a REAL democracy, one in which Congress, NOT the president was to be the dominate governmental body.
In some better, more rational, more CONSTITUTIONAL. future – the decisions of the CORRUPT Roberts ‘court” will be studies for their LAUGHABLE reasoning, their corruption of clear and obvious Founding Generation intent, words, fears. Having just revolted against a king. – they had NO intention of allowing another king. – the imperial president. – to become a legal tyrant.
*** “Power must never be trusted without a check.” [ John Adams; Founding Father ]
1]. “In a major expansion of presidential authority, the Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Trump to fire independent government regulators despite federal laws meant to protect their jobs.” [ Ann Marimow: “Justices Broaden President’s Sway Over Regulators”; New York Times; 6/30/26 ]
2]. “The court’s 6-to-3 ruling to broadly allow the firings…represented a significant shift in power from congress to the president, and could drastically change the federal government’s structure by giving the president more control over independent agencies.” [ Marimow ]
3] “The case tested whether Mr. Trump could oust Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, simply because she did not align with his agenda, despite a law that says the president can remove commissioners only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” [ Marimow ]
*** “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” [ James Madison; Founding Father ]
4]. “Several justices have for years said that they were eager to overturn the 1935 precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, that has protected independent agencies.” [ Marimow ]
[NOTE. we’ve seen this before. – Roberts ‘court” “justices” USING a case to carry out prejudices, NOT support legal precedent and Congressional intent. Under the Constitution. – CONGRESS, not the president, makes laws. AND. – WHY are these agencies called. “independent agencies” ??????? ]
5] “Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a lengthy summary of her dissent from the bench, warning that the decision would unleash chaos. Independent agencies will be “transformed in ways that those who created them never could have expected and actively sought to avoid, fundamentally recalibrating the balance of power in this country…..”It is a power..that neither the people, nor Congress, nor the Constitution bestowed upon him”…” [ Marimow ]
6] “Today’s ruling makes it possible for presidents to fire watchdogs who won’t put politics over principle, and replace them with lap dogs,” Slaughter said. it’s a recipe for corruption. Working families will pay the price.” [ Marimow ]
***. “Checks and balances, limited government. – the genius of our constitutional system is its recognition that no one branch of government alone can be relied on to preserve our freedoms.” President Ronald Reagan; Republican ]
7] “For nearly a century, the Supreme Court has made it difficult for a president to defy the clear text of a law passed by Congress. The court prevented Franklin D. Roosevelt from firing a leader of the Federal Trade Commission in 1935. it stopped the Reagan administration from defying a pollution investigation in 1988. It helped block Barack Obama’s attempt to expand immigration protections in 2016.” [ New York times editorial: “The Supreme court’s Hypocrisy; 6/30/26]
8] “The ruling dismisses longstanding precedent and effectively discards a 112-year-old law that said the president could fire commissioners only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” Mr. Trump can now fire commissioners in regulatory agencies simply because he wants to.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]
9]. “..the unitary theory ends up being more radical, and more disruptive to the previous understanding of the separation of powers, than its advocates typically acknowledge. there is no question Congress has some authority over regulatory agencies. The Constitution gives the Senate confirmation power for top positions…Chief Justice Roberts says this merely gives the Senate the power to confirm or reject the appointees that the president prefers. but this view throws out nearly a century of practice that congress put in place because it saw bipartisan composition as a strength for agencies.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]
***. “In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.” [ James Madison; Federalist Papers #10, #51 ]
1-] “Central to the success of the American experiment over nearly 250 years has been the balance of powers among the three branches of government. Together, Mr. Trump and this Supreme Court are upsetting that balance. They are deviating from a tradition that has lasted more than a century, in which parts of the government operate with bipartisan leadership removed from everyday partisan politics, as Congress intended.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/2611]
11] “The effect is to sideline Congress, which the authors of the Constitution viewed as the primary branch among equals. The Supreme Court on Monday created a government run by a very small number of people who work at either the Supreme Court or the White House.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]. [NOTE – just as “Project 2025” and other far-right people have planned – which is why we discuss “your” American government as The Trump DICTATORSHIP ]
*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison; Federalist Papers #47 ]
12] “In a tiny corner of the legal world…the March ruling crashed down like a thunderbolt…the Merit Systems Protection Board, whose purpose is to protect federal workers…backed President Trump’s assertion that he has broad authority to reshape the executive branch as he wants. The ruling broke with decades of precedent…it defanged the most effective method of federal workers to challenge their dismissals, and if upheld on appeal could undercut protections for broad swaths of the civil service.” [ Jonah Bromwich, Michael Schmidt, Rebecca Davis O’Brien: “White House Swayed A Board That Protects Workers From Firings”; New York times; 6/30/26 ]. [ NOTE: a DICTATORSHIP gets rid of people who are not “loyal” to the DICTATOR, by ANY means necessary…… Do YOUR homework; WHY was a non-political American civil service created???????????? ]
*** “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson ]
[NOTE: for PERSPECTIVES. – do YOUR own research of 1787-2005 U.S. legal and Constitutional intent and thought. You can begin with sources listed below. What EVIDENCE do they provide? What are their footnotes? WHY do they call the Roberts ‘court” CORRUPT? Remember THE test, from the Preamble: ‘..to promote the general Welfare..” What have been results of Roberts ‘court” decisions – on guns, on campaign finance, on voting rights, on civil rights, on presidential immunity, etc. – and the effect on America?
