Itโs Time For A Curtain Call
If you really want to cancel Donald Trump, you need me. You donโt just need my help.
You need me. Admit it. Itโs okay. Iโve been involved in so much major disruption recently, my name rings so many bells itโs giving people concussions, panic attacks, and they are breaking out in hives like Kristi Noem.
I canโt cancel Donald Trump without you, though.
Recognize Novelty, Not Quantity
There has never been an article titled โHow To Cancel Donald Trumpโ until this one.
Youโll find op-eds denouncing him, podcasts complaining about him, millions of people professing to be against him – and yet not a single piece of indexed thought ever bothered to ask: how do we actually get rid of this guyโs presence? For good.
That should tell you something.
None of the senior-most Democrats in America have ever done anything substantial to stop Donald Trump. Chuck Schumer only has words. No actions. Hakeem Jeffries only has words. No actions. Cory Booker has a lot of words. But also, no actions. AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jamie Raskin, and the rest of the usual cast havenโt taken any action to oppose Donald Trump.
Don’t Deny the Truth, Especially When It Hurts
You can try to deny this. It may frustrate you to read. But you know in your heart and your mind, this is true.
These people I listed above are play-fighers. They donโt think or act like they actually want to see Donald Trump no longer be a name that is in the news. For example, Barack Obama was recently in the news making a very limp wrist statement about Donald Trump. Then Obama wonโt be an active news story for a while.
Even if Trump tried his hardest to get attention, he could still fail. The headlines could read, โDonald Trump Pathetically Failed to Get Attention Today,โ instead of repeating whatever nonsense he wanted you to print.
Think about this: if all these powerful people are supposedly against himโฆwhy does he still dominate every camera, headline, and news cycle?
The simple answer is: he pays for press releases in all the major news wires.
Thatโs it. Itโs not because heโs interesting. It is not because heโs newsworthy. The sole and only reason he is in the news constantly is because he puts himself in the news constantly. Donโt believe me? Look deeper.
The Three Faces of Power
Hillary Clinton once said that politicians need to have both a public and private position. But in modern politics, thereโs a third tier: the secret position – the real interest behind the mask. For some politicians, they operate in multiple levels or layers of secrets. Donald Trump is a person like this. He has to make secret deals, and secret deals for secret deals. Some people in his inner-most circle are not aware of all he is doing. That is something which became apparent with the fallout between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
This is something that a lot of commentators claimed they saw coming. But at some point, people ignored those predictions and pushed the whole โco-Presidentโ narrative instead. Many in the news industry who originally predicted that Trump and Musk would fall apart forgot their own foresight and got swept up in promoting the lie that Elon Musk was really in charge.
Demystify the Power of Donald Trump

Donald John Trump is just a man. At this point, he has become a remarkable man, even though he never really was. That is part of his paradox. Many people might say that is a truly American story, that an unremarkable man could pay to become remarkable. That was not always the way. America used to be a place that even poor people could become remarkable by doing remarkable things. But that’s the power of Trumpโs press releases. They manufacture remarkable events, by manner of his speech. That’s powerful.
But it’s also easy to stop.
Be Mindful, Not Mindless
It almost creates a kind of brainwashing.
The reason he does what he does often has a lack of resolution. You grab on to the best explanation you hear, even if it doesnโt make total or complete sense. That is usually when Trump and his friends are holding secrets. They think itโs funny to do things that the public doesnโt really know, even if they have the information in front of them.ย
Trump thrives in that secrecy. And worse: he uses the press as both a megaphone and a shield. He is not invincible. He is not clever. But he is protected by a system that he manipulates better than anyone else has. And itโs time for that to stop.
The Teflon Donald Myth
Trump co-opted the nickname โTeflon Donโ from John Gotti, attempting to brand himself as some kind of gangster boss. As if Donald Trump is a guy who nothing sticks to. Meaning, even bad news is good for him somehow.
