This isn’t 4-D chess from Trump.  He doesn’t have some master plan to take down the deep state.  If anything, Trump is part of the deep state at this point, but he is not helping the deep state with regard to public opinion.

Sometimes Trump looks like Inspector Gadget uncovering the criminal system we live under.  This doesn’t exactly work though because Inspector Gadget, while not bright, was a good guy.  Trump is often siding with the bad guys, yet he is exposing the bad guys and the system they work under.

The Federal Reserve

We have long been told that the Federal Reserve is supposed to be an independent body that guides our economy and doesn’t do things for political reasons.

Trump has blown up that whole notion.  He keeps attacking Jerome Powell (“Too Late Powell”) for not lowering interest rates.  It is not clear if Powell is refusing to lower the Fed’s target rate just to get at Trump, but who could blame the guy at this point if that plays into it at all?

On July 30, 2025, the FOMC released its latest statement on monetary policy.  It was widely expected that the Fed wouldn’t lower its target rate, and that is what happened.

The interesting thing is that two members of the committee dissented from the vote.  These were Trump appointees.  They obviously felt politically compelled to side with Trump and vote to lower the target rate.

The most interesting thing about this story is that it was the first time more than one person dissented on a vote since 1993.

Since Trump has been so vocal in opposing Powell, these two committee members felt the need to dissent on the vote.  Yet, that hadn’t happened in over 30 years.

What kind of a system is that, where you go more than 30 years without more than one dissenting vote at a meeting?

Libertarians say that nobody knows what interest rates should be and the market should set interest rates.  But if you are going to have a committee of people determining the overnight borrowing rate for banks, you would think they might occasionally have a difference of opinion.

It isn’t even so much that the FOMC members are in collusion.  It is more that they just do what the financial establishment expects them to do.

Trump wants lower rates so that he can run up more debt at lower rates.  Yet, he somehow manages to discredit the whole system with his antics.

BLS Numbers

A couple of days after the FOMC meeting, the jobs numbers came out worse than expected.  Trump didn’t like the results, so he fired the commissioner of labor statistics.

This meme almost writes itself.

Maybe the commissioner was a political hack, as she was appointed by the Biden people.  Maybe she was fudging the numbers.  But who, other than Trump, would actually fire her on the day the statistics are released because he doesn’t like the statistics?

If Trump wanted to fire her, he should have done it months ago.  It shouldn’t be on the day that the negative statistics are released and he finds out that she is a Biden appointee.

Talk about shooting the messenger.

This is becoming more like The Apprentice every day, except Trump was much kinder on the television show.

What will Trump do if the next round of inflation numbers come out and they are higher than expected?

Again, Trump is actually making a mockery of the system.  It’s probably true that many of these government statistics are rigged.  So, Trump wants his own person in there so that they can rig it in his favor.

Bullying

Trump also thinks that he can just bully any foreign government to do what he wants.

The Canadian government came out with a statement favoring a Palestinian state.  In response, Trump says that it looks like we may not get a trade deal and will impose higher tariffs on Canada.

Trump has also said he is imposing higher tariffs on Brazil because they are attempting to jail one of the opposition political leaders.  If it is similar to the way that the powers-that-be tried to jail Trump while he was running for president, perhaps Brazil should have been enacting high tariffs on the United States last year.

Trump’s version of negotiating is like the Mafia’s version of it.

Of course, this is all to the detriment of the average American.  Because the Canadians are taking a stance that supposedly opposes Israel, Trump is willing to make Americans pay for it by not having a good trade deal.

It makes you wonder why Trump’s number one priority seems to be pleasing Netanyahu at the expense of the living standards of Americans.

It shows blatantly that the ruling elite don’t really care about the well-being of the American people that they rule over.

Conclusion

Trump really is the great disruptor, but not always for the reasons that his supporters think.

Trump is helping to take down the deep state by inadvertently exposing the whole rotten system.

The only way the deep state can be taken down and we can gain more liberty is by people recognizing that the ruling elite is not on their side.  Trump is doing a great job at discrediting the system, just as his predecessor did before him.