Warning Signs
2014
2014-07-23 In 2014 JD Vance wrote, “But I’m not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect. 3) I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/15/jd-vance-trump-criticism/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=is+donald+trump+fit+to+be+president
2016
2016-01-23 Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, okay, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-wouldnt-lose-any-voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRk90BKf_E
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/01/23/donald-trump-iowa-rally-shooting-sot.cnn
2016-02-28 Ted Cruz said Trump is a “charming person” who “can turn on you overnight”.
2016-10-22 RFK compared Trump to Hitler on his podcast.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/21/congress/rfk-jr-trump-hitler-00190944
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/kfile-rfk-jr-trump-critique
2017
2017-04-29 Snake Poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrOXvoNLwg
2018
2018-01-30 Steve Bannon told Michael Lewis, “The Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.907681/full**READ**
https://kikiskyeai.substack.com/p/finding-your-footing-in-the-flood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
WATCH
2018-05-08 Pope Francis warned people not to enter dialogue with the devil, calling the devil “The Great Liar”. Pope Francis issued a second warning in 2020, telling people not to have dialogue with the devil, adding that Jesus himself does not enter dialogue with the devil. In 2023 Pope Francis issued a third and final warning not to enter dialogue with the devil. Pope Francis then rebuked the Trump administration for their immigration policy and cruelty, and for JD Vance’s sudden switch to Christianity. He passed away on April 21, 2025 after a visit from JD Vance.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-03/pope-francis-angelus-first-sunday-lent.html
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-trump-vance-migration-usccb-oleynick
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/pope-francis-jd-vance-meeting
2022
2022-04-19 JD Vance compared Trump to Hitler.
2023
2023-11-11 Trump called his political opponents “vermin” at a rally in Claremont, NH, and pledged to “root them out.”
2023-12-05 Trump joked about being a dictator “on day one” during a speech in Davenport, Iowa.
https://time.com/7312196/trump-americans-maybe-we-like-a-dictator/
2023-12-06 In an interview with Hannity, Trump repeated his “dictator on day one” remark and referred to January 6 prisoners as “hostages.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kash-patel-tells-members-media-government-after-trumps/story?id=105432592
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-raises-new-alarms-dictator-except-day/story?id=105416124
2024 May
2024-05-17 Article: “Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power.” The article notes Cohn’s role in McCarthy-era investigations and his later mentorship of Trump during Trump’s early business career in New York City.
2024 July
2024-07-01 Trump argued that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. In 2026, he invoked the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in arguing for protection regarding “official acts.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11194
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-v-us-great-power-comes-great-immunity
2024-07-26 At a Turning Point rally, Trump told supporters they would only need to vote “this one time” because the votes would be “fixed.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admits-lost-2020-leading-192730313.html
2024 October
2024-10-23 Jeffrey Goldberg quoted Trump as saying he wanted “the kind of generals Hitler had…People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders”.
2024-10-23 John Kelly warned that Trump had raised the idea of Hitler’s generals.
2025 January
2025-01-27 Elon Musk attended a far-right rally in Germany.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/trump-antisemitism.html
2025 April
2025-04-04 Irish residents say the US is slipping into fascism.
2025 May
2025-05-12 Steve Bannon declared the Era of Trump “like it or not”, referenced the “steal of 2020”, and said there were multiple workarounds to serving a third term.
2025 August
2025-08-26 Trump had a banner of himself mounted upon the building across from the US Labor Department.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5471330-trump-banners-propaganda-washington/
https://www.newsweek.com/department-labor-trump-portrait-2119185
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FzZrYxgf7ZA
2025 September
2025-09-13 Elon Musk attended a far-right anti-immigration rally in the UK organized by Tommy Robinson where Musk told the audience, “Violence is coming” and “You either fight back or die”.
2025-09-19 In The Moscow Times Russian citizens compared our current US condition to that of Russia under Putin.
