Walking the streets of New York City, there are an ever increasing number of vacant spaces created by the demolition of buildings. There should be a law that when a building is torn down, it should be replaced by a public park. It has been suggested before that we create what’s called portable parks – so that instead of a garbage dump being created and lasting for five years, like the one on Park Avenue, it would instantly become a park. Roll out green grass, a few table and chairs, and maybe some portable trees. It would be fun never knowing when a new park was going to be created, but at least we wouldn’t have a series of city dumps.
What possible right does Donald Trump have to put his name on the Kennedy Center? Instead of being President of the United States and all of the citizens thereof, he is president only to satisfy his own Ego. He did not conceive of the Kennedy Center, nor does he understand that the Kennedy Center represents the best of American culture, while he represents only Trump and the destruction of American Culture. Nothing will ever satisfy his insatiable ego. Even after Judge Cooper ordered for the removal of Trump’s name, we still have no proof that it was taken down – only scaffolding. What a mess. Vote to Impeach.
There seems to be traction around the Lindsay Clancy case. This young woman who murdered her three children certainly calls attention to the growing mental health problems of young Americans today. It almost seems that there is a generational depression. It’s hard to know how much is due to Trump and how much is due to a general mental condition in the nation. It is obvious that when a young woman kills her three children, she is sick, sick, sick and is in desperate need of mental care. But she is not alone. This nation should be requiring the need for early mental care, health, and awareness for all children. Attention should be given at earlier stages in schools, assess where each child is at, and find the problems earlier on in their lives to help deal with their personal issues and mental health. This would help to develop coping mechanisms and ways to achieve a stable mental state before they become murderers, like Clancy.
The President of the United States was elected to serve the American people, and instead, Trump and his family have used the presidency totally for their own benefit – to line their own pockets.
“While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders.”
Merriam-Webster’s definition of a grift is “a small-scale swindle, scam, or con game used to get money or property through trickery and deceit without using physical force.”
As of January 2026… the Trump Family schemes “have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others.”
Beyond the official disclosures, independent trackers, investigative reports, and media estimates peg the total cash, proceeds, and paper wealth accumulated by the family since his return to office between $2.3 billion and $5.1 billion
Is it clear that Trump has accrued as much as $9.7 billion for his family? No other President has personally profited.
Sources:
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-businesses-profit-stock-trading-crypto-investments-9.7207238
“High corporate profits are reflected in record stock market values, but only the richest are benefiting from the soaring stock market. That’s because the richest 1 percent of Americans own about half of the value of all shares of stock; the richest 10 percent own over 90 percent.” All of this while the, “rate of unemployment grew 0.2 percentage points in July, from 24.7 percent to 24.9 percent of the working-age population of the United States — the fourth consecutive month of these negative increases, which are up 0.8 percentage points since the start of the year.”
We used to have anti-monopoly laws. These laws seem to have been forgotten or weakened over time. The consequence being the markets are now dominated by a few corporations in their respective sectors; “Walmart now controls almost a quarter of the nation’s grocery market and dominates retail sales…Amazon…dominates e-commerce in general and many specific lines of business…about 80 percent of all e-books and 71 percent of all print books sold online….Four major companies — Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS USA, and National Beef Packing Co. — now control about 85 percent of U.S. meat processing…” The list goes on. The point is that this is not healthy for the nation. It drives up profits for corporations and their shareholders, while also driving up prices for consumers, who keep running to get ahead only to get nowhere. This makes it clear, a portion of the profits need to go back to the workers, without whom there would be no corporation.
Notes:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-issue-in-the-midterm?r=tsm7z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The time has come for Americans, regardless of Party – Republican, Democrat, or anything in between – to join forces, go to the polls, and vote for the best possible candidates to represent Americans. Let’s see a Congress and Senate who do not kiss Trump’s ring nor that of the billionaires who support him.
If Republicans and Democrats join together, elect the best possible people, and settle their differences afterwards, then we may just have a shot at saving America from Trump’s ongoing destruction.
Instead of putting money into American education, which has always been rated amongst the lowest in the world anyway, Trump is depriving American educational institutions of essential support.
His policies reflect his own illiteracy.
Although his father paid heavily to get him through some good schools, he managed to learn nothing.
And like all dictators, he wants a dumbed down public.
Robert Reich says it best:
“Trump is a peevish, angry, perverse child.
The question I ask myself is how worse will his behavior have to get before Republicans and suck-ups around him take some action to stop him?”
In America today, there seems to be so much abuse of children by family members. Surely, this ultimately contributes to the amount and nature of the crimes being committed in the United States today.
Children need safe havens. They need trusted adults and safe places where they can talk openly about what they are experiencing without fear of punishment, embarrassment, retaliation, or getting themselves or someone they love into trouble.
What kind of a place is that? Is that every day or every week in school?
Maybe, one day a week, there should be time dedicated to dealing with individual problems – a rotation basis with one student discussing their issues with the guidance counselor or another trusted teacher, while the rest of the class continues on with the lesson.
Just some way to make sure each child gets the space to share their experiences and if they need help – allowing these issues at home to hopefully come to an end. Every child needs to grow up in a home where they feel safe, valued, protected, and loved.
Trump will never release the Epstein files. Epstein said he was Trump’s closest friend. There is a plethora of evidence of Trump’s enduring friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump is still finding ways to support his cohort. Notably, Ghislaine Maxwell- the one who procured the underage girls. Obviously, she’s receiving special treatment in prison as a bribe to keep her mouth shut.
As long as he is in office, Trump will do anything he can to hide his connections to Epstein’s crimes.