Financial collapse is coming. This has been in the cards for decades; it has been written about endlessly and the relevant factors described by many experts and observers.
America's national debt is $39 trillion as of April 2026 -- and that doesn't count the much LARGER hidden debt of unfunded liabilities (Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc etc).
When combined with the official national debt, total federal obligations could surpass $200 trillion.
Most people (including many here, I expect) would take the first sentence in this post as hyperbole. I assure you, it isn't. We are headed for a financial crisis that will make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like good times.
Correction: We WOULD BE headed for such a disaster if our President were anyone but Donald Trump.
I don't know, at least in any detail, how Trump plans to save America (and probably much of the world, as usual) from this seemingly unavoidable nightmare, nor do I expect it to be smooth sailing.
Naturally, Trump's push to cut regulatory overload, root out America's massive corruption, quit spending trillions of dollars fighting "climate change", and otherwise stop throwing our money down the drain (or worse), and other common-sense measures will help. By themselves, though, they'd not stop the collapse.
But that's not all Trump's doing, and planning to do. I'm pretty sure that some of those EOs that Trump authored in his first administration (such as one issued 12/21/2017 blocking assets by various classes of criminals, here and abroad) will be involved. Probably something related to the Federal Reserve, also. And . . . well, lots of things.
But Trump, the #1 modern student of The Art of War, has always kept his plans to himself, giving hints which may or may not be disinformation, but never letting the enemy see enough to really prepare. He surprises us all, constantly, whenever the issue involves conflict.
And putting America back on the path to prosperity DOES involve conflict, because our financial troubles have been created by thieves and tyrants working on a global scale.
I look forward (with some trepidation) to seeing how it all plays out.
Below, the article that triggered this particular train of thought:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay26/crisis-good-guys5-26.html
Remember: In a Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys'
The state has two monopolies it must protect whatever the cost: the monopoly on decreeing what is legal tender and on force.
We're entering an era in which push comes to shove will lead to immovable objects encountering irresistible forces. All sorts of verities and vanities will be bulldozed as kicking the can down the road descends into desperation to stave off collapse, a desperation that unleashes second order effects the desperate did not anticipate. The only responses at this late stage are even more desperate, so desperation is self-reinforcing.
I have no idea what Trump's plan is other than in broad strokes like ending the FED, balanced budget and living within our means, etc. (If he still or ever believed that). Trump gets smeared in the MSM for having five bankrupcies or whatever but to me that experience is an asset. He knows the country is bankrupt but has the experience and plan to get the US through it in one piece.
The situation reminds me of the wise saying that if you borrow a million dollars from the bank and you can't pay then YOU have a problem. If you borrow $100 million dollars from the bank and can't pay then WE have a problem, i.e. with a big enough debt the bank's future is also on the line. I think this is part of the strategy behind increasing the military spending to $1.5T before the credit line is cutoff. We've all probably heard of people who, when facing bankrupcy, run up their debt and credit cards before the inevitable.
Another angle is that there is no way to discharge $39T in explicit debt plus $160T in implicit debt obligations without some pain. If you run the numbers there is no possible way this can ever be paid off even with the most optimistic assumptions. The only path forward in clearing a bankrupcy is a mix of debt defaults, assets sales, growth and new income, i.e. fighting over who takes the loss + production. Note that more debt is not part of the solution. Moreover, this is the the last boomer presidency and once the younger gens take power they aren't going to be saddled with these debts. It would immediately lead to a revolt and probably a revolution that could destroy the country which I assume Trump is trying to avoid.
I don’t think he plans on paying any of it. I think they will print money like crazy and kick off hyperinflation, so the debt becomes worthless. I think in the process, everyone’s debt is wiped out. Now what happens to people’s saving I have no idea. Probably there will be winners and losers. It’s either hyperinflation to wipe out the debt and a return to the gold standard, or decades of crushing depression.
I expect they have a plan for all that.