Being President is Hard Work - Just Ask Natalie!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

When Donald Trump first ran for the White House in 2016, he boasted that he could eliminate the national debt.  That was, of course, before many Americans knew that they could never believe a word the old man said.  The national debt was a whopping $19 trillion at the time Trump made that unhinged promise, and last week it climbed past $40 trillion and is still headed due north.

Not only did Trump's multiple tax cuts for the rich greatly reduce treasury income and our ability to pay off the debt, his war of choice on Iran increased military spending on a massive scale and thus inflated the debt.  Trump's grandiose vanity projects have also come at a substantial cost to the country, all of which are being paid for with borrowed money.  In short, Don Trump, the genius businessman, is spending far more money than our government takes in, and he is growing the debt at a time when we must face the reality of  beginning to pay it down - and then off.  But Trump understands bankruptcies and he appears to be wandering aimlessly on comfortable turf.

If our national debt continues to grow, more interest has to be paid each year, and at some point it will trigger a financial crisis of gargantuan proportions.  Something has to be done to correct course and turn the ship of state toward safer seas - and moves of that magnitude will require careful and thoughtful crafting by our elected leaders in Washington, DC.  The current Republican majorities in both houses of Congress refuse to act in any manner that challenges Trump's control of government.  Nothing moves out from Washington, DC, without Donald Trump's explicit stamp of approval.

But Trump is too damned busy to worry about balancing the nation's checkbook.

Today he is hosting an Indycar Freedom 250 Grand Prix on the streets of Washington, DC.  Like Trump's vanity cage fights on the White House lawn in June, private companies are claiming that they are paying to put on the show, but in reality taxpayers are picking up the tab for police, security, and many operational expenses.  And don't expect any help from Trump in dealing with the national debt next week either because he needs to get back to selecting chandeliers and draperies for his new White House ballroom.  The week after that is out, too, because he has to take some time to issue a new series of toothless threats against Iran.   And hell's bells people, Trump can't ignore his whack-a-doodle nightly postings on social media!   His posts are so good that big companies pay big bucks to get them before the rest of us do - and they don't pay their tithes to the nation's treasury to help bring down the national debt, they pay directly to Trump Media for the direct benefit of the Trump family and their rich investor partners.

With Trump, it's his business as usual in the good ol' US of A!

Being President is hard, demanding work.  Just ask Natalie!