Some of my biggest gripes with Trump include his terrible values and guiding principles. In addition, one can add to those traits, his automatic and impulsive fawning over himself, unbridled greed and great, narcissistic egoism.
Further and instead of serving the populace in his country that he suppose to foster, guide and represent — Trump would rather take away food, medical care, life saving drugs, affordable housing and other necessities from the infirm elderly and whole families that are qualified as the working poor so that he can give the wealthiest Americans (himself and family member included) and corporations unnecessary tax breaks as a favor. How grotesque and untoward!
What a generally non-compassionate jerk he is, along with being irresponsible! (And of course, he wants a birthday military parade with giant posters of his face included just like any other dictator and that would be paid for by the struggling taxpayers to the tune of lots of money:
Trump’s military parade cost: Up to $45 million for D.C. march.
Why, it is right out of a Hitler-styled playbook!
My other shock and deep grievance in terms of just how bad Trump truly is involves that he’s more than willing to give Netanyahu whatever he wants on the U.S. taxpayer’s dime to basically starve, shoot and bomb Palestinians to death, as well as remove the remaining ones to other lands like Libya and Syria so that Trump can personally make a literal and figurative financial killing (and remember that paying for this whole endeavor is, also, largely on the U.S. taxpayer dollars AND that it simultaneously increases the federal debt) by having be built and collecting for free for himself lots of wealth from his owning an upscale luxury resort to be erected on the stolen Palestine land!
So, yes, he’s an avaricious, self-absorbed, psychopathic warmonger since he always look after whatever is lucrative in terms of his own personal benefit even when in office as the U.S. President! So, I simply can’t approve of him even though he does carry out a few actually legal and constructive actions, such as work to cut the obscene amount of money that the U.S. people pays for prescribed drugs like insulin that costs far more in some countries than others.
In fact, Rand figured out some years ago that comparatively, the cost was as is revealed in this chart and while the disparity is not so bad now in 2025, it still shows a lack of fairness across the world and a rabid corporate greed that matches any amount of avarice that Trump can singularly dish out by andfor himself.
From
The Astronomical Price of Insulin Hurts American Families:
An updated version from 2024:
Comparing Insulin Prices in the United States to Other Countries:
So the American citizens and residents are making out this time around for drug prices since Trump’s behavior confirms that he is an authoritarian dictator, who likes to exert power, control and dominance to boss around Harvard University, legally present temporary migrants like students with legitimate Visas, China, Iran, European countries and much, much more, including, as the most recent evidence clearly points out, major pharmaceutical companies in terms of pricing!
In conclusion, I, absolutely, can’t condone him and ponder the reasons that others genuinely like and “go gaga” over him as much as they do. They, certainly, must be ignoring some of the basic facts concerning his views and actions or, instead, they are afraid of being in his crosshairs. That’s clearly obvious!
Sally Dugman writes and lives in MA, USA.
