Daddy Trump’s “PIMP HAND” against the White American Working-class is Strong:
“MAGA” voters expressing regret for their 2024 vote might be the key to saving American democracy.
The 54-year-old right-wing pop star “Kid Rock” joined President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office on Monday, March 31st, in a bedazzled clown outfit that Fox News described as “patriotic.” Image credit: Al Drago and Bloomberg via Getty Images.
On Monday, the Trump administration revealed that 5.3 million Americans defaulting on their student loans will face immediate collection actions, including wage garnishment, starting May 5th.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who oversees an Education Department that US President Donald Trump is attempting to close through executive order, indicated in a press release, “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies.”
If moderate Democrats in Congress, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, opt against challenging this unconstitutional executive order–similar to their response to so many of Mr. Trump’s unlawful policies–the Treasury Department will eventually oversee the collection of student loan debts.
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US Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Image credit: CBS News.com.
Until the US Supreme Court resolves any possible constitutional challenges to Trump’s illegal executive order, the Education Department will initiate involuntary collections via the Treasury Department’s offset program.
The Treasury Department’s offset program withholds government payments—including tax refunds, federal salaries, and other benefits—from people with past-due debts to the government. Monday’s Education Department announcement signals the conclusion of a nationwide deferment program for all student loans, including those in default, that began in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During Joe Biden’s presidency, his Education Department attempted to implement widespread student loan forgiveness, but the federal courts ultimately rejected it. The abrupt change in federal student loan policy is the latest economic shock to poor, working-class, and middle-class Americans, beset financially on all sides by the new Trump administration.
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The “bling” of an anonymous “MAGA” supporter at a campaign event for Donald Trump in Macon, Georgia, in November 2024. Image credit: Getty Images.
While most liberals and progressives may believe that student loan borrowers likely support the Democratic party due to Mr. Biden’s unsuccessful debt policies, this perception does not reflect reality.
A significant portion of those who supported Donald Trump from 2016 to 2024 consists of White working-class and middle-class voters. For close to ten years now, they delighted in the belief that the President’s anti-immigration, anti-crime, and “anti-free trade” rhetoric would harm minorities and liberal social elites.
Nevertheless, Trump’s escalating global tariff war amplifies his reductions to federal departments and subsidy programs initially established in the 20th century to support White American family farmers, small businesses, and middle-class retirees. He has joined forces with racist, Nazi-sympathizing, wealthy CEO Elon Musk and other billionaires to financially devastate and betray the White workers who have loyally supported him since 2015.
The strategies employed by Donald Trump and Elon Musk to court White voters into their fold resemble the classic abusive Pimp-prostitute interpersonal relationship dynamic.
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The Grooming and Recruitment Stage: “I Just Want to LOVE YOU, Baby…”
A “Tea Party” Protest in Dallas, Texas, in April 2009. Image credit: Matthew T Rader.
Mr. Trump has used racist language and engaged in xenophobic demagoguery to achieve his political ambitions for over two decades now.
Donald Trump’s political venture unofficially began in 2013 when he stoked White racial hatred against former President Barack Obama by promoting the “birther” conspiracy theory. Trump’s strategy of publicly attacking Obama proved to be popular with the Tea Party movement.
Racism and xenophobia motivated much of the Tea Party’s hostility toward President Obama. Mr. Trump’s 2015-2016 presidential campaign policy centerpiece was a proposal to build a wall on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. In addition, his international diplomatic policy highlighted concerns about Islamic terrorism and global trade with China.
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Psychological Control: “Why can’t you act right?”
Actress Season Hubley (left) as “Princess” and Wings Hauser (right) as the prototypical violent cinematic pimp “Ramrod” in the 1982 B-movie cult classic “Vice Squad.” Image credit: AVCO Embassy Pictures.
Trump also courted the support of evangelical Christian nationalists and White supremacists during his first presidential campaign and first term in office.
White religious zealots and secular conspiracy theorists who have never accepted African Americans, Hispanics, and other ethnic minorities as full American citizens are a significant constituency of his voting base. Donald Trump made numerous promises to them over the past decade.
Much like a pimp who is targeting and recruiting a young female for exploitative purposes, Mr. Trump’s promises are usually based on amorphous notions of future financial prosperity rooted in his expertise at “business” or making “fast money” if you will only do what he is asking you to do.
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Physical Control and Abuse: >>>SMACK!<<< “Listen, why do you keep MAKING me hurt you?”
Actress Season Hubley (left) as “Princess” and Wings Hauser (right) as “Ramrod” in the 1982 B-movie cult classic “Vice Squad.” Image credit: AVCO Embassy Pictures.
Although there is much reporting that President Trump’s core voting base still supports him because he is hurting the people and eliminating the types of government programs they hate, some Trump voters have expressed regret.
Rather than delivering the prosperity and “law and order” that the President assured, Donald Trump’s dismantling of the federal government, widespread layoffs, reckless economic policies, and escalating tariff wars have inflicted severe financial hardship on the constituency that supported him.
Of course, if Trump voters are not satisfied with his appeals to be patient (“Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something”), they are accused of being “Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) and traitors.
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Wings Hauser (right) as “Ramrod” in the 1982 B-movie cult classic “Vice Squad.” Image credit: IMDb.com.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have long histories of manipulating the media and mastering marketing techniques to promote their many business scams and financial ventures.
For those of us who remember President Trump’s first four-year term in office, it may be hard to sympathize with Trump voters who believed his 2024 campaign promises and his half-hearted efforts to distance himself from Project 2025. However, the constitutional crisis that is enveloping the United States will require as many political allies as possible to prevent the fast-developing slide into fascism that President Trump is forcing upon the United States.
Remember that pimps and sex traffickers use calculated and sophisticated recruitment tactics to gain the trust of their victims.