2025 October
2025-10-16 Trump proposed building a giant “victory arch” overlooking Arlington Cemetery.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7e8lv176go
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/nx-s1-5576506/president-trump-arch-us-250th-anniversary
https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/German_Arch_of_Triumph
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/trump-arch-washington-dc-america-250-00708590
https://turtledove.fandom.com/wiki/German_Arch_of_Triumph
2025 December
2025-12-08 The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could significantly expand presidential firing authority and reshape federal checks and balances.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5626876/supreme-court-trump-ftc-unitary-executive
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1753194
2025-12-10 Trump put his face on national park passes.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/politics/trump-face-replace-images-national-parks-passes-lawsuit
https://abcnews.com/US/face-lawsuit-targets-plan-put-trumps-image-popular/story?id=128292660
2026 January
2026-01-14 The Dutch say Trump is more dangerous than Adolf Hitler.
BUT WE ALREADY KNEW THIS: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4322886-trump-hitler-mussolini-mccaskill/
2026-01-21 Trump stated again during the summit in Davos “Sometimes you need a dictator”.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205508/trump-sometimes-you-need-dictator-davos-speech
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-sometimes-you-need-a-dictator/
2026 February
2026-02-19 Trump hung another banner of himself, this time over the Department of Justice.
2026 March
2026-03-24 North Korean leaders accuse the US of crossing the line through state-sponsored terrorism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pDCXujpfo&t=18s
2026-03-26 Treasury announced Trump’s signature would appear on U.S. currency.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/politics/trump-signature-paper-currency-treasury
https://fortune.com/2026/03/27/trump-name-on-dollar-not-treasury-secretary/
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0425
2026 April
2026-04-15 The White House submitted plans for a Triumphal Arch estimated to cost at least $125 million and totally overshadow Arlington Cemetery.
2026-04-15 JD Vance and Mike Johnson lashed out at the Pope for criticizing Trump’s elective war in Iran. Vance threatened the Pope should “be careful talking about theology,” while Johnson cited “Just War Doctrine.” The Pope later warned against manipulating religion for political, economic, or military purposes and condemned a world “ravaged by a handful of tyrants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNi3btpaLs&list=WL&index=1
https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/16/pope-leo-cameroon-peace/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-pope-warns-of-tyrants-spending-billions-on-wars https://catholicreview.org/us-bishops-doctrine-chair-defends-churchs-just-war-tradition-after-vance-comments/
SUBSCRIPTION WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-bishops-deliver-brutal-slap-down-to-convert-jd-vance-after-lecturing-pope-leo-xiv-on-theology/
SUBSCRIPTION WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-bishops-deliver-brutal-slap-down-to-convert-jd-vance-after-lecturing-pope-leo-xiv-on-theology/
2026-04-18 Palantir published a 22-point manifesto advocating American dominance, nuclear superiority, and autonomous AI weapons; describing some cultures as inferior; calling for reinstatement of the draft; and arguing that postwar constraints on Germany and Japan should be reversed.
https://x.com/palantirtech/status/2045574398573453312?s=46
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GK1Zx4wz4ZU
https://www.dw.com/en/palantir-why-its-political-manifesto-is-causing-a-stir/a-76895480
https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-manifesto-alex-karp-technological-republic-summary-2026-4
2026-04-29 Trump added his image to U.S. passports.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/passports-trump-face-park-pass-currency-analysis
PAY WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5pn1ngerpo
2026 June
2026-06-08 Citizens of France accosted Pete Hegseth after a Normandy memorial speech in which he called immigration into Europe to a modern “invasion.” France called out the remarks for being toxic and cited Hegseth of “trying to interfere” with their democracy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/fact-check-residents-french-village-194200410.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c802e7jk458o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLiP8iwDYU8&list=WL&index=3&t=23s
2026-06-10 Trump is trying to take control over the US Postal Service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACBdkk-6Zs&list=WL&index=2
https://www.epi.org/publication/president-trump-attacks-the-postal-service-your-questions-answered/
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5311969/usps-privatization-trump-commerce-lutnick
https://apnews.com/article/trump-postal-service-usps-what-to-know-672db6c590837411ca3ba36966e374e1
2026-06-25 JD Vance said at the Nixon library, “If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story…”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon
WHOLE CONFERENCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79A-iWPqsRM
CLIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwbYwvJ4ds
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/us/politics/watergate-vance-trump-nixon.html