22 Apr Trump focuses on his megaplan, while the left sows chaos
By,
Leonardo Morales, Senior Fellow, MSI²
The Democratic Party continues to show no interest in any change in its political compass. It remains on the same path of failure as “progressivism” and “wokeism.”
President Donald J. Trump has embarked on the greatest socioeconomic, political, geopolitical, and commercial transformation in the history of the United States.
It all began with his crushing return to power on November 5th, after eight years of intense political harassment, two impeachment proceedings in his first term, disinformation campaigns, indictments, and assassination attempts. He lives, as he says, by the will of God. A gesture from his face at just the right moment gave him the opportunity to return to the White House.
Trump is now seeking what the questionable 2020 presidential election prevented him from achieving in a second term, which he hoped would be consecutive: to implement his platform or megaplan: Make America Great Again.
As in his first presidential term, the confrontation with the leftist mainstream media and the Democratic Party—almost hijacked by a far-left consolidated in key government positions at all levels—resurfaces in the second part of the most ambitious conservative chapter led by Trump. Now joining this struggle are far-left judges whose main objective is to interfere with and halt Trump’s administration.
Despite declining audience and readership, and their financial losses, left-wing media outlets—in coordination with Democratic leaders and donors—remain on the same path that has led to their credibility collapse over the past 10 years.
The Democratic Party has lost its political compass, showing no signs of correcting itself. On the contrary, it remains mired in a vicious war, based on a lack of common sense. Without common sense, there is little chance of gaining supporters and credibility, much less presenting a better project than their opponents, as is necessary for the health of a democracy.
During a speech at the Department of Justice, Trump accused CNN and MSNBC of being political arms of the Democratic Party, when 97% of the reports about the White House are negative and critical of his presidential administration. However, these and other networks have devoted less than 10 minutes of coverage to the importance and data revealed by the Department of Government Efficiency audits conducted by Elon Musk’s team. And when they do, it’s only to highlight the protests over layoffs, cutbacks, and closures of federal agencies.
He claimed that biased media, “with a political agenda to manipulate, lie, and misinform, influence judges.” This “changes the law. It simply can’t be legal. And they do it in complete coordination with each other,” he protested.
The White House argued that the judge who temporarily suspended the expulsion of migrants under an 18th-century law of war is usurping executive power. But he’s not alone. The White House is currently facing 125 lawsuits against Trump’s executive actions—in other words, they’ve attacked everything, even if it’s illegitimate and unconstitutional. Never in US history has such a situation occurred, not even during Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency and the extension of Obama’s.
Activism and Interference
Washington, D.C., federal judge James E. Boasberg, appointed by then-President Barack Hussein Obama, ordered a 14-day suspension of the expulsion of delinquent and criminal migrants under the 1798 Enemies of Aliens Act, which Trump activated against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and others who entered the country illegally.
“It’s very, very clear that this is an activist judge from the far-left trying to usurp the President’s authority,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference.
Boasberg asked the Trump administration for additional information to determine whether it respected the suspension of expulsions he ordered on March 15.
The ruling by the judge—who clearly leans toward the left—was based on the deportation to El Salvador of several flights carrying gang members, dangerous criminals, or people with criminal records.
Many of the Republican president’s decisions have been blocked or temporarily suspended by federal judges appointed by Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and Joe Biden in states run by that political faction, now under the influence of the far left.
Federal judges are appointed for life. To approve an impeachment proceeding, more than two-thirds of the votes of the 100 senators are required; that is, at least 67. Republicans have 54.
So, if a judge like this decides to harm, interfere, and use the justice system as a political weapon, or act out of dislike for a president or political party, he is practically “untouchable,” something that must definitely be corrected at some point by Congress in Washington.
In other words, a Democratic or far-left president can indeed break the immigration and national security rules set forth in the Constitution and allow the illegal entry of criminals, rapists, drug traffickers, and murderers. However, if the next conservative President—sitting at the desk in the same Oval Office—attempts to remove them using his executive power meant to care for and protect Americans, his action could be declared unconstitutional by an activist federal judge and political opponent who will be in office until he dies or chooses to retire, identical to a member of the nation’s Supreme Court…
A Hijacked Judicial System
This corroborates the need to repair an extremely contradictory, dysfunctional, and damaging federal judicial system.
Tom Homan, the Republican administration’s so-called border czar, also questioned Judge Boasberg’s decision, because it defies logic.
