How has Trump failed MAGA (and the rest of us)? Let me count the ways.

1. Russia-Ukraine:  King Trump promised to end the American Empire's proxy war against Russia, which he correctly blamed on Biden. Putin, cognizant of the facts that Russia is overwhelming Ukraine on the battlefield and that Trump's hates Ukraine's Zelensky, has refused to stop. Trump has only strengthened his hand. Meanwhile, King Trump has proved to be untrustworthy, meaning that to agree to stop the fighting with the necessary agreement that Ukraine would remain neutral is worthless under this King. Russia requires that Ukraine never be allowed in the Empires Military Alliance (NATO) and will require relief from economic sanctions. The Empire's promises have always been worthless, broken with each change of administration, but Trump cannot be trusted to keep his promises even in the short term since he can't remember what he said yesterday. Thus, Trump has failed on this major promise to MAGA.

2. Jeffrey Epstein and Trump: One of King Trump's prominent campaign issues was that there was a pedophile ring involving important people, and he would end that by releasing the Epstein files. Any voter with any sense at all knew that Trump was one of the main pedophiles involved in the Epstein files, but with his usual bombast and effective lying, he actually convinced many that he would end this. Stupidly for him and his administration, the kept up the lie. Attorney General bimbo Pam Bondi proclaimed that she had the Epstein list on her desk, and that they just needed to go thru the documents to protect innocent perps (innocent perps?) who traveled with Epstein but did not have sex with little girls. Obviously, there was no way to remove the videos and other evidence of Trump's depravity, so the decision was made to tell the world that nothing existed. On this issue, the MAGA faithful are in open revolt. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that. (except Ben Shapiro but I digress)

At least temporarily, this betrayal of MAGA seems to have put a dent in his armor. Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison, while none of the men involved has been touched. Since she will want a retrial, it has now become necessary for her to hang herself in prison. The camera will stop operating, the guard will fall asleep, and she will hang herself despite the fact that there is no way to affix a noose to the ceiling. Oh, wait, that method has already been used, so what new method will be used to kill her?

3. Israel's genocide: Although he made vague promises to do something about the genocide in Gaza, he clearly has no viable plan. The MAGA crowd hoped that he would at least take control of the situation, rather than bend the knee to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . It appeared for a short window in time that Trump indeed did have the upper hand. King Trump may have thought that, after he appeased Netanyahu by the unprovoked bombing of Iran, he would then control the situation. Clearly, that did not happen, as the genocide continues and the flow of American money and weapons to Israel continues.

4. Epstein and Israel: The unfulfilled promise to end Israel's genocide is likely connected to the Epstein story. Certainly, Netanyahu has the goods on Trump, which explains why Netanyahu, not Trump, holds the winning hand. Trump has floated some absurd proposals to relocate 2 million people, the ones that Israel has not killed by bombs, bullets or starvation. So the slaughter continues, no end in sight. Clearly the King has is no viable plan.

5. Attack on Iran: The Empire spends $180,000,000 to bomb Iran with little effect. This was not on the MAGA bingo card.

6. Immigration: America has been growing uncomfortable with uncontrolled immigration for many years. This includes MAGA but extends beyond that crowd. Trump would have been met with applause and support for removing criminals from the country, but unfortunately there were few who fit that description. Most American's would have supported removal of anyone who came across the border during the Biden administration. But instead, the King Trump put racist NAZI Stephen Miller in charge of deporting everybody and anybody. He sent people to an El Salvador prison, a first in American history. He immediately began building a prison in the swamps of Florida, certain to be a hell hole. People are being sent to South Sudan. Miller's gestapo is sending masked men to kidnap people without due process or much recourse. And certainly, without remorse. Not even the most virulent MAGA supporter expected to see this.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a U.S. law that limits the use of federal military forces in domestic law enforcement, aiming to prevent military interference in civilian affairs since 1878. In violation of Posse Comitatus , he is trying to turn the American Military against it's own citizens, and creating chaos in the largest cities in America, in the fields of rural America and in the slaughter houses in Nebraska and Arkansas.

Those traditional liberals who turned to the King Trump to solve the immigration problem did not count on this, and most of the MAGA faithful were hoping for a more targeted, reasonable approach.

7. Tariffs: King Trump decided he could solve America's financial problems via tariffs, something which he barely understands. This of course tanked the stock market, causing him to reverse course, while acquiring the TACO label “Trump Always Chickens Out”. The tariff increases that he will successfully implement will certainly result in inflation, while any potential benefit in improving America's manufacturing capability is many years in the future. The rest of the world is resisting, and the administration has no allies. None, not even Canada and Mexico.

8. Musk and Doge: King Trump's attempt at taking a chainsaw to the Federal Government via his buddy Elon Musk and Doge resulted in many good people losing good government jobs, and was wildly unpopular. Doge projected savings were at best 17% of the goal. The Musk-Trump bromance soon collapsed, but the effects will be felt for years to come. His cuts to FEMA already resulted in the loss of dozens of young girls in Texas. The cuts to air traffic controllers has resulted in people dying horrific deaths in plane crashes. There are certainly more deaths and pain in our future.

9. Health care for Americans: If all this is not bad enough, King Trump is taking away Medicaid from an estimated 7.6 million people, as well as taking SNAP (food benefits) from needy Americans. The effect of this will be more gradual, but will be felt by the MAGA crowd in red states, who will soon be without rural hospitals. Nursing home patients will soon be coming home. Not addressed in the bills “work requirements” is the fact that 92% of medicaid recipients already work, but their employers do not offer health care. Robust companies like Walmart basically off load health insurance onto the government. Why not just force them to insure their workforce?

10 thru 20. Firing Federal Employees: The Veterans Administration was decimated but is already in the process of some hiring people back. Hopefully the same is true throughout the government. But the damage will not be fully reversed. Similar damage has been done to FEMA, Department of Education, Health and Human Services, the IRS, Social Security, National Parks and down the line. One could go thru the list of government agencies to add to the list of tragedies about to be inflicted on the tax paying public, thus 10 thru 20.

21. Debt and Deficit: And then there is the debt and deficit. While promising an efficient government (what was DOGE for, anyway) King Trump is adding 5 trillion dollars to the budget deficit. Independent voters who decided to ignore the instigator of the January 6th insurrection were not counting on a 5 trillion dollar deficit. The current national debt is $36,627,020,456,912. (7/10/25 at 6 PM).

Conclusion: Conclusion: It appears that America did not vote for a mad, Orange Fascist King but he has taken power. Even the MAGA crowd did not vote for THIS. But the fascists are in charge, and will not be easily dislodged from power. With or without Trump, the fascists are in control. 

There is not an alternative political party that will save us, just weak kneed Democrats who gave us war hawks Clinton and Biden. Democrats ignored their progressive base which included wildly popular Bernie Sanders who was twice prevented from taking on the Ruling Class. And they are still doing it; witness the Democratic response to the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. The Democratic Party has left us with a firmly entrenched Oligarchy lead by Mad Orange King Trump who should be locked up on Epstein Island.

American democracy is dead.