By January 2029, Trump will have caused half of the US national debt. Every other president in the republic's history, combined, caused the other half. His fiscal formula is unchanged: tax cuts for the wealthy and endless wars in the Middle East.
The Debt Milestone
By January 2029, Trump alone will have caused half the entire U.S. national debt, with every other president combined responsible for the other half. The tax cuts flow upward and the wars run without end.
The approval rating sits at roughly 30 to 35 percent, yet a third of Americans remain in the cult and will never admit it. The base does not defect; it doubles down. Fox News functions as state propaganda. Watching it does damage to the brain.
Republicans who spent eight years attacking Democratic presidents now call Trump's tenure a utopia. That switch requires no argument, only loyalty. His approval will stay between that floor and that ceiling, because a third of the country is defending an identity rather than evaluating a presidency.
The Fortune
Worth $1 to 2 billion before returning to the White House, Trump tripled his fortune in two years to $6.5 billion through the Saudis, the Qataris, crypto funds, and corruption. Stay two more years and the figure could double to $12 billion.
He lives in a golden tower on Manhattan with a golden toilet, and Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk showed up at his inauguration to demonstrate that America's richest men serve him.
James Carville, the Democratic strategist, puts the trajectory in blunt terms: Trump likes the worship of the office but not the work of governing, and the balance sheet proves it. The man with the golden toilet in his Manhattan tower has monetized the presidency at a pace no modern American politician has matched.
Removal was never the mechanism. The math was the message.
The 67-Vote Bar
The Constitution sets the bar at 67 Senate votes, two thirds of the chamber. In 250 years no president has been convicted and removed. Thrombs gave Republicans no reason to defect. The party base would punish any senator who voted to convict its leader, so the 67 votes do not exist and will not exist.
Carville's read is blunter: Thrombs may simply resign, declare victory, blame the deep state, and enjoy the billions. His fortune went from roughly $1 to $2 billion before the White House to $6.5 billion in two years, fed by the Saudis, the Qataris, and crypto funds. Two more years could double it to $12 billion.
Losing Both Chambers
Losing both chambers strips Thrombs of the power of the purse, the one kind a president cannot borrow. The budget is a Senate and House prerogative, so he must negotiate priorities with a Democratic majority, and Democrats will push Ukrainian aid appropriations he has spent two years throttling.
The Senate's confirmation power over cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and Supreme Court justices would force him to nominate candidates acceptable to a majority or trade concessions for every pick.
Both parties in both chambers plan to investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has refused to report to Congress on the Iran war and has fired officials chaotically; impeachment is possible but two thirds of the Senate is not, which would leave Thrombs to fire Hegseth himself.