On the Brink of Trumperica, XII
the people of Trump
by the people of DOGE
for the people of the SuperRich ...
sun-bleached stars and stripes
atop the Capitol fencing
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an initiative by the second Trump administration in the United States. It was first suggested to Donald Trump by Elon Musk in 2024, and was officially established by an executive order on January 20, 2025
And
The New Yorker, July 2 2026: The Unprecedented Profiteering Revealed by Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure
Donald Trump released a 927-page personal-financial-disclosure report for 2025. It recorded more than $2.2 billion in earnings.
The President cashed in on his office to the tune of billions of dollars last year, largely through the sale of crypto tokens. His investors weren’t so fortunate...The fine print revealed that seventy-five per cent of proceeds from token sales went into the pockets of Trump and his family.
Politics of Distraction, XVII
In the land of the free, dreaming ...
To American midterm-election voters
The poor and middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the super-rich pay lawyers, and the ultra-rich pay politicians.
smell of muggy noon —
the Reflecting Pool's blue sky
turns algae green
Trump news on mute ...
in the soup kitchen mirror
a twentysomething's stare
The Atlantic, June 26 2026: Trump’s Peeling Green Gift to America
The Reflecting Pool fiasco says everything about how the Trump administration operates.
Donald Trump, trying to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for America’s 250th birthday and, instead, scoring a tax-payer-funded, $14 million-over-[close to $15 million-dollar] budget own goal in the form of a cracked and peeling, green-algae-riddled, potentially duck-killing militarized zone in the nation’s capital. One of the firms hired for the renovation is named Greenwater Services.
And
University of California, Riverside/UCR study, April 17, 2023: [Cumulative] Poverty is the 4th greatest cause of U.S. deaths: Only heart disease, cancer, and smoking were associated with a greater number of deaths.
Trump Empire, Inc., XCV
the White House roof
shadowed against sunset skies
From this day forward, it’s going to be only [Me] First. [Me] First.
-- Donald Trump, 2017 & 2025 Inaugural Addresses
And
The Guardian News Clip, June 30, 2026: How Trump is making the US's 250th anniversary about himself
... there's something more insidious too, which is Trump and his allies are seizing on this as an opportunity to rewrite American history, to make it a story of heroic white male Christian men on some providential journey pursuing their destiny. That's what American greatness is about....
Trump Empire, Inc., XCVI
Pursuit of Happiness
for MAGA cult and Christian Nationalist in Trumperica
gated cul-de-sac
lined with wavy green oaks
in golden sunlight
diverse shapes and heights
of white picket fences
whitewashed fence
taller by two feet this year …
neighbors equipped
with security cams, bulldogs
and stars-and-stripes rifles
FYI: Stars-and-Stripes rifles refer to limited-edition or custom American flag-themed firearms.
And "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. Like the other principles in the Declaration of Independence, this phrase is not legally binding, but has been widely referenced and seen as an inspiration for the basis of government.
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