The president has been in office for almost a year now, and I was preparing to summarize the various assaults we have endured during that time. Then I woke up Saturday morning to discover he had unilaterally attacked Venezuela, and kidnapped their leader.
As a candidate, he claimed he would put America first, foregoing foreign adventures. “We have to straighten out our own house. We cannot go around to every country that we’re not exactly happy with and say we’re going to recreate [them]. We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with. This destructive cycle of intervention and chaos must finally come to an end.” However, the president has a history of bait and switch lies, and people who believe him are surprised as he betrays them whenever it serves his narrow self-interest.
For months, the story was we needed to blow up Venezuelan fishing boats (committing possible war crimes) because they were “trafficking fentanyl into the US” (which actually comes from Mexico). Now the story is “they stole our oil”. But the real reason is probably more traditional, an autocrat distracting attention away for unpleasant news resulting from his activities at home.
One of his first acts made permeant the tax cuts for the 813 US billionaires, who need it the least, while added several trillions to the national debt we all will pay. He then accused other nations of taking advantage of the US, and applied massive, chaotic, tariffs, which he claimed “others” would pay, but in reality, added hundreds of billions to domestic prices. Consumer confidence has dropped, consumption is down, companies are downsizing with 400,000 laid off, and corporate bankruptcies have spiked.
In addition to assaulting allies with tariffs, the president has threatened to annex Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland. He then added intrusive entry requirements on tourists, sharply reducing the international tourism economy.
His focus on illegal immigration has almost totally closed the border. Aggressive ICE raids have deported tens of thousands, including some US citizens, and many more left voluntarily. The resulting shortage of agricultural and construction workers has increased food and housing prices.
The administration eliminated 200,000 federal employees (7 percent of the total) with DOGE. But the process was chaotic, and many of the people laid off were rehired, when their work was recognized as critical. Firings at the Center for Disease Control, and Department of Health, have weakened US public health.
Federal funding was reduced for national parks, university research, and foreign aid for the hungry. Now subsidies for health care and child care have been cut, adding to the cost of living for tens of millions at the lower end of the economic spectrum. The health care cuts hurt small rural hospitals and clinics, reducing services, or forcing complete closure in some cases.
He labeled the climate crisis as “fake news”, and any federal mention has been eradicated. Departments working on climate have been eliminated, including even the collection of data. Billions in funding for electric vehicles, solar, wind, and batteries have been canceled. But the reinsurance industry announced that the global economy is at risk, because costs from climate impacts are advancing faster than the funds to repair the damage. Ignoring this, US programs and funding to help citizens recover from disasters have been slashed.
China is the global leader in producing EV’s, solar panels, and batteries. Globally, 600 gigawatts of solar were installed just last year, while the US is investing hundreds of billions in modular nuclear reactors that don’t exist yet, a financial bubble ready to burst.
Alarmed by all this self-inflicted economic damage, the US credit rating has been downgraded and foreign investment has decreased, raising interest rates.
These increased domestic costs, in a declining labor market, make affordability a pressing issue, but the president calls this “fake news”. Since he was given $400M dollar while still in school, he has probably never bought groceries in his life, so the basics of life have never been unaffordable to him. His complete lack of empathy prevents him from believing anyone else’s reality.
With no real solutions, popularity dropping, and the never-ending threat of the Epstein files, it is no wonder that he started an illegal war in South America. As bad as this first year was, the second looks to be worse. But we still live in a democracy and can do better.
Crispin B. Hollinshead lives in Ukiah. This and previous articles can be found at cbhollinshead.blogspot.com.
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