Trump’s national debt is expected to hit $50 trillion

There are 990 days remaining until January 20, 2029, and since Trump Republicans are jacking up the national debt by $1 trillion every hundred days, they are expected to put you $50 trillion in the hole before they are thrown out of power.

That is the math of the matter, plain as a ledger book and twice as ugly. You do not need a fancy degree from a coastal university to figure it. Just a working pair of eyes and a sense of how fast a freight train wipes out a crossing.

Here is what is happening while you are trying to pay for groceries and keep the lights on.

The same Republicans who talk about fiscal responsibility like a preacher talks about temperance are running up the national credit card as if tomorrow got cancelled.

Every hundred days, another trillion dollars. That is a thousand thousand million. Real money. Your money. And your children’s money.

They borrow it in your name, hand it out to their friends in the defense industry and the tax haven architects, and then they have the nerve to tell you the deficit is a mystery nobody can solve.

Let us be clear about what a trillion dollars buys.

It could buy every man, woman, and child in California a new house. Alternatively, it could buy four houses for everyone in New Jersey.

It could fund public universities for a generation.

Instead, it buys a few more fighter jets that do not work, a tax cut for people who own yachts, and a border policy that resembles a three-ring circus with two of those rings on fire.

The people cheering this on are the same ones who screamed about the debt under the last president, as if it were the end of the world.

Funny how their principles have a way of taking a vacation when their team holds the wheel.

Now run the numbers forward.

Nine hundred ninety days. That is nine and a half of those hundred-day sprints. At one trillion per sprint, you are looking at a debt increase of nearly ten trillion just from this spree.

But they are not stopping at a trillion per hundred days. They are just warming up.

The pace will accelerate from the combination of their permanent tax cuts for the wealthy, their refusal to cut any spending that benefits their donors, and the rising interest costs on the debt they are already piling up.

A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money, as the saying goes.

What does fifty trillion in the hole look like?

It looks like interest payments are becoming the single largest line item in your federal budget, bigger than defense, bigger than Social Security, bigger than anything.

It looks like a country that cannot fix a bridge, respond to a hurricane, or fund a school without borrowing from somebody who would just as soon own the whole place.

It looks like the end of the idea that America pays its way.

Trump and the other people doing it to you will be gone on January 20, 2029, one way or another, leaving you to clean up the mess with a bucket and a mop that you have to borrow from China.

The truly remarkable part is that they do not even try to hide it anymore.

They call themselves the party of limited government while expanding the debt faster than any administration in history.

They claim to speak for the working man while handing the working man’s future over to bond markets and hedge funds.

When anyone points out the hypocrisy, they call them a radical or a pessimist or worse. But here is the plain truth, delivered without frills or fancy language: you are being taken for a ride, and the driver is laughing all the way to the bank.

Nine hundred ninety days. That is the countdown. Not to an election, but to the first morning you can draw a breath and start tallying the damage.

If you are lucky, maybe enough people will notice before the next trillion flies out the door.

Do not hold your breath. They are already writing the next round of tax breaks. And the meter is still running.