Trump celebrated his birthday with a $40 million military parade so he could feel equal to Putin, the Saudi kings and Kim Jong Un. He bragged about taking in $5 billion himself in a week of tossing the stock market up and down with the tariff madness.
Is this reducing costs and fraud?
Tariffs? We will pay higher prices so the government collects billions. Dollars that Trump and his friends will put in their own pockets with their tax cuts for the wealthy, ballooning government debt by trillions.
Voters went for Trump to see lower prices. What we got was democracy itself in tatters, more debt and higher prices.
Protests across the nation, about 1,500 with some in every state, make it more difficult to suppress us. We see nationalized National Guard and U.S. Marines deployed against protesters in L.A. Trump considers taking control of local police and sheriff departments.
The Big Bucks for Billionaires bill out of the House increases the ICE budget by 300 percent, so more masked men with assault rifles coming into our schools, our hospitals, our churches.
We are fighting even for our very right to protest.
Some who voted for Trump (and Musk?) must be regretting that vote.
Everyone who believes government should be by, for and of the people should protest. And again and again as we need to.
We the people.
Mark Stevenson
Port Townsend