– “Raphael Warnock Says the SupremeCourt has Done ‘violence’ to Democracy” [ David Marchese; New York times Magazine; 6/14/26]; “Justices Gut Voting Rights to shield GOP majority – and Their Own Disgrace” [ Joe Conason; The Progressive Populist; June, 2026 ]; “The Scheme. How the right Wing used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court” {Senator Sheldon Whitehorse}; “The Shadow Docket. How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic”. [ Stephen Vladek }; “The Originalism Trap” [ Madiba Dennie ]; “Lawless. How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes”. [ Leah Litman ]; “Without Precedent How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled our Rights”. [Lisa Graves ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCI. – Trump, Republicans INTENTIONALLY Blow Up U.S. National Debt
*** “..the right’s..overriding mission, at which they’ve succeeded smashingly, is to make sure the rich get richer [and big business bigger], and the most direct, unambiguous, universal way of doing that is by keeping their taxes low, no matter the costs… Fiscal responsibility rhetorically pops back to life for Republicans only when they’re out of power in Washington, and only as an argument for achieving their secondary goals of reducing Social Security and Medicare benefits and preventing any major expansion of health or education or other social programs.”
“Irving Kristol, that mastermind and key promoter of remaking the political economy, had candidly announced this new strategy of the right. – right-wing fiscal recklessness, forcing the left into defensive restraint. – in a Wall Street Journal column back in 1980..” [ Kurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses ].
This post examines how the Republicans have blown up the U.S. national debt in the last 45 years. It was less than $1 trillion when Reagan was inaugurated. Reagan, Bush, Trump tax cuts have produced a $39 trillion U.S. national debt. According to the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data system, when Trump was inaugurated January 20, 2017. – the U.s. national debt was $19,944,429,217,107. The IMMORAL Trump tax cuts of 2017 and 2025, plus annual $1 trillion interest payments have DOUBLED YOUR. national debt. The consequences are many…..
***. “The second Vice is Lying, the first is running in Debt.” [ Benjamin Franklin: “Poor Richard’s Almanack” ]. [NOTE: Thus Donald John Trump is. GUILTY of THE top two vices !!!!!!!!!!! – and YOU pay for them.]
This post presents excerpts from: “They Blew Up the Debt, Stalled America’s Future, and Stuck You With the Bill. All to Enrich the Top 1% and Win Elections” [ Thom Hartmann; The Progressive Populist; June, 2026 ]:
2]. “This year, America will spend over a trillion dollars just ti pay interest on the current $39 trillion national debt, a debt entirely the result of a 45 year-long GOP scam designed to make the rich richer and elect Republicans, all the while simultaneously screwing Democrats and average working class people.”
9]. “The combined Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts, along with Bush’s two wars add up to more than our current national debt of – $39 trillion. And the only way to fix all this without causing horrible pain for the American people is to undo those three president’s tax cuts and take America back to the tax system we had in 1980.”
10] “..Trump..once bragged: “I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.”
