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I thought the Hollywood tapes were the end of DJT's political aspirations. Surely; the 26 sexual allegations; 34 felony convictions; 91 criminal charges; the 6 bankruptcies; the fraud settlements; the press conference after the proud boys march in VA; the disgraceful press conference with Putin in Helsinki; the Jan 6th insurrection were all a bridge too far. In fact a bridge far enough for Trump to leave, & for us to build a wall, to keep him out.

There were 23 plus million of you who voted Trump because you think people like me ate your cat. You relate to his immoral; misogynistic; racist; illiterate behavior. That is between you, your upbringing & your faith.

There are however another 53 plus million who were willing to overlook all his immoral, reprehensible behavior mainly because you were expecting a better tomorrow, for your family. You will have to decide whether your today looks anything like what Trump promised, & more importantly even if it does, has the price been worth it:

• Trump’s name appears more times (38000) than anyone, other than Epstein himself & Ghislaine Maxwell. He says that the documents prove that he is completely exonerated & yet continues to protect the rich & powerful pedophiles.
• He had promised no new wars & yet we are now in a war, with no end in sight. It has already cost over $50 billion & counting at about a $1billion a day.
• The cost of gas is on average at $4.40 per gallon; household expenses are up, but the President & some Republicans are telling us that costs are way down.
• We are withdrawing troops from Germany & possibly Italy & Spain. We seem to have withdrawn our support for Ukraine & are now in verbal tiff with the leaders of the UK; Denmark; France; Germany; Spain & Italy & the Pope!
• We are threatening to disband NATO &, at the same time, eulogizing Putin’s Russia. Russia has not only been emboldened by our tepid stance on Ukraine, but also significantly benefitted from the escalating oil prices.
• The ball room will cost us $400m; the Trump arch another $100 million; the upgrades to the Qatari plane gifted to Trump another $400m, while families struggle to make ends meet.
• We are threatening Canada; Greenland & Panama while rolling out the red carpet for Putin, & a Saudi despot.
• China has benefitted from the vaccum we have left in international leadership:

Agencies that we have withdrawn from & allowed China to assume a leadership role:

WHO: UNESCO; UNHRC: UNFCCC & Paris Climate change; Specialized UN & Technical agencies such as IPCC: IPBES: UNCTAD; ITTO; UN Energy; water; Oceans; Belt & Road initiative in Africa; Asia & Latin American.

China was also able to expand its trade agreements, thanks to Trump’s tariffs:

• Upgraded ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (2025): 11-member bloc, covering digital trade and emerging industries.
• Zero-Tariff Access for African Nations (2026): Removes taxes for almost all African nations to bolster trade, effective until April 2028;
• Canada announced a partnership (January 2026) focusing on critical minerals (lithium, cobalt) and $50 billion in Chinese investment in Canadian green technology.
• China suspended agricultural tariffs on Canadian canola, peas, and seafood in early 2026. Our farmers are meanwhile struggling to survive, and all they get to hear is "short term pain, for long term gain".
• Canada is actively seeking to move beyond its dependency on the U.S. economy, aiming to increase trade with China by 40%. (AP News)
• Latin America has also seen increasing trade with China, acting as a major supplier of agriculture and minerals to China.
• Following the US-initiated trade instability, Europe too is diversifying its trade partnerships with China, to reduce their dependence on the US.

Our international allies are understandably treating this like a break up, & reluctantly moving on. We have to treat our situation as akin to a bleeding patient, who also has cancer. We have to make sure that we stop the bleeding so that the patient lives, before we treat the cancer.

It will take us a generation to deal with the long term issues that will be the Trump (ism) legacy, but before we can address any of that, we must stop the bleeding & evict him from the WH.

You elected Trump first 2016, despite the Hollywood tapes; the 26 women accusing him of sexual molestation; the 6 bankruptcies; the fraud settlements; the debt write offs, the misogyny; the infidelity; the physical abuse allegations; the dis respect with which he treated people. All because he was rich, & somehow you thought that would translate to competence, intellect or intelligence. He promised you:

MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL

The US government has so far spent about $15 Billion (BBC)

Another $46.5 Billion has been allocated under the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act in 2025

HE WOULD REPLACE OBAMA CARE WITH SOMETHING MUCH BETTER

HE WOULD REDUCE THE US DEBT

Debt increased from 19.9 trillion to 27.75 trillion. (2017-2021)

HE WOULD CREATE GREAT PAYING MANUFACTURING JOBS

Net loss of 200k manufacturing jobs during Trump 1.0 (2017-2021)

ECONOMIC, MILITARY & TRADE SUCCESSES LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN

"Please, please, it's too much winning, we can't take it anymore, Mr. President". Trump would say.

