President Donald J. Trump is currently serving his second, non-consecutive, term as the President of the United States of America. Before entering politics, he built his public profile through the controversial handling of his father’s real estate empire and by utilizing the celebrity and fame he earned through countless public controversies and popular television appearances. President Trump, after being defeated by Former President Joseph Biden in 2020, returned to the Oval Office by campaigning on his “America First” agenda. The America First agenda purported to emphasize stricter immigration enforcement, the end of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the release of the Epstein Files, and the use of tariffs to reshape international trade. However, much of President Trump’s campaign actually relied on personal attacks aimed at his then opponent, former Vice-President Kamala Harris, and promoting various unfounded conspiracies regarding the LGBTQ Community, the Democratic Party, and the integrity of American Elections. The America First campaign was rife with controversy, including various racists remarks made by President Trump in regards to various kinds of immigrants living in the United States, comments made by President Trump that suggested a lack of respect towards American Veterans, and information suggesting the President himself was present in the Epstein Files. President Trump made history as the first convicted felon (34 Counts) to run for president, he would then make history by being the first convicted felon (34 Counts) to be elected president. President Trump faced an attempted assassination during his campaign, where Corey Comperatore and James Copenhaver tragically lost their lives in the crowd.
As the 47th President of the United States, President Trump has overseen a historically divisive era of American History. Only once before has the United States been so on edge; the decade preceding the American Civil War. President Trump has been criticized for his failure to address this divide and improve the societal and political health of the United States. In fact, President Trump has largely continued to vilify any person who might stand against his wishes, regardless of their political affiliation. Not only has President Trump taken to calling all Democrats “Dumocrats” as a collective, he has also attacked former Georgia House of Representatives member Majorie Taylor Green (Republican, District 14) when she publicly moved away from the President’s “Make America Great Again,” political movement, and he has attacked six Supreme Court Justices, three having been appointed by President Trump himself, due to his belief that they were following the law instead of his personal wishes. President Trump has gone on record regarding his love for antagonizing (or “trolling”) long-time American allies such as Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and much of Western Europe, which has alienated the United States from our international community, supposedly as part of the “America First” campaign promises. President Trump has neglected his role as a uniter to instead focus on consolidating power in the executive to achieve his policy goals while attacking any who might bruise his ego or stand in his way.
President Trump’s “America First” campaign relied on many promises regarding immigration, veterans affairs, tax policy, international affairs, and the economy. As of the 2026 mid -term elections, President Trump has been largely unsuccessful in keeping these promises despite the Republican Party holding a majority in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, and there being a conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court. Instead, President Trump’s administration has been focused on completing “Project 2025,” a handbook crafted by far-right think tank “the Heritage Foundation,” which plots various policy strategies meant to decrease the effectiveness of the United States Congress, consolidate power in the United States President, decrease participation in free and fair elections in the United States, and turn the United States into an “illiberal democracy” (meaning a democracy lacking the liberal freedom’s envisioned by our Founding Father’s, such as the Freedom of Religion and the Right to Bare Arms) akin to those of the Soviet Union, the modern Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China. President Trump has an ongoing, seemingly positive, relationship with the leaders of these typically anti-American nations, including Russian leader and war criminal Vladimir Putin.
However, it is possible that President Trump is not personally aware of his administration’s push towards an illiberal democracy. President Trump, age 80, has made history as the oldest person to be made President of the United States, and is on track to replace former President Joseph Biden as the oldest President in U.S. history. As such, President Trump’s second term has been surrounding by concerns over his health and well-being, the President appears physically ill and seems to be unable to stay awake during key strategic meetings. Many believe that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Vice-President J.D. Vance, and others in the President’s cabinet have been abusing the elderly President Trump for their own gain, hoping to follow his footsteps into the Oval Office and enjoy unprecedented power.
President Trump’s policies have been met with wide-spread dissatisfaction across the United States of America. His immigration policy has focused on a reckless expansion of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, turning the organization from a standard law enforcement wing of the Department of Homeland Security into a para-military organization with undertrained, overpaid, members who have taken the lives of the following U.S. Citizens without justification: Ruben Ray Martinez, Keith Porter Jr., Alex Pretti, and Renée Nicole Good. Further, the Department of Homeland Security under President Trump has treated immigrants of all variety inhumanely by imprisoning them for extended periods without basic necessities such as adequate food or water, separating families, deporting individuals to hostile countries from which they sought asylum in the United States, and even selling individuals to nations they have never step foot in under the guise of imprisonment. While President Trump assured his base that these efforts would only target dangerous non-citizens, those who committed violent offenses, they have primarily focused on non-citizens who have either over-stayed legal visas, accidentally allowed their statuses to lapse, or had their statuses revoked by President Trump, and have otherwise been tax paying contributors and good members of their communities.
President Trump’s focus on the economy has been likewise ill-received by the people of the United States of America. President Trump kicked off his second term in office by instituting various, extreme, tariffs against some of America’s most consistent and fair-trading international allies. President Trump promised these tariffs would increase American competition and allow American manufacturing to re-enter the international market at little cost to the American Consumer. Unfortunately for the every day American, this was not the case. The tariffs saw costs rise on nearly every item an American might want to buy as international producers continued doing business in the United States, charging the American Business the increased costs of the tariff, and American Businesses shifted those costs to consumers. These tariffs were ultimately found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, a decision that President Trump attacked in the press, because the power to make tariffs is held by Congress and not the President. The Court ordered the United States to refund the costs of these illegal tariffs to affected businesses, many of which had already sold their interest in the potential tariff refund to President Trump’s longtime personal friends and business partners based on President Trump’s statements that the Court would rule in his favor. All of this resulted in a large payday for the President’s friends and partners, while American Citizens never saw a penny returned to them for ultimately paying for the tariffs in the check out line.
President Trump, despite buying himself a Nobel Peace Prize and proclaiming himself to be the “no new wars” president, attacked the hostile nation of Iran in February of 2026 unprovoked which led the nation to blockade the “Strait of Hormuz,” one of the worlds most trafficked oil shipping routes. President Trump has continued military action against Iran in an attempt to reopen the Strait, with no success. This has caused extreme volatility in the Stock Market, specifically surrounding oil companies. President Trump’s statements have made the price of stocks rise and drop rapidly based on the Iran War, which the President has personally used to make upwards of $15 million dollars by playing the stock market, and his friends, family, and business partners have used to make much more. Many believe the President’s sole goal in starting the war with Iran was to profit from the natural consequences, as he has down, and to detract from growing calls for transparency regarding his involvement in the Epstein Files. Meanwhile, Americans are paying upwards of $4.00 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline due to the drop in oil shipping, and 23 U.S. Citizens and military members have been killed. The President’s only response to this has been to call these extreme costs “small potatoes,” while claiming he is creating the best economy in American history and pocketing millions of dollars.