***. “Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.” [ Thomas Paine; 1792 ]
4] “…here’s the “lost opportunity cost”. of what that trillion dollars a year we now pay in interest…on the GOP’s Debt could do for America:
– First, it could guarantee universal childcare and early childhood education nationwide that would free millions of parents to work and start businesses…”
- Second, it could make all public colleges, universities, and trade schools tuition-free, while also wiping out existing federal student loan debt over time.”
– Third, the U.S. could could establish a universal healthcare system or at least a robust public option with zero premiums and minimal out-of-pocket costs, ending medical bankruptcies and improving public health outcomes.”
– Fourth, it could fully fund a national infrastructure modernization program, repairing every deficient bridge in the country, rebuild highways, expand mass transit, and replace aging water systems, including lead pipe removal nationwide.”
– Fifth, a trillion dollars a year could finance a rapid transition to clean energy: building out solar and wind at scale, modernizing the grid, subsidizing home electrification, and accelerating EV infrastructure to catch up with China.”
– Sixth, it could end homelessness in America, with massive savings in healthcare and policing.”
***. “The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.”
[ Andrew Jackson; 7th U.S. President ]
– Seventh, we could provide a guaranteed basic income [ – $500 to $1,000 a month ] to every adult American or a more targeted version for lower- and middle-income households, dramatically reducing poverty.”
– Eighth, it could expand Social Security and Medicare benefits significantly – raising monthly checks, lowering the retirement age, or both – while shoring up the system’s long-term solvency.”
– Ninth, the U.S. could also fund universal paid family and medical leave, so no one ever again has to go to work sick or choose between a paycheck and caring for a newborn or a sick relative.”
– Tenth, it could dramatically increase teacher pay, reducing class sizes, modernizing school facilities, and providing universal free school meals.”
– Eleventh, it could launch a large-scale affordable housing initiative, building millions of. units, stabilizing rents, and helping first-time buyers with down payments.”
– Twelfth, it could rebuild and expand public health infrastructure, including pandemic preparedness, local health departments, research funding, and domestic manufacturing of critical medicines and supplies.”
*** “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible.” [ George Washington; September 17, 1796 ]
1] “Republicans in May proposed an appropriations bill that will allocate a billion dollars to pay for Donald Trump’s Golden Epstein Dance Hall [ a.k.a. “Ballroom”]. Every penny of it will be borrowed and we’ll be paying interest on that money for the rest of our lifetimes unless something dramatic changes.”
3]. ‘..by 2030, Fortune magazine reports, we’ll. be paying $2 trillion in interest at the current rate of burn, as Republicans add more and more items to the national debt every day.”
5]. “And even after doing several of…[the 12 things mentioned above in #4 ]…at once, there’d still be room for things like universal broadband, modernizing the postal system, expanding national parks and conservation efforts, and funding scientific research at levels that could accelerate breakthroughs in everything from cancer to renewables to clean water.”
***. “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” [ Thomas Jefferson; 7/12/1816 ]
6] “It all started in the 1970s when Republican strategist Jude Wanniski noted that Republicans were viewed as Grinches while Democrats. – who’d brought the people the minimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, free college, and dozens of other popular programs – were viewed as Santas. His solution was twofold: have Republicans become the “tax cut Santas”. while forcing Democrats to “shoot their own Santa” in the face by cutting back on those gift-like programs.”
7] “The Two Santas scheme has two parts: “When a Republican is in the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor, running up the debt as hard and fast as possible. All this deficit spending…produces “good times”. by stimulating the economy like crazy, making Americans think Republicans are good with economics when in fact they’re only good at spending borrowed money. “When a Democrat is in the White House, start screaming about the debt and how ‘our children will have to pay for this!!!” to force that president and the Democrats in Congress to “shoot’ their own social programs by cutting them back, producing hard times and reducing the deficits.” [NOTE: hw many people voted for Trump – saying he was “a good businessman”!!!!!!!!!!!]
