Below is my column in The Hill on the statement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that true billionaires do not exist because “you just can’t earn” a billion dollars. Figures such as Jeff Bezos are merely capitalist unicorns according to this new socialism mythology. The problem is that she, and other socialists and Democrats, are fast making this fable come true.
Here is the column:
This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) came up with the best reason to tax billionaires: They do not actually exist.
On a podcast, Ocasio-Cortez declared with all the certainty of a freshman in a Smith College political science course that the notion of a self-made billionaire is simply a fantasy, because “you just can’t earn” a billion dollars. It is only the latest in a series of socialist fables that are being dressed up as economic facts.
The difference is that this fable, if told often enough, could become true.
In suggesting that true billionaires are a capitalist myth, Ocasio-Cortez is suggesting that people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos really did not earn their wealth and, therefore, it is really not their money.
“There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”
In other words, you can only make a billion dollars through theft and exploitation rather than actual entrepreneurial enterprise. This statement comes as support builds for the California billionaires’ tax which, even before it has a chance to pass in November, has already cost the state trillions due to an exodus of these billionaires.
In my book, “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss common myths spread by the left to fuel economic factionalism. One common myth is that the “wealthy do not pay their fair share of taxes.” In truth, the top ten percent of taxpayers pay the vast majority of taxes in the U.S. In the book, I also dispel the claim that most millionaires inherited their wealth or came from privileged backgrounds.
These myths are designed to make redistribution schemes more palatable. And Democrats are ramping up the “eat-the-rich” rhetoric ahead of the midterms in pushing both millionaire and billionaire taxes. Democrats from Washington to Virginia are pushing millionaire taxes, and the mere conversation has already set off a stampede of high-earning taxpayers to red states like Texas and Florida, which have no state income tax.
It was also evident in this week’s California gubernatorial debate. Candidate Katie Porter (D) said she opposes the billionaire’s tax because it would not go far enough. Porter then pressed the only billionaire in the group, Tom Steyer, who has been moving to the far left to grab voters in the wake of the departure of former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) as a candidate. Steyer said that he supports the billionaire tax but would want to go even further.
Steyer has spent a fortune of his own money on this race, apparently to convince Democratic primary voters that he is some kind of red billionaire in the mold of a George Soros or Neville Roy Singham. Good luck with that — after spending roughly $150 million of his own money, Steyer is still languishing between 12 and 18 percent support.
Of course, Steyer was not asked if he believes that real billionaires such as himself exist. Yet he has already apologized for making considerable money on private prisons, including those used to hold undocumented immigrants.
Ironically, in finance, a “unicorn” is a company worth more than $1 billion dollars, a term coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee to capture the rare and almost magical status of such enterprises.
Conversely, Ocasio-Cortez’s unicorn myth is part of a general denial of economic realities that has taken hold on the left. The cost of these policies is borne by workers, who are being left to eat soundbites.
Democrats have sold voters on raising minimum wages as high as $30 per hour, even though such policies cost thousands of jobs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg bragged about blocking a merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, claiming that it would create cheaper flights and better jobs. Spirit has now been forced to close its doors, causing the loss of thousands of flights and jobs.
A rising generation of voters is eagerly devouring soundbites and promises of the “warmth of collectivism” from figures like New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. From promises of free buses to state-run grocery stores, voters are buying the same threadbare socialist schtick.
That was on display this week as socialist Seattle mayor Katie Wilson laughed when asked about the millionaires fleeing the city over rising taxes and crime. She delighted the crowd by mocking the departing millionaires with two words: “Like, bye!”
The last laugh, however, rests with those fleeing a city facing a projected deficit of $114 million. As Wilson faces major cuts in the city budget, she gleefully mocks those whose tax dollars the city will desperately need to close this gap if it is to maintain public services.
Ironically, Wilson and other Democrats are quickly making their myth a reality. Soon, there will be no billionaire unicorns roaming the land. Even millionaires may become scarce, as these wealthy citizens move to less hostile states with less delusional leaders.
The solution to this exodus is equally predictable. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who has campaigned for a billionaire tax in his state while representing Silicon Valley, has also joined with socialist Bernie Sanders to push for a national billionaire’s tax — an effort to guarantee that there is no place to hide. This is the same approach that tanked the French economy under François Mitterrand after the wealthy fled that nation.
