Trump damages our economic and national security, breaking campaign promises 

President Trump is a con man who governs incompetently based on emotion, prejudice, self-interest, impulse, ignorance and lies. He has intentionally broken many of his campaign promises and gravely damaged America’s economic and national security.

Trump faces few restraints. He has filled top posts in his administration with unqualified sycophants who say “yes, sir” to whatever he proposes, no matter how harmful to our country. Feckless Republican majorities in the House and Senate have abdicated their constitutional duty to act as a check and balance on his flagrant abuses of power.

The president is guilty of malfeasance for breaking his campaign promise to make America more affordable, launching a war of choice against Iran despite his promise to end old wars and not start new ones, and carrying out mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants — falsely claiming many of them are violent criminals. In fact, a study found that such immigrants are arrested for violent and drug crimes at less than half the rate of people born in the U.S.

Trump’s abysmal performance accounts for the fact that about 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing, according to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls.

On the economy, candidate Trump promised in 2024 to “end inflation” and quickly lower “the price of everything.” But inflation has continued at a rate of 2.4 percent from February 2025 to February this year, driven in part by gratuitous tariffs Trump imposed.

And yes, this is his economy now — please stop blaming former President Joe Biden for problems Trump has........

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