The Meidas+ blog summarized the daily drama of the Trump administration:
Donald Trump woke up to a flurry of bad headlines and poll numbers that tell a story of political collapse and economic mismanagement. The latest Gallup poll found that Americans now trust Democrats over Republicans to “keep the country prosperous,” by a margin of 47% to 43%. Just a year ago, Republicans led that same question by 13 points. That’s a 17-point swing, a direct reflection of Trump’s disastrous leadership.
At the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Treasury Department has quietly instructed its employees not to share photos of the ongoing “ballroom construction” at the White House, a project that has already led to the demolition of parts of the East Wing. Treasury officials, whose building sits adjacent to the White House, reportedly have a front-row view of what can only be described as desecration.
Then there’s the economy. Small businesses across the country are sounding the alarm over Trump’s tariffs, which economists have called “a massive warning for the economy.” The Chamber of Commerce has even sued the Trump administration over a new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, another policy that is crippling American companies while pretending to protect them. A coalition of businesses is also urging the Supreme Court to strike down Trump’s global tariffs, calling them an “illegal $3 trillion tax” on American industry.
Bloomberg published yet another damning report, this one declaring: “The U.S. has no China policy, no strategy, and no clue.” The analysis described the Trump administration’s foreign policy as “strategic schizophrenia.” I would remove the word “strategic.” It’s just schizophrenia. And it’s emblematic of why Trump bankrupted so many businesses before he ever entered politics.
Meanwhile, as the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel unravels, Trump posted a rambling and incoherent statement on social media, boasting that “numerous of our now great allies in the Middle East… have explicitly and strongly with great enthusiasm” agreed to his plan to “straighten our Hamas” (yes, his post included that typo). The sentence barely makes grammatical sense, but it’s clear he’s once again playing geopolitical pyromaniac, praising autocrats, confusing facts, and stoking instability for his own image.
Even Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, couldn’t hide the corruption when asked about the ceasefire. “Well, Jared’s the investor,” Vance replied. Excuse me? That’s a stunning admission that Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has personal financial stakes in the region. Just as we’ve been saying.
The chaos doesn’t stop there. While China builds the world’s largest solar farms, Trump has canceled approval for a 6.2-gigawatt clean energy project in Nevada, gutting American leadership in the global renewable market. The New York Times reported that Chinese companies now produce 60% of the world’s wind turbines and 80% of its solar panels — a direct result of Trump’s assault on climate policy.
And back in Washington, MAGA Republicans continue to hold the government hostage, refusing to fund healthcare subsidies for 20 million Americans. “We don’t have a strategy,” Speaker Mike Johnson admitted during a press conference. When confronted about the health care crisis, he even blamed the Affordable Care Act for existing, rather than the Republican sabotage that is threatening to bankrupt working families.
As if the day couldn’t get darker, news broke that a pardoned January 6 rioter, Christopher Moynihan, was arrested for threatening to assassinate House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Trump personally pardoned him.
Yet amid this chaos, Trump has found time to announce $40 billion in U.S. funds to Argentina, a move that has already failed to stabilize that country’s currency, enriching Trump-aligned investors while Americans struggle to pay rent and afford groceries.
And now, he’s calling for the U.S. to import beef from Argentina, abandoning American cattle ranchers just as he’s betrayed soybean farmers.
This is what happens when corruption replaces competence. When narcissism replaces governance. When a con man mistakes the Oval Office for a casino floor.

BANKRUPT FARMERS AND RANCHERS in states across our nation should be informed of the fact that J D Vance is part of a Wall Street “investment” group called “Acre Traders” that gobbles up land for pennies on the dollar from farmers and ranchers who go bankrupt because of Trump’s tariffs. Such a sweet con operation — First, Trump bankrupts farmers and ranchers, and then Vance gets their land dirt cheap and gets rich off their suffering. EVIL.
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Trump’s management and leadership style reaching back to the 1970s is built completely around chaos, which explains why he’s been involved in thousands of court cases over the decades.
Donald Trump’s trials, lawsuits from Georgia to New York
Since using the courts to cause chaos is Trump’s bailiwick, I don’t think the MAGA opposition relying on the courts to stop the Nazi Fascist from achieving his one goal, total domination as an all-powerful brutal dictator who will be more dangerous and worse than Putin or Kim will work in the long run.
The only time Trump settles a case is when he knows he can’t win.
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#TodaysAcronym • #TRODADOTROL
Trumps Rain Of Destruction And Defecation On The Rule Of Law
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Great summary, Diane, thank you for that.
Just focusing on the gutting of ACA: over 40% of US workers are employed at businesses with fewer than 50 employees. These are the businesses that are not required by law (and most can’t afford) to offer employee-provided healthcare plans, so presumably most don’t.
Both of my millennial sons work for such an employer, and have been on ACA health-plans since they were 26yo [about a decade]. This coverage has been fine/ affordable for them. If (as predicted), both have their premiums doubled thanks to Trump admin/ legislature’s policies, we will most likely have to help supplement their incomes.
As instrument teachers for a musical academy, their salaries are working-class level. We live in an expensive area: the kind of area one needs to live in as a musician/ musical instrument teacher, as residents are eager consumers of such services. Thro experience/ promotions, they are in higher echelon of working-class salaries. Nevertheless, a quality academy (after OH/ mgt) can’t provide more to its trained, college-educated instructors. Which– since pandemic increase of 30+% increase in housing costs, leaves them paying 40++% of gross wages for housing/ utilities, so incredibly tight budgets now.
I expect many will be in more dire straits than our sons as a result of failure to extend pandemic-era subsidy enhancement of ACA lower-income members, and the loss to ACA funding by $800 million cut to Medicaid. Those [Republican legislators] who maintain ‘pandemic is over, return to previous status quo’ do not [refuse to] take into account the steady way-over-CPI inflation of healthcare costs over the last few yrs, as well as the undermining of ACA funding by the outrageously huge cut to Medicaid.
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Cruelty is a feature, not a bug, of Trump policies.
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