We Must, and We Can, Expel Trump

I have been asked by more than one person to write about something other than Donald Trump, but I can’t. I face the dilemma that everyone faces who writes a current-events newsletter, large or small: No matter how much we write, there is always something left unsaid, much ground left uncovered.

It can’t be helped. All roads lead back to Trump because his demand to become our king – his word — grows stronger every day. Our democracy hangs in the balance and time is running out. A major part of his plan is to overload us, reader as well as writer, and wear us out. If we give in, we lose. Democracy loses. But if we stay aware and refuse to give in, we win. And so, today I write again about Trump and why we must, and how we can, get rid of him.

But first, I understand the need to read about something other than the daily horrors that Trump brings. If you would like to read something that spotlights people who are doing good things that matter, things that improve people’s lives in various ways, you might want to visit the “Blue Crab Collective” icon at the bottom of this page. You’ll find a long list of articles there, and more. (Disclaimer: I helped found the site.)

But getting back to Trump’s house of horrors, and why we must, and can, get rid of him.

Trump canceled USAID and thus caused the deaths of millions of people, including children, for no other reason than they did not live in the United States. More are dying every day. And because his “big beautiful bill” will deny health care to millions of Americans, he is about to cause the deaths of perhaps millions of Americans, too. He is even taking food out of the mouths of children (SNAP), all so he can save the government enough money to give himself and his billionaires a huge tax break.

I don’t understand how he can live with himself; willfully causing all those deaths could be considered genocide, and taking food out of the mouths of babies could be considered cruelty to children. He has immunity from committing crimes so that won’t happen. But we know he can live with himself because he does, and that should flash a bright red warning to all of us that he intends to keep on doing it. His cruelty is unlimited. Think of The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) , the maximum security prison/torture chamber in El Salvador where he sends people he doesn’t like, and “Alligator Alcatraz”, the prison-to-be that will serve his same purpose on a site in the Florida Everglades that is surrounded by alligators and pythons.

I don’t think many of us voted for that, and a continuing plummet in his support shows fewer and fewer of us approve of him now – the latest number I heard was a record-breaking 37%. So we’ve got to get him out of office. He’s already given us hundreds of reasons to impeach him, and he’s not far from giving us reason under the 25th Amendment – “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” — to get rid of him.

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Think about it. He’s lost control of his government. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unilaterally paused a shipment of weapons promised to Ukraine, some of which were already enroute, without notifying Trump or anyone else. Hegseth’s decision was reportedly influenced by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, a long-time critic of large-scale aid to Ukraine. Trump said he knew nothing about the delay. He should have.

That came on top of Hegseth’s blunder in accidentally texting Atlantic magazine’s editor a secret plan to attack militants in Yemen. Trump didn’t know about that, either.

And look at last week’s Cabinet meeting. Apparently, Trump was bizarre. He alternated between throwing temper tantrums and acting all sunshiny. He wandered into talking about picture framing and curtains, and he even sought comments on his idea to gold-leaf the room’s ceiling. He acted unhinged, deranged. It’s as if the Three Stooges have taken over our government.

Further, Trump’s lying has gotten out of hand, as he exhibited at that same Cabinet meeting. CNN fact-checked him and found that he lied at least 11 times. He lied about inflation, immigration, his tariff policy, that “big beautiful bill,” China’s use of wind energy, U.S. and European aid to Ukraine, America’s relationship with South Korea and other subjects.

He said we “have no inflation”, but we do. The annual inflation rate was 2.4 percent in May, an increase from 2.3 percent in April.

He claimed his bigbeautifulbill achieves his campaign promise of “no tax on Social Security,” but it doesn’t. It creates some temporary tax deductions, but even those come with caveats and carveouts.

He spoke of the letters he sent to various foreign leaders announcing the tariff rates he plans to impose on their countries beginning in August and said that “a letter means a deal.” It does not.

He repeatedly spoke of how other countries will have to pay his tariffs, but the truth is that American taxpayers will be saddled with most of them.

He repeated his regular claim that the U.S. was “proportionately” at its wealthiest between 1870 and 1913, when tariff revenue made up a much larger share of federal revenue, but economists say that the U.S. is far wealthier today than it ever has been.

He asserted that “smart countries” don’t use wind and solar energy, and he said China barely uses such equipment itself. China is the world leader in the generation of wind power, and it has massive wind farms onshore and offshore as it continues to install more.

He said California “has blackouts and brownouts every week,” but it doesn’t. It produces more clean energy than it needs or uses.

He repeated his his frequent claim that America has provided triple the wartime aid to Ukraine that Europe has, but, according to the German think tank Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which closely tracks international aid to Ukraine, European countries and the European Union have contributed far more than America has.

He repeated his claim that South Korea convinced former President Joe Biden to let it stop making payments to help cover the cost of the U.S. military presence in South Korea, but the truth is that South Korea agreed to pay more during Biden’s presidency than it did during Trump’s first term.

Trump again exaggerated the U.S. troop presence in South Korea, claiming that we have 45,000 soldiers there when official Defense Department data says we had 26,206 military personnel in South Korea as of last March 31, 2025, with 22,844 of them on active duty.

He claimed, as he has for two years, that unnamed foreign countries “released their insane asylum population into our country,” but even his own presidential campaign cannot produce any evidence for that.

And remember, CNN emphasized that it is not a comprehensive list. Trump seems to believe that whatever comes out of his mouth is true, while the rest of us will just have to accept the fact that if his lips are moving, he’s probably lying.

And he’s almost certainly mentally ill, criminally mentally ill. If you haven’t read it, I strongly recommend The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, in which 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess his mental health and conclude he is dangerous.

There is so much more that should disqualify him from office. He is ignorant. He rarely reads the daily briefings that are prepared for him – rarely reads anything for that matter – preferring instead to get his news from Fox News, as do many other ignorant people across America. And he exhibits his ignorance often, as when he advised us to drink Clorox to fight Covid, or just last week when he congratulated the president of Liberia for speaking English so well. Trump had to be told that English is Liberia’s official language.

He’s beyond-compare racist. Not only did he ignore Juneteenth, he also promotes protecting white people from the so-called Great Replacement Theory, the fear that nonwhite people are replacing white people, but holds that white people built this country and white people must always run it. It’s the same thing that past fascist regimes did and present authoritarian regimes are doing.

Bottom line: Trump must go. Sooner or later one of his MAGA loyalists in Congress who is up for election will see the handwriting on the wall and switch loyalties. Then a few others will follow — it will only take a very few — and he will be successfully impeached.

So keep the faith. Keep on making those phone calls, writing those letters, turning out for rallies, donating to resistance organizations if you can, but do something and do it today. Keep resisting, however you can, and when you see Trump fans peeling away from MAGA, welcome them to the fold. The Prodigal Son story applies here (Luke 15: 11-32).

We are winning, and if we continue to stand together and refuse to quit, we will expel another king and we will retain our freedom under democracy.

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