Local opinion: You say you want a revolution

King Donald the First is losing the Second American Revolution, with nary a musket fired. His Excellency consistently fails at a 90% rate in the courts on merit. In the court of public opinion, Trump is underwater by nearly double digits. The U.S. Supreme Court is now his impediment, as the U.S. Constitution stands firm and durable against the erratic antics of this juvenile bully.

Moreover, Trump is losing the tariff war with China, a substantial setback in his global tariff strategy. He bragged big time about his dominant economic approach, but then flip-flopped days later when China retaliated. The Negotiator-in-Chief has backed off on tariffs with the European Union, Mexico, and Canada; hard-talking Trump reversed course in every negotiation he entered. It is reported, “Trump always chickens out.”

Listen to Trump’s presidential speeches. They make no sense. “The Donald” talks gibberish, as world leaders laugh at him. King Donald the First is a global clown, a painful joke for Americans to endure. And Melania, his “Trophy Wife,” where’s Melania? The First Lady is nowhere to be found. Who could blame her?

People have had it with bazillionaires. You say you’re depressed, despondent, sick of watching the filthy rich, America’s oligarchs, Trump’s elite people live their extravagant lives, using us like poker chips, while dripping in diamonds buying more bajillion-dollar homes, gold-plated aircraft, destroyer-class yachts, and flaunting it all in the face of the American working class, the mainstay folk of our country?

The middle class pays higher tax rates than the billionaires under Trump’s “Big, Ugly, Fat Cat Tax Bill.” It no longer matters to Republicans that they are loading their grandchildren with trillions more in national debt. To hell with our young drowning in a lifetime of federal liability. The ultra-rich must be fed tax cuts.

Elon Musk learned a painful, expensive lesson. If you touch Trump, you get burned. Amid Tesla takedown protests, his company’s stock plummeted, as millions of people marched in the streets and rallied in town squares, mobilized on state Capitol steps, and in public spaces. The outcry will only intensify when people learn the details of the House budget bill. Trump’s legislation puts Medicaid on a ventilator. The SNAP food stamp program is nearly history. And incomprehensible cuts to VA benefits will start killing our vets. Medicare recipients, Republicans are coming for your benefits, too.

One hundred years of U.S. economic global leadership gone under Trumpism. But in King Trump’s Oval Office, it’s lights, camera, cue the bully — the art of a Trump political ambush, as MAGA’s “Holy Spirit” beats down another partisan adversary in front of the golden-coated “bowling trophies” arrayed across the Oval’s fireplace mantel.

It was pure, unadulterated bribery at the President’s recent cryptocurrency meet-and-greet gala, held at his private golf club in Virginia. Super-rich individuals paid millions to lobby the financially accessible recidivist President and to maintain his good graces. In this case, Trump is outside the immunity shield granted by his Supreme Court, as the banquet was not an act of a president, but a personal revenue-generating performance. Did the President accept illicit money for favors? The courts may decide. Since winning back the White House, the Trump family has seen their fortune grow by nearly $3 billion from their crypto enterprises alone — all part of the corrupt Trump family follies.

For the first felon in the Oval Office, reality seldom matches Trump’s high-volume rhetoric. Today, we have a fake successful businessman, a serial six-time bankrupt casino proprietor, hiding his lifelong commerce failures by playing make-believe and pretending to be a virtuously profitable character. When this epic American nightmare finally ends, etched in people’s memory will be Trump’s graft and the lasting fragility of his depleted life, reduced to the simplicity of a common playground bully.