TRUMP'S ECONOMIC DELUSION

Trump’s Economic Delusion: How Ignorance Is Wrecking the Labor Market

Your ignoramus-in-chief.

Despite multiple bankruptcies, failed ventures, and a history of stiffing his workers and contractors, Donald Trump has always bragged about his business acumen. But as president, he has now graduated from damaging his own enterprises to wreaking havoc on the entire American labor market.

It’s no longer hyperbole. It’s not partisan noise. His ignorance is now policy, and that policy is destroying the American economy from the inside out.

Let’s start with the most glaring example: his war on the federal workforce.

Trump, backed by the fascist visionaries at the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025 manifesto, has gutted thousands of civil servant positions. These aren’t lazy bureaucrats — they’re professionals who run everything from the FAA to Social Security. By demonizing and then firing them, he’s not just kneecapping the government; he’s cutting the economic lifeline for entire communities, especially in the Washington, D.C., metro area and other federal employment hubs.

Each of those jobs supports families, local businesses, and regional economies. Take away the job, and you take away the mortgage, the groceries, the childcare, the small business revenue, the local taxes, and suddenly you’ve turned a functioning economy into a fearful, shrinking shell.

That’s the public sector. Now, let’s look at the private sector.

Trump’s obsession with tariffs and economic “tough talk” has spooked businesses. His trade wars have led to increased manufacturing costs, unpredictability in supply chains, and retaliation from foreign markets. Companies can’t plan, forecast, or expand.

And what do businesses do when they can’t plan? They freeze hiring. They initiate layoffs. They trim costs by cutting people, not profits. Meanwhile, Trump parades nationwide, calling it a “great economy.”

What planet is he on?

The anecdotal evidence that fills town halls, kitchen tables, and job centers paints a bleak picture:

• Workers afraid of pink slips.
• Families are juggling multiple jobs to stay afloat.
• Recent grads unable to find a foothold.
• Federal contractors are sitting idle while Trump purges the agencies that used to hire them.

And yet, the former president insists he’s building “the greatest economy the world has ever seen.” He’s not creating it; he’s burning it down.

His inability to connect policy with outcome isn’t just a personality flaw. It’s a catastrophic failure of leadership. He treats layoffs like statistics, tariffs like slogans, and the working class like a cheering section at his rallies. He doesn't understand the labor market because he has never participated. He inherited wealth, exploited bankruptcy laws, and built an empire on branding and bravado. Now he’s doing the same to the U.S. economy, only we don’t escape the wreckage.

And let’s be clear: this isn’t just about ignorance. It’s about deliberate destruction. Project 2025 outlines a plan to dismantle the federal government, privatize public services, and turn civil servants into partisan puppets. The resulting layoffs, hiring freezes, and agency collapses aren’t accidents but strategy. And that strategy drives a full-scale economic collapse, one layoff at a time.

Here’s the real story: the labor market is sick, and Trump is the disease.

• He’s undermined job security.
• He’s destabilized business investment.
• He’s hollowed out the federal government.
• He’s gaslighting the American public about the economy while standing on the pile of wreckage he created.

The damage isn’t theoretical. It’s already here. It will become more visible in the coming months, but the collapse has already begun. The illusion of prosperity cannot survive reality much longer.

So, the next time Trump brags about his “economic genius,” remember this: He’s never worked a day, and now he’s making sure you can’t either.

William James Spriggs