Trump Targets

Instead of using the term, “diversity program,” to describe who is and has been targeted in the federal work force, we should say everyone who is not a white male, loyal to Trump federal employee. DEI is too ubiquitous an acronym. Likely, it means you. 

The “enemies of the Trump administration” and everyone else who is not a white guy, represents those being removed to from federal jobs. The loyalty clause is stated in Project 2025 and make no mistake, it is being used. But wait, perhaps you are white, male, and loyal and you have been sent home, laid off, or fired. Well no one says these folks were smart or efficient. They are the slash and burn brigade. As Musk said there will be collateral damage. Unfortunately, that may well be you. It’s easy to talk glibly about loss of pay when you have made $135 billion dollars since November 5, 2024. Do not expect empathy. 

You must remember the bold face lies Trump and Vance proclaimed repeatedly as they disavowed any relationship with Project 2025 all last year. They never heard of it. And yet here it is in action. A reckless plan. Made by reckless people, who pontificate from their very lofty and protected perches.

Side note: White males, loyal to Trump are a population in decline. Curious how this country will run with so few of them left? Well let’s take a look at our current indicators: 

See planes dropping from the sky, burning on tarmacs, flipping upside down on landing, exploding in midair collisions and 35 other ways since January. Maybe firing all those FAA folks wasn’t too smart. This is the most recent news item alert in the FAA website: 

February 24, 2025

General Aviation / Azle, Texas

A Starduster II crashed in a field near Flying Oakes Airport in Azle, Texas, around 2:45 p.m. local time on Monday, Feb. 24. Two people were on board. The FAA will investigate.

Okay so flying is riskier since Trump became president. But let’s move on.  

Ask nuclear power regulators how it’s going now that they are unemployed. Who’s managing the nukes?

Ask the former CDC scientists and support teams about the Avian flu. 

Ask midwestern farmers whose crops used to feed the world but now are rotting on docks how it feels to know their land will fall fallow as Trump, Musk, and the GOP have decided to get rid of USAID, painting it as some Mafia-like enterprise. People right now as I type these letters are dying because of this rash and immoral decision by Musk and Trump to cancel humanitarian aid. 

Ask any breathing person about the recent performance by the defense secretary on the international stage and they will tell you that it was amateur hour. Were you not ashamed of our Pro-Russia defense? Or how did you feel to hear our addled president claim Ukraine started the war, not Putin? We have watched the incursion of Russian troops into a sovereign nation for the last three years. Or how about the recent UN resolution to continue support of Ukraine when every darn UN member voted in support of the resolution except North Korea, Belarus, Russia, and yes, the United States. Such company we now keep!

Are you feeling safe as reckless cabinet secretaries take control? (See Hegseth’s debacle and today’s reporting on Kennedy’s apparent lie to senators on vaccinations.) Few of this gang even have minimal credentials or credibility to do their jobs. None have the requisite character. They are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. Well okay if they’re aiming at puppies, Kristi Noem seems to be a killer.

Still undecided if this century’s Rome is burning?  

See your non-IRS return. Think Musk and his teen minions who are gutting our federal work force are up to the task of reviewing and processing tax returns? 

Think about the millions and millions of children who will no longer get breakfast or lunch at school because the department who manages that task is gone. 

Try not to breathe too deeply as those pesky environmental employees are sent home or think you’ll take refuge in one of our once protected and beautiful national parks. 

Don’t count on health care as those who support and process Medicaid and Medicare are no longer employed.

Unemployed? Well the reductions in the labor office will not be helping you get the fraction of money you use to make before Trump was returned to office. 

Counting on social security, the program you paid into since you were 16 to continue or newly support you? Well the Republicans you elected think you should do without it. So now we all will. 

Excited to hear about the new treatments for diseases that kill Americans, namely heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s? Sorry federal research has been slashed. Remember, intellectuals (that means researchers and other scientists and all who support those academics) are not seen as Trump loyalists. 

Are you unable to send your child to private school at an average cost of $13,000 per child, or $60,000 for boarding school? Well sorry, but all those federal funds are being diverted from supporting public schools to pay for for profit school vouchers. Some corporations will be raking in the bucks! But you? Well those vouchers won’t actually pay the full cost of the new school, that isn’t regulated (that office was closed). You need to have enough money (be wealthy) to pay the majority of the tuition for your K-12 children. So yes, vouchers will help the wealthy! Meanwhile, your public school will be closing due to insufficient funds (see voucher scam). Is your child in need of special services? Private schooling for all of those children begins at $60,000 and climbs. That’s per child. Better start saving your pennies (oops that’s been stopped too!)

How safe are you feeling about now? Our long term allies have been recast as enemies and see us for the danger we now are to world peace. In a month Trump and Vance have aligned with autocratic regimes. Why? You know this! So, tax cuts for the billionaire class can be maintained. So the transnational corporations can make greater profits and assume greater power. Their allegiance is to their stockholders, not this country. Oh, and yes so all those billionaires who placed Trump and Vance in office will continue to support them. Look they do not want to be unemployed, nor do their Republican colleagues sitting on their butts in Congress with tape over their mouths want to be sent home by their loyal voters who now find themselves with no jobs, no futures. This is why Trump promised you that you only needed to vote in 2024. They cannot take a chance on free voting again. 

All of this has an impact on our economic security at personal and societal levels. This is from today’s NYT: 

“Fresh off the worst inflation shock in decades, Americans are once again bracing for higher prices.

Expectations about future inflation have started to move up, according to metrics closely watched by officials at the Federal Reserve. So far, the data, including a consumer survey from the University of Michigan and market-based measures of investors’ expectations, does not suggest that price pressures are perceived to be on the verge of spiraling out of control.

But the recent jump has been significant enough to warrant attention, stoking yet more uncertainty about an economic outlook already clouded by President Trump’s ever-evolving approach to trade, immigration, taxation and other policy areas.”

Remember when eggs were 4.99 under Biden? 

Okay, so in all that ‘free’ time you now have as Nero begins fiddling and our earth continues to heat up, don’t turn to the arts for salvation. Our once beautiful Kennedy Arts Center has been run into the ground by Trump as he has done with every other business he ever ran, including the USA.