It’s All About Trump: Fuck the People

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

His ballroom; his war, his golf excursions, and his trips to the Lago. This and giving tax cuts to his oligarchs are bankrupting Amrica. What Trump has done since January 20 2025. What has he done for the people? Zilch.

Trump is the most expensive illegitimate president in America’s history. Although he is asking for an even larger budget for next year, his personal expenditures will continue to exceed our nation’s income. How will he pay for his evil and wasteful plans?

WHERE HAVE YOUR TAX DOLLARS GONE SINCE JANUARY OF 2025?

I won’t step around the facts. Since January 20, 2025, he has spent millions of dollars on vengeance. Trump considers anyone who disagrees with him an enemy.

Trump’s golf “excursions,” combined with his many trips to the Lago, cost taxpayers more than 10 million dollars each month.

Trump destroyed the East Wing of the people’s White House. He wants to build a garish and unnecessary ballroom. He lied, promising that his oligarch’s would pay for its construction. Although he originally claimed it would cost 200 million dollars, then raised the expectation to 300, and then 400 million. The conservative estimates exceed one billion dollars based on average construction costs in 2026. It could reach two billion.

Now, Trump and his boy toy, Lindsey Graham, want to use your money to pay for his folly.

One of Trump’s biggest lies was a campaign promise to avoid any wars on foreign land. On February 28, 2026, Trump unilaterally ordered attacks against the sovereign nation of Iran without provocation or congressional approval. His personal war continues, and is costing taxpayers one billion dollars each day.

Trump has other plans for your money, and none include programs to improve the quality of life for the majority of our nation’s people. Trump has cut necessary programs including food stamp’s, aid for disabled Americans, including our military, and school lunches for children living below the poverty line when school is not in session.

This is just the beginning.

TRUMP’S NEW BUDGET WOULD RAISE THE PENTAGON’S ANNUAL ALLOTMENT TO 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS

The men and women who spend their days in the Pentagon are useless. They have lost every war since WWII. Although they are committing war crimes by obeying Trump’s murderous attacks off of the coast of Venezuela and now in Iran, they don’t care. All military organizations are fascist by necessity.

To pay for his personal increases for unnecessary and guaranteed to fail projects, Trump has plans to cut programs for all Americans. The list includes 46 primary targets. Here are a few. If only the spineless mainstream media would report the truth.

Economic Development Administration. $113 million.

Job Corps. More than $1.7 billion.

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. This office is a watchdog, tasked with making sure there is no discrimination in contracting. $111 million.

Administration for Community Living, which supports older and disabled Americans' ability to live independently. More than $2.4 billion.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Prevention and Public Health Fund. $1.4 billion in funds planned for FY 2026.

LIHEAP, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. More than $4.1 billion.

Legal Services Corporation, one of the nation's largest funders of civil legal aid. $560 million.

U.S. Agency for Global Media, which includes Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe. $857 million.

Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (former part of USAID). $741 million.

U.S. Institute of Peace. $55 million.

African Development Foundation. $45 million.

National Endowment for the Arts. $207 million.

National Endowment for the Humanities. $207 million.

Institute of Museum and Library Services, a small federal agency that supports museums and libraries around the country. $295 million.

D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program. $40 million.

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, a higher education institute in Santa Fe. $12 million.

Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund. $23 million in discretionary funding.

You can read the entire list on PBS.

UNDER TRUMP’S REIGN OF TERROR, AMERICA’S POLICY OF “PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE” IS ESCALATING

Nations which have dictators in control of their countries experience increases in poverty and the income gap. This is happening in America today. Since January 20, 2025, the number of billionaires in America has increased from 902 to 989.

The sad fact is that only one president in history placed the majority in priority number one: Franklin D. Roosevelt. His efforts to make the American dream possible for all people, made him the most popular president in history. He won his first election in 1932, and was victorious in 1936, 1940, and 1944.

Trump’s Nazi Party fails to perform the jobs for which they were elected. Not a single effort has been made to keep Trump’s campaign promises and improve the lives of all 340 million Americans.

This will continue to be policy until Trump and his treasonous administration are removed from Washington forever.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: pbs.org: 46 programs Trump wants to eliminate, according to his proposed budget

americanprogress.org: Trump’s Budget Request Cuts Programs That Help Ordinary Americans and Sinks That Money Toward War