This is not, however, a time for economics or history. It is the time of fables. Ocasio-Cortez has thrived in the land of socialist unicorns. She can even attend the ultra-rich Met Gala wearing an expensive “Tax-the-Rich” gown.
Like her dress, it is fashionable to deny that billionaires created their wealth. It is your money for the taking. The result is that billionaires and even millionaires in states like New York may go the way of unicorns, fanciful creatures that once thrived in a land of jobs and growth.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.“
To make a billion dollars, Bezos has to create twenty billion dollars of consumer value. If the socialists want to prove that their economic systems work better than capitalism, they should fix existing basket-case socialist countries first. Capitalism has it’s flaws (business and labor monopolies, crony capitalism, etc), but it is by far the most productive and fair match to basic human nature.
how are business and labor monopolies or crony capitalism, capitalism? Those are the opposite of capitalism.
Well, it seems to me that there’s clear disagreement over what the definition of ‘earn’ is. AOC seems to be using an IRS-like definition of earned income, as opposed to un-earned, ie. investment or business income. She seems to think that only salary and tips, etc. are earned, and implies that all other income is equivalent to theft. Other people’s definition of earn (in a non IRS setting) include all wealth you legally acquire. For instance as a result of physical or mental labor, including salary, investments, business and gambling profits. If you have more money than your neighbors, it’s because you worked harder, invested smarter, planned better and saved more – and maybe had a bit more luck than they did. Luck and inheritance aside, taking responsibility for your fate, you ‘earned’ your wealth. Obviously there ARE many thieves in the world, but investment is not equivalent to theft.
I can agree that its very unlikely that someone could ‘earn’ their 1st billion solely on salary. Nevertheless I think it very possible, but still rare, that someone could become a billionaire by creating a business of their own or with a few associates, putting a lot of their personal savings and sweat equity into the business, have it become profitable/fashionable, and be bought out for a billion or more. I don’t see anything unethical/unsavory about becoming a billionaire that way and I would say they ‘earned’ it. A unicorn company is a privately held startup valued at over $1 billion. The term describes the rarity of such companies, which have become more common in recent years, with over 1,735 unicorns globally as of 2026. Getting a billion through smart/lucky investing would be even easier, but still rare (see George Soros).
AOC and the socialists seem to feel threatened by the power inherent in the concentration of such wealth, as well as the hopes it gives to ambitious individuals that they can thrive in their personal lives without the assistance, and associated loss of autonomy/freedom that comes from big government. By taxing extraordinary wealth they both seize it for their own use (through their influence in government) and at the same time disincentivize ambitious people from even attempting such a feat. They make success more difficult by taking an ‘unearned’ cut of the reward without sharing in the risk and effort required for success.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World
What to do with the goose that lays the golden egg? Kill it so we can get the gold and redistribute it? Or let it live and stay healthy so it can keep laying more golden eggs?
AOC, Bernie, Katie Wilson, and Mamdani want to kill it; they don’t realize the goose keeps adding to the available gold as it keeps laying more eggs. They wrongly see the gold as fixed, and so the only question is how to distribute it fairly.
So that’s our choice. Grow the pie or see the pie as fixed, a zero-sum game. The former is capitalism, the latter socialism. The former continually generates more wealth and is the only system ever invented that has lifted millions out of grinding poverty. It is also based on free choice; nobody is forced to spend money on things they don’t need. The latter creates mass poverty and near universal misery . . . except of course for the people in charge. After all, some animals are more equal than others.
I think that’s correct, omfk.
I, being a common person, haven’t any idea how to create 1 billion dollars. If I knew I’d have it.
Is a shoplifter really just a tax man, a socialist? I was assessing a tax , your honor.
Omfk, dems function on revenge for all the things they did to themselves. It’s the enemy within. Without the influx of noncitizens districts would have been lost to red states.
After repubs win 2026 the census must mark citizens. If it’s not marked then it’s not counted for apportionment.
The government doesn’t earn a single cent of the trillions that it confiscates by threat of force from its own citizens. The only thing more exploitative than government is a government run by leftists.
If America enjoyed a Supreme Court, taxation would be severely limited to debt, defense, and “general Welfare,” that is, basic infrastructure, police, and fire for the benefit of all, or the whole, distinctly not one, some, or a few, nor as individual, specific, and particular welfare, or charity, and favor. Most government agencies would not exist or obtain funding, as the regulation they conduct is not enumerated. Review Article 1, Section 8.
