Who gains from the promises Trump keeps? | Letter

Has the price of groceries gone down for us as promised? How about cars and housing? Will anything we buy be more affordable when the new national sales taxes called “tariffs” take hold? Have we seen the promise of rising wages come to fruition? What about the promise to be better than Biden at helping communities struck by natural disasters? How will gutting FEMA provide the support needed?
Federal agencies that have inspected our food, warned us of impending natural disasters, protected us from financial fraud, protected our airways, provided medical research on diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s have seen their workforces decimated. The cost of not addressing these issues will be tenfold when addressing problems caused by their absence. We must ask ourselves — how will this benefit us?
Meantime, the promise of making the U.S. the unregulated crypto giant seems on track. Fifty-eight people with crypto wallets have made more than $10 million each on President Trump’s meme coin, while 764,000 small crypto wallet holders lost money. How does this help us?
Who gains from the promises kept? The answer seems to be the billionaires and corporations promised more tax cuts and access to the White House for future money-making deals.
The average citizen, promised a better life, gets nothing but potential cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. “Let them eat cake.”
Pauline and Al Huntley
South Portland