The Weakness of a Convicted Criminal President Donald Trump, Becomes More Apparent Every Day.

 The signs of a weak President Trump raises it's ugly head every day with more frequency.  His latest weakness being the federal shutdown using excuses and blaming others.  He even stooped to the low of blaming the shutdown on the Labor Department not being able to report the latest job numbers for September.  The job market is so weak, he is afraid to reveal the numbers.  

America has not seen a President so weak as President Trump after only 9 months in office.  Everything related to the economy is in shambles and chaotic, no end to his trade tariff war that has hurt America and its people, mass shootings and gun violence deaths are on the rise, unemployment is up, the use of our military domestically for political purposes displays a weakness never seen before, chaotic relationship with America's long standing allies, a stooge of Putin and everything Trump touches becomes toxic.  His weakness in allowing ICE federal agents wear face covering to hide their identity is so un-American and so un-Democratic and against everything a free country thrives on.

Just recently, New York's representative in congress, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez explained how Trump's power is one of perception fanned by personal attacks, threats and intimidation.  Everything related to the federal government is in disorder and chaotic because of Trump' weakness as a leader.  

Convicted criminals like Trump display their weakness and corruption and it was all there to see before the election, and so was his lack of mental acuity.  It is past time for the media to recognize Trump's weakness as a leader and how he and his party are just a bunch of Clowns who lack any evidence of leadership.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio 

A "Guest Columnist" Informs the People of New Orleans On An Important Matter.

 Jeff Asher, in his "guest column" published in the New Orleans Advocate dated 10/3/25 titled, "Data shows National Guard not needed in our city" explains why, better than anything offered on the subject matter by the paper's editorial board.  Jeff's article also reported how crime in New Orleans has dramatically improved since the city was the murder capital of the country in 2022 and that we should appreciate just how far this city has progressed in the last few years.

Murder is down more than 60% since the 2022 peak, carjackings down more than 80%, car theft and car burglary down 70% and explains what has contributed to the improvements in the way of people and organizations that have responded so well to the problems. 

Jeff continues, deploying the National Guard with no training in law enforcement, potentially against the will of the people does none of this by lowering the morale of the men and women trying to serve their country.  The violent crime trend in D.C. is virtually unchanged in the aftermath of the federal intervention.  Violent crime was falling before the deployment and is falling at a similar rate now.  The data from D.C. does show the possibility of very real costs to New Orleans should the Guard be deployed here.  There is growing evidence that fewer people are out and about in D.C. and this change in mobility is hurting local business.

New Orleans has seen vast progress against many of the city's very worse problems over the last few years.  These problems are by no means solved and denying this progress and trying to solve them by deploying armed soldiers for a poorly defined mission for which they are trained, is by no means the solution.

Jeff's article is one of facts and data assembled which gives the clearest picture yet on the subject matter.  Those who are doing their best to use the subject as their political tool will pay the price for their ignorance and only do more harm to our men and women in uniform who serve their country proudly.  Our armed forces deserve better and Democracy is still why America is a great country.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Trump and The Republican Party's Government Shutdown.

 The Trump administration and the Republican Controlled U.S. Congress run the federal government and therefore own and are responsible for the latest government shutdown.  It was actually predictable because in the very first Trump administration, they shutdown the government 3 times.  Twice in 2018 and once in the latter part of 2018 which carried over until the early part of 2019.  That shutdown lasted 35 days and is still a record.  

The present shutdown in Trump's second term could be predicted also because Trump said a shutdown may be needed.  He wants one to destroy the federal government as we know it so he can satisfy his thirst to be a dictator and rule over everyone and everything.  That is why he is threatening to lay off government workers to try and scare the people.  Dictators thrive on fear.  Trump and his party also need someone or something to blame for his failing economy, a stand still job market, higher unemployment and higher inflation than when Biden left office.  The President is also showing his lack of mental acuity and becoming more violent in his rhetoric.

Trump's enabling media still see no evil, hear no evil or report no evil concerning his pathetic actions as President.  They were aware the shutdown was coming but would rather play the blame game like Trump and his party and the conservatives negative voices to justify Trump's ego.  Nine months in office and there is still no sanity in the Trump White House or the GOP controlled congress. 

And that really says it all.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio  

Does Any Sane Person Really Believe That Landry and Cassidy Are At Odds Concerning COVID?