To be fair, COVID hit in 2020 & it is a little difficult to know what the economy would have done, had COVID not hit. Let us therefore just look at how we as the United States of America handled COVID:

COVID DEATHS: (WHO)

1. US: 1.235 million
2. Brazil 711K
3. India 533k
4. Russia :402K
5. Mexico: 334K
6. UK: 232k
7. Peru 222k
8. Italy: 196k
9. Germany: 183k
10. France: 167k

BUT THE DOW WENT UP:

TRUMP Jan 2017-2021: The Dow did go up from 19,827 to 31,188

BIDEN Jan 2021-2025: The Dow also went up from 31,188 to 43.400

Close to 40% of adults in the US have no money invested in stocks.

TRUMP 2.0

You elected him again, despite his role in the Jan 6^(th) insurrection; his speech after the Proud Boys march in VA; his speech in Helsinki, standing next to Putin; his 34 felony convictions; the 91 criminal charges; the warnings from at least 6 of his cabinet members or senior advisors; his belittling of veterans. Most of you elected him, despite all that, because you somehow thought that your tomorrow would be better than today.

Here we are today, when gas prices are on average $4.40 per gallon; we are in an ill-conceived; ill-defined war which has no good end in sight; we threaten allies & befriend historical enemies: 58% of Canadians (Bloomberg) & 56% of the Brits think we are an unreliable ally; a majority of people in Belgium; Germany; France; Spain; Italy & Poland consider the US a greater threat to the world, than China. (Politico). We have seen accountability for the Epstein files in the UK; France; Sweden; Norway; Slovakia; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; & UAE, but we are still protecting the pedophiles. Trump’s name shows up 38000 times in those files. We separate nursing babies from their mothers; execute US citizens & lock up children; beat up and deport hair dressers and landscapers, all under the garb of immigration reform. Manufacturing jobs are down; our farmers are barely surviving; Consumer confidence is the lowest it has been in decades.

We have survived a lot of scary moments, in the last 100 years or so: the Great Depression; a World War; concentration camps for Japanese Americans; deportation of Mexican Americans; Isolationism; the atrocities of the Civil rights movement; Jim Kro; McCarthyism; J Edgar Hoover’s paranoia; Watergate; the assassination of JFK: MLK & RFK; Covid & so on, but we have always come out on the other side.

Trump cannot run for President again, but he will do everything possible to stay. He is a racist; misogynist and a bully. Whatever your reason for having voted for him before, you have to now decide as to what price you are willing to pay to sell our very value systems; our morality and our Democracy?

DONALD TRUMP QUOTES:

• Costs are way down. We have the hottest economy in the world.
• I do not want to hear about affordability. It is a hoax, by Democrats.
• What is a corner store?
• I love the poorly educated, because they make me feel smart.
• Two dolls instead of 30.
• I don't want a poor person in Cabinet (2017). "I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions, I just don't want a poor person [representing the country]".
• Every child can get 5 pencils instead of 250 (speaking about affordability)
• “Thing that you carry the babies around in",talking about price of strollers on Airforce One in 2025.
• Talked about ‘groceries’ like it was a new word., he discovered.
• Laziness is a trait in blacks:

“I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it,” Trump told John R. O’Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, according O’Donnell’s account in his 1991 book “Trumped!” “The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”

“‘Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that.”

“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market.”

He continued: “If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”

• "They are rapists”, talking about Mexicans**.**
• Mocking of disabled people & calling veterans who died, for this country suckers.
• Calling POW’s losers.
• Comparing himself to Jesus.
• Trump ball room for $400m, & Arch, while US families struggle.
• Great Gatsby theme dinner costing over $3m, while Fed employees lined up for Unemployment.
• ##it hole countries:

India, China, Afghanistan, Haiti. Somalia, El Salvador, Myanmar, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eretria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela.

HE ALSO SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE EQUALLY OUT OF TOUCH:

Trump 2.0:

Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary:

• Laid off workers should get factory jobs.
• Cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream.
• I'm actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain too". Bessent noted his involvement in the agriculture industry and ownership of farmland, emphasizing his understanding of farmers' need for certainty, he said to ABC News.

Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary:

• Seniors should not worry if Social Security checks did not arrive on time. My mother in law would never call, if check did not arrive on time.
• Travelling with his ‘nannies’ to Epstein island.

Chris Wright, Energy Secretary:

• Wild fires were a hype
• Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Labor Secretary 2025) - On Unemployment: Commenting on a 4.3% unemployment rate that affected 7.4 million workers, she described the figures to Fox News as "statistically, it's nonexistent".

Stephen Miller: Family separation was a “simple decision”.

Pam Bondi, when asked about the Epstein files “but the Dow reached 50K”.

Kristi Noem: Acquisition of two luxury jets costing $200m, during a government shut down.

