We are edging closer to the unthinkable each day as the economy in America punishes both businesses and working class people. 

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You might be forgiven for thinking that Donald Trump was a little prickly these days. Indeed, dispatching two U.S. nuclear submarines closer to Russia might have been a tad overreaction following hurty posts on social media from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

But there’s more to it than that.

Trump is starting to feel the pressure of his own reckless, capricious policies abroad and home and is starting to worry that the walls are closing in on him. It might have felt like it all started with his ultimatum to Russia to find a solution to the Ukraine war, but it actually goes back to April of this year when he unveiled his tariff super plan.

In the last few days, it has been revealed that the economy isn’t doing very well and there’s a very real risk that it will soon stall and hit recession. Even with the triumph of the EU sanctions which he got the European Commission to agree to – a shocking 15% with no resistance whatsoever by Ursula von der Leyen – there is little if any evidence that this strategy is working at home. Figures just out which paint a worryingly bleak picture will be troubling him as they contrast hugely with his own narrative. And whenever people point out that the Emperor has no clothes on, they often get fired on the spot – hardly a ringing endorsement of a president who knows what he’s doing with the economy.

When the most recent jobs report turned out to be poor, Trump ignored the warnings in the data and fired the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures. Classic Donald. When reports come out which show poor performance of his own policies, we can expect the instant, juvenile rejection to those agencies, in much the same way he says ‘fake news’ to media reports which do the same.

“Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” Trump said on Truth Social, without offering evidence for his claim. “The Economy is BOOMING”, he claims.

According to AP, job gains are “dwindling”. Inflation is “ticking upward”. Growth has “slowed” compared with last year. “More than six months into his term, Trump’s blitz of tariff hikes and his new tax and spending bill have remodelled America’s trading, manufacturing, energy and tax systems to his own liking” but have yet to show anything positive in the economy.

It’s not only preposterous statements like the “booming” one which we can expect more of, or people simply being fired for telling the plain truth about numbers. What is inevitable with the same demise of the economy is Trump’s own brand of faking the news, using his own sycophants. A recent “interview” with Marco Rubio and U.S. media is worth watching if you’re in need for a really good laugh. Rubio doubles down on claims, from America’s own intelligence agencies, that the Iran attack that Trump signed off on, did any real damage at all to the three nuclear sites.

“That’s the most important thing to understand — significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it,” he claimed.

His comments came following the Defense Intelligence Agency’s report which found that Iran’s centrifuges were largely “intact” and strikes from U.S. B-2 bombers only set nuclear developments back by a few months, as first reported by CNN.

Even U.S. agencies themselves are agreeing with most of the region’s top analysts that Trump’s strike had any impact at all, whatever it was intended to do, isolating the U.S. president to such a point of desperation that he has to call on his own loyal acolytes to roll out the BS.

In the coming months we are certain to see more of these fake news stunts as there are plenty of media outlets in the U.S. happy to oblige with such scripted interviews from people like Rubio.

But it doesn’t really do much to control the economy which, while approaching its fourth quarter, is going to present Trump with a tsunami of negative reports from the people who can’t be switched off, like the two U.S. stocks market or the business press like the Wall Street Journal or CNBC. Bad numbers are going to dominate the news more and more as the more Trump will deny them, the more they will persist. The Donald does not understand the old saying “when in hole, don’t dig” and typically, in nearly all matters, his own vanity and insecurity usually always makes the media take worse.

Case in point, Epstein. The story just festers and festers while growing at the same time due to his own clumsy handling of it and how he handles reporters’ questions. Most Americans accept that Trump was close friends of Epstein and assume, at the very least, that Trump also partook in the wild sex parties with very young women and, perhaps more importantly, is as much a victim of the blackmail as most. In Trump’s case he was undoubtedly using his power to keep the lid from blowing off, while exploiting those whose name was on the list. The cruel irony is of course that when the names are finally revealed, even if the FBI blacks his name out with crude whiteboard marker (bet on this), his edge over those people will be nothing. In other words, they will have nothing to lose and everything to gain by telling their stories and including Trump in the most salacious tales. Can a U.S. president survive such a tawdry scandal?

What Trump desperately needs is a seismic distraction to all this and so the likelihood of a war now happening between the U.S. and Russia, in Ukraine, is more likely for all the wrong reasons. The recent comment by Medvedev warning that Trump’s most recent threat to up the ante on Russian sanctions is a step closer to a war between the U.S. and Russia is ominous. Trump would not be the first American president to send U.S. troops to their deaths to throw the media spotlight away from all their failed policies. We are edging closer to the unthinkable each day as the economy in America punishes both businesses and working class people. As mentioned in an earlier piece, the retraction of the 50 days to 10 days, was simply because on so many levels time is running out fast for Trump both in the Ukraine – where Russian troops advance on the key town of Pokrovsk at remarkable speed – and also with his own economy which is sinking. NATO collapsing under his leadership while Ukraine is lost to Russia, a U.S. economy in a tailspin by Christmas with job losses making headlines every day and Trump’s links to the whole Epstein teen sex honey trap revealed all lead to the global lack of confidence in him migrating to his own turf as MAGA splits right down the middle. He must be literally praying each night that the Japanese don’t dump their trillion dollar U.S. treasury bonds on the market at a bargain price as that might be all it takes for the U.S. to veer towards the abyss. Trump needs a war like never before.