8]. “To justify all this deficit spending, Wanniski invented a term “supply-side economics,” arguing that tax cuts for the morbidly rich would pay for themselves as wealth “trickled down” to average working people, and Art Laffer handily supplied a “curve” that seemed technical and scientific. The media lapped it up. It was all, of course, bullsh*t…”
*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Supreme court Justice Louis Brandeis ]
[NOTE: do the research!!! – get the REAL, un-spun NUMBERS. – on income distribution, especially 1947-73; on the average top marginal rates, 1933-1980. – cut in half by Reagan, bush, Trump. We don’t have record numbers of billionaires by accident !!!!!!!!!!! We don’t have a $39 trillion U.s. national debt by accident !!!!!!!!! We don’t have large numbers of potential U.S. blue collar workers unemployed in crafts their fathers were !!!!!!! WE don’t write these posts – all 201 of them – for fun. We want you, Mr. and Mrs. American – to begin to learn the truth.
Bottom line: the unprecedented mass blue and white collar American prosperity – HAS. BEEN. DELIBERATELY. SABOTAGED. AND STOLEN. AWAY. – by the greedy top 1%, by the Far Right, by the Republican Party. Do your own research. The intent is recorded, the programs – G.I.Bill, Social Security, etc. – are recorded. Trump is simply, hopefully, the final conclusion of this decades long PLANNED. THEFT. Trump is now destroying much of the basis for a real democratic society – one that cares about its citizens. Trump is destroying YOUR democratic government right before your eyes – much of this programed by “Project 2025” – itself a project of the Far Right.
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness
*** “In a president, character is everything.” [ Peggy Noonan; Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan ]
From January 20, 2025 to June 17, 2026 – this site posted 200 times on the Trump DICTATORSHIP. We are slowing down – summer vacation, etc.
BUT –
THE primary reason is this: in doing our research, compiling our 200 posts – the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – is beginning to corrode us mentally. Being exposed to Trump’s personality, rhetoric, actions, policies, above all his LIES. – is corrosive. It is depressing to see an American president say and do these things as intensively as we have. To make our posts – we did research for perspective on who and what Donald Trump is. – compared to other presidents; compared to what American politics and society considered “normal”; compared to what normal Americans consider to be decent, considerate, fair.
*** “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” { Mark Twain ]
We have repeatedly said this: judging Any president or American government actions. – apply this test: The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: “We the People…a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..”
ANY U.s. government action, policy, law – that DOES NOT achieve these objectives is – Unconstitutional, UnAmerican, destructive, and corrosive to American liberty, society, government.
The Eisenhower freeway system passes the test. The Trump tax cuts for the rich of 2017 and 2025 DO NOT. Because, among other things: they FAIL to ‘..promote the general Welfare..” Few, if any, Trump actions have done so.
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”
[ Ludwig von Mises ]
Donald John Trump is THE anti-George Washington; THE anti-Abraham Lincoln; THE anti-Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not because we say so – but because the EVIDENCE, the plain public record says this. No objective American can say Trump’s character and actions are even close to these three men. using public records. – few observers, with a straight face, can say Donald John Trump is close to many of the previous 40 other U.S. presidents.
***. “Openly monetizing the presidency is a true Trump innovation….Mr. Trump’s scheming will define him and his family…All that will be left is his reputation. Mr. Trump has made that synonymous with corruption forever.”
[ Noah Schachtman; New York times; 5/24/26 ]
No other American president has ever been accused of openly fomenting an insurrection to stop an election. No other American president made a reported fortune of $1-4 billion in just a few months in office. No other American president created, allowed ‘a pardon industry” that freed many convicted of serious white collar crimes. No other American president routinely insulted and demeaned American citizens so publicly. No other American president has LIED. so often. – over 30,000 in one term; is anybody counting 2021-2026 Trump fabrications?
