Do I Have This Right?

Let me get this straight. Trump ran on a Make America Great Again slogan promising everyday Americans a better life. Not just a better life, a great one. Almost a year into his second presidency, the cost of living is still going up. He did make hundreds of thousands of jobs available by getting rid of immigrants who picked our crops, worked in our slaughterhouses, mowed our lawns, cleaned our houses, and worked at other jobs in the hospitality and food service industries.

While low-paying high-labor jobs are in abundance and going unfulfilled, high paying skilled jobs are now available to overseas workers. Trump is selling visas for skilled positions under the old H-1B visa program for $100,000. He defended the revised H-1B programs claiming Americans lacked “certain talents.” Trump got his wife, Melania through the H-1B program so she must have had “certain talents.”

So, while cutting education programs in the US, Trump is trying to attract better educated individuals from other countries. When asked by Laura Ingraham of Fox News about welcoming hundreds of thousands of Chinese students and how that was a “pro-MAGA position,” Trump replied, “I want to be able to get along with the world.” I didn’t see the interview, but I will assume that was when Ms. Ingraham’s head exploded. She will soon recover with just a little Superglue, a couple of Botox injections, and three layers of Fox News makeup. That's the same makeup that Pete Hegseth uses to look almost human.

While Americans are paying more for healthcare and groceries with stagnant wages, Trump is turning his sights to the international scene for cryptocurrency and real estate development. He approved a $20B bailout for Argentina. He is building a grand ballroom to entertain wealthy donors and foreign dignitaries. He held a Great Gatsby Halloween party with the theme “a little party never killed anybody.” Trump even dressed up disguised as a president for the event.

He is considering a 50-year mortgage program that would make “home owners” renters with mortgage companies becoming landlords. Realizing that people are unhappy, he is considering a quick-fix in the form of a $2,000 one-time bribe, I mean “tariff payment.” This would assumably offset some of the pain he’s inflicted with his rock-em-sock-em tariff program that is hurting poor people far more than the wealthy.

Trump’s approval rating among Republicans has fallen from 81% in March to the current 68% and his overall approval is down to 33%. His director of the White House National Economics Council acknowledged, “economic anxiety across the nation.” Kevin Hassett went on to say that “there is still work to do…, something that we’re going to fix, and we’re going to fix it right away.” Wow, I certainly feel better, not great mind you, but better. We’ll all have to “Wait on Great.”