Aides Say Trump’s First Priorities Will Be Drilling And Deportations

According to Donald Trump’s aides, his first priorities (Day 1, they claim) will be to begin their mass deportation plans and to expand fossil fuel drilling on every available piece of land. Trump claims that the drilling will ease inflation, which has already reached normal levels. But the mass deportations are going to have a devastating effect on the economy that will be nearly impossible to recover from during his next term. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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The day after the election this week, multiple different aids and staffers to Donald Trump's campaign went out there in the media as part of their victory lap, admitting that he's got two day one priorities. And these two day one priorities, of course, are drilling and deportation. Donald Trump coming into office with his double D drilling and deportation. Now we know the deportation plans and his campaign was very explicit. Caroline Levitt, the, uh, spokesperson for the campaign, said they are already working on the logistics of deporting 20 to 25 million people out of this country like that, which as economists have warned us, will immediately destroy the US economy grinding us almost to a halt completely. But in spite of the warnings from the very smart people who do this for a living, the Trump campaign says, we don't care. We're gonna get 'em outta here. So deal with it. And unfortunately, this is something Donald Trump can do via executive order. You know, the enemy aliens or alien enemies act. He can do that and we cannot stop him.

That that, that I think is why a lot of people, by the way, are feeling so despondent right now. Not that it happened, but that the things he wants to do, we are literally powerless to stop. So those mass deportations, they're working on plans already. They started working on them before Michigan was even called on Wednesday. They had gone out in the media and made these claims. Michigan, of course, ended up going to Donald Trump, giving him an even bigger mandate. They say, so this will happen and we cannot stop it. We also cannot stop the economic destruction that comes along with it. And if economic destruction is not enough for you, how about a little environmental destruction? Because I mentioned the double Ds. We've got the deportations and the drilling because Donald Trump aid, uh, Jason Miller admitted the morning after the election that yeah, drilling. He's gonna go through executive action and open up pretty much all available lands in this country for fossil fuel exploitation. I'm talking fracking, I'm talking oil drilling, whatever it is, we're opening this country up because Donald Trump somehow believes that's going to get inflation under control, right? The reason you're paying more for eggs and milk at the grocery store is not due to corporate greed. Oh God, no. Trump has told us repeatedly on the campaign trail, it's

Because, because of energy prices, right? Even though that's not even close to being true, and for the record, the reason you're paying more right now is also not because of actual inflation. Inflation's down to 2.1%, which is normal in inflation, has gone back to normal levels. The reason you are paying those high prices is because of corporate greed, 100%. That, by the way, was not a talking point that the corporate media was covering during the election. Oh, voters are concerned about the inflation. What do we do about inflation? Y'all couldn't talk about the corporate greed driving up the prices of everything we buy, because every time you cut to commercial break, it's those same corporations who are screwing us over. It doesn't matter if you're a liberal network like M-S-N-B-C or a middle of the road one, like CNN allegedly, no, you all get your money from the same advertisers. So you couldn't tell the public the truth about why we're paying higher prices, which of course is why most Americans think inflation's out of control, when in reality it is literally back to normal.