*** “Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country’s history.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]
Some recent illustrations of Trump’s corrosive effect on America, headlines alone:
1] “How Trump Weighed suspending a Legal Right” [ Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan; New York Times; 6/18/26]
2] “Trump Escalates Push On voter ID”. [ Michael Gold, Dustin Wolf; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
3] “True to Form, President Unsettles G7 Summit”. [ Mark Landler; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
4]. “U.S. Pays $765 Million to Not Build 4 Wind Farms” [ Brad Plumer; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
5]. “Protester says he was beaten, shackled for days”. [ Alan Feuer; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
6] “Meloni says Trump ‘fabricated’ claim”. [ Nicole Winfield; Associated Press; 6/20/26 ]
7] “Flu sickens 160 at Air force base after end of vaccine mandate” [ Greg Jaffe, Maggie Haberman; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
[ NOTE: this happens almost EVERY day during the Trump DICTATORSHIP !!! ]
*** “Most of Trump’s failings can be explained by a simple truth: He cared more about himself than the country.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker: “I Alone Can Fix It” ]
YOU can help SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. – on November 3, 2026. – vote against EVERY. Republican running for Congress. – just this one time, please. YOU do not want to experience an unrestrained, unaccountable. TRUMP. DICTATORSHIP. for two more years. YOUR democracy just might end if YOU don’t act…………
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CC. – “Trump Just Took Us Somewhere The Country Had Never Been Before…a dark new realm of presidential corruption”
***. “We can never truly know..[Trump’s]. character, but we can examine and assess it based on his actions…This is why I focused on Donald Trump’s obsession with money and the trappings of wealth, and his many comments about women not as equals, but objects, their value measured in particular by the size of their busts and the length of their legs, not the size of their hearts or how far their minds reach. It is also why so much of this book is about Trump’s many complex and little-known with criminals – a vast assortment of con artists, mobsters and mob associates, swindlers, and other unsavory characters, including a major drug dealer he went to bat for.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “The Making Of Donald Trump” ]
This post presents excerpts from “Trump Just Took Us Somewhere The Country Had Never Been Before” [ Noah Shachtman: New York Times; 5/24/26 ]. We also present statements by Pulitzer Prize winners, relatives, close observers about Donald John Trump. Ethical behavior and empathy for others have never been his strong suit. YOU should not be surprised that Trump is brazenly engaging in obvious corruption. Close observers tell YOU he’s engaged in morally-challenged behavior before.
5] “Just in terms of sheer dollars, this is the most corrupt action in American history,” says Brendan Ballou, a former Justice Department special counsel…”This may be the most infamous thing that Donald Trump does beyond Jan. 6, 2021.”
14] “…Mr. Trump’s scheming will define him and his family. When he leaves office, the Trump name will most likely be stripped from the Kennedy Center. The challenge coins he’s affixed to the White House doors will no doubt be stripped away. his ‘enhancements” to the Oval office may eventually be remodeled away. All that will be left is his reputation. Mr. Trump has made that synonymous with corruption forever.”
7] “..openly monetizing the presidency is a true Trump innovation. You have to go back at least a hundred years, to the administration of Warren harding or Ulysses Grant, to find anything remotely similar. And no one ever accused Harding of minting memecoins. “This isn’t the ‘honest graft’ of Tammany Hall – corruption as the price paid for public improvement,” The Time’s Jamelle Bouie wrote. “It is petty theft.”
12] “If political violence committed in the president’s name is not only tolerated but actively rewarded, it could take this already bleak timeline somewhere much, much darker.’
***. ‘..Donald, who understands nothing about history, constitutional principles, geopolitics, diplomacy [ or anything else, really ] and was never pressed to demonstrate such knowledge, has evaluated all of this country’s alliances, and all of our social programs, solely through the prism of money, just as his father taught him to do…In the midst of obscene plenty, one person, using all of the levers of power and taking every advantage at his disposal, would benefit himself and, conditionally, his immediate family, his cronies, and his sycophants; for the rest, there would never be enough to go around, which was exactly how my grandfather ran our family.”
[ Mary L. Trump: “Too Much And Never Enough” ]
1]. “President Trump has been thinking a lot about his place in history. That’s one of the reasons…he’s paying so little attention to his plummeting popularity and so much attention to remodeling Washington in his own image. But there’s no arch high enough, no ballroom gilded enough, to distract from the mountain of corruption he’s constructing.”
2]. “The president may wish to be considered in the same class as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, but he is in danger of turning himself into the next Mobutu Sese Seko or Suharto: a kleptocrat remembered not for his ideas and not for his power but for his greed.”
3] “Mr. Trump has devoted a large portion of his second term to enriching himself and his family with foreign and private funds…But until recently, there was no evidence that his most brazen capers involving taking actively, from you and me. That changed when he, two of his sons and the Trump family business sued the government for $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns.”