The cost to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has skyrocketed to $13.1 million, ballooning more than sevenfold from Donald Trump’s initial $1.8 million estimate — with little public explanation for why the price tag exploded for a no-bid contract awarded to a Trump administration-handpicked contractor. The contractor is a personal friend of Trump who has done a lot of work at his golf clubs.
Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings received the lucrative no-bid contract for the project. The Trump administration bypassed the requirement to seek competing bids by claiming the situation was so urgent that any delay would cause “serious injury” to the government — though the administration has continued to refuse to explain what that injury would entail.
The ballooning contract cost and lack of competitive bidding raise questions about whether taxpayer money is being steered to politically connected contractors under the guise of emergency expedited timelines.
Hmmm You appear to be off.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is historically funded by the U.S. government, with major renovations in 2012 costing over \(\$35\) million in taxpayer-funded stimulus money. As of May 2026, a \(\$6.9\) million,
Are the parasites enjoying the benefits of $39 trillion in debt, personal friends of the communists in the so-called Democratic Party?
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Since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964, the United States has spent over…$26 trillion (adjusted for inflation) on means-tested welfare programs, with annual spending now exceeding $1 trillion.
Sounds a lot like the ‘no-bid’ contracts Bush and Bush Jr handed out to their buddies to rebuild Iraq.
And the billions in no-bid contracts the next POTUS will hand out to their cronies to rebuild Iran, whenever that ends.
What a bargain to make America Great again! screech louder, I can’t hear you over all the wailing commies.
Republicans strategists are absolute masters at taking the 1% extreme view of Democrats and painting 100% of Democrats with that brush.
Fact: the vast majority of Democrats oppose defunding the police. Most Democrats oppose Communism. Most Democrats don’t agree with Mandami or AOC’s billionaire comment or ideals.
The problem is Democrats fall for it, then defend the 1% view they actually disagree with.
Wrong.
Republican strategists are doing no such thing.
The radical far leftists that have taken over the Democrat party, by their own words and actions, are the ones painting the rest of the party with that brush. Bill Maher and the good professor have been pointing that out for years. Nothing Republicans have done. Just recently even PA Senator John Fetterman has called out his own party as the party of extreme, Fetterman: Democrats Are Literally Running On “F*ck Trump,” “I Find Myself Isolated By My Party”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/05/09/fetterman_democrats_are_literally_running_on_fck_trump_i_find_myself_isolated_by_my_party.html
Fact: Traditional Democrats may oppose many of the far leftist policies, but it is the far leftists and the extreme Democrat leadership who is in charge are the ones leading with far leftists policies, words and actions.
Bill Maher, the good professor, Senator Fetterman and others are just pointing out how the far leftists have taken over the Democrat party and leadership.
“Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
That would be anyone’s strategy.
Gaslighting by green-background Anonymous:
When all else fails, simply deny the glaringly-obvious facts and pretend anyone who believes them is unable to perceive reality.
Well maybe, but nowhere in your post did I hear anything these so-called “Democrats” are for, so I don’t believe you or you don’t know that the democrat party has been taken over: see the issues they are defending, ALL anti-American policies. Might be time for you to see what you are really voting for comrade.
Open Primary Elections and Ranked-Choice elections would give greater representation to most voters and minimize extreme candidates from both parties.
That’s the real issue here, neither party is representing the interests of most voters.
One-man, one-vote democracy has not occurred since the inception of democracy in Greece in 508 B.C. The “dictatorship of the majority,” the “dictatorship of the poor,” is doomed from the outset by the deleterious greed of parasites.
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In 508 B.C., the reforms of Cleisthenes established the first known democracy in Athens, but voting rights were highly restricted. Only a small fraction of the population—estimated at roughly 10% to 20%—was eligible to participate in the government.
Primary Voter RequirementsTo be eligible to vote and participate in the Ekklesia (the citizen assembly), an individual had to meet all of the following criteria:
Male: Women were completely excluded from political participation and did not hold the status of voting citizens.
Adult: Voters had to be at least 18 years old. Some local offices or roles required a higher age, such as 30 for certain magistracies.
Free-born: Enslaved individuals, who made up about one-third of the population, were barred from all political rights.
Athenian Parentage: Citizenship was restricted to those born of Athenian parents. (Later, in 451 B.C., this was tightened further to require both parents to be Athenian).
Military Service: Eligibility was often tied to having completed mandatory military training as an ephebe.
