The regime’s faux Christians announce the defunding of children’s cancer research with smiles on their faces and crosses dangling from their necks. Low-wealth individuals and families should lose health care coverage because MAGAs want to give tax cuts to billionaires.

Autistic children are stigmatized by a nepo baby who heads the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The deranged conspiracy theorist then whines that when autistic children grow up they don’t pay taxes. Many do, but Muskrat doesn’t.

Speaking of that Nazi-saluting peeping Tom, he paid a quarter of a billion dollars to get into the Mad King’s court. He was then granted access to federal agencies, embedding handpicked underlings, including a teenager nicknamed “Big Balls,” to neuter the agencies that oversee his businesses and destroy the careers of federal workers.

Another young underling with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergraduate degree is working for Muskrat’s snooper team at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite HUD regulations. Muskrat and his team of misfits have also been given access to the personal data of millions of Americans.

The recent Rolling Stone headline “Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer” proves there is no bottom to MAGA depravity. Two families — among them three U.S. citizens aged 2, 4, and 7 — were abruptly deported under “troubling circumstances,” the ACLU of Louisiana told Rolling Stone.

All this time, resources, and taxpayer money spent to hunt down sick children, pro-Palestinian activists, a student opinion writer, a breastfeeding mother, a father who had the audacity to wear a Chicago Bulls hat, doctors, tourists, and others here legally, or even not, does absolutely nothing to address rising food prices, homelessness, growing inequity, a broken health care system, the climate crisis, or the loss of biodiversity.

None of us are better off from this barbarity. Didn’t we fight wars against Nazis and the Taliban?

“Deportation Don,” as Rolling Stone has dubbed the Mad King, and his cesspool of sycophants (basket of deplorables was far too kind) want to cause copious pain and suffering, most notably to the marginalized and voiceless. It’s how these degenerates entertain themselves. Hurting the powerless brings them joy.

The Mad King has asserted that undocumented immigrants and others his Brownshirts grab shouldn’t be entitled to trials, insisting that his regime should be able to deport them without appearing before a judge. The U.S. Constitution and at least a dozen judges say otherwise.

One federal judge has said the regime deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

In the first 100 days of the Mad King’s vile revival, few if any of his petty executive orders attempted to solve a problem. Most created more, or took away rights, degraded public health, attacked the environment, punished specific groups, and/or broke the law.

At a rally last week in Michigan to celebrate their king, the ghouls played a propaganda video of chained prisoners taken illegally from U.S. streets being tossed around by goons and having their heads shaved at a notorious prison in El Salvador. The Mad King smiles, the regime dubs it “100 Days of Greatness,” and the cult cheers and chants “U-S-A.”

Sick.

In reality, those 100 days felt like a lifetime, and did nothing but stoke fear, spread lies, and enrich the few at the expense of many — the regime’s holy trinity.

A Guardian analysis of research by Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and regime announcements found the Mad King “launched an unprecedented assault upon the environment,” instigating 145 actions to undo laws protecting clean air, water, and a livable climate in just three months — more rollbacks than were enacted during his entire first term.

The analysis noted this “blitzkrieg has hit almost every major policy to shield Americans from toxic pollution, curb the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and protect landscapes, oceans, forests and imperiled wildlife.”

On April 22, the White House issued a delusion titled “On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science.”

Yet, during the Mad King’s first go around, he theorized bleach and light could cure COVID. His private golf resort in South Florida recently hosted one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a form of industrial bleach that Andreas Kalcker has claimed without evidence to be a cure for arthritis, autism, cancer, COVID, diabetes, hepatitis, and (probably) erectile dysfunction.

The ludicrously named “Truth Seekers Conference” also featured anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and a nauseating assortment of carnival barkers.

Following a 5-year-old boy’s death from multiple organ failure, which is consistent with chlorine dioxide poisoning, Argentinian authorities in 2021 charged Kalcker with falsely promoting chlorine dioxide as a medical cure. The toxic bleach is commonly used to treat wood products.

