The above headline is a recent quote I heard and it really applies to voters who fell for President Trump’s campaign promises.

• In August 2024, then-candidate former President Donald Trump delivered a press conference surrounded by packaged foods, meats, produce, condiments, milk and eggs.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” he said at the time.

It was a pledge he repeated on the campaign trail, often followed by the phrase, “drill, baby, drill.” 

However, as we reported last week, (front page 2/2) eggs are off the table from any presidential input.

In a news piece on MNS...

“No president is able to lower prices in a week, and some of the promises that were made about how quickly prices were going to come down were probably never achievable,” said Tyler Schipper, economist and associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota. “Some of the most stark things that people are still seeing at the grocery store are almost entirely due to price dynamics that were in place before.”...

Trump has argued that he can help bring down food prices by drilling for more oil domestically; however, the US already is producing more oil than any country in history.

“The incentives [to drill more] aren’t great for oil companies,” Schipper said. “They certainly want the rights to drill; but given the price of oil right now, there’s not a lot of incentive for them to open up a bunch more oil capacity and push prices down further.”

Tariffs on Canada and Mexico are little more that Trump smoke and mirrors.

Basically, Trump now admits that it may be very hard to achieve...A really dumb "if you wrap a lie in candy" for dumb voters to buy.

• Trump’s promised tariffs stating Mexico, Canada and China cause massive immigration and fentanyl.

He initiated the tariffs, but slid back a bit on Monday stating he would delay the Mexican and Canadian tariffs for a month. Most likely due to the stock market’s opening day after his tariff announcements. The market took a dive much further that Trump had anticipated..

First, Canada, by real statistics is the source of less that 1.5% of border apprehensions and there is very little our friends to the north could do to affect this.

For at least the last three full fiscal years, the amount of fentanyl captured coming from Canada has made up less than 1% of all fentanyl seized nationwide by the Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations.

In Mexico, the government is fighting its own battle with drug dealers and massive migration from other countries. Instead of the U.S. working hand -in-hand in addressing those concerns

Oh, by the way, where does the biggest demand for fentanyl come from? The U.S., of course, you silly. So how do Trump’s policies address that?... He had hog-tied the health system and funds directed at drug problems.  "We’ve have met the enemy and the enemy is US!"

 • Trump’s Israeli support goes far beyond the Biden support. 

President Trump said he wants to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and urged Jordan and Egypt to take in refugees either temporarily or for the long term - a move that has been rejected by Arab countries since the war began. Trump said at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip,” will “own it” long-term and will redevelop it — even floating he will turn  it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The idea of using massive U.S. troops was even floated, despite Trump’s years-long attacks on the concept of foreign nation-building.

On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to walk back Trump’s suggestion that Palestinians would be permanently resettled, saying they would only be relocated temporarily to allow for reconstruction.

If you see the pictures of Gaza today, Jewish bombs (U.S. supplied) have leveled the main cities and surrounding areas, including homes, hospitals, schools and any government buildings. Basically it is the Jewish form of Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass, the beginning of  form of wiping Palestinians off the face of the earth.

You would have thought Israel had learned a lesson from Nazi Germany, but it only solidified their own resolve at a Palestinian Holocaust. For decades Israel has hammered home Palestinian repression and hatred. You would have thought Jews had learned a lesson from Nazi Germany, but it only solidified their own resolve at a Palestinian Holocaust.

• Power and money are Trump’s goal and it has always been his and his Republican puppets’ goal. He has a "muzzle velocity" way of flooding quick actions to not only confuse the media and public, but change the stories in a way to make himself look good.

First you replace the judicial system with pure loyalists, for the most part. You concentrate on key states using the   outdated "Electoral  System".

Next you eliminate and governmental opposition by firing, force retiring, or punishing those who question you.

This past week the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to answer a 12 question form outlining any and all parts of investigating the January 6th insurrection; this after Trump paroled all, even the worst of the offenders.

Of course, the in-the-pocket Supreme Court has given ‘carte blanche’ to Trump’s previous, current and future  indiscretions and law breaking, a get- out-of-jail-free card.

Days before the Trump inauguration, he channeled funds into creating his and his wife’s "memecoin", that surged from less than $10 on Saturday morning to as high as $74.59 before giving up some of its gains on Monday. 

Days after, Trump signed an executive order on digital assets, seeking recommendations on regulations and possibly setting up a digital stockpile. Trump’s so-called token, branded $TRUMP, criticized by ethics experts, was last trading at $33.88, according to cryptocurrency price tracker CoinGecko.

Trump media empire, which to real insiders is somewhat of a joke, just awarded grants, large amounts of stock to directors, including two who are Trump administration nominees.

In a CNN report: "As part of a stock grant to members of its board, the Truth Social owner on Tuesday issued nearly 26,000 shares each to its six directors: Patel, McMahon, former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Eric Swider, Kyle Green and Donald Trump Jr, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed Thursday. Patel has been tapped for FBI director and McMahon for Department of Education secretary; both are awaiting formal confirmation.

Many critics of President Trump say that his complex web of financial stakes in various properties, cryptocurrencies and his social media company could allow him to profit off his presidency and improperly curry favor with business partners who also serve his government.

Trump has taken at least one step to avoid a conflict of interest: He announced in December that he transferred his dominant stake in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which the president’s eldest son is the sole beneficiary and Trump Jr. is the sole trustee, according to regulatory filings. He does not vote on company or board decisions. It’s common for company board members to be awarded shares, and there is no evidence whatsoever that these grants were anything other than typical stock awards to board members.

However, the financial relationships that potential high-profile Trump government leaders have with Trump Media – a company built on the president’s brand and a business in which the president is the effectively dominant shareholder – could add to conflict of interest concerns that have already surrounded the company and the second Trump administration.

• That inconvenient Constitution and laws! 

Trump’s initially enacted Presidential Executive Orders met a buzz saw of rejection. 

The Republican president indulged unsupported accusations after the deadly plane crash near Washington, blaming  the midair collision of a passenger jet with a military helicopter on diversity hiring 

Trump also escalated his moves against the institutions that he was elected to lead. His administration ousted prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases and laid the groundwork for purging FBI agents. Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire ally, began efforts to dramatically downsize the federal workforce.

Trump’s White House stumbled over itself with a confusing memo that was intended to freeze federal funding, causing disruptions and leading to lawsuits. A judge temporarily blocked the directive, and the memo was quickly rescinded. Then, Trump responded to the deadliest American aviation disaster in decades by baselessly blaming diversity initiatives, demonstrating his willingness to shoehorn tragedy into his personal political crusades.

There is no doubt he is attempting to chip away rights established in law and the Constitution. Luckily courts and a few big name Republicans have put a hold on some of his executive orders, something Trump has touted will be put back on track by other federal judges he has appointed.

It is all pretty scary and I will be the first to admit that I initially thought Trump could change government for the better. I soon left the Republican Party and his red hat followers as the truth became evident.

If you wrap lies in candy, people will buy it, but hopefully not for long run.