The Trump Machinery Is Not The Art of the Deal
It Is the Corrupt Danger of Making Deals
Impeachment is a process. We know this.
We have tried this before. Several times.
And still — the scions remained. Or perhaps more accurately, the dethroned never truly lost power. Titles shifted. Seats changed. Influence did not. So when we reach reflexively for impeachment as the answer, we must also admit its limits. It is procedure, not removal. It is motion, not resolution.
At my current level of frustration, the word treason carries the sharpest and most decisive indictment of the lunacy we have allowed ourselves to believe reflects government. Not because it is fashionable or incendiary, but because nothing softer seems proportionate to what is unfolding in plain sight.
And yet — that word is perilous.
To speak it openly evokes suspicion. Threat. Retaliation.
So we are instructed to remain civil. Diplomatic. Measured.
To couch everything in process language.
To rinse and repeat.
There are laws.
There is duty to law.
And we are told: trust that this will be enough.
But world reality intrudes.
What This Administration Has Exposed in Plain Sight
If I owe anything to this administration — and I say this without irony — it is this: I have uncovered a deeper writing ability. I have found my voice. I have become more passionate, more exacting, more intolerant of injustices wreaked upon the masses while power insulates itself from consequence.
I have extolled civic stewardship not as a slogan, but as a responsibility.
My patriotism toward the citizenship of the United States — Lady Liberty’s promise — has hardened into vigilance. Not nostalgia. Not blind allegiance. Vigilance.
And in parallel, my allegiance to my home country, Trinidad and Tobago, has sharpened into something fierce. I have become a watchdog, a territorial protector, a vocal defender of a land that does not exist to be used, positioned, or sacrificed quietly on a geopolitical chessboard.
This is not contradiction.
This is coherence.
Since January 2025: Assault Disguised as Governance
Since January 2025 — the day of inauguration — to now, the country and the world have been under assault. Not metaphorically. Not episodically. Relentlessly.
Bigotry has been amplified.
Racism has been normalized.
Public accountability has been demonized to the point of hostility.
The saturation is deliberate. It is so constant that shock itself has been dulled. We are expected to absorb it as atmosphere. As background noise. As the cost of governance. We are trained — slowly, methodically — to normalize what should alarm any functioning democracy.
We have been duped into regarding the presidency of the United States not as a constitutional office, but as a theatre — a spectacle of puppetry engineered through the Project 2025 agenda, contrived by architects of radical, polarizing institutions intent on undoing and repealing the stabilizing tenets of law and jurisdiction.
This is not incompetence.
This is not accidental drift.
It is design.
A concentrated group of billionaire forces now functions as the engine of power, propelling a White House posture that edges toward autocracy while daring legal boundaries to hold.
And when a Department of War — absent clear congressional authority — bombs and kills alleged drug cartels in Caribbean waters; when military men and women sworn to serve and protect are deployed in blockades and armada formations surrounding the Venezuelan hemisphere, the question is no longer rhetorical:
What, precisely, is not treasonous conduct?
Deals Replacing Law
The Trump machinery is not The Art of the Deal.
It is the danger of making deals.
Deals that treat institutions as obstacles.
Deals that reduce law to leverage.
Deals that frame governance as transaction rather than obligation.
A government that makes deals where law should govern teaches every institution beneath it to do the same.
The Domestic Cost We Pretend Not to See
While power is projected outward, the American people absorb the cost inward.
No standard ninety-percent family — no working household, no marginalized population — can afford basic healthcare or human necessities under the trajectory being normalized. This is not speculative. This is arithmetic.
When law becomes flexible for those at the top, it becomes unforgiving for everyone else.
How Do We Recover — Urgently
Without cataloging every grievance of the last eleven months — the lived nightmare of surviving America in real time — the question remains:
How, and with what urgency, do we recover?
Removal of those who betray American law.
Restoration of constitutional boundaries.
Reassertion that no administration is above jurisdiction, oversight, or consequence.
Not theatrically. Not symbolically. Substantively.
On Words, Tools, and the Discipline of Record
I make no compunction for purists who police tone more aggressively than conduct.
My writing has been filtered — not diluted — through accuracy, literacy, authenticity, and intuitive imagery. Research tools, including AI, have not replaced my judgment; they have disciplined it. They allow speed and verification — not invention.
What matters is not polish.
What matters is whether the record holds.
And this insistence on naming what is happening, documenting it, refusing normalization — is not extremism.
It is presence.
It is essence.
It is citizenship under strain, refusing silence.
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