May 17, 2026 -

The Mathematics of Cruelty: How a Single Presidency Is Forecast to End Millions of Lives

Across foreign aid, Medicaid, the marketplace, environmental regulation, and a war launched without Congress, peer-reviewed researchers and federal analysts have now produced an extraordinary, convergent picture. The body count of the Trump administration’s second-term policy choices — projected and already counted — runs into the millions. And the constitutional question is no longer hypothetical.

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101 Million Dollars in the Rough

A new HuffPost analysis confirms that Donald Trump has billed taxpayers more than $101 million for his personal golf habit since January 2025 — on a trajectory toward $300 million by term’s end — even as 4.3 million Americans have lost access to federal food assistance under his watch. This is not a story about leisure. It is a story about who pays, and who plays.

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The Cult of the Golden King: How Congress Is Building a Monument to Trump While America Burns

Six bills in the 119th Congress propose to chisel Donald Trump’s face into Mount Rushmore, print his portrait on a new $250 bill, rename airports in his honor, make his birthday a federal holiday, create a “Trump Peace Prize,” and force taxpayers to fund NIH research into his critics’ supposed mental illness. While lawmakers perform loyalty rituals for a president obsessed with his own legacy, Americans are drowning in healthcare costs and an imploding economy.

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