How is it possible that a federal judge opposes cleansing communities of foreign criminals and murderers, who have also entered our country illegally?… and he elaborated with another question:
“Who in their right mind, judge or not, wants gang members from (Tren de Aragua), a recognized terrorist organization sent here by Nicolás Maduro’s regime, and others like MS-13, to wreak havoc and the deaths of Americans through crimes and synthetic drugs (fentanyl), in addition to the rape and murder of young women in this country…?” the border czar stated.
“President Trump’s actions make this country safer (…) that’s why Americans voted. That’s our mandate, and the President is keeping his promise,” he stressed.
But the judges’ actions don’t end there, and they also put the dissolution of the Agency for International Development (USAID) on hold.
It’s clear that the attacks against Trump’s administration will come from judges and prosecutors who have for years demonstrated that the U.S. Department of Justice has been hijacked at the state and federal levels, largely by lawyers serving the far left, who hate the current leader of the White House.
As part of his plan to rid the country of criminals, driven by the Democrats’ Open Door policy, Trump launched a new app called “CBP Home,” a way for illegal immigrants or those whose parole has been revoked to voluntarily leave the country. This is in contrast to Biden’s “CBP One,” which allowed the entry of one million people illegally. Those who use the app may have the opportunity to “return legally” in the future, Trump wrote in a video on Truth Social.
“If you do not take advantage of this opportunity, then you will be tracked down, deported, and never again admitted to the United States,” the White House resident asserted.
New Executive Order
On Thursday, the 19th, the U.S. president signed an executive order to return control to parents, states, and communities to improve education systems.
The measure instructs Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take “all necessary actions to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the states.”
Harrison Fields, White House principal deputy press secretary, stated that the order “will empower parents, states, and communities to take control and improve student achievement.”
He added that the recent results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEPAD) “reveal a national crisis. Our children are falling behind.”
As part of the national emergency declared by the new White House occupant on his first day, Republicans introduced a bipartisan bill in both chambers of Congress to toughen penalties for traffickers who use fentanyl analogues, which they would use to circumvent US regulations.
The President has given this issue top priority due to a crisis of consumption and deaths (more than 100,000 each year from overdoses), the vast majority due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Tariffs, as a form of negotiating pressure, also serve as a requirement for US national security and are integrated into the White House’s grand economic project.
Gold and Oil as Central Elements
One of the major events of recent days has been the price of gold, which crossed and has steadily remained above $3,000 an ounce. On Wednesday the 19th, gold closed on the New York Stock Exchange at $3,040, on Thursday at $3,043, and on Friday at $3,028.
The price of the golden metal had never even come close to these parameters.
That same Wednesday, the value of a barrel of US oil closed at $67.30; on Friday, it was $68.29, well below the range of $80, $90, and $100 it remained in for more than three years during Biden’s term.
Gold and oil are interlinked links in President Trump’s transformative economic plan, which is also based on elements such as tariff negotiations, the dollar, and cryptocurrency reserves.
While gold rises, oil is destined to fall
It’s no coincidence that after 70 years, the Republican leader wants to ensure that the nation’s Federal Reserve holds 147 million ounces of solid gold in Fort Knox. It’s also no coincidence that the value of gold continues to rise, up more than 38%.
Behind this move lies Trump’s strategy.
Coin Prices Fores Forecast predicts that the price of gold will reach $3,270 an ounce by mid-2026 and $3,586 by the end of that year.
Skilling.com, meanwhile, predicts that by 2040, the value of the mineral will reach $7,000.
Demand for gold as a safe haven asset has increased over the past five years, but it has skyrocketed in the past eight months, before and after the crushing victory of Trump and the conservatives in the November 5, 2024, elections.
“The equation regarding gold remains simple. The higher the tariffs, the greater the uncertainty and the stronger the demand,” summarizes Stephen Innes, analyst at SPI AM.
And that is what Trump’s plan is seeking to do to the markets and investors, in addition to putting central banks up against the wall so they buy gold and significantly reduce dollar reserves.
This accumulation of dollar reserves has generated a lack of liquidity in the currency’s circulation, which has also contributed to rising inflation. To counteract the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, the US government had to disburse several aid packages totaling more than $8 trillion and, in turn, print more money.
The Master Plan
The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts a global oversupply by 2025, even if OPEC+ production increases are halted after April.
And Trump also plays a role in this scenario, having ordered the elimination of all regulations imposed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, on the fossil fuel industry with his failed “climate change” and “clean energy” policies.
The current leader of the Oval Office’s new strategy regarding an accelerated increase in US crude oil production capacity in the domestic and international markets will inevitably lead to a fall in the price of so-called “black gold”; and therefore, it should trigger a chain reaction that impacts the real and sustained decline in inflation and the reduction of interest rates.