4] “Trump supporters convicted of crimes connected to the Jan. 6 riot could get large spoonfuls. But the Trump clan looks to be the biggest beneficiaries of all: As part of the settlement, the U.S. government would be barred from prosecuting or further auditing the Trumps or their family businesses for any potential misconduct preceding the agreement. That would save the Trumps from penalties that some estimate could reach $100 million or beyond. More than that, it could functionally put the family beyond the reach of the law in these tax cases…”forever.”” [NOTE: read this again – forgiven for misconduct, now and “forever.” Wouldn’t YOU like to have this?????]
***. “[Trump]..routinely staked out positions on issues that violated the law and that ran counter to what career law enforcement, intelligence, military, and economic officials believed was right. Even more mysteriously, at times Trump appeared to favor positions that benefitted America’s geopolitical adversaries, like Russia, more than the United States… McGahn had spent hours laying out what the president did and said behind closed doors as he sought to maintain control over the Russia investigation.. how the president insisted on having a loyalist oversee the investigation..the true reasons the president had for firing the FBI director, James Comey..told them that Trump wanted Mueller out.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt: ‘Donald Trump V. The United States” ]
6] “Mr. Trump is the defining political figure of the past decade. But despite his enormous influence, he’s had relatively few legacy-making accomplishments….He’s bullied specific schools instead of remaking the educational system and cut bargains with drug retailers instead of recasting the U.S. government’s relationship with Big Pharma….[So far, only Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court appointments and their warped decisions have amounted to truly historical changes.]”
8]. “Mr. Trump has already pardoned convicted criminals after receiving donations on their behalf…Trump cronies…brought up .case over a round of golf with the president.”
9]. “This new slush fund – set up with minimal guardrails, not even a definition of what constitutes “weaponization”..Just think what people might be willing to do to get this money, and what Mr. Trump might get in return. This fund would institutionalize that ethical disaster…This would make cronyism an official function of the federal government, a U.S. Agency for Corruption.”
*** “Trump’s dozens of pardons are just one of several moves by the administration indicating a newly permissive environment for white collar crime.” [ Jeffrey Toobin: “The Pardon Brokers…How The Trump Administration Turned Clemency Into A Lucrative Cottage Industry”; New York Times Magazine; May 31, 2026 ]
***. “..the lucrative pardon industry that has emerged around mr. Trump. It is based in part on the proposition that paying the right person to deliver a message tailored to mr. Trump’s politics of grievances is more important than demonstrating remorse or a likelihood of recidivism.” [ Kenneth P.Vogel: “Pardon Industry Offers the Rich A Path to Trump”; New York Times; 3/8/26 ]
10]. “The primary risk is that this money is going to be used to fund paramilitary organizations that are loyal to the president,” Mr. Ballou said. “Financial support for violence – that is going to be the most important thing, and it’s fundamentally new and different from, say, the Qatari jet.”
11]. “THe self-described “American terrorist” Andrew Paul Johnson was convicted of his role in the Capitol riot, pardoned by Mr. Trump and subsequently found guilty of molesting two children. To silence his victims, he is said to have promised them a share of the millions he said he was about to get from the federal government for being a “Jan. 6-er.”
13] “The 14th Amendment to the Constitution bars the government from paying ‘any debt or obligation incurred in aid or insurrection or rebellion against the United States,” which would appear to bar payments to people who attacked the Capitol in an effort to overturn an election.”
*** “The characteristics of Trump’s leadership, blazingly evident through the first three years of his presidency, had deadly ramifications in his final year. he displayed his ignorance, his rash temper, his pettiness and pique, his malice and cruelty, his utter absence of empathy, his narcissism, his transgressive personality, his disloyalty, his sense of victimhood, his addiction to television, his suspicion and silencing of experts, and his deception and lies. Each trait thwarted the response of the world’s most powerful nation to a lethal threat….Most of Trump’s failings can be explained by a simple truth: He cared more about himself than the country.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker: “I Alone Can Fix it” ]
[ NOTE: read this again – SLOWLY – and remember, this all occurred when, during Trump’s first term, he was “restrained’ by patriotic advisors and others from doing numerous illegal and dangerous and destructive things. Now – in his second term – Trump is deliberately surrounded by loyalists and Project 2025 authors. That largely explains the Trump DICTATORSHIP. ]
With Justice For All 
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