Donald Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

Donald Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

July 17, 2025

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Caitlin Johnstone

It's so funny how Trump has stopped even pretending to be a populist. As soon as he was re-elected he was just "Yeah okay so Israel comes first and forget everything I said about free speech and the Ukraine war is continuing and there will be no Epstein investigation, fuck you."

After promising to "restore peace, stability, and harmony all throughout the world," Trump has bombed Iran, poured weapons into Israel and Ukraine, backed Israel's genocide in Gaza and its numerous acts of war against its neighbors, slaughtered hundreds of civilians with a savage bombing campaign in Yemen, and conducted dozens of airstrikes in renewed operations in Somalia, all while leading the nation into the era of official trillion-dollar Pentagon budgets.

In 2023 Trump proclaimed that "if you put me back in the White House… I will totally obliterate the deep state." In 2025 he's advancing pretty much every longstanding deep state agenda in the book.

Reading by Tim Foley

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