Meidas Touch - Donald Trump's Shutdown Scam is on Full Display

We are nearly 24 hours away from another Donald Trump–engineered government shutdown. This isn’t just chaos for chaos’s sake. This is a calculated plan by Trump to hide the truth about the economy, silence the data, and gaslight Americans into believing his fantasyland propaganda.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that reports inflation numbers, job growth, GDP, wages, and virtually every indicator that tells us how ordinary people are actually living, has announced they will suspend operations the second the government shutters. No more data. No more transparency. And that’s exactly what Trump wants. “If we stop testing, we’d have fewer cases,” Trump declared during the COVID pandemic. He’s now applying that logic to disastrous economic data.

This is the same Trump who already fired the previous commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers didn’t match his golden-age fairytale. He doesn’t want you to know the truth. He doesn’t want you to see what’s happening in your grocery aisle, at the car dealership, or in your dwindling bank account. He wants to shut off the lights, padlock the door, and keep lying about how great everything is while Americans sink deeper into recession.

Trump keeps babbling about a “golden age.” Maybe he’s talking about the tacky 24-karat wallpaper in his White House or the new billion-dollar Saudi real estate deal his family just inked. But for the American people, it’s anything but golden. Grocery prices hit record highs in 2025. Truck sales are collapsing, an almost surefire indicator of a recession. The Dallas Fed’s Manufacturing Index shows the economy is in contraction. Families are living paycheck to paycheck. Hospitals and nursing homes are closing.

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