International. National & Minnesota Report

Ignorantly, Donald J Trump (R) has characterized the economic impact of the military conflict with Iran as a “short-term” situation. He argues the pain Americans are feeling will be a temporary hardship and is necessary to achieve long-term security and “finish the job”. He has framed rising energy costs and military risks as a “very small price to pay” for neutralizing threats from the Iranian regime. With gas prices nationwide approaching $4.00/gal and the price of diesel being over $5.00/gal causing food prices, fertilizer and mortgages to surge, the full impact is still being measured.

This unnecessary adverse impact, exacerbates the previous pain experienced from the stupidity of the Trump Tariffs. This “masterful” economic mind or lack thereof, continues to expose himself to the world as delusional, irrational, ego-maniacal and simply him being a malignant narcissist.

One of these delusions, is to expect Americans to be willing to sacrifice these personal pains for his ambition. We hope there will be a reckoning and it will occur in the November Midterm Elections.

His calls for our personal sacrifice are reminiscent of what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in World War Two. We first heard the term Sacrificing, at the University of Minnesota in American Studies Class by Elaine Tyler May where she taught from her book, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, 1988.

The concept of rationing, and forgoing consumer goods and basic essentials in the short-term for the good of America in the long-term, was patriotic. This resulted in Salvage and Collection Campaigns, where families sacrificially surrendered household items, such as aluminum pots and pans, rubber tires, and scrap metal for recycling into tanks, planes, and weapons.

The mindset established through “postwar dream” advertising, developed during World War II by the Office of War Information (OWI) as a strategic marketing approach that emerged to create demand for new technologies and materials developed during the war. These ads, often appearing in publications like National Geographic, TIME, and women’s magazines, promised a future of abundance, convenience, and luxury after years of rationing, showcasing products that were not available to civilians until the war ended.

Seeing washing machines, refrigerators and cars designed in the pages of publications, but not available in the marketplace created the desire for these products and aspirations for a better future after the war. In the end it resulted in the historic era producing the biggest surge in the US economy to date.

The problem Trump has is today, people are not willing to sacrifice much. The mindset of sacrificing today for an elusive prize in the future is not part of our current culture, especially when the Orange-Faced Orangutan in the White House surrounds himself in opulence with an East Wing Ballroom, and golden icons at every turn.

This false dictator has sought so much and given nothing in return. His constant feathering of his own nest through different deals which only enrich himself, his family and his lackeys is not worth the sacrifice.

As paraphrased below when we read the work of Frank Herbert in Dune Messiah, 1965, which read:

“Here lies a toppled god—
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Our Towleism is, “We erect pedestals to our leaders, but make them very high and very narrow.”

May the downfall of Donald J Trump be long and everlasting, and his place in the history books be apt, as dead last, and only used as a great example of corruption, greed and the opposite example of how the office of the President of the United States should be held.