The iPINIONS Journal

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Trump Turns the Presidency Into a Ponzi Scheme

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump isn’t just moving markets. iPINIONS contends that he’s turning the presidency into a Ponzi scheme with a Bloomberg terminal, where taxpayers and ordinary investors are the suckers while his family, donors, crypto cronies, prediction-market operators, and rich friends profit from the volatility he manufactures. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-turns-the-presidency-into-a Read more.

Why Is MAGA Warning Europe About the Immigration That Made America Great?

Monday, June 8, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

MAGA warns Europe about immigration as if it threatens civilization. But immigration made America great. iPINIONS thinks MAGA’s real fear is that it also made America less White. And that’s the unforgivable sin. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/why-is-maga-warning-europe-about Read more.

Trump Made the 2026 World Cup All About Him. So It’s a Mess.

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

FIFA has turned the 2026 World Cup into a three-country circus. Trump’s travel bans, ICE fears, sky-high tickets, and Infantino’s fawning only make the spectacle more farcical. But iPINIONS fears for Haiti’s fans. Because the dream of watching their improbable team may end at the US border. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-made-the-2026-world-cup-all Read more.

Trump Should Make Elon Fund His Ballroom and Jan 6 Payoffs

Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s ballroom and Jan 6 payoff fund are suddenly unfunded. So iPINIONS thinks the obvious move is to make Elon Musk pay. With SpaceX poised to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire, Trump can rebrand the grift as private generosity and launder the vanity through Elon. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-should-make-elon-fund-his-ballroom Read more.

Trump Is Preventing Iran from Developing Nukes Like He Forced North Korea to Denuclearize. God Help Us.

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump once told Americans to sleep well because he had supposedly ended the North Korean nuclear threat. North Korea kept building. iPINIONS warns that he’s now running the same delusional play with Iran: boasting of victory, hyping imaginary deals, and pretending Netanyahu will do whatever he says. But Iran just halted talks, oil prices spiked,… Read more.

Democratic Billionaires Stand By as Trump Persecutes His Political Enemies

Monday, June 1, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump is using the DOJ to persecute political enemies through investigations, humiliation, and crushing legal costs. Yet Democratic billionaires, who owe their fortunes to democracy and the rule of law, refuse to fund the legal defense machine needed to stop him. Worse, iPINIONS contends, is that Trump is pushing a so-called anti-weaponization fund that could… Read more.

Trump’s Cabinet Finds Pride and Joy in Collective Sycophancy

Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump’s Cabinet meetings have become televised loyalty pageants, with members competing to praise him like courtiers before a tin-pot Caesar. They tell themselves the groveling is performative schtick to own the libs. But repetition is corrosive. iPINIONS contends that what begins as a story to survive humiliation hardens into truth. Lincoln assembled a Team of… Read more.

How Elizabeth Smart Reclaimed Her Body After Kidnapping and Abuse

Friday, May 29, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Elizabeth Smart was abducted at 14 by a self-styled prophet who tried to reduce her body to captivity, shame, and obedience. But Smart refused to let that be the final story. She testified, confronted her captor, became an advocate for survivors, built a family, and now competes as a bodybuilder. iPINIONS notes how her journey… Read more.

Pope Leo Warns AI Is the New Tower of Babel … with Drones

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warns that AI is becoming a new Tower of Babel. As the son of a preacher man, I know that parable well: human hubris, God-like ambition, and the danger of power without humility. From OpenAI’s safety wars to Anthropic’s rare moral caution, from social media brain rot to… Read more.

Forget Iran Trump Says We Have Cuba on Our Mind

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump says Cuba is on his mind. But iPINIONS argues this is not strategy. It’s wag-the-dog theater, with Cuba cast as the next stage for Trump’s imperial bluster after humiliation in Iran. From Rubio’s exile politics to Russia’s meddling and the Supreme Court’s property ruling, the Cuba threat looks less like foreign policy than conquest… Read more.