Your Favorite President has big plans for the Deep State. He will hit them hard and fast, across multiple fronts simultaneously. In March 2023 he outlined a 10-point action plan (see below). This preceded Elon Musk’s onboarding. At Madison Square Garden Musk proposed slashing at least $2 trillion from the budget, a 30% cut. A good start, but far more must eventually be done to downsize Washington to a level sufficient to fulfill necessary functions without being overbearing. Cuts approaching 80% of the bureaucracy may eventually be anticipated, similar in magnitude to Musk’s Twitter firings. There’s plenty of fat.
Musk’s target met skepticism, something he’s often encountered before accomplishing the impossible. Skeptics are marooned in Business-as-Usual Land. A $2 trillion cut only prevents interest on the debt from continuing to compound. It avoids addressing the debt mountain. It also quickly becomes insufficient during an economic contraction when tax revenues decline. If FDR could lead a two-front global war with a total White House staff of under 200, that hints at what a peacetime federal government can look like.
Simultaneous with Musk’s assaults, RFK Jr. is preparing a pincer movement against another Deep State flank:
FDA's war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.
Trump 45 issued a hiring freeze and instructed each federal agency to prepare staff reduction plans. “Biden’s team . . . focused on the ‘decimation’ of the federal workforce during the Trump years and is committed to finding ways to rebuild it.” Trump intends to demand resignations of high-ranking military officials responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Among Trump’s first targets is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, overseeing Biden’s boondoggle to install 1,000 windmills off the East Coast as part of the Green New Steal. Ocean wind energy is intermittent and unreliable, plus about five times more expensive than other sources.
It is important not to conflate the overall budget with the Deep State. Trump’s comments below relate to the latter. The Deep State must be eliminated to protect us from tyranny. The budget must be slashed to assuage the Debt Monster. These are mutually supportive objectives. The credit cycle has reached the end of the road. As credit continues to contract, the economy will follow. Which means government revenues will also decline. After over a century of the Federal Reserves’ inflation, it’s a long way down from here. Wholesale budget reductions will soon not be optional. With over 400 PhD economists, the Federal Reserve is an easy target for reductions. “The Federal Reserve System is an agency or instrumentality of the Government of the United States . . .”
Trump noted his figure below of relocating 100,000 bureaucrats from Washington to the boondocks is an immediate number, presumably a fraction of the eventual amount. His list is merely an initial objective. More extensive steps, perhaps incorporating Project 2025 components, will follow. Congress will not impede reforms. Trump has successfully wielded the Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger treatment before. It’s unlikely he needs to make examples of congressional hacks again.
The Fake News industry is history, and also of little concern. Joe Rogan’s Trump podcast has received “well over 100 million” views across his various platforms. After nine years of Trump’s assaults, he emerges victorious.
Trump’s plan mentions only one constitutional amendment: congressional term limits. Qualified immunity for judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement must be addressed. The concept is a Supreme Court fabrication. The past eight years clarified that our judicial system is not about justice. Ask former Illinois Governor Blagojevich, railroaded by Obama, sprung from prison by Trump. Leaving this unaddressed means Andrew Weissmann, James Comey, various judges, FBI agents, etc. can continue tyrannizing Americans with impunity. A Constitutional Convention is probable because Congress is unlikely to initiate an amendment to limit its terms. To state the obvious, amendments addressing voting fraud and birthright citizenship are long overdue.
Keep one thing in mind in the coming years: Trump’s overarching historical mandate is to neuter Congress. A legislature is a necessary component of democracy, but America’s democratic era has concluded, drowning in an ocean of debt. Like it or not, the fact is we are entering into our pre-destined imperial phase marked by empowered executives able to advocate for the nation’s interests, not the parochial concerns of 50 states and 435 congressional districts, and their countless special interests. It was Congress (with willing presidents) that got us into impossible levels of debt and prosecuted gratuitous wars across the globe. Presidents have been increasingly concentrating power into the executive branch since at least Lincoln. FDR made the largest contribution to that effort.
