Joseph Schreiner: Author and Columnist

Trump Administration 2.0 – What Is Being Ignored

Strawberry Moon, 11 June 2025

My previous two posts were about what the Trump 2.0 administration was doing right and wrong. This post is about serious issues that his administration is ignoring. This includes lack of accountability for the lockdown tyranny, the war against drug consumers, and federal government spending.

No one has yet been held accountable for the lockdown and mandate tyranny of the years 2020 to 2023. I refuse to apply the label of “COVID crisis” or “pandemic” to those years. No virus caused that so-called crisis. The COVID-19 virus was nothing more than a seasonal flu. What really engulfed the country was madness (or villainy) that manifested itself primarily through lockdowns and mandates. Civil society did not need to be shut down. Plenty of special interests, however, benefited from this catastrophe: government, petty tyrants, big box and online stores, and the illness industry (racket), including pharmaceutical companies.

We will suffer from the consequences of the lockdowns and mandates for decades to come: businesses (especially small businesses) destroyed, unemployment, children suffering educationally and emotionally, social isolation and distrust, galloping inflation. The experimental gene-alteration procedures pushed as “vaccines” were neither safe nor effective as advertised. The government incentivized the illness establishment to label every malady as COVID, and to kill people via mandatory protocols. The country will suffer excess deaths for at least a generation because of mRNA injections.

The lockdowns, however, thrilled the government, its hangers-on, and petty tyrants everywhere. What better excuse could there be (other than kinetic war) to control people? Not only did the government and its sycophants isolate people from each other physically, but they censored and deplatformed all those who questioned the tyranny online. The lockdowns exposed the corruption of the legacy media and the illness establishment. And, saddest of all, it revealed how easy it was to cow the American people into submission, and how many petty tyrants dwell among us.

These lockdowns and mandates were no accident. No mistakes were made. All this was deliberate. Powerful interests created a fake crisis to enhance their power and profit. There can be no healing in this country, in the world itself, until those who were responsible for imposing this tyranny are brought to justice and punished for their actions. Nothing less than 21st century Nuremberg trials will suffice to correct this injustice. The Trump 2.0 administration must seek justice for all those harmed by the lockdowns and mandates.

The “war on drugs” is a war against the people of the United States. Possession, sales and consumption of psychoactive drugs is not a real crime (which would require a victim). The incarceration and punishment of those who consume psychoactive drugs is nothing more than persecution under the color of law.

The war on people who consume drugs is unconstitutional. It has no basis in morality. It is a cynical ploy by politicians who want to appear tough on crime. It was and is a means by which these power-hungry politicians (Anslinger, Nixon, Reagan …) attack their perceived opponents. This persecution turbo-charges an overweening police and surveillance state.

This state-sanctioned persecution clogs the court system. It turns prisons into hell holes through overcrowding. It corrupts law enforcement. It justifies the mistrust that citizens have toward their government. It ruins millions of lives. It is a drag on the economy. It is the justification of a surveillance state where the average citizen has no privacy. But most of all, it is a mockery of justice.

The momentum behind this persecution is great. Plenty of people make money off this racket. Drugs are the go-to issue when politicians and mainstream media need hysteria to justify their existence. The madness may not end until the country collapses economically. It took the depression of the 1930’s to nudge the nation from alcohol prohibition. The Trump 2.0 administration must end this madness.

The third issue that the Trump 2.0 administration is failing to address is excessive government expenditures. Out-of-control spending is the fountain that nourishes the evils of governmental overreach. This spending is enabled by a money printing machine called the Federal Reserve. This private banking cartel creates inherently worthless fiat money, fosters an irresponsible buy-now, pay-later attitude toward expenditures, and siphons real wealth away from productive workers and private enterprises through interest payments, putting that wealth into the pockets of fat-cat bankers.

Anyone who gives the matter about 60 seconds of serious consideration realizes that the federal and state governments have accumulated debts that cannot be repaid in any meaningful way. The final outcome will either be a default on those debt payments, a worthless US dollar, or both.

There is another aspect to profligate government spending. The government has morphed into a wealth redistribution machine, rather than a system of law enforcement and national self-defense. US politics has devolved into an arena of gladiators where the combatants use the coercive power of the government to extract (steal) wealth from each other, rather than actually produce wealth themselves.

It is easy to blame on the military machine (which surely is part of the problem) and high-profile boondoggles. The biggest culprits, however, are the coerced retirement system (Social Security) and medical entitlements (Medicare and Medicaid). The government debt problem cannot be addressed without making hard decisions about these programs.

No presidential administration has been courageous enough to tackle this problem. The Trump 2.0 administration is no exception. There is, after all, essentially no constituency for cutting government spending – at least as long as the Federal Reserve can create inherently worthless currency on demand. Federal government spending is a juggernaut that will crush the country. It is just a matter of time.