Like all recent U.S. Presidents, Trump is owned by only American billionaires.

25 January 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Because at the very top, the U.S. Government — both in the Democratic and in the Republican Parties — is owned by American billionaires, not by the American people nor any other individuals, Trump also is, though he reflects the policies of perhaps a smaller percentage of his Party’s billionaires than recent U.S. Presidents have reflected of their Party’s billionaires. (Obviously, to reflect the policies of ONLY one’s megadonors means that the given country is an aristocracy instead of a democracy, because in a democracy, the Government does NOT favor the rich against the poor.)

The January 24th issue of the Democratic Party propaganda-organ, the week-in-summary news magazine The Week, led with its “Editor’s letter” from their Editor-in-Chief Theunis Bates, and headlined it online “Big tech's big pivot: How Silicon Valley's corporate titans learned to love Trump”, which said:

Corporate America has a message for Donald Trump: We believe what you believe. In the months since the Republican's election victory, Big Business has been working frenetically to erase any evidence of "woke" or un-Trumpy tendencies. Diversity, equity, and inclusion departments have been axed; climate-change groups have been abandoned; and anything bearing a trans flag has been shredded. Executives who once spouted progressive pablum are now talking like MAGA true believers. Just hours after killing his company's DEI programs and fact-check systems last week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast to bemoan how society has become "emasculated." It's a positive that America is returning to a culture that "celebrates the aggression a bit more," said Zuckerberg. "Masculine energy is good." He flexed his own masculine energy a few days later, announcing a 5 percent cut to Meta's workforce.

Some liberal Meta employees were stunned by this pivot. "What happened to the company I joined all those years ago?" one wrote on an internal message board. "Wow, we really capitulated on a lot of our supposed values," another posted. Yet you can't capitulate on values you never really held. Zuckerberg has long preached the merits of a connected world, yet is currently building a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker at his estate in Hawaii — complete with blast-proof doors and its own energy and food supplies — to keep that world out. …

That excerpt’s final clause, “to keep the world out” is, of course false — that’s not the reason why Zuckerberg paid to have “a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker at his estate in Hawaii — complete with blast-proof doors.” The reason why he did that — and why many billionaires and centimillionaires in America do — is because they are part-owners of the U.S. Government’s ‘Defense’ Department’s contractors, the profiteers from war, such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon (RTX), and now increasingly Amazon Web Services, SpaceX, Starlink, Alphabet, and other Silicon Valley international corporations. It’s collectively called the ‘Defense’ sector of the U.S. Stock Market, and it differs from all others because its customers are virtually only the U.S. Government and its colonies (‘allies’); and its profitability blows away that of other industrials, and of the general stock market, and has done so ever since 1991 when the Soviet Union (which they all had been hoping ultimately to capture INCLUDING Russia itself) ended. So, whereas the Cold War ended on the Russian side, in 1991, it secretly has CONTINUED of the U.S. side. Trump, like ALL recent Presidents, is owned by ONLY the U.S. billionaire-class, of now around a thousand individuals.

In 1776, Americans threw out Britain’s aristocracy, but ever since 25 July 1945, the U.S. has been controlled by the American aristocracy, and so the ONLY way toward freedom and democracy now is a Second American Revolution, this one being against America’s OWN super-super-rich — nothing merely partisan between Republicans versus Democrats (both sides, each of which side is controlled ONLY by its billionaires). Trump, like all other recent Presidents, represents ONLY billionaires, especially his top donors. Many people, such as Whitney Webb, blame instead organized crime — the illegally rich psychopaths, who sometimes are hired by billionaires, the CIA, or etc., to get hit-men etc. to do a job for the billionaires, but it is only the megadonors, who are all billionaires and a few centi-millionaires (but in either case individuals who legally produced their huge fortunes), who actually control the U.S. Government. It’s a one-dollar-one-vote country, not a one-person-one-vote country. Only the promises that were made to the megadonors get fulfilled by the Government. The Republican and the Democratic Parties’ policies differ from each other but both are ultimately in agreement that the privately held wealth and not the voters (whose views are shaped by the organizations that the billionaires control) should control this country. They don’t SAY that, but the scientific studies all show that this is the reality here. If Trump will violate this rule, he’ll probably be assassinated, like JFK was. I still doubt that he would do any such thing.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.