I still support Donald Trump for president in 2024. But I’m not a blind follower who believes he can do no wrong which is why I want to address four topics that he needs to correct as soon as possible if he’s going to be successful and earn as many America First votes as possible.
Notice that I didn’t say he will earn as many total votes as possible. That strategy, which he temporarily tried in 2016, isn’t for him. He attempted it with “The Softening” in late summer, 2016, when he and Sean Hannity tried to sell the notion that he didn’t need to deport all illegal aliens or reverse DACA. They and whoever was advising him at the time thought their general election pivot should include this softening of his immigration stance.
That lasted a little over a week before he heard enough from his base to realize it wasn’t the way to go. He reverted back to his tough stance on illegal immigration and the rest is history.
The reason I mention that story is because President Trump listens to the people, but only when we’re loud enough to reach him. He’s very insulated by his staff and advisors, and frankly they’re not making good decisions for him. We need to make him pay attention to some of the things we want him to change now, ahead of the 2024 election, so that he won’t only win but he’ll be positioned to do things the right way, the America First way.
Here is my list of four grievances I’d like addressed. They’re in order of increasing magnitude; if he doesn’t fix Truth Social that’s not a big deal, but if he keeps pushing the jabs it may cost him the election. I discussed them in more detail on the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show. Call this an intervention…
Stop Censoring on Truth Social
It’s a sad state that just below Twitter, Facebook, and the other woke Big Tech platforms, Truth Social is clearly the most draconian of the alternative social sites. The platform that he has backed is beholden to Apple and Google, which is why they will censor posts about vaccines and other taboo topics. They’ve even gone so far as to ban controversial people like Juanita Broaddrick for simply speaking her mind.
A friend posts the same thing across all of the platforms. He has been banned on Twitter now for it, but he has been censored multiple times on Truth Social. The same posts fly on Gettr, Parler, and Gab. How can this be a “free speech” platform if they’re censoring people so readily?
Again, this is the least important of the changes and if Trump does absolutely nothing about it, it’s fine. It would be nice, but nothing more than a cherry on top. The other issues are much more important.
Stop Endorsing RINOs
There are two primary criteria the Trump team is apparently taking into consideration when making 2022 endorsements. The first is a great one. He’s endorsing opponents of his enemies, most notably those who voted for his impeachments Peter Meijer and those who stabbed in the back over voter fraud like Brian Kemp. The next criteria is understandable but misguided. They pick winners, then back those winners.
We expect him to pick the best America First candidates, but that’s only the case when the America First candidate happens to be the frontrunner. Otherwise, he’s endorsing people like Dr. Mehmet Oz, Tudor Dixon, and Katie Britt because they had the best chance of winning despite being total RINOs.
Britt in particular is annoying because he dumped Mo Brooks to endorse her. He claimed he dumped Brooks because after fighting against voter fraud and trying to correct the 2020 election for over a year, Brooks made the mistake of saying it’s time to move on to the 2022 election. Trump dumping him and endorsing Britt over that makes no sense because Britt has NEVER acknowledged voter fraud. She NEVER fought the stolen election. She’s a Mitch McConnell puppet and if Trump is back in the White House in 2025, she will not be an ally.
It’s like saying you’re going to stop eating bananas because they’re too fattening, then eating chocolate cake instead. The real reason he dumped Brooks is because when he first endorsed him last August, Brooks was in the lead at 40% in the polls. When he dumped him, Brooks was in third place at 17%. He surged back into second place but not getting Trump’s reindorsement in the runoff killed his chances. Now, Trump helped send another McConnell pawn to Capitol Hill instead.
Help the January 6 Political Prisoners
There are people rotting in jail right now who are there because they passionately supported Donald Trump. They aggressively opposed the voter fraud that stole the 2020 election. These are Trump’s people. But he has done little to draw attention to their plight. This is a mistake and very disappointing.
He should be leading protests in DC. He should be calling out the horrible treatment many of the prisoners are receiving. He should be demanding that the two-tier justice system stop treating patriots as insurrectionists as they continue to treat Antifa domestic terrorists as hero activists.
Admit He Was Misled on Vaccines
Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have recently acknowledged they misled the White House and the American people about Covid-19 and the jabs. Now is the perfect time for Donald Trump to reverse his pro-vaxx stance and say he was lied to about it all. Instead, he continues to claim Operation Warp Speed saved tens of millions of lives and the vaccines may be his greatest accomplishment as president.
The data is clear. They don’t work. They’re dangerous. Fauci and Birx have presented a unique opportunity for him to come to the right side on the issue. The reason I have this one listed last and most important of the four interventions is because this one is the greatest threat to his reelection.
Imagine in 2024 Trump is running for president. Imagine that, as many of us expect, the data will become undeniable that the jabs cause blood clots in most that lead to myocarditis, pericarditis, strokes, heart attacks, and other adverse reactions that include death. If Trump doesn’t correct the issue now and acknowledge that he was misled, he will get the full brunt of the blame. Operation Warp Speed, which he has touted as a great accomplishment, will be the scapegoat for the health problems that arise. They will say that by trying to rush the jabs out before the elections, Trump actually hampered Big Pharma’s ability to do proper testing.
In other words, they’re going to pin the inefficacy and dangers from the jabs on Trump and Trump alone. The only way he can prevent that is to come out as soon as possible as being misled and therefore not responsible for whatever is to come from the so-called “vaccines.”
I want Donald Trump to succeed. I want him to learn the lessons from his first term to make his second term even more successful. But he needs to start listening less to his advisors and more to his base.
Bypass Big Tech Censors
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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