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DEFICIT DYSTOPIA: TRUMP’S TARIFF CARNIVAL MASKS THE COMING FINANCIAL COLLAPSE

Derek Wolfe Sep 15, 25

So here we are again. Another presidency, another round of lies, and another trillion-dollar wound torn open by the same corrupt bastards in Washington—this time, under the red flag of MAGA. The federal deficit is roaring back like a chainsaw through the ribcage of the American economy, while the media dutifully polishes the brass on the Titanic.

What did they promise you? Fiscal responsibility? A smaller government? A return to sound money? Bullshit.

What you're getting is the same bloated bureaucracy, the same central bank manipulation, and the same illusion of control dressed up with a red hat instead of a rainbow flag. You’re not watching a course correction—you’re witnessing a death spiral. And while they argue over pronouns and TikTok bans, your country is being hollowed out from the inside by the debt bomb no one wants to defuse.

Let’s break this down before they rewrite it in the history books.

A Nation Addicted to Spending

According to the Treasury’s own numbers (they don’t even bother hiding it anymore), August 2025 saw the U.S. government blow $689 billion while only bringing in $344 billion. That’s a monthly shortfall of $344 billion. If this were a household budget, the family would be bankrupt, foreclosed, and sleeping in the backseat of their leased SUV.

But the federal government doesn’t have to live in reality. It has the Federal Reserve—a money printer with no off switch—and a captured media to lull the masses back to sleep.

And it’s not like this is a wartime budget (unless you count the endless domestic war on you and your paycheck). This is peacetime pillaging, plain and simple. And the most laughable part? The administration is patting itself on the back for a $31 billion spike in tariff revenue—as if that means a damn thing against a $689 billion spending spree.

Tariffs: The Patriotic Cover for Economic Cannibalism

Let’s get something straight: tariffs are taxes. That’s it. It doesn’t matter if Trump calls it economic nationalism, or if the talking heads on cable TV frame it as “standing up to China.” The only thing tariffs do is make goods more expensive for the people stuck at the bottom of the pyramid—you.

You pay more at the store. Your local mechanic pays more for parts. Small businesses pay more to operate. And then when jobs start disappearing, the same crooks that raised your costs will blame “market forces” or “global trends.”

Reality check: manufacturing jobs have dropped by 7 million in the past 90 days. That’s not a trend—that’s a controlled demolition.

And if you think the money from these tariffs is going to fix the deficit? You’ve bought into the same fiscal fairytale that every administration peddles. Even with a record-setting month, tariff revenue was less than 5% of total spending. It’s theater—bread and circus economics.

Austerity for You, Bailouts for Them

Let’s do some math.

Since January 2025—when Trump took office again—the federal debt has surged by $1.2 trillion, pushing the total beyond $37.4 trillion. That’s more than the GDP of most continents. But the real horror is in the interest. In August alone, $111 billion was flushed down the drain just to pay interest on the debt. That’s more than the entire Defense Department budget that month.

This is where it gets apocalyptic. The feds now spend more servicing their own gluttony than they do defending the country. Soon, every tax dollar will go toward interest payments. Not roads. Not schools. Not even the military-industrial complex. Just interest.

And still, there’s no talk of spending cuts. No rollback of bureaucracy. No shrinking of the administrative state. Just more of the same fiscal fentanyl, injected directly into the arteries of an empire that doesn’t know it’s dying.

The Fed’s Faustian Bargain

So what does the administration want now? They want the Fed to slash interest rates again—to make debt cheaper so they can borrow even more. But there’s a cost to that kind of trickery: inflation.

Cutting rates means the Fed will have to print more money to buy Treasury debt. And more money in the system doesn’t mean you get richer—it means your dollars get weaker. Food, gas, rent—all of it creeps upward while your wages stagnate or collapse.

And here's the punchline: CPI inflation is already rising again. They can’t even pretend it's under control anymore. The August data shows increases across the board. This isn’t just cyclical—it’s structural.

They broke the economy with reckless spending, and now they want to fix it with more reckless spending. It’s a monetary suicide pact—and you're the collateral.

This Is Not Incompetence. It’s Intentional.

Some folks like to chalk all this up to stupidity or incompetence. I don’t.

I believe this is deliberate sabotage—the systematic looting of a collapsing empire. The elites know the debt can never be paid back. They know the dollar is toast. But before it all burns down, they’re going to extract every last drop of value from the system—from your savings, your labor, your freedom.

And then, when the dollar collapses and the panic sets in, they’ll swoop in with their solution: central bank digital currencies, UBI, programmable wallets. Your freedom will be traded for access. Your dissent will be silenced with one flip of a switch.

This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s their playbook.

How It Ends: Digital Serfdom or Sovereign Rebellion

If you think Trump, or Biden, or anyone in Washington is going to fix this mess—you haven’t been paying attention.

There is no rescue coming. There is only preparation.

You need to unplug from the fiat matrix. Exit the banking system. Harden your assets. Decentralize your life. This system was not built to serve you—it was built to control you. And now, it’s collapsing under its own weight.