Average oil production in the US is currently 13.58 million barrels per day (a record), the highest on the planet and a surprise to analysts.
Experts now believe that with Trump in the White House, the figure could reach around 15 million barrels per day by the end of 2025, and even surpass that threshold by 2026.
Trump not only aims to consolidate the country’s energy independence, but also to flood the world market with US oil, highly sought-after for its high quality, both crude and refined.
This puts the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC and OPEC+) on the ropes, which during the Biden administration raked in profits by taking advantage of the Democrats’ reckless handling of the oil industry boom.
Biden even promised to be the “president of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable” or “clean” energy. Of course, his promise fell apart in less than a year and a half, when it triggered the worst inflation in the last 50 years.
Biden was forced to reverse all his energy plans and abandon his war against US oil companies, another of his biggest failures.
A strong or weak dollar?
Markets and investors believe that Trump’s tariff plan is aimed at strengthening the dollar as the hegemonic currency. [Totally False.]
What Washington is currently seeking is [to weaken the dollar’s value], as the best tool to reduce inflation, the trade deficit, the gigantic US debt of 36 trillion, and to maintain it as the world’s primary reserve against de-dollarization movements and alliances.
The BRICS, the group of emerging countries with socialist, anti-American, and anti-Western capitalist policies, is the best example.
The main objective of this group, which includes China, Russia, India, Brazil, and South Africa, is to eliminate or at least minimize the use of the dollar as a universal liquidity and reserve asset. In short: it seeks the de-dollarization of much of the world.
And its plan, although far from materializing, is not unreasonable either. The member countries represent 33% of the planet’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), extract approximately 44% of the world’s crude oil, and generate 45% of its agricultural products.
Their intention is to create a parallel multilateral trade system that challenges US hegemony, led by China. For this reason, they created the New Development Bank in 2015, an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, both controlled by North America.
Hoarding
Although the dollar’s dominance has allowed the US to maintain a deficit without immediate consequences, it has also led to a decline in US industry, especially the automotive industry, due to two basic factors: the massive exodus of corporations and transnationals to Asia and Europe, and the accumulation of dollar reserves in central banks.
The worsening imbalance in US industry was driven by the Biden administration, an extension of the Obama administration, which was responsible for initiating the decline in manufacturing activity.
The Biden-Obama administration (or vice versa) led US industry to a contraction lasting almost three years, an unprecedented event in the nation’s history. The accumulation of dollar liquidity by central banks and global financial systems, coupled with the immediate effects of the so-called Chinese “Plandemia,” forced the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to print banknotes due to the lack of liquidity and the enormous spending on economic stimulus packages exceeding $8 trillion. The Central Bank purchased Treasury bonds to balance the financial system, the value of the dollar, and prevent hyperinflation. It also sought to ensure investor confidence.
It was then that, under Joe Biden’s administration, 40% of all US currency liquidity was printed to date, something President Trump now wants to avoid in the face of the deficit his predecessor gave him.
Between October and December 2023, the US fiscal deficit reached an astronomical record of $510 billion.
Trump, first and foremost, wants to balance the federal budget in pursuit of a surplus and reduce the nation’s debt as much as possible. The annual interest payments alone are almost a trillion dollars.
How is the megaplan being executed?
The far-left policies of the last four years and Barack Obama’s two terms have exacerbated the decline of American manufacturing, offering China and India the opportunity to creep ever closer to the American throne.
Also in remittances (escape money), the US is losing hundreds of billions of dollars each year. In 2024, $62.529 billion were sent to Mexico alone, 97% of the total remittances received by that country. Ninety-eight percent of this was done through electronic transfers.
The brakes came through Trump’s economic platform during his first term (2017-2021), when he strengthened the dollar and manufacturing simultaneously, because there was no inflation or wars. The Republican leader took care not to encourage any large-scale military conflicts.
Then, the Biden-Obama administration reversed that progress and sent manufacturing activity into a historic contraction of nearly three years.
How will Trump carry out his mega-economic project? Through so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” which would allow him to purchase a large portion of the US debt and balance the government’s fiscal deficit for the first time in 24 years, as he announced in his speech to Congress after taking office.
“From now on, whatever tariffs are charged to the US, Washington will respond with the same tariff,” he explained.
The application of these so-called [reciprocal tariffs] goes into effect on April 2.
Trump’s strategy includes a combination of tariffs, which, while not reducing the trade deficit on their own, directly pressure the world’s central banks to lower interest rates. This is another of the Republican’s key objectives.
