Donald Trump failed to improve the lives of middle class Americans. His leadership consists of fraud and corruption

Opinion letter published in Lancaster OnLine:

Donald J. Trump is a master grifter. We all know it. Some of us protest against it. Some of us vote against it. Some of us purposely ignore it and vote for him — 😡😡😡again and again and again.

Here is a reminder of a few of Trump’s grifts and failures:

• Self-promoting advertisements paid for by taxpayers.
• Massive cryptocurrency windfalls.
• “Big, beautiful” tariffs.
•  An unnecessary and illegal war with Iran.
• Undermining the Affordable Care Act and cutting Medicaid.
• Eliminating the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order.
• Cutting taxes for wealthy Americans.
• Making it harder for veterans to find jobs and/or access to healthcare.
• Cutting some aid to rural America and small farms.
• Slashing some job training programs.
• Cutting some funding to housing, small businesses and energy programs.
• Reducing or eliminating pollution standards.
• Cutting clean water projects.
• Weakening anti-bribery and anti-corruption safeguards.
• Propping up the coal industry.
• Attacking voting rights.
• Expanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (evil ICE) and widening its scope.
• Weakening some safeguards surrounding background checks and gun purchases.
•  Withholding some Title X funding.
•  Cutting public education funding and services.

I haven’t even touched on what Trump has done to the Department of Justice, to national security and to other areas. And his administration has increased the federal debt by more than 💲4 trillion since January 2025.

Trump wants us to pretend he is on the ballot. We don’t have to pretend. Figuratively, he is.

So, to independents, Republicans and Democrats, I say: Run, walk or crawl to the polls. Vote for democracy this November. Vote for Democrats❕ We cannot survive two more years❕

From: Anne Pyle in Warwick Township, Pennsylvaia