Letter to the editor: Does anyone still believe that Trump is working for the people?

Our president makes no decisions without ensuring that he benefits personally from them. No president has used the office to enrich himself and his family in such a blatant fashion.

Since reclaiming office, the president and his family’s meme coin enterprise has accumulated $6.9 billion in value. His substantial investments in World Liberty Financial Stablecoin is likely to result in a windfall for him and his family. The recently passed Genius Bill will encourage investment in crypto holdings by legitimizing its use. A provision of this bill bans Congress from profiting from stablecoins but excludes the president and his family.

Tariff negotiations have been settled in countries like Vietnam where a proposed 46 percent tariff was lowered to 20 percent only after Trump was granted permission to partner with the Kinh Bac Holding Corporation on a one point $5 billion golf course and resort.

The president’s baseless lawsuit with CBS over the way a 60 Minutes interview had been edited was settled out of court for $16 million. Shari Redstone, Paramount’s CBS’s parent company’s controlling shareholder, opted to settle due to potential complications in a pending merger with Skydance Media requiring approval from the Trump administration. Shortly afterwards, the FCC granted the merger’s approval.

The Big Beautiful Bill is being touted as a bill that will provide great tax relief for everyone. No tax on tips and overtime was added to foster support from working people. Both of those cuts will expire in three years when Trump is out of office. The tax breaks for billionaires will be permanent. The cuts to Medicaid won’t be enacted until after the midterm elections, and full implementation of the cuts won’t occur until 2032. We are being played by a greedy, selfish man whose focus is increasing wealth and power for himself, his family and a handful of oligarchs.

A Supreme Court that has authorized making a king out of this man can no longer be considered viable and needs an infusion of new blood. To ensure an authoritarian takeover by another corrupt president doesn’t happen in the future, appointments to the bench need to be reviewed on a regular basis. Lifetime appointments need to end.

Does anyone still believe that Trump is working for the people? It is time for people to pull their heads out of the sand and bring our morally bankrupt, felonious, sexual abusing president to justice and send his rubber-stamping Congress packing. If you agree, contact your elected Congress members with your concerns and please vote accordingly in the upcoming midterm elections.

Doug Findley

Randle