In his second go around in the Oval Office, the Mad King appointed to be the regime’s top health official a severely unqualified fiend who has questioned germ theory and instead has touted miasma theory, a long-ago abandoned medical notion that held that diseases, such as cholera, chlamydia, and the bubonic plague, were caused by a noxious form of “bad air.” The theory held that epidemics were caused by miasma emanating from rotting organic matter — like a worm-addled brain?

The science-deficient Earth Day memo outlined “key actions” the Mad King is taking on the environment. Among them are “cutting wasteful regulations” such as “restrictive emissions rules for coal plants” and “protecting public lands” by opening more federal lands and waters to fossil fuel and mineral extraction.

In following his Earth Day lead, House MAGAs last week passed a measure that would repeal the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s decision to place California’s longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish, on the endangered species list. MAGAs believe the fish is leading to reduced water deliveries.

This insanity is just the tip of the melting iceberg that is flooding this country in ignorance, hate, and lies. No one is safe, not even the seditionists who are enabling this terrorist attack.

When the Health and Human Services secretary with the famous last name isn’t spouting nonsense about autism, fluoride, and vaccines, he wants to terminate a $56 million annual grant program that distributes naloxone — a medicine that reverses an opioid overdose, typically sold under the brand name Narcan — and trains emergency responders to administer it.

MAGA concern about the dangers of fentanyl, a rapid-acting synthetic opiate, stops at the border. The regime abuses the epidemic to send whomever it wants to foreign gulags.

During an April 30 televised cabinet meeting, where the Mad King’s minions publicly slobbered all over their menacing messiah, the country’s superbly unqualified attorney general spectacularly lied.

She ridiculously claimed the 3,400 kilos (7,500 pounds) of fentanyl seized in the Mad King’s first 100 days saved 258 million lives. The total U.S. population is 340 million. The regime wants you to believe the Mad King saved three-quarters of us from a crisis they have used as an excuse to kidnap people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were 57,997 synthetic opioid-related deaths from September 2023 to August 2024. From 2018 through 2022, 985 children aged 1-17 died from opioid ingestion, according to the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention.

Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the CDC. In 2024, for the third straight year, firearms killed more children and teens, ages 1-17, than any other cause including cancer, car crashes, and fentanyl. MAGAs, though, stand their ground on gun talk.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 39,345 people died in traffic crashes last year. Of the 42,514 traffic fatalities in 2022, 1,129 were children 14 and younger. In response, MAGAs fret about public (white) safety on subway cars carrying Black and brown people.

“Kids are dying every day because they’re taking this junk laced with something else; they don’t know what they are taking,” Pam Bondi preached during last month’s televised bootlicking. “They think they are buying a Tylenol or an Adderall, a Xanax, and it’s laced with fentanyl and they’re dropping dead, and no longer because of you, what you have done.”

The Mad King cares so much about kids that the regime is planning to cancel tens of millions of dollars in grants to scientists studying environmental hazards faced by children. The grants are designed to address, among other things, improving the health of children in rural America who have been exposed to pesticides from agriculture and preventing toxic forever chemicals from contaminating the U.S. food supply.

ProPublica recently reported the regime is putting children at risk by cutting funds and staff for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, and providing child care. Head Start preschools, which teach toddlers their ABCs and feed them healthy meals, will likely be forced to shut down, and funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children, responding to reports of missing children, and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.

Last month hundreds of millions in federal grants meant to prevent and respond to gun violence, opioid addiction, and support victims of violent crimes were cut by the Mad King. The Department of Justice emailed some 350 organizations to tell them that the promised funding was being terminated.

By the way, naloxone can reverse the effects of fentanyl. The Mad King can only make opioid addiction and fentanyl poisoning worse. Just like he did during the pandemic.

Note: Detailed plans for a potential North Korea-like military parade in June to pay homage to the Mad King call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands, and possibly a few thousand civilians. The spectacle would happen on June 14, the 250th birthday of the Army and the narcissist’s own birthday. It would likely cost tens of millions.

Frank Carini can be reached at [email protected]. His opinions don’t reflect those of ecoRI News.