Turley has it wrong. There are always delusional Leaders around; It’s the delusional voters that elect them.
Ah, the severely restricted-vote republic of the American Founders. Democracy can exist no other way. One-man, one-vote democracy is the irrational and savage “dictatorship of the poor.”
” You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. ”
Well of course you can earn a billion dollars – and you don’t have to work overtime to do it, either. If you work 50 weeks a year at 40 hours a week you only have to find a job paying $500,000 an hour.
If you take a more relaxed approach to your career and are satisfied to earn a billion dollars over 20 years then you only have to find a job paying $25,000 dollars an hour. Easy-easy!!!
Excuse me, I would explain more, but I just remembered I have some resumes I need to send out.
This comment is based on the same faulty understanding of the word “earn” that AOC uses, where earning is limited to doing physical work for an hourly wage. It reveals economic illiteracy. People legitimately earn money through inventing things, innovating, and investing in projects that produce the goods and services society most needs. I addressed this earlier today:
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/11/you-just-cant-earn-a-billion-dollars-aoc-declares-billionaires-to-be-a-capitalist-myth/comment-page-2/#comment-2633795
Omfk, yes, it’s pitiful. Thinking people need to rethink an econ political system that can survive the advent of 90 IQs. Seriously, they haven’t the capacity to understand and function on instinct aka vices.
It’s really bad.
AOC never heard of work smarter not harder.
AOC is a socialist dictatorial meatbot. One of many. Never comply.
Perhaps Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should sit down with J. K. Rowling, Michael Jordon, or even Lauren Powell Jobs and ask just how did they get wealthy and was this through coercive, immoral, or illegal means? In the case of J. K. Rowling, her income is from the sale of book, movie, and other Harry Potter paraphernalia – all willingly purchased by grateful consumers. For Michael Jordan’s case, he provided countless hours of amazing athletic entertainment and product endorsements – all for willing and grateful consumers. Steve Jobs through his brilliant imagination brought us WYSIWYG personal computers, long before Microsoft even dreamed of it much less implemented anything that actually worked, iPod, iPad, and iPhone in short order and then went on to create Pixar and produce great animated movies – all for willing and grateful consumers. A capitalist economic environment allows these extraordinarily talented individuals to come to their own and be rewarded. While capitalism is also a harsh mistress in identifying failures, it has arguably provided greater benefits to world than any other method.
In Thomas Sowell’s words from his essay “The ‘Have-Nots”, from his book Controversial Essays, 2002, he writes: “No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and those like minded, do not seem interested in exactly how wealth is created – just in being generous with other people’s money.
@Arnold
We are talking about a generation that largely has never created literally anything themselves their entire lives, they ride on coattails and consume what others have created through toil; they grew up in the most peaceful and prosperous time the world has ever seen and were coddled within that milieu to the skies; they manufacture crises because they do not, in actual fact, have any existential problems other than their weak attitudes. Their entire encapsulation of life with other human beings is skewed, and again, she is THE poster child. It’s how she continues to get elected in her little enclave (really: look, and see how tiny her district is, relatively speaking). She is just incredibly dumb, incredibly vocal in ignorant gibberish spoken with intent to other very ignorant people who are equally inept and eat it up like candy, and she is perfectly used and manipulated by the DNC to lure and entrap the like-minded among her peers.
It has worked in places where those trust-funders live, not so much across the rest of the country; but all that matters is where people are voting and in what numbers, something the dems have had a lock on for some time, but that appears to be ending.
When considering her, you have to consider someone with the general acumen of a child whose strings are being pulled by people much older, who very much know better, but are very happy to exploit her. They know she’s an idiot, too; they just consider her to be useful for the time being. I personally think that time is approaching its expiration date.
ok boomer
@Anonymous
I’m really not. I am no fan of the hippies (likely your parents) either. Wrap your head around that. People younger than boomers think you are an idiot, and we vote for EVERYTHING. And will for another 50 years.
I would add Taylor Swift as another example of a recent billionaire.
She created money for herself, self employed. Apparently there are many investors aka ticket buyers. Keep writing those songs, Swift.
Right!
She made millions of people around the world like her music, buy her music, go to her concerts, buy her tee-shirts!!
How diabolical!! ( do I really need to put the “/sarc” in here?)
Arnold Nordsieck,
Good point, but I would argue that what AOC is claiming is that the people you mention, they made their wealth off of some slave labor someplace.
