Americans Roaring Back: “You’re Fired” to Trump/Musk and Their Corporate Greed Machine

By Ralph Nader

May 9, 2025

Except for a few professional Democrats, most prominently Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, the Party of the Donkey still can’t decide to use the best words and phrases to describe the cruel, vicious, law-violating fascist dictatorship that is increasingly “Wrecking America.”

Trump and his Trumpsters have no inhibitions, crazily labeling the Democratic Party as “Marxists and communists and fascists.”

Although some Democrats in Congress are starting to bestir themselves, prodded by more progressive members like Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX),the new head of the House Progressive Caucus, and by outraged Americans showing up at demonstrations and Town Meetings with their Senators and Representatives. Democratic leaders however, still can’t keep up with the Trump/Musk daily demolitions. Trump is tearing apart agencies and hundreds of programs serving the health, safety, and economic necessities of the people in both Red and Blue states. Trump is creating a police state squashing of free speech and due process of law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

At the 100-Day marker of Trump’s rule by illegal Executive Orders, the New York Times made a valiant attempt to summarize the destruction that is unfolding from this unstable, dictatorial, vengeful, self-enriching, egomaniacal Führer who prefers to be called the King. They produced a special section chronicling the strip mining of federal agencies, depleted by hundreds of thousands of illegal firings that has left Americans more defenseless against corporate crimes, uninspected food, unregulated pollution, and unprepared for coming pandemics and already here climate disasters. In addition, closing down AID, cutting off immediate lifesaving food and medicine to millions of impoverished people abroad.

Little noticed is how Trump and Musk are shielding from their cuts the three biggest sources of waste, fraud and corruption: corporate crooks defrauding government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, big corporate welfare freeloaders, and the bloated military budget

Still, it is difficult to keep the blizzard of madness and broken campaign promises in one’s recollections. The daily lies, betrayal, and treachery are impacting Trump’s supporters as well. One way to grasp the immensity of what is being done to our beloved country is to gather some recent headlines that enable citizens to more fully aggregate why they must resist and tell Trump: “You’re Fired.” In 1974 President Richard Nixon was forced to resign, for far lesser transgressions.

Here is a sample of headlines from recent newspapers:

* Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

Nicholas Kristof, March 15, 2025, New York Times

* What is Lost? Federal HHS Layoffs

Tori Whitacre Martonicz & Alexander Sundermann, DrPH, CIC, FAPIC, April 9th, 2025, Infection Control Today

* Team Behind Critical CDC Maternal and Infant Health Dataset Axed

Rachel Roberston, April 9th, 2025, MedPage Today

* Donald Trump’s war on children

Catherine Rampell, April 18, 2025, Washington Post

*House Republican Plan Would Change Student Loans and Limit Pell Grants

Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, April 29, 2025, Washington Post

* Trump cuts demolish agency focused on toxic chemicals and workplace hazards