Wealthy Americans Paying for Trump 2.0

Summary

Wealthy Americans are financially backing Donald Trump's political ambitions, despite his controversial presidency and legal troubles, in exchange for promises of low taxes and deregulation.

Abstract

The article discusses a fundraising event attended by wealthy donors, including billionaires, who are supporting Donald Trump's political endeavors, colloquially referred to as "Trump 2.0." Despite Trump's reputation as a grifter and his role in the January 6th insurrection, these donors are willing to overlook his flaws and the threat he poses to democracy in favor of their own economic interests. The article criticizes these donors for prioritizing tax cuts and economic policies that favor the wealthy over the health of American democracy. It also points out the failure of the Biden administration to effectively communicate its economic achievements, which include job creation and efforts to create a more equitable economy. The author expresses a desire to hold these wealthy donors accountable for supporting a figure who is seen as detrimental to the nation's democratic principles.

Opinions

The author views Trump as a con artist and a threat to democracy, yet wealthy donors continue to support him for personal gain.
The article suggests that the wealthy attendees of the fundraiser are fully aware of Trump's character flaws but choose to ignore them in favor of their financial interests.
The author criticizes the billionaire class for being detached from the societal issues that affect the majority of Americans, such as gun violence and social strife.
There is a clear disapproval of Trump's racist rhetoric and his courting of white supremacists, which the author believes is disregarded by his wealthy supporters in exchange for tax benefits.
The author compares the current situation with historical instances, such as industrialists supporting Hitler, to illustrate how greed can lead individuals to support figures who are harmful to society.
The article expresses frustration with the Biden administration's inability to effectively communicate its policy successes to the public.
The author calls for non-violent retribution against the wealthy donors who support Trump, suggesting that financial repercussions would be the most effective form of punishment.
Trump's self-comparison to historical figures like Nelson Mandela is seen as a display of narcissism and is met with disbelief and criticism.

To paraphrase the head of America’s largest bank, Jamie Dimon: ‘It all worked out fine.’

The nation’s wealthiest and most vile will have access to the “Donald Trump Remote Presidency.” One of the most talented grifters in the nation’s history and a snake oil salesman with few peers, Trump is running around pretty much offering to anything — and I mean anything — for the groups he feels can help him regain the White House most.

Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson.

A Trump campaign official told NBC News that the former president “spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war.” NBC News requested to have a reporter present at the fundraiser, but the campaign refused (Trump Panders to Billionaires).

Trump is a clown. One doesn’t have to be a billionaire to understand this. Still, pretty much the majority of participants at the fundraiser on Saturday fully understand that he is a clown and a buffoon. Nonetheless, the vile humans who gathered there don’t care that they are giving money to a man-child whose sole purpose is to continue the process of tearing down our democracy, which commenced on September 11, 2001, and continued in earnest by Vladimir Putin. The tragic events of September 11th, brought to us by the incompetence of another infamously horrible Republican administration, served up Donald Trump on a stinking platter.

Thanks to the extremist elements that took over the Republican Party after 9/11 and the messianic peddling of politics disguised as genius economic policies — Reaganomics — the fix, now an unsettling rot, has set deep into the fibers of the nation. More than any other president in the last 50 years, Joe Biden has worked tirelessly to recalibrate the scales. Biden’s populist views on the economy, which he and his team communicate so poorly to those benefitting, are not Trumpian promises and calls-to-inaction. Biden has delivered on making things more fair and more equal than they were just four years ago — again, though, they have failed miserably to communicate these facts.

Trump preaches to the bottom of the nation’s economic, social, and evolutionary ladder — anyone showing up at a Trump rally wearing those dumb-assed t-shirts and perching Trump dolls up on their shoulders is barely holding on, in my opinion — and promises to “save the economy” for all those present (303,000 jobs were created last month in Biden’s “failing economy”!).

Trump is unimpressed by these economic numbers. He needs money, and so he wants to make sure that those same billionaires who have constantly mocked him and never invited him to their brises and Christenings will offer him a lifeline. Billionaires don’t see social strife because they are above it and hidden away. When was the last time we heard about a billionaire’s kid getting gunned down in school? Trump’s racist rhetoric about immigrants from “nice countries” and how white supremacists are “good people” falls on deaf, wealthy ears when taxes are being cut to zero.

Trump’s deep-pocketed and highly credentialed donors, including Paulson, doubtless are fully aware of his record, but nevertheless see fit to donate massive sums of money to a man who attempted to destroy the peaceful transfer of power that stands at the heart of our democracy.

If they’ve been paying attention, the wealthy donors at Saturday night’s fundraiser for Trump — who included hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, oil tycoon Harold Hamm and casino mogul Steve Wynn — might also be aware that in December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump had been “engaged in an insurrection.” And even though the US Supreme Court ultimately determined that Trump could remain on the 2024 ballot in Colorado, it did not overrule the state’s high court on the issue of Trump having taken part in an “insurrection (The Real Price Tag).”

Historians often look back and wonder why so many industrialists, including quite a few Jewish ones, fell for Hitler’s nonsense. As we see today, however, both in fascist Russia and the fascist half of America, greed, like time, heals all wounds, softens sharp edges, and makes anything palatable — potentially even tasty and nourishing.

The greed-driven, vomitous wealthy people listed above, and all of the ones present at the Trump dinner in Palm Beach on Saturday, need to be targeted for as much abuse as we can muster. If I didn’t have to work to survive my departure from Russia — I lost a lot, unfortunately — I would take off the next six months and dedicate myself to badgering these people, to fighting for our democracy. There will be ways, however, for us to pay these traitors back, and I don’t mean violent ones. We will make them suffer in the way that hurts them the most: In the wallet. I will investigate who the evil-doers were at the dinner on Saturday, and then I will let you know.

The day of the fundraiser, Trump posted about his legal woes on Truth Social, complaining about a gag order the judge in his upcoming hush money trial imposed on him. “If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the ‘clink’ for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote.

Harrison responded to the post, saying in a statement, “Imagine being so self-centered that you compare yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela all within the span of little more than a week: that’s Donald Trump for you (Trump Panders to Billionaires).”

All I can offer to this is an emphatic, wow!

These sickly wealthy people are so self-obsessed that they have no problem with such posts. They need to pay for their hatred of the rest of us.