Let the raping and pillaging begin
In three days, for the first time in American history, the first convicted felon will be inaugurated President of The United States. He will take an oath with his hand on a Bible he has never read to defend the Constitution, a document he has never read nor understood or respected. He will, as usual, make a speech filled with gibberish, accusations, lies, and promises he does not intend to keep.
So now he is being inaugurated for his second term. His goal was not to “Make America great again”, as his branded slogan asserts, because America has always been kind of great. He doesn’t want to unite the country because his campaign was formulated to divide it with “us” versus “them.”
He has no intention of making life better for the poor and middle class, the workers, the aged, and the infirmed. He doesn’t care about voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, the climate, or the economy. He doesn’t care about crime, the rule of law, or democracy.
He has two main goals: to stay out of prison and to bring unprecedented wealth to himself, his family, and his fellow millionaires. To achieve his goals, he plans on being the exalted and feared leader of an authoritarian government, in the style of his idol Vladimir Putin.
He did not win the election in a landslide, as he has proclaimed. He does not have a mandate from the American people, as tens of millions stayed home instead of voting. People who did not want a Black woman as president and those glued to Fox News voted for him. With those votes and hundreds of millions of dollars, Elon Musk was able to purchase the Office of the President for his puppet, Donald Trump. No doubt Putin also had a hand in the win. Trump will be President in name only.
During Trump’s campaign, he promised his MAGA followers that he would do many things on day one of his presidency if elected. According to NBC News, they are as follows:
- Begin a mass deportation program.
- End birthright citizenship.
- End Biden-era policies.
- Pardon the January 6 defendants.
- Ending the war in Ukraine.
- Implement tariffs.
- Cancel the electric vehicle mandate.
- Drill, Drill, Drill.
- Made in America auto industry.
- Limiting transgender participation in women’s sports.
- End gender-affirming care practices.
None of these, if carried out, will help bring down the price of eggs, groceries, or gas. They were promised to stir up the racism and bigotry of the far right.
Remember these promises and see how many are implemented on day one, as he promised. You can keep score if you wish. Trump has evaded prison time. He now will concentrate on enriching himself and his cronies and staying in power. He doesn’t need MAGA anymore. They are now only his subjects to be tossed aside.
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