The True Costs of Loyalty to Trump

by | May 20, 2026 | Opinions & Commentary

Trump’s golden statue at Doral. Image: YouTube, expanded with AI

The True Costs of Loyalty to Trump

by | May 20, 2026 | Opinions & Commentary

Trump’s golden statue at Doral. Image: YouTube, expanded with AI

Republicans' sycophantic ways, worshiping at the alter of Trump, won’t come without a cost. A blue wave is coming. They can't say they weren’t warned.

What’s this? Do I detect a little turbulence on MAGA island? Even CNN’s über Trumpy Scott Jennings can’t get onboard with Biff’s plan to redistribute $1,776,000,000.00 from the taxpayers to his militia-in-waiting:

“All of this makes me a little uncomfortable because it’s a lot of money, and it didn’t go through Congress. I don’t want to see a president necessarily handpicking people to get payments where he could be accused of just picking people out who are political allies.”

No shit.

So after everything we’ve been through just these past seventeen months:

  • Biff’s illegal tariffs,
  • His ill-begotten and illegal adventure in Iran, the fact that he allowed himself—while dragging the rest of the world in the process—to be manipulated by a snake into what has turned out to be a quagmire,
  • The predictable and PREDICTED spike in inflation due to his blunder, his demolition and subsequent redecorating of much of Washington in chintzy faux gold,
  • His continued concealing of the Epstein files, his ongoing corruption, destruction of the NATO alliance,
  • His pointed insults at Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, just about every nation (except for Russia),
  • His betrayal of Ukraine,
  • The murders in the Caribbean,
  • The insider trading, and on and on and on…

You’ve finally found something that makes you feel “a little uncomfortable.” Congratulations.

But hey, whatever it takes. Have a seat next to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Maybe she can further broaden your long-overdue enlightenment, Scott.

To every other conservative pundit and Republican member of Congress, as I’ve written at least a dozen times before; we get it. You’re well aware of ALL of it, but you can’t say anything, because you don’t want to be the next one to be Liz Cheney’ed. You’ve surveyed the MAGA landscape, concluded (correctly) that any disagreement with Boss Biff will result in the likely loss of your cushy job. So you pretend not to notice his ongoing crime spree.

Because NOTHING is more important to you than that job, mirite? $174,000 per year, all the perks, the parties, the open bars everywhere you go, all the golf, the special interest “gifts,” zero hard work.

But what about your dignity? What’s that worth? Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bill Cassidy, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, et al, all seem to be at peace with themselves. You’re the ones losing sleep, along with those of us whose lives you’ve upended as a result of your cowardice.

Try this: Imagine yourself with a spine. Now imagine yourself telling Boss Biff “No sir, I can’t go along with that,” knowing full well you’ll be the main attraction of his next Truth Social exposé.

SO WHAT!? Is that job really all that matters to you?

As Polonius advised his son Laertes in Hamlet; ‘To thine own self be true.’ That doesn’t sound too demanding, does it? To be sincere to yourself? At least, it doesn’t to me. I doubt it does to most folks.

But then, we’re not the type who put the love of money, power and personal ambition before the well-being of others.

Even before the oaths you swore when your constituents trusted you at your word that you’d uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Your sycophantic ways don’t come without a cost. A blue wave is coming. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Bruce Lindner

Bruce Lindner

Honorary crash test dummy for Hammocks R Us, intrepid toxicity tester for Laphroaig Distillery, mobile Javaslinger, moonshiner in training, part time writer, part time foodie, part time flirt, ponderer of all things Cosmic, hot sauce aficionado, skeptic of conspiracy theorists, challenger of balderdashery, antithetical to all things Trump, Fool Emeritus from Whatsamatta U, three-time champion over corporate evil, downtrodden survivor of the Coulter Wars, psychotic women, cancer, heart disease and my own poor judgement.

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