By Daniel Nardini
As I have said before, I believe on going on facts of the ground. Here are facts that cannot be ignored. Inflation remains an issue. It is now 2.4 percent. The costs of food, housing, energy and building infrastructure remain high. Buying a house and building a new house is still high because the average American is having serious trouble affording it since the buying power of the U.S. dollar has gone down. Of course, one of the main reasons why prices is high is because of the tariffs. A tariff is a tax on Americans. At the same time, this tariff is a sort of disruption of the supply chain between the United States and the rest of the world. I do not need to tell Americans how much they are paying for everything because of all this. The tariffs were put into place, it was alleged, to make Americans buy U.S.-made products. Sadly, the tariffs have actually made U.S.-made products not only expensive in the United States but also in the rest of the world (when other countries are not boycotting American products) because some raw materials and parts within American products are now too expensive due the tariffs. This only feeds into inflation. How is this helping Americans as a whole?
How U.S. President Donald Trump handled the immigration has been a complete fiasco. Trump went into major American cities (does not matter if they were Democrat or Republican, although obviously they were primarily Democrat because of his psychopathic hatred of the Democratic Party) with a force of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that bore more of military occupations than one of immigration enforcement. The result? Hundreds of thousands of innocent people seized, imprisoned and deported without trial. Four dead people including two U.S. citizens. None of this had to happen. The irony is that Trump has still deported less people than former president Barack Obama or Joe Biden. All Trump did was cause chaos and mayhem not only in the lives of so many innocent people but also by disrupting the local economies of states like California, Oregon, Illinois and Minnesota. Disrupting the single largest economy in the United States and the fourth largest in the world (California) takes real talent. On top of this, America’s tourist industry has virtually collapsed. The number of visitors to the United States went from 22 million in 2025 to 20 million as of early 2026, resulting in a 6.4 percent decrease overall. This decrease shows no sign of correcting. While the rest of the world saw a 4 percent increase in tourism, the United States has become the outlier. I do not need to tell Americans in the hotel and tourist industry how this has hurt them.
And what about our farmers and soybean producers who have suffered real financial losses because of Trump’s goofy agricultural polices?
Then there are the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, rural healthcare, and energy assistance programs. Did the cuts by the Trump administration make any sense? Did they save money at all? No. Did the new policies of what people can do and can buy with their SNAP benefits really help? Again no. This reflects in what I saw in daily life. Just a few days ago, I saw a couple ahead of me and my wife at the check-out counter trying to buy food with their SNAP card. The credit machine would not take the card. The management had to explain to them that the grocery store was not authorized to take the card, but they suggested what stores might take the card. The couple were forced to leave all of their purchases behind because they could not buy the food. This was heart-breaking to put it mildly, And what about states that were denied money by the Trump administration for services like providing healthcare for families with children or the disabled or the elderly? Did those benefits have to be cut, curtailed or made harder to receive with more ridiculous requirements to qualify? But this is the reality for so many tens of millions of Americans, and how things are for Americans in everyday life at present. I know as I see how it affects people almost everyday, and how it affects me.
If current President Trump is looking to make a legacy for himself, then he has made one. That legacy is one of lies and chaos. I am not even going to touch on his foreign policy because I am having trouble making heads or tails of it. For ordinary Americans, this is where we are—an economy in decline and a United States that seems to be becoming more bankrupt as Americans struggle day-to-day. But what can one expect from a person who bankrupted four casinos, created a fraudulent university, and has been convicted of 34 felonies?
A Pattern of Lies and Chaos
By Daniel Nardini
How U.S. President Donald Trump handled the immigration has been a complete fiasco. Trump went into major American cities (does not matter if they were Democrat or Republican, although obviously they were primarily Democrat because of his psychopathic hatred of the Democratic Party) with a force of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that bore more of military occupations than one of immigration enforcement. The result? Hundreds of thousands of innocent people seized, imprisoned and deported without trial. Four dead people including two U.S. citizens. None of this had to happen. The irony is that Trump has still deported less people than former president Barack Obama or Joe Biden. All Trump did was cause chaos and mayhem not only in the lives of so many innocent people but also by disrupting the local economies of states like California, Oregon, Illinois and Minnesota. Disrupting the single largest economy in the United States and the fourth largest in the world (California) takes real talent. On top of this, America’s tourist industry has virtually collapsed. The number of visitors to the United States went from 22 million in 2025 to 20 million as of early 2026, resulting in a 6.4 percent decrease overall. This decrease shows no sign of correcting. While the rest of the world saw a 4 percent increase in tourism, the United States has become the outlier. I do not need to tell Americans in the hotel and tourist industry how this has hurt them.
And what about our farmers and soybean producers who have suffered real financial losses because of Trump’s goofy agricultural polices?
Then there are the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, rural healthcare, and energy assistance programs. Did the cuts by the Trump administration make any sense? Did they save money at all? No. Did the new policies of what people can do and can buy with their SNAP benefits really help? Again no. This reflects in what I saw in daily life. Just a few days ago, I saw a couple ahead of me and my wife at the check-out counter trying to buy food with their SNAP card. The credit machine would not take the card. The management had to explain to them that the grocery store was not authorized to take the card, but they suggested what stores might take the card. The couple were forced to leave all of their purchases behind because they could not buy the food. This was heart-breaking to put it mildly, And what about states that were denied money by the Trump administration for services like providing healthcare for families with children or the disabled or the elderly? Did those benefits have to be cut, curtailed or made harder to receive with more ridiculous requirements to qualify? But this is the reality for so many tens of millions of Americans, and how things are for Americans in everyday life at present. I know as I see how it affects people almost everyday, and how it affects me.
If current President Trump is looking to make a legacy for himself, then he has made one. That legacy is one of lies and chaos. I am not even going to touch on his foreign policy because I am having trouble making heads or tails of it. For ordinary Americans, this is where we are—an economy in decline and a United States that seems to be becoming more bankrupt as Americans struggle day-to-day. But what can one expect from a person who bankrupted four casinos, created a fraudulent university, and has been convicted of 34 felonies?