Gutless Tech, GOP, CEOs and Congress Let Trump Run Wild!

By Donald A. Collins | 9 April 2025
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As this completely unfocused unplanned and out of control Trump administration stumbles forward with its tariff program, which will basically bring a recession shortly, big business seem to have little idea of what to do next.

As I have noted before, Trump’s criminal behavior with respect to our laws and our Constitution is well established, but his incompetence grows rampant daily.

And as the world’s conflicts continue not only in Gaza and Ukraine, but now there seems to be growing concern in Taiwan about whether China will endeavour to attack Trump seems so unqualified to respond. Further Trump seems unwilling to question Netanyahu’s continuing murderous assaults in Gaza.

In short, nothing that Trump has attempted to do seems to be working in the right direction.

Why are more than a few voices in the GOP either in Congress or in big tech raising questions? There does not seem to be any consensus among most of the GOP as to what to do next except to continue to let the situation exacerbate.

Perhaps the best insight offered into this confusing mess of messaging comes from David Lynch’s 4/25 Washington Post column entitled “Trump wants to build a new economy with tariffs but faces a big obstacle: Himself” when he writes

Profound uncertainty about whether the president’s policies will last the week much less beyond his administration is paralyzing business leaders. President Donald Trump faces a major obstacle in trying to transform the U.S. economy into a self-reliant colossus: himself.

Building the factories to realize the president’s promised high-tariff “Golden Age” and finding the workers to operate them will not be easy. But Trump’s use of unilateral presidential authority, rather than congressional legislation, to enact new import taxes, his contradictory policies, and his history of changing course may discourage business executives from even starting.

Since his April 2 high-tariff announcement, Trump and his senior advisers have given conflicting signals about whether he intends to use the tariff threat as leverage to win concessions from U.S. trading partners or levy permanent import taxes of up to 50 percent on some countries (and even higher in the case of China).

You can read the entire column here.

Perhaps a more succinct reflection on Trump’s failure to come to the present day about US prosperity vs that of an earlier time comes from Karen Tumulty’s April 7th Post column entitled “How Trump’s economic thinking got stuck in the 1980s” when she reports

It goes back to Chrysler Corp. CEO Lee Iacocca. For people under the age of about 60, the name that Donald Trump dropped last week as he announced his plan to upend the global economic order with massive tariffs probably didn’t mean a lot.

Someone Trump had seen on television, he boasted, “used to work with Lee Iacocca,” and that unnamed associate of the 1980s Chrysler Corp. CEO had lauded the president’s “courage to go and do what has to be done.”

That Trump would be so thrilled by what he supposed to be an indirect endorsement from the grave (Iacocca died in 2019) underscores the degree to which the president’s worldview remains fixed in an era when every hipster’s head was filled with the sound of their Sony Walkman.

It also speaks to the deep imprint that Iacocca left on Trump, implanting in him ideas that have not aged that well — and no doubt a lingering envy at the auto chief’s status as what the Wall Street Journal has called “America’s first mega-celebrity executive of the postwar era.”

Unfortunately, Trump gets from Iacocca part of Lee’s message which included “Speaking of things that are the same, consider the title of Chapter 28 of Iacocca’s autobiography: “Making America Great Again.”

But Iacocca’s prescriptions for doing so — balancing the budget, cutting the Pentagon budget and raising taxes — are not ones you are likely to hear Trump touting. It turns out there are some ideas from the 1980s that Trump is just as happy to leave behind.

Read her entire column here.

How these gutless sycophants can continue to obsess to this line of disaster boggles my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, and “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?”.

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