President (47) Trump began his second term trying to deny citizenship to millions of children born in this country. In his first term he wanted to shoot refugees arriving at the southern boarder and his deputy Steven Miller wanted to rocket boatloads of Haitian refugees escaping that country. Now Trump is actually rocketing boats and killing men suspected of carrying drugs, while non-lethal options are available. He has fired without cause thousands of givernment employees. He has created a paramilitary force (ICE) which is killing and terrorizing people in the streets. He is breaking up families. He is threatening U.S. citizens and foreign nations. He wants to take control of voting across the country.

The common theme of this president is cruelty, unfathomable cruelty.

Wiser minds appear to have prevailed at Davos over Trump’s desire to take Greenland. Trump appeared to have backed down but Greenlanders are still worried and I can’t blame them. If Venezuela was about the oil, Greenland is about the minerals. Meanwhile continued vendetta in all directions, Canada, Jack Smith and immense cruelty in Minnesota.

Obviously, I would tell ICE to temporarily “stand down” all across the Country while I make major course corrections in the operation.

The Iranian government is killing its own people, reports of 2500 dead and many more arrested facing execution. Should the U.S intervene with military force? This was a tough question for me. Trump threatened military force and now says the killings have stopped. We hope that is correct. Maybe force is the only language Iran understands. I would have first tried to ridicule Iran to the world, as barbaric and uncivilized behavior, like ISIS beheading and crucifying people. If it came to force, we would defeat Iran militarily, shoot down all their planes, sink all their ships, but then what happens to the country without our continued involvement. Lessons from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe we could take out the leadership. Question remains the same.

Meanwhile cruelty continues in this country and toward other nations.

This morning the United States attacked Venezuela and captured Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife. It is believe they are on their way to the United States to face charges related to drug trafficking. I have deleted a previous post about the Venezuelan situation.

I am not at all sad about the departure of Maduro. He had driven the country into poverty to enrich himself and his followers. The question is what happens to Venezuela now? When we took out Saddam Hussain, far worse things (ISIS) arose in the aftermath.

I doubt we would have done this were it not for Venezuelan oil, the largest undeveloped reserves in the world. Drug trafficking, a very serious problem, could have been addressed through aggressive drug interdiction and I don’t think capturing Maduro will stop drug trafficking. As I mentioned before, we don’t need to be murdering non-combatants on the ocean. There are many non-lethal ways to stop and capture these boats.

Now, 24 hours later some things are clear. The Maduro regime, his loyalists, are still running the country. Maduro himself was kidnapped but there is no U.S. military on the ground in Venezuela. Trump’s statement that we would be running the country and rebuilding the oil infrastructure cannot happen without a full scale invasion and maybe not then. Completely missing from the U.S. narrative is any call for a free and fair election in Venezuela and restoration of democracy in that country. The people of Venezuela do not matter. Democracy does not matter, somehow Trump or those controlling him think they can get the oil. I believe it was first and foremost about the oil.

Of course I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Trump’s kissy-poo with Putin has something to do with the Epstein files.

And of course anything to cause distraction, murdering alleged drug runners, military threats to Venezuela, fake emergencies, accusations of sedition and treason
against political adversaries. One could look at the sell out “peace plan” in Ukraine in that light. Maybe thinks he’ll get the Nobel Peace prize ….. good luck!

Food prices continue to rise and healthcare becomes unaffordable.

Do not abandon Ukraine!!

Seems like the Nobel Peace wannabe is determined to start a war in Venezuela, maybe actually starting already. Trump administration has been murdering alleged drug traffickers in International Waters for weeks. I’m disappointed that the U.S. military has not refused …. we don’t use lethal force against non-combatants even if they are running drugs. So many better options. The man wants to kill.

Of course it is mostly wag the dog. A distraction from the Epstein papers and other failures.

This week the Secretary of Agriculture refused to continue food assistance to 40 plus million needy people. The Secretary is completely unclear on the concept, the purpose of agriculture being to feed the nation. I am a farmer. Where does this administration find such disgusting people.

This denial of Food Stamps is another Trump stunt to force Democrats to give up on healthcare. However three courts have now told Trump he cannot stop the SNAP program and must use the emergency funds which have been set aside for this purpose. Trump seems to be planning to drag his feet rather than follow the court orders. We’ll see this coming week what happens.

The Trump administration, the Republican Party, and The Supreme Court, all so disconnected from the human condition and lives of average citizens.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Making America Great Again by:

1. Breaking Up Families
2. Arresting Children
3. Deporting Farm Workers

Insanity.
Racial profiling. Deliberate agressive provocation.
Absolute flagrant and even gleeful cruelty.

Second announcement of lethal strike on a boat of supposed narcotics traffickers, 3 dead, previous 11. It is absolutely illegal and immoral to kill non-combatants in international waters except in self defense, immediate self defense. I saw a YouTube video last night about the Coast Guard shooting out the motors on a narcotics boat and thus capturing the occupants. They were given three warnings before shooting the motors.

This is also really dumb because if you blow them up there is no certain way to know where they came from and you miss the opportunity to catch the bad guys receiving the drugs. We are well able to track and follow these boats. Meanwhile a military build up in South America seemingly pointed at Venezuela. Sounds like somebody is trigger happy to me. Or perhaps this is Presidential immunity in action. The Supreme Court is complicit in the cruelty and lawless behavior, shadow docket and racial profiling still looks like racial profiling to me.

First, the Economy.

1. Return all tariffs to where they were on 1/1/25. Clear to me that importers just pass along the tariff to American consumers, that is why it can be viewed as a tax. Any future adjustments to tariffs, Congress needs to be involved so that all interests can be heard.

2. I will form a select committee to focus on inflation, with emphasis on food costs and housing. The committee will include the four most knowledgeable members of Congress along with leaders of business, industry and agriculture. Committee will report to the people and Congress at least once per month.

3. On making government more efficient to reduce deficit and attempt to reduce the national debt. Retain the current hiring freeze with exception of highly skilled replacements. DOGE will stand down and I will form a President’s Task Force on Government Efficiency, together will Congress, to comb through all government agencies and programs for cost reductions. We can afford emergency food, medicine and medical care to starving nations and I will restore USAID for this purpose. The food is mostly purchased from U.S. farmers anyway.

Immigration

1. I will continue the emergency declaration at the southern border because of the drug and human trafficking. I will visit the border shortly to view effectiveness of these measures.

2. I will pause all Deportations while I have a chance to refocus this program. I do not like breaking up families unless there is serious criminal activity. Typically the families often include U.S. citizens. Deporting farm and food production workers is shooting ourselves in the foot and some legal accommodation needs to be made. The Secretary of Agriculture’s statement that u.S. citizens will back fill these jobs only shows how little she knows about agriculture.

3. All persons deported by my administration will be afforded due process and will not be sent to countries where they cannot speak the language. Refugees from war torn counties will not be forced to return. Unaccompanied minor children and those brought here as very young children will not be deported.

4. I will not allow masked and unidentified officers grabbing people off the streets or raiding homes and businesses. Normal police procedure will be followed. National Guard will not be sent to U.S. cities unless requested or in serious emergency.

5. There is urgency in stopping the uncontrolled inflow of migrants, but there is no need for cruelty toward those already here.

Political Violence

There seems to be a “copy cat” factor in school shootings. So far this year there have been maybe 10-12 political killings with the assassination of Charles Kirk last week. Political bile is boiling over. The shooter was caught q1uickly and I thank Utah Governor Cox for trying to turn down the heat. Leadership matters. Words matter. False information matters. I struggle to find better words.