 In an article published in the New Orleans Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate dated 9/11 titled, "Landry scolds Cassidy on COVID vaccine, the article projects that the Governor and U.S. Senator are at odds.  Everyone knows that the GOP are playing political games with the COVID vaccine and how it played a role in ending the pandemic and helped put America back to work.  

The bottom line to the subject is that President Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services knowing he had no experience for the job and was unfit to serve.  It did not matter because Trump wanted to break up the agency like other agencies and was negative on the benefit of COVID just like Kennedy.  Governor Landry and Senator Cassidy are both Trump ditto heads, with few exceptions.  They both not only supported Kennedy but Cassidy voted in committee to approve his appointment.  And of course, chaos has taken over and the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing so the Agency has no real policy on COVID.  That would not have been the case if Trump did not appointed Kennedy or if Cassidy and his committee had rejected Kennedy.  

Neither Landry or Cassidy are in a position to scold each other because they were aware of Kennedy's unfitness to run the Agency and could see the Chaos that has been taken place.  Kennedy just represented another appointed by Trump to take up time and space and of course his party followed by the good ditto heads they are for Trump.  There is no such thing as governing in the Trump administration.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio 

So, Who Is This President Who wants To See Prayers In Public Schools?

 Everyone knows his name, but the news media will never define who he is.  They enable him, publish and report his lies, misinformation and his unsupported personal attacks on others and give him all the media time he wants because of his ego.  The media actually have the facts on how to define him but refuse to do so.  PolitiDose commentary will.

President Trump is a convicted criminal, found guilty on 34 felony counts by a jury of his peers.  He is a sexual abuser and found so by a federal court jury who found he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and was fined $5 million for defamation.  A second jury on a second defamation claim by the same person found he defamed her once again and awarded her $83 million.  That award was confirmed by a federal appeals court just recently.  He is a fraudster, and has settled more than one fraud suit for millions of dollars.  He also betrayed his country, the people, the constitution and his oath of office when he sent a rioting mob to the nation's capital on Jan. 6, 2021 to try and over turn the Presidential election that he lost.  And after being elected to a second term pardoned many of those rioters who were found guilty in a court of law and sentenced. That was a lawless act that turned his back on law and order and due punishment.  

That is the President who wants to use schools and prayers for political purposes to sidestep America's separation of church and state that has served the country well and helped make America the great country it is.  Trump has proved by his actions he represents division, lacks morals both in his actions and his rhetoric.  It is also past time for the media to turn the page on Trump and tell the real story of his unfitness to serve in the White House.  They should also ask themselves, how they could have allowed such negative comments by Trump flood the news cycle to the tune that everything in America is negative.  That is not America, but unfortunately everything coming out of Trump and the media is negative.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio  

  

The Terrible Job Creation Record of President Donald Trump and PAST GOP Aministrations.

 President Trump in his first term in office and so far in his ninth month of his second term continue the terrible job creation record of past GOP administrations for the past 96 years.  The record goes back to GOP President Herbert Hoover who was elected in 1929.  So, there is precedent and a historical record of job creation during that period of both Democratic and Republican administrations that allow one to project what job creation will look like during future administrations.  That is the criteria PolitiDose commentary has used to correctly predict what job creation would take place on Bush 43 watch, Obama's watch, Trump's watch and Biden's watch.  And also, what is taking place in Trump's second term so far this year. 

During that 96 year period from the Hoover administration to the Biden administration, only two administrations lost jobs and both were Republicans Hoover who lost 6.4 million jobs and Trump who lost 2.7 million jobs during his first term in office.  The job creation record of those Presidents are as follows:   Hoover lost 6.4 million jobs;  Roosevelt created 16.2 million jobs;  Roosevelt/Truman created 8.2 million jobs;  Eisenhower created 3.5 million jobs;  Kennedy/Johnson created 16,4 million jobs;  Nixon/Ford created 11.2 million jobs;  Carter created 10.3 million jobs;  Reagan created 16.1 million jobs;  Bush 41 created 2.5 million jobs;  Clinton created 22.7 million jobs;  Bush 43 created 1.3 million jobs;  Obama created 11.3 million jobs;  Trump lost 2.7 million jobs and Biden created 15 million jobs.  

