Forget the First Hundred Days, the Orange Man Throws All the Shit at the Wall Immediately
American tradition allows an incoming president a sort of ‘hundred days grace’ to get his policies lined up, before the opposing party rips into him or her. That’s probably a throwback to more collegial times, but the orange man gives not a damn.
Hardly three weeks in office, he’s
· Renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
· Threatened to buy Greenland or, if necessary, take it by force
· Threatened to send American forces into Panama to retake the canal
· Begun the deportation of ‘fifteen million’ illegal immigrants
· Decided to once again) leave the Paris Accords
· Begun the process of leaving the World Health Organization
· Agreed with Elon Musk to ‘shut down’ the US Agency for International Development, freezing its funding, and putting 60 senior staff on leave. The entire USAID public affairs office was put on leave and locked out of their systems.
· Declared a 25% tariff on Mexico, Canada and China, threatening tariffs in Europe and elsewhere, if his various demands were not met
· Threatening the Pentagon with the firing of flag officers
· Threatening a purge of the FBI and Department of Justice, aimed at those who prosecuted him personally
“MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS!” the president wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. “Why should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES.”
The answer to that, Mr. President, points at where those trillions went—directly into the pockets of the tech oligarchs standing next to you at your inauguration, and the company CEOs who moved America’s industrial wealth to China over the past 40 years.
And you’re going to ask the America public, who lost their jobs, to pay back those trillions in increased prices? Do you have any idea at all who pays tariffs?
More to the point, the billionaire class who depended upon you (and funded you) to be their patsy, are not going to be pleased.
The Donelon Conspiracy aims to shrink government by tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of employees, just as AI is poised to decimate the workforce. Not to put too sharp a point on it, but these good people—many of whom voted for you—will quite quickly become unable to pay their mortgage and maintain their present-day lives in the D.C metropolitan area.
Overnight, you will have turned them from tax-paying members of Washington society into debt-ridden burdens on social welfare. In the meantime, are you and Elon sure the wheels of a very large government will continue to turn without the grease of its bureaucratic mechanisms?
Neither of you know a damn thing about what you’re doing. Your background is multiple bankruptcies and Elon’s is firing people and then rehiring them in desperation. If Donelon was a company, I doubt you’d find investors, particularly if you were forced to close the entity in four short years.
Or is there a plan for that as well?
Side note: The president said Sunday evening that he plans to speak to leaders in Canada and Mexico on Monday, though gave no sign he’d change his mind. “I don’t expect anything very dramatic. We put tariffs on. They owe us a lot of money, and I’m sure they’re going to pay,” Trump told reporters as he stepped off Air Force One.
The hitch is, they don’t pay. American consumers pay.
The orangeman’s first three weeks were simply an undisciplined child’s shitfit across the globe, aided and abetted by Musk, the world’s richest man who has abandoned the responsibilities, and stockholders, that made him rich.
Two lonely people, by dawn’s early light, and too much in love to say goodnight.