That El Gordo Naranja is playing Thelma to the country’s Louise shouldn’t come as any kind of surprise. He’s more or less taken a page out of Reagan’s playbook and is driving our social spending programs to bankruptcy as fast as he can while funneling whatever money he can to the department of defense budge and taxing the American middle and lower classes like hell — tariffs — just so we don’t have to borrow all seven trillion dollars it spenti n 2025. He would love to if he could, don’t get him wrong.

I was alarmed by all of the bad and really bad economic news in the past couple of weeks. I started collecting up various stories for a very special economic edition of ICYMI.

Growing Economic Inequality

We all know that social unrest and instability increases in proportion to the economic inequality of a nation. Famously, at the time of the French Revolution, the wealthiest 10% of its population held about 90% of the country’s wealth, and the top 1%, 60%. Currently, the top 1% of the US holds about 30% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50%, 2.5%. The aptly named K shaped recovery from Trump’s shambolic response to the #COVID19 pandemic means that the wealthiest Americans keep getting wealthier and the rest o us just give them all of our money either through tax breaks or by allowing corporations to consolidate their holdings in various industries.

The always helpful Visual Capitalist gives us a handy dandy visual aide to represent not only the economic inequality of the US, but those of the top eleven economies of the world. They tell us several interesting facts about the wealth gap in the US:

  • The top 1% have about $16.4 million per capita.
  • The bottom 50%, $9,000.00 per capita.
  • And the top 1% control about 39% of the country’s wealth.

I guess 39% ain’t quite 60%, but we might could consider cutting that shit off in the knees before it gets there, knowhatimean?

The Fecal Touch, Tariff Style

You knew once Le Touche de Merde started jactating his tariffs all over America’s face that there was only one way this was going to end. You knew once the Supremes realized his hackneyed management of the economy was going to affect Thomas’ “gifts” from his special friends and how much Kavenaugh was going towards his country club fees and new house and the price of Mrs. Alito’s flags that there was going to be a reckoning. If they were going to rubber stamp this Scheisskopf’s path to the cliff’s edge, he was going to have to make it worth their while. Beaks must be moistened.

In addition to the huge hole that the Big Bastardly Bill blew through the budget, debt, and deficit, we now have to somehow find the $175 billion to repay either businesses or the American people or somebody since the Supremes decided that that shit wasn’t legal. El gran problema is that Trump done pocketed that money it is long gone. The tariff shelf, my friends, is bare… Allegedly.

El Gran Narcisista has the be the BeBest at everything, and since every Republican president has used trickle down economics to flush the economy, Trump couldn’t just let the biggest billionaire useless tax cut be the only way he screwed the country that refused to elect him 2020. He had to make sure our economy is good and dead and will be an albatross-shaped millstone around our necks for generations to come.

Since our debt has ballooned to be as big as Trump’s flabby hairless white ass is, let’s see who is buying and who is selling our debt. Lucky for us, Visual Capitalist has a great infographic on the subject,, but they want us to pay them for using it, so you’ll have to follow the link to see it.

  • Japan holds more of our debt than anyone in the world.
  • Great Britain is buying more of our debt than anyone in the world, increasing their holdings by $122 billion or 16%
  • Canada increased its holdings by 27% or $100 billion or a personal best of $472 billion total.
  • Europe is busting its collective piggy bank to buy more US debt hoping that they can keep our economy afloat until El Laredo is forced to resign, is impeached, is 25th Amendmented, or Melanie comes to her senses and Florence Harding’s his poor dumbass out of our misery.
  • The autocrats, UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabian, have taken on a bit more, but others like China, Indonesia, and Columbia are off loading debt along with the wannabe autocrats, India and Brazil.
  • So our old friends that we’ve been mercilessly abusing and threatening are standing by us while our new friends shrug and mutter at best or abandon us completely.

Either way this ends like Reagan’s, Poppies, W’s, and Trump 1.0’s economies all ended, with us in deep deep recession waiting for a Democratic president and Congress to come riding in on their white horses and fix it. We’ll see if the mess if fixable this time round.

Job’s Wilt

The Feculent Touch fondles the job market and it can neither achieve nor sustain! According to Visual Capitalist — this is a very Visual Capitalist heavy post — US jobs grew at the breakneck speed of 0.42% in 2025. I don’t find their infographic very informative or graphic, so let’s just jump to the conclusions:

  • Missouri had the greatest job growth at 1.7%!
  • Nebraska and Maine tie for the least, -0.6%!

Between more tariff confusion and all the shuck and jiving around Epstein and the direct skimming off of whatever revenue is coming in — allegedly — 2026 ain’t gonna be no better. In fact, the best thing we can all do is gird ourselves for the Greater Depression that I reckon is gonna hit about the end of 2026. All the shit Trump is trying to flush down America’s shitter is just going to clog it all up. We are in for a helluva ride until Generation Next comes along and gets named.

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