BRAND TRUMP’S NAME ON HIS BIG SAVAGE WRECKING OF AMERICA BILL

By Ralph Nader

July 3, 2025

The narrow passage of Trump/GOP 1100-page bill that spells death, destruction, and deprivation to the American people—including MAGA voters and innocents abroad should destroy the Trumpster Republicans in the 2026 Congressional election.

However, by then it will be too late for poor American children facing Trump reducing the food stamp programs, the 15 million Americans being thrown off Medicaid, the damage or the termination of many clean solar energy and wind energy sales, the body blow to electric car prospects, the young Americans benefitting from AmeriCorps, Job Corps, student loans, and VA medical benefits. The Trump cuts will also undermine housing assistance programs, Meals on Wheels, disability assistance programs, and Head Start.  Millions of desperate humans overseas are already cut off suddenly from USAID Aid medicine, food supplements, clean drinking water and other life-savers that cost a few dollars per life saved. Tens of thousands have already died. (See Nicholas Kristof’s articles: “Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.” “White House Billionaires Take On the World’s Poorest Kids.”).

Why is Trump (Musk is now vehemently against the bill) doing this to all the people – red states, blue states? Why is he opening the air and water pollution spigots, stoking the greenhouse gases of the oil, gas, coal infernos (“Drill Baby Drill”), damaging people’s health everywhere? Didn’t Trump constantly pledge to his voters last year the paradise, the prosperity, the peace touted in his MAGA – Make America Great Again rhetoric?

Of course, he lied, fooled, flattered, and flummoxed enough voters.  Sadly, the feeble corporate Democrats allowed Trump to gain the White House and achieve his real objective, which is MATA OR MAKE AMERICA TRUMP AGAIN.

As Mark Green and I, (See, “Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All,” 2020) together with scores of psychologists observing Trump over the years, described this failed gambling czar, airline owner, university owner, etc.,  as a dangerously unstable, egomaniacal, vengeful person fueled by daily lying and fantasies who promotes harmful policies supporting him and other corporate greedhounds.

Trump’s bellowing, snarling, false accusations and broken promises in thousands of tweets, utterances, phone calls, and speeches demonstrate that he is a fascist dictator, willing to issue illegal executive orders and dictates.

What are Trump’s goals?

First, he wants to use the White House as a massive business opportunity to make him and his family fabulously wealthy. He wants more tax escapes for the wealthy and giant corporations, privileged personal family investments in crypto-currency that he is now de-regulating, to sell memorabilia, including Bibles (he has violated seven out of the ten Commandments and never goes to Church), to cut profitable deals with rich Arab nations & billionaires looking for favorable treatment and to freeze federal minimum wages and pull down worker rights all to feed his and his class warfare friends’ insatiable avarice!

Second, Trump wants VENGENCE – taking it out on critics, political opponents, prosecutors, and using immigrants as a mass media scapegoated diversions that whip his core MAGA loyalists into a constant frenzy. His pathological vengeance includes going after universities, law firms, mainstream media owners who are, respectively, studying, suing or reporting his daily crimes, obstruction of justice, shredding of the Constitution and federal statutes that may produce challenges to his tyranny, burgeoning police state and physical threats to members of Congress, Governors, and the surviving federal civil servants who dare challenge what J.D. Vance, before his ambitious conversion, called “America’s Hitler.”

Remember, how many times Trump has followed his lawless acts with the words “This is just the beginning.” This corporation, masquerading as a human being, has long said that “With Article II, I can do whatever I want as President,” now backed by the Supreme Courts’ June 2024 reckless and abdicatory decision (6 to 3) in Trump vs. U.S. immunizing presidents from criminal prosecution for their official acts (undefined). This is why, drunk with his own power, he can say, “I run the country and the world.”

Third, entrench and immunize the rule of the Super-rich, the Plutocracy – that Trump wants to and has to curry the favor of with unprecedented giveaways and sweetheart deals. Accordingly, he bloats the Pentagon budget beyond what the Generals asked for ($150 billion more in the BIG WRECKING AMERICA BILL just passed). He gives Wall Street and the Fossil Fuel corporations everything they want – no regulation, no prosecutions, massive tax cuts, and dangerous new technology without legal or ethical restraints, to even protect our children.

He fires the federal cops on the corporate crime beat, drops over 120 pending corporate prosecutions started under Biden, fires federal agency Inspector Generals who would have watchdogged his Administration, pushes out scientists and health specialists and weather experts whose work is to forewarn the people of oncoming natural disasters.

It is astonishing how much Trump gets away with. He and his cronies explain their cuts to just about every people-benefiting program, including firing 25,000 IRS staffers who service our calls or investigate complex corporate tax evasion.  They claim, without details, that people cheat on their Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, and food programs. BUT THEY IGNORE MASSIVE CHEATING AND STEALING BY CORPORATE CROOKS FROM MEDICAID, MEDICARE, AND OTHER SAFETY NET PROGRAMS IN THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR. THEY PROTECT COMPARABLE SUMS OF CORPORATE SUBSIDIES THAT WERE UNTOUCHED BY TRUMP/MUSK AND ALLOW A VAST, WASTEFUL, UNAUDITED PENTAGON BUDGET TO GET BIGGER.

For example, a few days ago, Dan Diamond of the Washington Post reported a huge “Fraud Bust” by the government, started under Biden, an “alleged $10.6 billion fraud scheme” involving shell corporations, foreign and domestic thieves billing, in the names of hacked beneficiaries, Medicare for millions of urinary catheters, glucose monitors, and other supplies. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats in Congress recognized corporate crime, corporate subsidies and corporate bloated contracts as the key factors in the infliction of the cruel treatment of the American people across the board.  Without robust corporate law and order, corporate abuse knows no bounds.

The treachery and betrayal by Trump and his GOP ( “Gougers of People”)  of the American people is unprecedented.  It is only a matter of time before hundreds of millions of the American people will experience the pain and be exposed to the silent violence caused by Trump.

If the Democrats had a strategic sense, they would PUT THE TRUMP BRAND ON EVERY DAMAGING, CRUEL, VICIOUS IMPACT ON INNOCENT PEOPLE, CHILDREN, MOTHERS, AND FATHERS AND THE ELDERLY. Scuttling budgets and preparations for pandemics and climate disasters should be labelled with TRUMP’S name. Huge rip-offs of consumers after Trump collapsed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s law enforcement should be labeled TRUMP’S RIP-OFFS. Increased child hunger and patients thrown off Medicaid should be acknowledged as “Brought to you by DONALD TRUMP.” And much more. Signs, billboards, and social media portrayals of the Trump carnage are urgently needed.

As the pre-eminent bully of our Times, TRUMP lusts to brand people and groups he dislikes, with pejorative nicknames. It is time to return the Favor. TRUMP THE EVERYDAY WRECKING BALL OF AMERICA AND ITS CITIZENRY HAS TO GO!

(See, Civic Self-Respect by Ralph Nader, 2025.)