Trump Revives the Monroe Doctrine With Imperial Wars as Medicaid Cuts and ICE Expansion Reshape American Life!
By Norris R McDonald DIJ, CRT, Author, Economic Journalist & Human Rights Activist
President Donald Trump’s second administration is reviving the logic of the Monroe Doctrine through expanded military engagement abroad and intensified austerity at home, reshaping American life through deep Medicaid cuts and a rapid expansion of immigration detention.
New federal data show rising poverty,
accelerating inequality, and widespread
rural hospital closures as Trump’s domestic
and foreign policies shift public resources
away from healthcare and social services toward defense spending and
immigration enforcement.
Critics warn that the administration’s approach reflects a broader turn toward authoritarian governance, with far-reaching consequences for working families, immigrants, and U.S. credibility abroad. Empires rarely collapse with fireworks. They decay quietly—through shuttered hospitals, criminalized poverty, hollowed communities, and normalized fear.
Under Donald Trump’s revived Monroe Doctrine, now grotesquely evolved into what can only be called the Donroe Doctrine, American imperial power no longer confines its violence to distant lands. It has turned inward, devouring its own people while exporting instability abroad.When care disappears, cages appear. A nation that can fund bombs but not births has already chosen collapse.
New data show 43.7 million Americans living in poverty, with inequality accelerating under Trump’s second administration. This is not economic mismanagement. It is deliberate redistribution—upward, racialized, and enforced through punishment. What cannot be governed through shared prosperity is now governed through fear.
One Big Beautiful Bill, One Ugly Reality
The centerpiece of Trump’s domestic agenda, the ‘One Big Ugly Bill’ signed in July 2025, represents one of the most aggressive upward transfers of wealth in modern U.S. history. By 2027, the top 0.1 percent of earners will receive $60.3 billion in tax breaks, averaging roughly $311,000 per taxpayer. Working families, meanwhile, face rising food prices, housing insecurity, and the collapse of public services.
To finance this elite windfall, the bill slashes the social floor. Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding face between $911 billion and $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. These reductions land hardest in rural America, where hospitals rely heavily on public reimbursement and serve poorer, aging populations. This is not fiscal discipline. It is extraction.
Rural Hospitals as Sacrifice Zones
The results are already visible. Since the bill’s passage, rural clinics and hospital wards have closed or downsized across Virginia, Georgia, Oregon, and New Hampshire. Maternity wards have disappeared. Staff have been laid off. Emergency care now requires hours of travel.
Researchers estimate that more than 700 rural hospitals—nearly half of all rural facilities—are at risk of closure, with 338 classified as high-risk due to their dependence on Medicaid. The administration’s response, a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund spread over five years, covers less than a third of projected losses. A society that cannot safely deliver babies but can always fund bombs has already revealed its moral priorities.
ICE Terror as Domestic Governance
As social protections are stripped away, repression fills the vacuum. During Trump’s first year back in office, immigration enforcement shifted from deterrence to terror. Detention capacity expanded rapidly, targeting not only undocumented migrants with criminal records but also families, workers, and asylum seekers.
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Book Description
The True Adventures of King Musk Rat and Ronald the Snake
By Norris R. McDonald
is gripping political allegory, in which the intrigues of King Musk Rat tell a tale of power, betrayal, and the insatiable hunger for control.
King Musk Rat has built an empire on deception, greed, and ruthless ambition. From humble beginnings, he clawed his way to the throne, manipulating alliances, seizing wealth, and silencing those who dared to oppose him. His rule is absolute, his kingdom drowning in corruption, but behind the golden walls of his palace, shadows lurk, whispers of rebellion and betrayal.
King Musk Rat rises to power through cunning and deceit, transforming a thriving kingdom into a realm of greed and oppression. His rule casts a dark shadow over the land, draining its resources and subjugating the hardworking animals that built his empire. But as tyranny deepens, so does the whisper of rebellion.
Ronald the Snake, is a cunning orator with a hypnotic charm and an insatiable thirst for power. He and King Musk Rat form an uneasy alliance, weaving a web of deception so intricate that even their closest advisors cannot see where loyalty ends, and treachery begins. But as riches flow and their empire expands, greed breeds paranoia.
The two form an alliance to get power but ultimately money, greed and the insatiable lust for power in both conniving allies lead to conflict.
Ronald, ever the opportunist, discovers that King Musk Rat is siphoning wealth from under his very nose. A silent war of manipulation begins, two masterminds, each plotting the other's downfall, each believing they are the ultimate predator.
Meanwhile, in the streets, the animals suffer under their rule. The beavers who once built the grand bridges are now beggars. The foxes who once traded in thriving markets are left with empty stalls. The raccoons who once farmed the land scavenge for scraps in the alleys of a dying kingdom. But in the darkness, a resistance grows.
As lies unravel and secrets come to light, King Musk Rat and Ronald the Snake must face the ultimate reckoning, each other. Who will out scheme the other? And will the kingdom survive the battle between two tyrants?
But when two masterminds betray each other, who will fall first?
Perfect for readers who love dark fantasy, political thrillers, and stories of rebellion, this novel will leave you questioning when the rulers fall, what remains?
The True Adventures of King Musk Rat and Ronald the Snake
By Norris R. McDonald
- A biting allegorical fable exposing the corruption of money, tech power, and politics.
- “Musk Rat” and “Ronald the Snake” stand in for real-world archetypes of greed, betrayal,
- and dystopia.
- Echoes the tradition of George Orwell, Franz Kafka, and Animal Farm — but with a
- Caribbean/Jamaican sharp-edge “Bitta Truth” style.
- Satire that blends animal fable + dystopian critique — accessible yet piercing.
- A Satirical Allegory of Power, Greed, and Collapse
- A Political Fable of America’s Descent into Chaos
- A Dark Allegory of Money, Corruption, and Betrayal
King Musk Rat has built an empire on deception, greed, and ruthless ambition. From humble beginnings, he clawed his way to the throne, manipulating alliances, seizing wealth, and silencing those who dared to oppose him. His rule is absolute, his kingdom drowning in corruption, but behind the golden walls of his palace, shadows lurk, whispers of rebellion and betrayal.
King Musk Rat rises to power through cunning and deceit, transforming a thriving kingdom into a realm of greed and oppression. His rule casts a dark shadow over the land, draining its resources and subjugating the hardworking animals that built his empire. But as tyranny deepens, so does the whisper of rebellion.
Ronald the Snake, is a cunning orator with a hypnotic charm and an insatiable thirst for power. He and King Musk Rat form an uneasy alliance, weaving a web of deception so intricate that even their closest advisors cannot see where loyalty ends, and treachery begins. But as riches flow and their empire expands, greed breeds paranoia.
The two form an alliance to get power but ultimately money, greed and the insatiable lust for power in both conniving allies lead to conflict.
Ronald, ever the opportunist, discovers that King Musk Rat is siphoning wealth from under his very nose. A silent war of manipulation begins, two masterminds, each plotting the other's downfall, each believing they are the ultimate predator.
Meanwhile, in the streets, the animals suffer under their rule. The beavers who once built the grand bridges are now beggars. The foxes who once traded in thriving markets are left with empty stalls. The raccoons who once farmed the land scavenge for scraps in the alleys of a dying kingdom. But in the darkness, a resistance grows.
As lies unravel and secrets come to light, King Musk Rat and Ronald the Snake must face the ultimate reckoning, each other. Who will out scheme the other? And will the kingdom survive the battle between two tyrants?
But when two masterminds betray each other, who will fall first?
Perfect for readers who love dark fantasy, political thrillers, and stories of rebellion, this novel will leave you questioning when the rulers fall, what remains?
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