Bad economic times ushered in FDR’s four administrations, laying the foundation for much of the ensuing chaos, debt, and government bloat. Bad economic times paved the way for Trump’s return. Thanks to over a century of accumulated debt, the economy is about to get far worse. But the main point is that Trump represents the antithesis to FDR. The government’s approach to the burgeoning economic crisis will be the opposite of the 1930s. Rather than more government, government reductions will be the response. When America eventually emerges from the crisis, it will be rejuvenated and on a sound economic and governmental footing that will carry it through the remainder of this century.
The 1848 Communist Manifesto was a response to rapid urbanization and the social dislocations this engendered. These issues were already working themselves out long before the New Deal, Great Society, Obama’s Hope and Change, and Bidenism were foisted on us in an effort to take America down communism’s dark hallway. Communism was a 19th Century concept unsuited to that era, hopelessly at odds with the current age. As Russia and China have now moved past their flirtation with that toxic formula, efforts to install it in America were doomed from the start.
To gain a sense of how radical a return to past norms Trump has planned, listen to this brief clip from incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, posted by Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Trump’s nomination of the 44-year old, double bronze star recipient is causing heads to explode in the military/industrial complex
Here's my plan to dismantle the Deep State and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all. And corruption it is.
● First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats and I will wield that power very aggressively.
● Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the Left’s political enemies — which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.
● Third, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong — or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it — they're lied to.
● Fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption — and there are plenty of them.
● Fifth, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges.
● Sixth, we will make every inspector General's Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State.
● Seventh, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign.
● Eighth, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington swamp, just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. As many as 100,000 government positions could be moved out, and I mean immediately, of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America — and they really do love America.
● Ninth, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with, and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. It doesn't work that way. Such a public display cannot go on and it's taking place all the time like with big Pharma.
● Finally, I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.
This is how I will shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people. Thank you very much.
There is so much to unpack merely in Trump’s 10 points above. He has far more in store. Publicizing the government’s past transgressions (#4) will open minds which have yet to be converted to MAGAism. The threat of criminal charges (#5) against leakers in the intelligence community is intended as a warning to prevent future transgressions during the incoming administration. Spying on the intelligence community (#7) to monitor its domestic abuses has been necessary since Eisenhower’s farewell address, when he foresaw problems Trump is only now addressing. His wish for “an alert and knowledgeable citizenry” has taken a while, but after Clinton/Obama/Biden/Harris, there are far more informed and aware citizens today than in 1961. Reagan played no small part in opening the nation’s eyes and ears to government propaganda, but it was Trump who carried the ball across the finish line.
Eisenhower:
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence —economic, political, even spiritual— is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. . . .
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Eisenhower’s prescience in foreseeing the rot in our universities corrupted by government funding; the mortgaging of our future through present spending; the rise of the military/industrial/intelligence complex; and the eventuality “that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite” was proven to be profound. The final point was certainly driven home by the fascism of faucism during the COVID pandemic.
Almost 63 years later, here we are, about to embark on a concerted effort to address Eisenhower’s concerns and reverse much of the intervening chaos. Two millennia ago, the Roman author Juvenal asked the enternal political question:
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guardians? Who will watch over the watchmen?
The answer, then as now, is ultimately the public. Trump was elected to counteract abusive elected and appointed government agents, those serving as guardians of the public trust. His 10-point plan contains multiple new safeguards to monitor these individuals.
Jerome Corsi raises valid points regarding the possibility the Deep State will pull out all stops to prevent Trump’s inauguration. Maybe. But this would appear unlikely. Signs of capitulation and resignation to Trump’s victory began appearing well before the election, and have multiplied in the aftermath. We also have a current president who despises Kamala Harris and will do everything possible to keep her from the Oval Office. The risk of failure is too great, and the consequences to conspirators behind a failed coup too extreme. The assassination attempts failed. They can not be endlessly repeated without triggering civil war. Plotters would have far more to lose from a failed coup than from a second Trump administration.