Let’s give credit where credit is due: when Donald J. Trump promised to “run the country like a business,” we didn’t realize he meant bankrupting it like one of his casinos. Yet here we are in 2025, watching the second Trump administration play out like a badly written sequel with a much higher body count — economic, civic, and moral.
In March and April of this year, Trump 2.0 rolled out his latest masterstroke: a sweeping new round of tariffs on China, Mexico, the European Union, and — for some reason — Canada. Yes, Canada. Because why not punish our neighbor for the crime of selling us affordable lumber and maple syrup?
These tariffs were sold as a “bold strike for American greatness,” but the markets weren’t buying it — literally. Within weeks, global supply chains seized up, inflation reignited, and Wall Street panicked. The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq tanked harder than a Trump NFT launch, wiping out $9 trillion in value practically overnight. Retirement accounts? Gutted. Pension funds? Vaporized. Corporate investment? Frozen.
Even MAGA retirees who once chanted “Drain the Swamp!” find themselves asking why their nest eggs are suddenly scrambled. The irony? Many of them voted for the man who just torched their savings with a stroke of his Sharpie.
But don’t worry — all this economic pain isn’t for nothing. It’s part of a larger, deeply patriotic effort to… give billionaires another massive tax cut.
That’s right. The Trump White House, flanked by a GOP Congress in full donor-appeasement mode, has announced plans for a $5 trillion tax giveaway to the ultra-rich and large corporations. And how will they pay for it? By finally taking a chainsaw to what’s left of the federal government.
Their plan is simple: Medicaid? Slashed, because apparently access to healthcare is “woke.” Food assistance? Cut, because billionaires are starving for more stock buybacks.
Disability benefits? On the chopping block — after all, can’t those people just “work harder”? Public education, housing, infrastructure, environmental protections, disaster response? Who needs any of that when we have tax-free yachts?
The GOP calls this “fiscal responsibility.” Economists call it “economic sabotage.” But Trump calls it “winning,” and his sycophants clap like trained seals while their own constituents get steamrolled.
Let’s be clear: this is not some accident or misunderstanding. This is by design. Every policy choice — from the tariffs that are cratering the economy to the gutting of the safety net — is meant to consolidate power and wealth at the top while everyone else fights for scraps. Trump and his enablers aren’t trying to govern a nation; they’re asset-stripping it.
We’re not just witnessing inequality. We’re witnessing the deliberate transformation of the United States into a techno-oligarchy, where a handful of megadonors, corporate monopolies, and Trump family sycophants rule while the rest of us are told to be grateful for trickle-down “freedom.”
So when Trump smirks into a camera and calls himself a “very stable genius,” remember: this is the same “genius” who bankrupted a casino. And now he’s bankrupting a country — on purpose.
And the real tragedy? He’s doing it with the cheers of millions who still believe the con.