Those GOP Presidents served 44 years and created a net 25.5 million jobs after subtracting their lost jobs.  Those Democratic Presidents served 52 years and created a net 100.1 million jobs without any lost jobs.  Those GOP Presidents created a yearly total of 579,545 jobs a year.  Those Democratic Presidents created a yearly total of 1,925,000 jobs per year.  Reagan was the best GOP job creator and created more than half of all GOP jobs.  Clinton was the best Democratic job creator and think of this.  Clinton created more jobs in just EIGHT YEARS than Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43 and Trump created in the TWENTY FOUR years they served.  And Reagan, Bush 43 and Trump cut taxes for you know who that was supposed to create so many additional jobs.  Clinton raised taxes on those same folks and the GOP said it would kill jobs, yeah, right.  Reagan was the only GOP President during those years that left office with a lower unemployment rate than when he took office.  Another indication how terrible the GOP are at creating jobs.  Every Democratic President with the exception of Carter left office with a lower unemployment rate than when they took office.  The unemployment rate stayed the same on Carter's watch.  Every GOP administration in the last 100 years has given the country an economic recession. Trump said he would create 25 million jobs in his first term and never came close, not even before the recession and the COVID pandemic hit.  Last week the Labor Department announced that so far this year Trump's job creation has average less than 70,000 per month.  Trump has now been President for 56 months and job creation is still in minus territory to the tune of almost 2 million lost jobs.

One of the sad outcomes of those 96 years of precedent and historical facts is the media's enabling the GOP talking points of Democratic administrations being job killers.  They just went with the flow of GOP lies and misinformation without reporting the actual facts on job creation.  And one of the worst is the New Orleans Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate.  Louisiana's little child representative in congress Steve Scalise has over and over again accused Democrats of being the party of job killers and of course the newspaper always runs with the story and never points out the true facts and just lets the lie continue.  It's like they are not aware of the factual numbers which are published by the U.S. Department of Labor.  And to think it is the media who tells us they have the duty to inform the American people.

The 96 year record of precedent and historical facts tells the story of a Republican Party who are terrible at creating jobs and keeping unemployment low and keeping people working.  Their lies and misinformation may be believed by many but it does not change the facts or put America to work or change the well being of people.  PolitiDose commentary will continue to predict the future based on precedent and historical truths.  It is really nothing new as the world's very first civilization, that of the Sumerians said 6,000 years ago,  "The key to a better future is to understand the mistakes of the past.  Otherwise, the future will look like the failed past."

And as of this writing, the GOP's future looks like the failed past of the last 96 years.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Note:  Job numbers and unemployment numbers taken from the records of the U.S. Labor Department.

The U.S. Economy, Job Creation and the Unemployment Rate for August 2025.

 The U.S. Labor Department announced that the economy created a weak 22,000 jobs in August and that the unemployment rate came in at 4.3%, it was 4.2% in July and 4% when Biden left office so unemployment is up 0.3% on Trump's watch so far this year.  The Department also announced that June's job numbers were reduced down to a negative 13,000 jobs.  It was the first monthly job loss since November 2020 during Trump's first term in office.

In August of 2021, the first year of Biden's term in office the economy created 235,000 jobs and the unemployment rate came in at 5.2%, down from the 6.3% when Trump left office.  With all the revisions the Labor Department has mad for Trump's first 8 months in office. approximately 600,000 jobs have been created.  During the same period of time during Biden's term in office over 3 million jobs were created.  The tremendous difference is no surprise to those who are familiar with the facts over the past 96 years.  

For Trump, the GOP, the negative voices of doom and gloom during the Biden years and the media who reported the negative voices on the Biden economy was nothing but their BS.  But PolitiDose commentary in December 2024 and January 2025 predicted what would take place in Trump administration #2 because of precedent and the past history of GOP administrations over the last 96 years.  

And as it has turned out the past 8 months, the future of Trump and the GOP is like their failed past.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

President Trump Will Not Serve Out His Four Year Term In Office.

 The day he leaves office is not certain, but the day is certain to come.  the reasons are so obvious and exhausting and visible every moment and day.  The details have already been exposed.  His every day exposure of governing is chaotic, uncertain, toxic for everything he touches, a thirst for dictatorship to rule over people's lives, the government itself, private functions, education, a disregard for the constitution, law and order and the judicial system.  A hateful attitude toward veterans who sends the National Guard for domestic operations as his political tool which is a disgrace to our armed forces.