J. K. Rowling editors and proof readers were child slave labor in Nigeria. They got paid a penny a day or nothing at all and she made billions.
Michael Jordon, the Nike shoes with his likeness and name on it, made by Uyghurs in slave camps. Okay, that one might be true. But I blame Nike more than Michael.
Lauren Powell Jobs, clearly she exploited Steve Jobs and made him her slave and her claim to fame. I am okay with that one.
Jordan is the marketer for Nike. He gets a percent of Nike. Nike is the employer. Is that correct?
Upstate: I’m sure that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would certainly argue that line of reasoning though she goes further than just claiming slave labor. She states, “… you can pay people less than what they’re worth…”, but exactly how is one to determine the correct wage? A functioning capitalistic labor market is that mechanism or at least the best I know of, certainly better than some bureau of experts applying comparable worth theory. As long as there is no coercion involved (e.g. no true slave labor) there is a voluntary employer/employee agreement. Clearly the choices may be limited for the worker but if the billionaire did not create those employment opportunities, then exactly what would the worker do with no opportunities? I would say that the workers are better off with having the opportunity than otherwise.
That there is so much outsourcing is a broader issue some of which can be traced to the highly non-reciprocal tariffs that the US political establishment purposefully put in place to encourage global economic growth at the expense of American workers.
That there, even in this day and age, exists slave labor is a stain on humanity. US based companies should be exposed if their supply chain uses slave labor. In the end, Deming, Juran, and Toyota have demonstrated the significant benefits accruing to manufacturers (and by extension their consumers) who engage the intelligence of their employees in the manufacturing process – that cannot be done with slave labor. Stalin’s (and beyond) Russian labor camps, with their slave labor, produced famously shoddy goods.
A group of medical experts has sounded the alarm over what they’ve described as President Donald Trump’s deteriorating health and warned he needs to be removed from being so close to the nuclear trigger.
The 36 medical professionals have different backgrounds and political leanings, including neurologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians with extensive experience diagnosing cognitive disorders and evaluating patients.
While they have not specifically examined the 79-year-old president face-to-face, they’ve been closely following his statements and behaviors over the past year and have warned he’s “mentally unfit” and must be removed from office “with the greatest urgency” amid the escalating tension around the world.
They warned that the U.S. has more than 5,000 nuclear warheads at the ready to launch on Trump’s order, and no one now has the authority to stop him.
“It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater,” they said in a statement. “It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.”
They listed some of Trump’s observable serious medical issues, such as “Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.”
The group pointed to what they called the president’s “grandiose and delusional beliefs,” noting that he posts imagery of himself as the pope and as a combat pilot on Truth Social. They also observed signs of “severely impaired judgment and impulse control” in his “reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians,” and more.
It comes as the president has taken to posting on social media at all hours of the night while appearing to struggle to stay awake during his public events. The medical experts described it as “seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications” with as many as 150 posts in one night.
“It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further, “the group wrote, stating ”we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.”
I know; let’s have an Ayatollah with his hand poised on the nuclear trigger.
Allahu Akbar!!!
It’s not clear what your source is, but it sounds like those 36 “medical professionals” are violating ethical standards in diagnosing a person who is not their patient. Something I seem to recall being discussed when opinons on Biden’s mental health were in the news.
Psychiatry (APA): clinicians should not offer diagnostic opinions about individuals they have not personally examined and obtained consent to evaluate (the “Goldwater Rule” / APA ethics).
Medicine (AMA): physicians should refrain from making clinical diagnoses about people they have not personally examined.
Licensure boards and courts: clinicians can face discipline or malpractice/legal exposure for public statements or actions that fall below professional standards (including making unsupported diagnostic claims about non‑patients, breaching confidentiality, or failing to take legally required protective steps).
The source is evidently this: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-172/issue-76/senate-section/article/S2162-1
On April 30, 2026, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed requested that it be printed in the “Record”.
Of note, a section not fully quoted by the poster above states:
“The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role.”
Yet, they then went on to produce an apparently ‘informal’ diagnosis – so I guess that’s OK then.
I’m sure it’s just as relevant as the statement by the fifty former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
His/her breath is a flatulent for he/she speaks from his ass…like most of his/her opinions dumped upon us, they stink.
This is what? The 3rd/6th/9th month you have made these claims with no evidence whatsoever?