Trump 1.0:

Steven Mnuchin (Treasury Secretary) -

• Requested a plane for his honeymoon in 2017

Tom Price (Health and Human Services Secretary) - Private Jet Travel:

• Price resigned in 2017 after it was revealed he spent over $400,000 in taxpayer funds on private charter flights for travel

Ryan Zinke (Interior Secretary) :

• Helicopter for Scheduling Convenience

Wilbur Ross (Commerce Secretary) - Comments on Government Workers:

• During the 2019 government shutdown, when asked about reports of federal workers visiting food banks, billionaire Wilbur Ross said he did not understand why they needed to, suggesting they could just take out a loan.

Ben Carson (HUD Secretary) - Furniture Spending:

• While Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, it was revealed that his office ordered a $31,000 dining room set

Only 23.1 million people, who voted Trump, identified themselves as ‘they would vote for him no matter what’.

Most of the other 54 million voted because they genuinely thought that he would make their lives better; because they had to vote Republican or because they could not vote for Kamala Harris. Another 90m sat out the election. Trump is banking on the fact that he will deter us from showing up, in November.

MID TERMS

The only mid-terms, that Trump has ever seen as President, was 2018.

Democrats gained 40 House seats, during those mid-terms.

30 of those House seats were in States that Trump won in 2016.

This was the largest flip by Democrats since 1974 – post the Watergate crisis.

His approval across every poll is much lower now, than it was in 2018.

THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Robert Muller report concluded that the Russian interference was “sweeping & systematic”.

Trump called the whole Russian investigation a ‘hoax’  and as per the Muller report made ‘multiple, systematic efforts’ to impede the investigation.  I am also old enough to remember his disgraceful press conference with Putin in Helsinki, where he took Putin’s word, over his own Intelligence agencies.

THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

We all remember:
The Jan 6^(th) insurrection. His blanket pardon of the so called patriots.

His famous call to Raffensberger (Republican) in Georgia asking for 11,780 votes.

The recounts done in Georgia; Wisconsin; AZ; Michigan; PA & Nevada.

The Jack Smith findings.

More recently Tulsi Gabbard with FBI agents in Fulton County GA.

THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

The European Union Institute for Security Studies found that Russia, China & Iran tried to influence our elections in 2024. Russia seemed to favor Trump. China only wanted to sow ‘seeds doubt and confusion among American voters’, whereas Iran did not favor Trump. 

One would imagine that in normal times our intelligence would at least have looked into it, but that is too much to expect from Trump; Tulsi Gabbard; Pam Bondi; Todd Blanche; or Kash Patel. In fact, I suspect, for them, that there is no upside in doing so.

Trump cannot stand for President again or win, if he does. He will continue to attack the integrity of our election process or rig the election, in any way possible, to stay in the WH. What he is banking on more than anything else, is deterrence, through the optics of fear. Hence all this talk of deploying ICE at voting booths.  

The deterrence did not work in MN, when his ICE agents shot Renee Good & Alex Pritty, & will not work when he deploys ICE agents at voting stations.

90 million sat out the last election. The differential was only about 2m between Harris & Trump. DJT does not understand that love of country, is greater than cult or locker room politics.

 

 

• The cost of the ‘ball room’ is now estimated at $1 billion
• Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Painting project will now cost $13.1m
• Repainting the border wall is estimated at $500 m to $3billion.
• The Trump de Arc will cost $100 million.
• The Great Gatsby party cost $3.4m, while our Federal employees stood in unemployment lines.
• Each trip to Mara Lago costs about $3.4m (NPR) . As of March 2026, Trump had been to Mara Lago 24 times.
• The supposed DOGE ‘savings’ were going to pay us $5k per household in dividends.
• The tariffs were supposed to pay us $2000 in dividends.
• Replacement of the WH rose garden cost $1.9m. Other refurbishments to the WH are estimated to be between $200m to $400m (Fox 9); Repainting of the Eisenhower executive office is estimated to be another $7.5m; renaming Palm Beach airport cost $5.5m. DOD becoming Department of war is expected to cost us another $2billion (NBC News).
• He unveiled a 15-foot golden statue of himself at his golf course in Doral. Admittedly paid for by 16 crypto currency investors & I am sure they paid for only because they love Trump!

Meanwhile, consumer confidence is plummeting; gas prices are up $1.40 a gallon, & climbing. Cost of goods & services are climbing. Inflation is moving in the wrong direction. Manufacturing jobs are down & our farmers are struggling to survive, & there is no end in sight.

We know you do not care about our financial situation, Mr President. You are still trying to figure out what 'groceries' are!

 

Please help your neighbors, bring food, be part of your community.
Don’t let the fact that there are people being sent to concentration camps be swept under the rug by all the distractions.