Anti-Trump Arguments
🧾 Truth-Test: Trump vs. Biden
“If you’re betting on Trump to tell the truth, odds are 3 to 1 you’ll be disappointed.”
PolitiFact showed 76% of Trump’s statements are misleading or false.
For Biden, 59% are rated accurate vs. 41% false/misleading.
— Source: What PolitiFact learned in 1,000 fact-checks of Donald Trump
🏌️ Trump’s Golf Habit
As of 2025-07-06, Trump has spent 40 out of his first 169 days (~23.7%)** playing golf. That’s $56 million in taxpayer costs.
— Source: DidTrumpGolfToday.com
📘 What Biden & Kamala Have Actually Delivered
✔️ Inflation Reduction Act
- Caps insulin at $35/month for Medicare seniors
- Enables Medicare negotiation of drug prices
- Supports clean energy and reduced deficit
✔️ Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (~$1.2 T)
- Roads, bridges, broadband, clean water, lead pipe replacement
✔️ Healthcare expansions
- Postpartum Medicaid coverage extended to 12 months
- More states joining Medicaid expansion
✔️ Gun safety reform
- First federal law in 30 years (Bipartisan Safer Communities Act)
- Strengthened background checks & red-flag laws
✔️ Diplomacy forward
- Rebuilt global alliances
- United 50+ countries behind Ukraine — no U.S. boots
🗳️ Kamala Harris
- Record for most VP tie-breaking Senate votes
- Crucial in passing closely divided legislation
🛢️ “Gas Prices Are Biden’s Fault”
- Global prices drive U.S. gas — not presidential tweets.
- 2022 spike tied to Russia-Ukraine war and oil sanctions.
- Biden released reserves; domestic production hit record highs.
⚔️ “Trump Didn’t Start Any Wars” — Not Exactly
- U.S. troops remained active in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Niger.
- Drone strikes under Trump killed civilians (e.g. Iran’s Soleimani).
- Trump tried — and failed — to withdraw from Afghanistan; Biden executed the final pullout.
🌐 “Open Border?” Nope
- Biden continued Trump’s Title 42 expulsions for years.
- Deported 2.3 million+ people — more than Trump’s first three years.
- Increased surveillance and personnel.
- Migration spike tied to global factors, not policy.
🗳️ “Why Didn’t Kamala Have a Primary?”
- Primary ran Jan 23 – Jun 8, 2024
- Biden dropped Jul 21, after primary ended
- Harris nominated via roll-call convention, unopposed, with 4.5K+ delegate votes
🗣️ “Kamala Lost in 2020, Why Is She Front‑Runner?”
- Dropped out Dec 2019, pre-primary
- Became VP — second in line — and no challenger emerged
- Similar to historical norms (Gore, LBJ)
Trump's OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill)
🇺🇸 One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) – Full Analysis
The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed by President Trump on Friday, July 4th, 2025, includes an unprecedented expansion of immigration enforcement aligned with Trump’s second-term policy agenda.
🧨 Spoiler: The top-line tax breaks sound nice. But when you dig deeper, this bill mostly benefits the ultra-wealthy and corporations — while making life harder for working Americans.
📊 Source of Chart: Washington Post + Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
💥 How Trump’s OBBB Impacts Working-Class Americans
Policy | Good or Bad for Working Class? | Why it Matters |
---|---|---|
Extend 2017 Trump tax cuts | ❌ BAD | Benefits mostly corporations and top 5%. ITEP visual |
Increase standard deduction | ✅ GOOD | Modest tax relief for families and individuals. |
Increase child tax credit | ✅ GOOD | Direct support for working families with kids. |
Defense spending | ❌ BAD | Pulls money from healthcare, education, and housing. |
Border wall & immigration restrictions | ❌ BAD | Ineffective, expensive, and humanitarian concerns. |
No tax on overtime | ✅ GOOD | Slight boost in take-home pay for hourly workers. Deducted up to $25K (Exp. 12/31/28) |
Senior tax bonus | ✅ GOOD | Helps low-income seniors; low cost, high impact. |
No tax on car loan interest | ✅ GOOD | Helps families with auto loans; mild relief. |
No tax on tips | ✅ GOOD | Big help for service workers (servers, barbers, etc.). Deducted up to $25K (Exp. 12/31/28) |
Newborn savings accounts | ✅ GOOD | Encourages future planning, but not a gamechanger. |
Private school tax credits | ❌ BAD | Undermines public schools; favors wealthy parents. |
Cuts to federal worker protections | ❌ BAD | Reduces union power & job stability for feds. |
New oil/gas production incentives | ❌ BAD | Hurts climate policy; short-term energy gain. |
Taxes on colleges and universities | ❌ BAD | Discourages access and affordability for students. |
Spectrum auction | ➖ NEUTRAL | Generates revenue without direct harm. |
Food assistance cuts | ❌ BAD | Direct attack on low-income families. |
Student loan policy rollback | ❌ BAD | Makes debt heavier for students and grads. |
Ends climate resilience funding | ❌ BAD | Slows down green jobs and infrastructure. |
Medicaid cuts | ❌ BAD | Devastating for seniors, low-income, disabled. Medicaid cuts take effect 1/1/27 |
🇺🇸 OBBB: Immigration Enforcement Breakdown
🗓️ Key Facts
Detail | Info |
---|---|
Timeframe | Now through September 2029 |
Total Funding | 💵 Over $133 billion How the GOP spending bill will fund immigration enforcement |
ICE Budget Before | ~$9B/year PAGE 8 |
ICE Over-Spending | $1B over budget pre-bill |
📊 What Gets Funded
Category | Allocation | Purpose |
---|---|---|
🧱 Border Wall | ~$46.5B | Cameras, lighting, surveillance, roads |
🛏️ Detention Capacity | ~$45B | Camps/beds up to ~116K detainees |
👮 ICE Personnel & Tech | ~$29.9B | Agents, equipment, transport |
🏢 CBP Facilities | ~$5B | Checkpoints, facility upgrades |
🚔 Border Patrol Agents | ~$4.1B | Hiring/training for patrol, marine agents |
💵 Bonuses/Retention | ~$2B | Incentives for agents/staff |
⚖️ Immigration Courts | ~$3.3B | Hires judges/support staff; capped at 800 judges by Nov 2028 |
📚 Sources
- Axios: “How the GOP spending bill will fund immigration enforcement”
- American Immigration Council press release “Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation”
- Axios:“ICE’s cash crisis deepens amid immigration crackdown”
- American Immigration Council: Reconciliation bill fact sheet
- Courthouse News: Coverage of psychological harms and bill specifics
- Bolts Magazine: Local enforcement funding analysis
- The Guardian: How Trump’s bill will supercharge mass deportations by funneling $170bn to Ice
Trump's Tariff Blunder
Trump is a known TACO which stands for 'Trump Always Chicken Out.' This is completely backed when, Trump says 2 weeks, whether it comes to his 'healthcare plan, infrastructure plan and potential TikTok divestment.