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Trump Wants You Talking About Nonexistent Crime, Not His Medicaid Cuts
by Peter Certo | August 20, 2025 - 4:56am

— from OtherWords

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Perhaps most importantly, Americans really, really don’t like the GOP’s budget-busting “Big Beautiful Bill,” which Trump signed this summer. It’s been called “the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.” Over 60 percent of Americans say they oppose it — and the more they learn, the higher that figure climbs.

The law made historically deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for billionaires and corporations, plus enormous subsidies for for-profit Pentagon and ICE contractors. As a result, 17 million Americans will lose their health coverage, killing 51,000 people every year. Millions more will go without food, including children.

Needless to say, Trump and his allies would like to keep these embarrassing facts quiet. So he’s tried a range of distractions. He flirted with filing treason charges against former President Barack Obama. He demanded the Cleveland Guardians go back to the “Indians” name. He fired off one unhinged post after another on social media.

It was only after these gambits and others failed that Trump deployed the troops in D.C., delivering a fact-free, all but explicitly racist screed about “crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor” in the nation’s capital.

These claims — dutifully echoed by Fox News and GOP members of Congress — sounded a lot like stuff we’ve heard before. And each time, it’s been an effort to deflect attention from the misdeeds of the powerful and onto a poor, maligned minority.

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For every National Guard member dispatched to the streets, thousands of families will go to bed without the food or health care they need to stay alive. That’s the real story of Trump’s America — don’t let him talk you out of it.