The President’s negotiations on tariffs opened a new alternative, one that has always been latent.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarified that eliminating tariffs on US products would lead to the US responding in kind, but not to countries that decide to tax US exports.
“The so-called ‘reciprocal’ tariffs will not apply in April to countries that abandon tariffs on US products,” Bessent told Fox News.
Dependence on China and Ukraine
A cheap dollar improves the US trade deficit, attracts large investments, lowers interest rates, and with the export of materials and products to the US, inflation is destined to fall.
Trump also seeks to curb the so-called New World Order, anti-American globalist policies. His project lies not only in maintaining US leadership ideologically, geopolitically, militarily, and economically, but also in increasing that hegemony and distancing himself from China as a second competitor.
Furthermore, he aims to regain control of the main maritime routes, especially the Panama Canal, and establish a geopolitical position in the so-called “Silk Road” and Antarctica. This is where his statements about Greenland come from.
Trump has no doubt that China has increased its actions in recent years and has concrete plans to destroy the US, so the days of helping the Asian giant emerge from famine and its economic problems are over. South Africa, a country that has comfortably enjoyed the extensive benefits of trade with North America, is also in the spotlight of the new world trade order being imposed by Washington.
However, Trump is unwilling to tolerate the discordant stance of the African country, a member of the BRICS and participant in anti-US alliances, coupled with increasingly notable internal frictions.
Regarding another of the White House’s priorities (the war in Ukraine), Washington’s role is key in the negotiations achieved for a 30-day ceasefire on attacks on energy and civilian infrastructure, as the first step toward a definitive peace agreement.
Trump believes the process is moving on a more solid path after speaking by phone with his counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.
The US president demanded guarantees from Putin, to which the Kremlin responded affirmatively. Meanwhile, the Republican leader proposed to the Ukrainian leader that the US take possession of Ukraine’s power and nuclear plants, as the “best possible protection and support” for Kyiv’s energy infrastructure.
Another Biden administration scandal
On the national level, Trump announced the revocation of Secret Service protection granted to Joe Biden’s two adult children, after announcing that he would rescind the “pardons” granted by his Democratic predecessor at the end of his term, one of them to his son Hunter Biden.
Hours before leaving the White House on January 20, Biden allegedly signed protective orders for clear Trump targets, such as former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) chief Anthony Fauci; former Republican U.S. Representative and staunch Trump accuser Liz Cheney; retired General Mark Milley; and members of the illegitimate committee investigating the “assault” on the Capitol.
Weeks earlier, he had issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden (guilty of federal crimes), and his brother, James Biden, a key player in the Biden family’s corruption scheme and under investigation along with Hunter for crimes of using power to enrich himself, shady business dealings in Ukraine and China with direct dangers to national security, etc.
Biden also allegedly pardoned and commuted the sentences of 48 of the 53 people sentenced to death in the US and 1,500 convicted criminals.
Published reports reveal that many of Biden’s signatures were obtained using a simulator or electronic copier and not in the Democratic president’s own handwriting, rendering many documents illegitimate, illegal, and unconstitutional.
This emerges as the latest major scandal of the previous administration, silenced, of course, by the left-wing and far-left press. It follows Elon Musk’s revelations in an interview with Fox News in which he spoke of 14 computers in federal agencies (several in the Treasury Department) that sent automatic monthly payments for expired contracts or to “ghost” accounts or recipients.
The federal investigations are just beginning, and documents “signed” by Biden in the White House, without his presence and without his consent, have already been verified.
There are also three defendants in the cases of vandalism and extreme violence against Tesla cars, repair shops, and dealerships that US Attorney General Pam Bondi, Elon Musk, and Trump have described as acts of domestic terrorism.
Bondi stated that the Department of Justice “has charged several people involved,” after they were arrested almost immediately for carrying out these acts of vandalism. The message to these radical leftists and criminals is very clear: “They will be arrested, prosecuted, and will go to jail for many years, because they are terrorists.”
Those involved could serve prison sentences of between 5 and 25 years.
“We will continue investigations that impose severe prison sentences on those involved in these serious crimes, including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and finance these crimes,” he added.
Although the Democrats try to create an image of chaos, in collusion with the media, and encourage acts of vandalism and protests, the Trump administration is moving forward with all its plans inside and outside the United States, as part of the most ambitious transformation or recovery of the country.
Sources
The Wall Street Journal
US Department of Commerce
The Western Journal
AFP
Newsweek
Social Network X
New York Post