Trump's age, his mental unfitness for office, a lack of respect for everything that matters.  The coming of a severe economic recession of his own doing, a continuing rise in inflation and a GOP party of ditto heads who look the other way and refuse to carry out their duties as members of congress.  It will all come to a head, explode and Trump will be over run by the extent of the damage.  He will have no choice, leave or be impeached once again for the third time.  This time he will be convicted by the senate 

More than enough of his coward GOP ditto heads in congress will still be cowards and vote against him to save their own self sorry political life.  They will join the majority democrats and vote with them to oust the convicted criminal Trump.  And the day the criminal leaves office, America the Beautiful will be Beautiful once again.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Two Phony Law and Order Elected Officials. President Donald Trump and Louisiana GOP Governor Jeff Landry.

 President Trump's rap sheet is a long one well aware of by the people.  A convicted criminal (34 felony counts) a sexual abuser, a fraudster and a President who betrayed his oath of office when he sent his mob rioters to the nation's capital in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 to try and overturn the Presidential election using force.  His many attacks against judges, the rule of law and the constitution are well known.  So now, he puts the spotlight back on Washington D.C. by sending in the National Guard to take control of a local matter called a crime emergency that does not exist.  The Guard will just be there as a fixture and the hard work will still be done by the local governing body.

Trump's phony law and order action came 4 years and 6 months too late.  He failed to send the National Guard to D.C. on Jan 6 when he ordered his riot mob to attack the capitol and stop the carnage.  In fact he refused to do so even after his advisers advised him to do so.  It was his own lawless mob and he was not about to stop it and restore law and order.  Trump's latest Guard move in D.C. was just a political move to deflect from his problem concerning Jeffery Epstein, his tariffs, his failure on Ukraine and a chaotic administration of ignorance.

In a Times Picayune article of 8/19/25 we learn that Louisiana's little boy governor Jeff Landry, a well known Trump ditto head, is sending 135 National Guard troops to D.C.to assist Trump's effort there.  The article quoted Landry as saying:  WE ARE A NATION OF LAW AND ORDER.  OUR CAPITAL IS A REFLECTION OF OUR NATIONS RESPECT, BEAUTY AND STANDARDS.  WE CANNOT ALLOW OUR CITIES TO BE OVERCOME BY VIOLANCE AND LAWLESSNESS.  I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT THEIR MISSION TO RETURN SAFETY AND SANITY TO WASHINGTON D.C.

That Landry's quote applies to what took place on Jan 6, 2021 in Washington D.C. when Trump sent his uncontrolled riot mob to the capital, not what is taking place at this time in D.C.  Does any one remember Landry making this statement on Jan 6 when the nation's capital was being disrespected and abused?  Trump even pardoned all those rioters who were convicted for their lawlessness.  On that day, the capital was overcome by violence and there was no safety and sanity.  Trump by his own actions prove he is no supporter of law and order.  And his party is right behind him.

Trump and many in his party are still trying to sell the lie that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged.  And now, Trump and his party are trying to rig future elections with their redistricting plans to change the voting maps.  The FBI's past stats on crime year in and year out show that 7 out of the 10 top states that lead in crime are governed by the GOP.  

And that really says it all.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Louisiana Loses $156 Million Solar Energy Fund Thanks To Trump, The GOP and Louisiana's Voters Who Voted For Trump.

 In a Times Picayune story of August 9 Louisiana was notified that the fund, already approved and granted to Louisiana was cancelled by the EPA and that the funds no longer existed.  The $156 million for Louisiana was part of a $7 billion program for solar energy.  The monies were part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund approved by the Biden administration's signature climate legislation, The Inflation Reduction Act passed by the democratic controlled congress.

Thanks to Trump and the GOP's recently passed One Big Ugly Bill, the solar energy funds were cancelled.  Louisiana voters elected Trump and the GOP representing Louisiana in congress even though they were aware of their opposition to Biden's policy on solar energy.  This decision comes only weeks after Trump announced he was cancelling wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico that Louisiana was depending on to develop.

The Times Picayune article disclosed that approximately 15,000 Louisiana households were expected to benefit from the program and Louisiana's Energy Department had earlier stressed how the program to generate 112 megawatts of solar power would positively impact the state.  States with democratic leaderships and other organizations across the country are signaling they will fight the EPA's termination of the funds. 

Everyone in Louisiana understands how important alternate energy resources are to the people and the state and how alternate energy can reduce the toxic pollution industries are known to produce.  The $7 billion investment in solar energy for the nation and Louisiana's portion of $156 million is a reasonable and productive venue.  But Trump and the GOP's one big UGLY bill changed all of that.  

Louisiana may be a Trump and GOP state for politics, but that does not make it a good state for the people's needs and well being.  It is playing out front and center and the worst is yet to come.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio