President-elect Donald Trump cares deeply in regards to the forgotten women and men of the MAGA motion, the common of us who consider rich elites have made America decidedly NOT GREAT.
So I’m positive these forgotten women and men are thrilled to know Trump has stocked his upcoming administration with sufficient billionaires and multimillionaires to, as The Guardian put it lately, “kind a soccer staff.”
That’s proper. Axios reported final week that, together with Trump himself, the administration-to-be is already staffed with 14 billionaires. The listing contains Linda McMahon as Training secretary, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as authorities effectivity overseers, Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary and billionaire hedge-fund supervisor Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary.
I’m positive these down-to-earth billionaires care deeply in regards to the forgotten women and men who put Trump in workplace. Certainly they’re by no means “elite,” other than maybe proudly owning an island, or possibly sometimes searching poor folks for sport on mentioned island.
Trump is surrounding himself with non-elite billionaires who care
Forbes reported in 2021 that President Joe Biden’s Cupboard had a web value of about $188 million.
The Guardian places the web value of Trump’s gang so far at greater than $300 billion. In case you consider in math, it is a staggering sum, about 2,000 occasions the wealth of these within the Biden administration.
Elon Musk, holding his son, and Vivek Ramaswamy, in blue tie, go to Capitol Hill to fulfill with members of Congress on Dec. 5, 2024.
So, … common of us, the type who undoubtedly can relate to the day-to-day wants of People. The kind who recurrently go to grocery shops, which they check with as “commoner slop-distribution facilities.” The sort who would by no means need to harvest the blood of younger folks in a narcissistic quest for everlasting life.
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There’s no approach billionaire businessmen like Musk and Ramaswamy would do something that helps the wealthy on the expense of hardworking People. They wrote lately in The Wall Avenue Journal that they are going to be “taking purpose on the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures which are unauthorized by Congress.”
And sure, that would embrace issues just like the Division of Veterans Affairs medical companies, billions of {dollars} in funding for training and housing, and the Head Begin program.
However I’m 100% positive we are able to belief these billionaires as a result of they’re with Trump, and Trump is clearly anti-elite. Because the conservative Heritage Basis trumpeted after the election: “With Trump’s Win, ‘Abnormal’ People Declared Independence from the Elites.”
And Fox Enterprise host Stuart Varney mentioned after Trump gained: “The elites have been residing in a bubble. Trump simply burst it.”
Huzzah! Take that, elites! Now please stand again whereas regular-guy-billionaire Donald Trump installs a phalanx of different billionaires who will, in a very non-elite approach, decrease their very own taxes whereas taking away authorities companies that many forgotten women and men depend on for little issues like persevering with to dwell.
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Trump cannot assure tariffs will not result in increased costs. Cool!
Take into account this: Trump has repeatedly talked about how a lot he likes tariffs and the way, as quickly as he takes workplace, he’s going to tariff the daylights out of different international locations like China and Mexico.
Economists ‒ most likely elites ‒ say the price of tariffs will get handed alongside to American shoppers. They are saying that as a result of it’s precisely what’s going to occur. However Trump, the everyman, has lengthy denied that actuality, convincing the forgotten women and men of the center class he’s an financial wizard and this can all work out nice for them.
Fruit could possibly be impacted by Trump’s proposed tariffs, notably avocados, melons and citrus fruits.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Trump was requested if he can “assure American households will not pay extra” underneath his tariff plan.
Trump, the billionaire, mentioned: “I am unable to assure something. I am unable to assure tomorrow.”
Put your future within the fingers of Trump’s caring billionaires
You see? Trump cares about American households to not assure something.
So don’t fear, forgotten women and men. Be assured that Trump and Musk and Ramaswamy and McMahon and Lutnick and all the opposite completely reliable and altruistic non-elite billionaires know what’s good for you.
Since you’re about to get it, regardless.
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