The great speech

Dear Editor,

Tuesday 3/4/25 Donald Trump spent 100 minutes talking about what a great job he is doing. He said he has done more in a few weeks than most Presidents did in 4 or 8 years, and he was not lying about that.

He has undermined the confidence of the american public by having brought on a group of people into the cabinet who in many cases have little understanding of how the departments they are to be in charge with operate, which gives him his excuse when they don't accomplish his unknown objectives, they will be blamed not him.

He took the time to acknowledge that Elon Musk is in charge of DOGE and with that statement will activate 2 lawsuits which could not be addressed until that was stated by him. I'm sure he'll deny he said that. Since he has Musk's assistance during these weeks he has screwed up more government agency's that are working hard to get back to being able to accomplish the valuable services they provide to keep things working. (This would have better handled if Musk had used a scalpel instead of a chainsaw to reduce some employees). 

Donald has said that we need people in this government should be here based on merit based hiring. If that is what he truly believes, there would be a lot of people he wouldn't have around him now.

There was an endless number of lies and hate comments shared by him during the speech. I'm sure the 49.7% of the people that voted for him thought it was great, but I don't believe the 50.3% who didn't vote for him thought it was the same old crap.

Since he is big on TARIFF"S even though he doesn't understand them, the only way he knows if they are working is by watching what the stock market is doing and the first of February when he tried it, he called them off until March. Then when he kicked them in again and the market reacted again, he decided to pull back to April.

The Stock Market has returned to the level it was at the time of the election. Businesses don't like to deal with this type of inconsistency in there operations. It affects all areas of their budgets and plans. 

The most disappointing thing about all of this is that the US was enjoying the best economy ever and the markets had increased dramatically in Biden's 4 years. The Dow increase 39%, Nasdaq 46%, and the S&P over 55%. Now I guess as I think about it I don't think Trump didn't mention the stock market in his 100 minute ramble.

You can be sure of one thing about that GREAT SPEECH is he didn't spend that much time talking about Social Security and the false payments to people over 110 without indicating that he has a plan to attack Social Security as his next agenda. You have been warned!!

At least we're saving money on our grocery and gas bill, aren't we????

Tom McGuire

Mineral Point, WI