Trump’s broken promises have consequences.
The dominoes are falling over…

With Trump in the Oval Office and his policies in place:
- Food insecurity is a rising problem under Trump’s leadership.
- Food banks across the nation are seeing rising demand and costs. New data and analyses confirm grocery prices for American households have begun rising due to the ongoing war with Iran.
- Further increases are projected throughout 2026, thanks to higher fuel, fertilizer, and shipping costs. Food banks and food pantries are seeing 20% to 30% increases in traffic in the Phoenix (AZ), Midwest, North Carolina, and Southwest.
- The Oregon Food Bank reports a 51% increase in the past two years.
- Measles are a rising threat. The states most affected by measles outbreaks in 2026 are all led by Republicans: South Carolina, Utah, Texas, Florida. The United States has seen 1,842 cases and 25 new outbreaks since the start of 2026.
- Gas prices continue to create new records. My friends paid $6.79 per gallon for gas in California this last weekend.
- Donnie “No new wars” Trump’s war with Iran has been going for two months and eleven days. Some estimates put the war’s financial cost for the US at $50,000,000,000 to date.
- If you’re waiting on your Trump phone, there’s an update from Android Authority: ‘The update states that a preorder deposit “provides only a conditional opportunity if Trump Mobile later elects, in its sole discretion, to offer the Device for sale.” It also adds that a preorder deposit is “not a purchase.”’ The Trump phone was originally offered in June, 2025. It was supposed to be made in the USA.
- The Epstein files still aren’t released.

We also have these gems:
- The ballroom, which wasn’t going to cost US citizens anything, will cost $1,000,000,000 or more.
- The $1.8 million dollars to ‘paint’ the Lincoln Memory Reflecting Pool cost $11,300,000.
- More of Trump’s tariffs have been declared illegal. The problem with the tariffs and rulings is that companies pay the tariffs by passing them on to the consumer. Yet, there’s little sign that as tariffs are refunded to tariffs that consumers will receive refunds.
Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! is falling short of its goals of distracting voters from Trump’s failures and our losses.

Trump’s pattern is clear now.

Unfortunately, not all voters have caught on to Trump and his scams.

The midterms are coming soon.
Trump is panicking. Disapproval is rising. Failures are stacking up.
Get ready for some audacious Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL!
I now rely on food banks due to “all of the above.” It is an issue close to me.
What a LOT of people don’t know is that one of the FIRST things Trump did in this admin was have the USDA cancel approximately 94 million pounds of scheduled food aid to food banks. This included the abrupt cancellation of deliveries already in progress, with reports of semi-trucks being halted or turned around en route to distribution centers. !!!
The Greater Cleveland Food Bank reported that 20 semi-trucks worth of food were pulled back or canceled just as they were expected to arrive.
The administration froze and then terminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) and Local Food for Schools (LFS) programs, which together represented nearly $1 billion in aid.
These delivery cancellations coincided with the passage of H.R. 1 in July 2025, which introduced deep cuts and stricter work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Following these changes, SNAP participation dropped by over 3 million people nationwide by early 2026.
This wasn’t just a one-shot in 2025. It is STILL affecting food banks. I saw it with my own eyes, how local banks scrambled. Shelves were bare.
With the inflation and all the stuff you mentioned, it is just getting worse.
We don’t have a war on poverty; we have a war on the poor. And the stupid effs in Red States, who are among the poorest, keep cutting off their own noses to spite their faces.
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I feel for you, Laura. I followed all of those developments. Pissed me off. Trump said, wasn’t the Federal government’s job, was the state’s job. Such BS. Why pay all those taxes to them, then?
And yes, the stupid red states go along with it. And then Trump attacks the blue states, which are better off. So the blue states can’t help as much. Insane.
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