Despite all the beliefs the opposite, the billionaires seen in the orbit of President Donald Trump since winning the Presidency for the second time last November for the second time, they are not a mere Sikofant in his regime.
Former political cartoonist Washington Post Ann Telnes should know. Last month, Telnes left the job after her editor refused to publish what turned to her as the last cartoon for the newspaper. It was attracted by Telnes Amazon and Washington Post owner of Jeff Besos, owner of Los Angeles Times Patrick Soon Shiong, Openii billionaire Sam Altman, Meta Mark Zuckerberg and Mickey Mouse (representing media gigant Disney/American Broadcasting Company) or kneeling down in front of the statue President.
IN explanation Her decision to resign in the post, Telnes wrote: “The owners of such printing organizations are responsible for protecting this free print and an attempt to enter into the good grace of the autocrat who are just waiting for that free print.” For Telnes and other critics, attempts by billionaires and megacorporations to collapse with Trump-dok work to protect their business interests and government contracts-they get as if men.
It is true that the payment of loyalty to Trump may seem like billions and trillion dollars containing a dictator of Wannabe. Still, it only seems like that. The recent call of Zuckerberg with shareholders is the case. By discovering his good news about the profits of market share and greater than expected profits from the end of 2024, Zuckerberg praised Trump for his support for companies like Meta. “We now have an American administration that is proud of our leading companies, a priority on US technology victory and will defend our values and interests abroad … I am optimistic about the progress and innovation that can be unlocked,” Zuckerberg said.
For rich and massive corporations, the protection of their lower lines is the ultimate goal, with Trump as their means to the end. If a bent knee or effective praise is required to acquire more market stake or more power over the federal government bag, then so be it.
The easiest way to see that a billionaire class is actually using Trump to reset the priority of the Federal Government, not allowing Trump to dictate their conditions, observing their relationship with Trump last year. Take hundreds of millions of multi-milialists like Elon Musk, Miriam Adelson and Linda McMahon got into Trump’s presidential campaign 2024. During the election, Musk, Altman, Vivek Ramaswamy and Apple’s team Cook, along with trillion of dollars such as Amazon, Meta, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, also contributed to the millions of dollars to the Trump inauguration Fund in the amount of $ 150 million. In the last few months, Disney-Abc solved a defamation lawsuit Trump filed for $ 15 million, while Meta settled for $ 25 million for a ban on Trump from Facebook and Instagram after rebellion on January 6, 2021.
With such huge amounts of money, at least, a set of billionaires paid Trump to lead a leading role in his administration. Of course, there are other probable reasons for their behavior, such as a greater approach to state contracts for their business, or general approach and influence on the president while setting up future economic and social policies at home and abroad. Regardless of their reasons, these capitalists and corporations do not give Trump that money simply from a sense of respect.
Another way to evaluate that a billionaire class would use Trump would go through his activities, as he officially assumes a duty on January 20th. One should not look beyond Trump’s executive order and memorandum that authorize various agencies in the executive government to take new and probably business orders. Trump signed and spent dozens of executive orders from his inauguration. To be sure, some of these commands have their roots Project 2025 Or are they primarily Islamophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-black and transphobic in nature.
These include executive commands such as defense of women from extremism of gender ideology and restoring biological truths to the Federal Government, protecting children from chemical and surgical insecurity and protection of the American people from invasion. However, some of Trump’s commands are also about profit by one percent of both megacorporations and further deregulation and less federal supervision over business problems. These types of orders include the proclamation of national energy emergency, the establishment and implementation of the president’s “Government Efficiency Department” and the release of American energy. Trump commands also referred to the abandonment of pure energy initiatives, which had to prevent climate change and enable business people like men and Ramaswamy to regulate the way the federal government regulates their own jobs.
Perhaps the most exciting and harmful Trump’s edicts have arrived in the form of a directive that his administration has issued to stop the work of federal agencies. For example, with the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration has directed its different agencies to stop all their updates of communication, public presentations, research studies and related travel. In particular, agencies such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Directorate for Food and Medicines, the National Institute of Cancer and National Health Institutes stopped their work. Some of this could be Trump’s way to return to these agencies because they showed him during the first year of Pandemia Coid-19 2020. However, it cannot be helped, but you assume that there are fewer competitions of federal agencies that work on top cancer treatments or work on preventing the next pandemic ultimately provided a profit for the private industry, especially pharmaceutical corporations.
The recent plunger over Trump’s administrative memory by the Office for Management and Budget at the end of January to illegally stop all federal supports and loans have led to all the day of anger. “The use of federal resources to improve Marxist capital, transgenderism and politics of social engineering engineering engineering is the loss of dollars of taxpayers who do not improve the daily lives of those we serve,” was part of reading a memorandum. This was a pronunciation that Trump tried to extinguish the pre -approved federal means potentially hundreds of billions of dollars.
Everything, from the assistance in food for the Wic, Snap and school lunch programs to subsidized loans with federality, would fall in accordance with this order. Only the National Council of non -profit organizations united with non -governmental democracy to submit a proposal for the Federal District Court, which blocked the implementation of Trump’s plan. The main reason for such a move would be to find $ 500 billion needed for Trump’s artificial intelligence plan (AI) known as Stargate Initiative, a project that Musk made fun of X, previously known as Twitter, announcing that they “do not actually have money”. It can also be the reason why Musk and its assistants were directly involved in access to sensitive government databases, including those with social security numbers, grades of federal workers and payment systems for social insurance and Medicare.
“Trump’s administration is, in fact, very competent in achieving its main goal: the removal of America for parts and selling these parts to the most favorable bidders,” the author and journalist Sarah Kendzior wrote about Trump’s first term of office in hiding in her eyes. The idea of a set of billionaires and huge corporations that they represent bending their knees to show respect for Trump or kiss his ring as if the king or mafia boss is generally not true. They work hard to make sure that their visible respect hides the increasing retention of the Presidency and the power and purse of the US government.
Because with Trump in power, they can approach their final goal for the second time: a capitalist system that has not been implemented by the power of democratic institutions and government regulations, and the American people are too confused and worn to stop them. Despite all the performances, the narcissistic robbery baron elite in the process is for Trump and the US government to become their puppets, not the other way around.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.
