By Chuck Baldwin, chuckbaldwinlive.com
The entire Republican Party knows that the GOP is in for a shellacking in the mid-term elections this November. One must go back to the presidency of Herbert Hoover (and that was during the Depression years) to find a president who had a worse approval rating than Trump does today.
Trump has alienated almost everybody. MAGA is only a shell of what it was, as Trump broke promise after promise after promise since being elected in 2024. Trump has taken the world—including the United States—to the precipice of economic collapse, not to mention the verge of nuclear war.
His war of choice on Iran was the worst strategic defeat for the United States in our nation’s history—and that is not hyperbole. Trump has taken both our strategic oil reserves, our strategic missile reserves and missile interceptors to critically low levels—even to the point that military commanders are complaining that, should another war break out with a potent enemy, they do not have the munitions they need to meet the challenge. This includes the theaters in the Pacific and in Europe. Inflation is growing at a pace that is destroying many Americans’ ability to buy food or put gasoline in the car. Trump has created a global shortage of both diesel and aviation fuel. We have only begun to see what the prices of these fuels will rise to.
Beyond that, Trump’s stupid punitive tariffs and embargoes all over the world—including against China—have resulted in China’s refusal to sell the U.S. the rare earth minerals that are needed for a variety of hi-tech devices, including parts for computers, automobiles and U.S. military equipment such as jets, missiles, ships, etc. As a result, we are unable to even begin rebuilding the military hardware which is now in desperately short supply.
Plus, with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, it is a lot more than crude oil that is not being pumped into the world economy—including the U.S. economy. Here is a short list of critical goods stifled by the closure of the Strait: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), ammonia, helium, aluminum, sulfur (meaning most notably fertilizer) and other industrial chemicals. Mind you, this is but a very short list.
The bottom line is: Even if the conflict in Iran ended tomorrow (which it won’t) and the Strait of Hormuz was freely open (which it was before Trump joined Israel in launching an illegal, unjust, unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran in June of last year), it will take years—not months—to restock global supplies to the point that the flow of critical resources returns to even a smidgen of normalcy.
But it’s not just people in the United States who have had it up the ying-yang with Trump. Trump has turned America into the laughingstock of the world. The entire world holds America in derision. Nobody trusts America. Nobody respects America. Nobody believes a word coming out of Washington, D.C. Even America’s “partner” states are fed up with Washington.
Presidents G.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have allowed Israel to lead us around like a little puppy dog. Israel has been a parasite inside the body of the United States since 1948, and during the first quarter of this century, the parasite has taken over the host. If left intact, that’s what parasites do. And by “taking over” the host, the parasite kills the host. And that’s what these presidents and U.S. Congresses—especially Donald Trump and the current U.S. Congress—have done: They have allowed the parasite of Israel to eat away the very life and soul of our country.