Trump Panics as His Economy Crashes and the Covers Rip Off His War Crimes
On a brutal Thursday morning for the Trump regime, the myth of “the greatest economy ever” finally collided with reality:
more than 1.1 million job cuts so far in 2025 — the worst wave of announced layoffs since the Great Recession and the early COVID collapse.
While workers across America are losing their jobs, their health coverage, and their sense of security, Donald Trump is rage-posting about the “POISONING OF AMERICA” in all caps… and promoting his golf course in Scotland.
This is who’s in charge during a jobs crisis.
New private data — because the Trump administration stopped releasing a lot of official stats — shows over 71,000 job cuts in November alone, pushing total announced layoffs for the year to nearly 1.2 million. Analysts on Bloomberg compared the numbers to 2008 and 2022 and warned that this is what the front edge of a serious downturn looks like.
Even business media is nervous.
On Fox and Fox-adjacent outlets, though, the spin machine is in overdrive. Hosts say the quiet part out loud:
Job cuts? Cool! That means maybe interest rates get cut, and that might help Trump politically.
They literally frame 1.1 million people losing their livelihoods as “possibly good news for the president.”
Maria Bartiromo’s own guests admit layoffs are at their highest level since a recession year, that hiring plans are collapsing, and that AI is wiping out white-collar jobs while trade and skilled-labor positions sit empty. The takeaway should be: workers are getting squeezed from both ends. Instead, they pivot to: don’t worry, Trump wants to push trade schools. Problem solved.
On Main Street, nothing feels solved.
Health insurance costs are exploding. The Boston Globe front page tells the story of a family of five paying over $9,300 a year in premiums on a combined $160,000 income — now staring down hikes of another $4,000–$5,000. If that’s what the middle class is dealing with, imagine what it looks like for families making $65,000… or less.
Trump ran on “I’ll make everything affordable on day one.” Instead, families are watching housing, food, and healthcare all surge while wages sag and job security evaporates.
What’s the response from Republican leadership?
House Speaker Mike “MAGA Mike” Johnson says Americans just need to be patient. His message on affordability:
“People will start feeling relief next year… relax… we’re exactly on the trajectory where we’ve always planned to be.”
Translation: the pain you’re feeling now is “part of the plan.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s mass deportation push is gutting entire sectors of the economy. Beer giant Constellation Brands — which owns Corona and Modelo in the U.S. — has seen sales plunge and its stock crater nearly 40%, in part because Latino customers are terrified to go out in cities being hit with immigration raids. Companies like Wingstop, Colgate-Palmolive, and PepsiCo report declining sales in heavily Latino neighborhoods for the same reason.
You can’t terrorize your core customer base and then act shocked when they stop going to bars, restaurants, and stores.
And while ordinary people are tightening budgets and skipping nights out, Trump’s cabinet is fantasizing about rolling America back to the 1970s. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy went on TV to celebrate Trump’s rollback of fuel economy rules by saying this could finally “bring back the 1970s station wagon” — wood paneling and all.
This isn’t policy; it’s nostalgia cosplay. They’re using real families’ economic pain as an excuse to gut standards, reward oil, and pretend the answer is retro car aesthetics.
All of this is happening over the backdrop of something even darker: potential war crimes.
Members of Congress were finally allowed to see the unedited video of the September 2nd strike off the coast of Venezuela, where survivors from a destroyed fishing boat — unarmed, stranded, and unable to move — were killed by U.S. forces. Congressman Jim Himes called it “one of the most troubling things” he’s ever seen in public service, describing “two individuals in clear distress… who were killed by the United States.”
This should have triggered a nationwide reckoning.
Instead, MAGA defenders like Anna Paulina Luna responded by saying, essentially: good. She shrugged off the footage and told critics to visit inner cities and look at drug addiction, insisting she has “no sympathy” for people blown out of the water. War crimes are now being rebranded as “governing.”
That same casual cruelty shows up in Trump’s Oval Office rants, where he reportedly referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage people” while the room full of aides and allies sat in silence. No one pushed back. No one stood up. Just frozen smiles and nervous laughter.
From job cuts to war crimes, from racist tirades to collapsing health affordability, the pattern is the same:
- Real people suffer.
- Trump and MAGA spin it as strength, inevitability, or even “good news.”
- And anyone who questions it is told to “relax” and “wait for next year.”
The cruelty isn’t a glitch in this regime.
It’s the business model.
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