But in reality? Heโs not coated in Teflon. There is genuinely bad news about him out there, like his inability to make deals across the world on trade. Trump may be coated in fake gold and real money, but he bleeds it constantly to keep his name on your screen. Thatโs the dirty secret of modern propaganda: itโs not ideology that earns airtime, itโs cold hard cash. He floods wires with paid press releases, buys placement, and hijacks attention. Itโs not such a brilliant strategy.
It works because he has money. Or borrows it. Yet, all the money in the world canโt force you to write an article about it.
Don’t Deny the Truth
People in the media space know this is true. A lot of them donโt want to admit it because it exposes their own fake following. Journalists out here bought tens of thousands of followers years ago, forget they did it, and now pretend they are more popular than an indie rock band. Honestly, do you really think 2.5 million people follow him? Follow. Like, where he goes, they go. Not, clicking a button and occasionally seeing a person pop up on your feed. I mean, he says something, people think it.
Of course not. Obviously not. Look at how badly โAbundanceโ flopped. Ezra Kleinโs book Abundance flopped so badly, you can look on his Twitter profile right now and see he has reverted to promoting a book he wrote by himself in 2020. Not the book he just released, co-written by Derek Thompson. Even though Klein still has the 2022 pinned tweet about the book that took him and Thompson somehow (3) years to write even though they admitted ChatGPT was a major influence.
The point here, is that following on social media is fake when compared to actual influence. The same is true for Donald Trump. We can make Donald Trump disappear just as easily as we could make Ezra Klein disappear.
Step 1: Stop Retweeting Truth Social
Letโs start with the obvious: Truth Social is not the truth. The dumbness of that branding unfortunately works, though, to create a sense of legitimacy. You may doubt that, but look at how seriously people take the things he publishes there. When in reality, itโs not an official channel – outside of his personal state media – which means nobody has to look at it. Some people may literally have as their beat, writing about what he posts there. If thatโs you – cut it out – and get a real job.
Truth Social, as a social media venture, is an utter failure.
There is no way to spin it.
To Appear Smart & Strong, Trump Had To Invert The Meritocracy
There are less than 7,000,000 active users, and with most of those being bots, itโs basically a ghost town. That is a pathetic number. He isnโt even putting money into it to make it look like there is a lot of action there. The local groups are a joke. I had a profile for minute but couldnโt take it. Not because the content was inherently any worse than certain parts of Twitter or Reddit. But itโs a Twitter clone that doesnโt work as well, and the publishing is annoying. Trump is not even the most active voice on there.
Itโs barely functional, mostly spam, and irrelevant. Nothing novel or unique happens there including Trump posting. He eventually needs Twitter or other social media to carry that message or nobody would care. He could basically just have Twitter and itโd be the same. So why cover Truth Social like it matters? Itโs a failed experiment like so many other things Trump tries to do.
But with every mainstream outlet that republishes his rants?
It becomes a weapon. A delivery system. An extension of the federal government for a man who treats it like his personal newsletter.
Donโt share it, quote it, or amplify it.
If Trump posts something that sounds crazy, let it rot in the darkness.
Think about it, privately, to yourself. If you canโt figure it out, consider that it is over your head or under your feet. Either way, donโt feel you need to answer what it is until you confidently can say so. Otherwise youโll end up publishing something that you have to defend internally, and just because everybody else also publishes it, doesnโt make it true. Youโd be surprised how little people actually read of news pieces. Itโs almost like weโre just publishing for Google to read. But believe me, Google reads.
Step 2: Slow the Hell Down
Trumpโs team sends dozens of press releases a week. Maybe more. Itโs an expensive venture, but it only works if the media rushes to publish. If you refuse to publish stories that are incomplete, easily disproven, or things of that nature, we do not need yet another story about Trump lying. Thatโs not even news. Him being wrong or misleading? Not news.
So, stop rushing!
Sit on the story. Wait thirty minutes. See if itโs even relevant by the time your CMS loads. Let other stories come to fruition. Let time reveal the grift until it is unmistakable.
