What are your greatest fears or concerns about the second Trump term?

What are your greatest fears or concerns about the second Trump term?

Many are expressing concerns about potential inflation and the impact on vulnerable populations during a second Trump term, referencing biblical calls to care for “the least of these.” Questions about economic policy and its alignment with Christian values remain central to the discussion.

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Trump is proposing numerous changes that will likely be inflationary and that will harm many of “the least of these” who the Bible, Old Testament and New, say we should help.

What concerns do you have about the next four years under Trumpism?

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The destruction of our already insufficient healthcare system.
Wrecking and robbing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Destroying laws that disallow discrimination against women and minorities

Vindictive actions against anyone perceived as being a non-trump supporter

the continued destruction of the Republican Party

Gutting FEMA, aid only going to states with Trump supporting governors

The continued twisting of Christianity into a church of cruelty

Vance’s ongoing attack on single women, and women without children

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I’m concerned about high inflation, especially for food, both if Trump implements his promised tariffs on imported goods and because of what’s already started with much of our immigrant labor force.

A lot of our food is imported - look at the labels on your fruits and vegetables. Bananas and many other foods are going to cost more year round and other fruits and vegetables will be much more seasonal than they are now because of the cost to import them with either US or retaliatory tariffs.

I read yesterday that the price of coffee has hit an all-time high just with Trump’s threat of a tariff on Colombia.

Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, make up a large proportion of our agricultural work force, from dairy to fruit and vegetables to meat processing, plus a large part of construction labor. U.S. unemployment is already low and most Americans wouldn’t want to do the difficult work in a field or a slaughterhouse, especially for the wages being paid for current migrant labor - so we may have crops rotting in the fields or meat shortages because of lack of workers.

For more on this see

Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of people who violently attacked police officers, broke into the Capitol and threatened the lived of Congress and the vice president.

He also summarily fired over a dozen federal Inspectors General, who are supposed to be independent and objective watchdogs within government agencies. See Trump fires multiple federal inspectors general in overnight purge - CBS News. He was legally required to provide Congress 30 days notice, as well as a “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons.” I’m very concerned that he’s appointing syncophants throughout the government who will bow to him instead of standing up for the Constitution and the law. See also Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers | AP News

World Relief, a Christian international aid agency, said this morning “Late on Friday, January 24, World Relief was notified by the U.S. Department of State that all federally funded activities providing initial resettlement support to nearly 4,000 refugees we are currently serving must stop effective immediately.” This is a part of Trump’s decree that all federal grants and loans be frozen for an unspecified period of time. Funding is the domain of Congress, not the President, so this directive is probably unconstitutional - but it’s causing confusion, hardship and uncertainty in scores of organizations and government departments. See Trump's funding freeze creates widespread confusion

Trump repeatedly shows a complete disregard for decency, the Constitution and the law.

As a Christian, I know that the throughout The Bible, Old Testament and New, God commands us to care for the disadvantaged and says numerous times to help and welcome “strangers”, which includes immigrants. See Mt. 25:31-46, Lev. 19:33-4 (“You must love him as yourself”), Heb. 13:2, Ex. 22:21, Ex. 23:9, Ex. 12:49, Ps. 94:6ff, Dt. 10:17-19, Dt. 24:17-22, and numerous others.

The vast majority of immigrants, whether documented or not, are like most of us, ordinary people who simply want to live in safety, support their families, have decent, affordable medical care and have their children educated. Many of them fled political instability, severe economic difficulties, or violence. A better, more humane (and more Christian) solution than mass deportations would be to expedite means for undocumented aliens to be legalized.

Trump appears to primarily care about himself and those who he can use to maximize his power and bolster his self image.

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We don’t want people in our country illegally.
To quote our recently upgraded Vice President…

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People trading their salvation for a lie. Trump has a demonic inspired hold on some people. This Pied Piper of evil is leading former believers off a cliff.

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I do like memes and Yoda nails it. For some people President Trump can do nothing right-- even if he does everything right. We are getting exactly what we voted for, because he’s doing exactly what he said he would.

Quick question-- since you are afraid/concerned about Trump’s healthcare plans… Do you support his nomination of RFK Jr for HHS? Surely you don’t think of him as some sort of Republican shill…

I am PRAYING that he will sign the HEARBEAT LAW at the very LEAST but he CHICKENED out and DIDN’T want to be BLAMED so he allowed the states to decide what THEY wanted to do ! What was the whole point of REVERSING the ROV vs WADE law if he didn’t STOP abortion from happening???

No. My concern with Kennedy is his war on vaccinations. He has some good ideas on other health issues. His mental health may be an issue, but hopefully the brain worms have been resolved.

I don’t consider him a shill. Just a nut, but a well intentioned nut.

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His blatant for the checks and balances that the three branches of government put in place and for the Constitution

I’m extremely concerned about the way that Trump, through Musk, is blindly taking a wreaking ball to so many government programs, rather than making even the slightest effort to study what they’re doing and how and why they’re doing it and judiciously making changes if they’re really necessary. One of the most alarming is their crippling/dismantling of USAID and cutting off USAID’s communication with the Center for Disease Control (after cutting the CDC’s communication with the World Health Organization).

USAID provides food and medical aid, directly and indirectly, to literally millions of people around the world, saving up to 3 million lives annually, and spreading good will for the US and dampening the influence of China and Russia. They also work to stop the spread of diseases like ebola (which is currently flaring up in Uganda), mpox (formerly known as monkeypox, currently spreading in west Africa), avian flu, Marburg virus (a hemorrhagic fever, similar to ebola and currently flaring up in Tanzania), and polio - stopping the diseases from being brought into the United States and getting a foothold here.

See Reports and Data | Archive - U.S. Agency for International Development for more information.

Regarding Trump cutting ties with the World Health Organization, see Trump wants to exit the WHO, and that will hurt global health.

If we have another pandemic in the next few years, we’ll know who to give credit to.

Must be a tough couple of weeks for ya… Here are a few examples of the wasteful spending of our tax dollars through USAID. These are indefensible by any measure and it only gets worse. Funds were also used to topple foreign governments through direct election interference, and to support political dirt-rag newspapers like Politico and media like the BBC (propaganda).

USAID programs cut, include:

Here is the list of USAID expenses:

  • $50 million to [fund condoms in Gaza]
  • $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces
  • $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
  • $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
  • $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru
  • $37 million to the World Health Organization
  • $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices
  • $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate-Positive Development
  • $12 million in support services to the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
  • $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence
  • $3 million in non-emergency funding to provide [evaluation services] for planning and learning programs
  • $600,000 to fund technical assistance for [family planning in Latin America]