Where were you while Biden mumbled fumbled and jumbled? Five unelected people running our country while Biden tried to make a coherent sentence. Trump is just fine and thank you for your prayers! When Trump quells Iran’s Mullahs he will have completed the trifecta, Venezuela, Middle East peace, and Cuba libre! Talk about opportunity to make a billion, here it comes, prepare yourself!
“A group of medical experts . . .”
In their naked grab for power, with their motto “anything goes,” the D’s use political purges to oust judges who don’t do their bidding. Now they use psychiatry to oust the political opposition.
Stalin is smiling.
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A group of medical experts has sounded the alarm over what they’ve described as President Donald Trump’s deteriorating health and warned he needs to be removed from being so close to the nuclear trigger.
The three dozen medical professionals have different backgrounds and political leanings, including neurologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians with extensive experience diagnosing cognitive disorders and evaluating patients.
While they have not specifically examined the 79-year-old president face-to-face, they’ve been closely following his statements and behaviors over the past year and have warned he’s “mentally unfit” and must be removed from office “with the greatest urgency” amid the escalating tension around the world.
They warned that the U.S. has more than 5,000 nuclear warheads at the ready to launch on Trump’s order, and no one now has the authority to stop him.
“It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater,” they said in a statement. “It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.”
They listed some of Trump’s observable serious medical issues, such as “Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.”
The group pointed to what they called the president’s “grandiose and delusional beliefs,” noting that he posts imagery of himself as the pope and as a combat pilot on Truth Social. They also observed signs of “severely impaired judgment and impulse control” in his “reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians,” and more.
It comes as the president has taken to posting on social media at all hours of the night while appearing to struggle to stay awake during his public events. The medical experts described it as “seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications” with as many as 150 posts in one night.
“It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump’s mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further, “the group wrote, stating ”we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.”
I remember a time when every year the news media would publish the number of new millionaires created in the previous year based on the value of the dollar in say 1940? (You couldn’t spend a million dollars in a lifetime at that time unless you threw it away)That meant in 1980 a person needed to have $5 million dollars to be considered a millionaire, today probably $30 million or more. The number of new millionaires, adjusted for the governments deliberate devaluation of the dollar, created each year increased steadily and was bragged about to the world about the success of the American economic system. Then something changed and the number of newly created millionaires was no longer published.
Bill Maher recently said it best. He said he already pays 60% of his income in the various taxes. It must follow then that Bill Maher didn’t earn what he makes by doing stand up comedy for years to learn his craft. Sounds familiar? Some pigs are more equal than other pigs because they earn their millions by becoming a politician. Please see Nancy Pelosi as an example.
you should reread your handle and dont publish. thinking it through dont work for you
You should go back to school.
TiT,
I recall he himself on his own show, made the claim that HE would LEAVE the Democrat party when they were talking about something like 80% tax rate.
But Bill Maher lives in Californian AND he pays high taxes because he makes $10 million a year and he’s worth 140 million.
But that also doesn’t make high taxes right, even though I don’t care for the guy I don’t like seeing people get scrooed.
I don’t waste my time reading anything original from her, everything AOC says is malevolent nonsense, but in the proper context, perhaps she has just a tiny sliver of correctness in this pronouncement. In Russia there are billionaires who earned nothing but were in the right place at the right time in the Russian government. They looted, perhaps even murdered, their way to their billions. In America, you can earn billions and we’ve watched people do it. Hooray for those who have done it here.
AOC= Bat Shit Krazee
And Karl Marx was a diseased invalid and an abject inveterate drunk.
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Historical accounts indicate that Karl Marx suffered from chronic, debilitating health issues—specifically a severe skin condition (likely hidradenitis suppurativa) and liver/gallbladder problems—and was known to be a heavy drinker in his youth and a regular consumer of alcohol in adulthood. These issues caused him immense pain and necessitated breaks from his work, particularly during the writing of Das Kapital.
trump=pedo. this is fun
Proof?
Compared to hair-sniffing Xiden?
Clinton+Lolita Express+26 flights(-5 SS detail flights)=pedo. This is simple math.
“For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape“
For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
IRAN swears they have no interest in building a nuclear bomb AS they steadfastly refuse to give up their plans to build one, which is the evidence that destruction on earth as never seen before is at hand even as men cry out peace, peace is here
Check out the richest women in 2026. AOC wants to be one.