This administration thrives on chaos. But only when they control that chaos. Look around you. They are not just out of control, like out of our control. They are now out of their own control. The fake opposition is being replaced by real opposition. Fractures are being exposed within both parties. Trump was in control of both parties before.
Heโs not anymore.
By simply pausing, we slow down the show. We cause bottlenecks in his manipulative strategy. We give the public room to breathe, and time to think. Then things break down. Thatโs what Iโve been doing since before Trump even took office. Itโs working.
Step 3: Find The Truth Between Oddball Overlaps
Trump was literally at a construction site – on the White House lawn – putting up a massive flagpole while he is also preparing the country for war with Iran. A man hours away from bombing a sovereign nation was also… breaking ground for a prop?
That juxtaposition is the scandal.
The press didnโt need a quote. They needed a clock.
It perturbed a lot of people in the press.
For some, itโs evidence of Trumpโs ego. Of course it is. But he announced this flag pole months ago after impeachment articles were introduced on him that he had no control over. It (announcement of the flag pole) was designed to distract from the impeachment possibility. Yet he must have had this event on the books.
Trump Only Cancels Common Sense
Not sure why he didnโt just cancel the flag pole event.
For whatever reason, the illusion of a man in control of everything around him, is over.
Same with JD Vance: he joined Bluesky the same day he was in the Situation Room about Iran. Think that was a coincidence? It wasnโt. It was either planned and tone-deaf, or chaotic and sloppy. Either way, it reveals the truth: these people care more about clout than consequence. That is terrifying, sad, and ultimately, a problem that we can easily solve.
Itโs actually a mechanical breakdown. This demonstrates, beyond any bluster or boasting and rhetoric, Trump is deteriorating. His team is falling apart. That is possibly why he accelerated the conflict with Iran – using Israel as a proxy – because Netanyahu does not suffer from the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) syndrome. That also explains that Netanyahu and Israel were probably involved with things like Trumpโs supposed assassination of Soleimani. Outsourcing his war-fighting to Israel is not exactly the strength of command we were led to believe Trump had.
A quick side note about that.
Trumpโs military parade was a sad display, not a terrifying fascistic propaganda show. It had some scary undertones related to the corporatization of our military. But that is an entirely different (critical, but aside) issue. But just think about how Trump negotiates compared to how Netanyahu does. They are allies, but Trump is not the tough guy.
Trump is actually the โgood copโ in that relationship.
Step 4: Cancel the Whole Show
You canโt cancel Trump without cancelling The Donald Trump Show.
And you canโt cancel the show without shutting down the characters:
- VP JD Vance
- The Counterfeit Cabinet
- The PAC operatives.
- The Twitter grifters.
- The hanger-ons feeding off proximity (Stephen Miller, Tom Homan types)
If their content isnโt getting traction without ad buys or fake followers, thatโs the point.
Let them wither in the algorithm like everyone else.
This isnโt censorship. This is choosing what to signal boost.
Canceling doesnโt mean silence – it means a collapse of relevance.
Let more valuable voices rise and be heard.
Let the audience rediscover value again.
Step 5: Newsworthiness Should Be A Meritocracy
Trumpโs news operation already is state media. You just didnโt realize it, because itโs also a publicly traded company. Or you think of it as something to mock. Which it is.
But, Truth Social is being turned into official government policy before our eyes and that is insane. And the media plays along. Both sides. Most of the time, personally, I only ever see screen shots of Truth Social posts from Trump – shared by so-called liberals – claiming itโs appalling to them.
Conservatives might comment on it, but generally itโs being promoted to me with rage-bait. If those people out there are doing that thinking itโs slowing him down or something, they are very wrong.
But letโs be clear: Trump is not newsworthy simply because he exists.
He is only newsworthy if you choose to carry the story.
Youโve heard the old joke โthis meeting could have been an email.โ A lot of Trump stories could have been an email, that you delete. Whatโs the worst thing that might happen? Trump declares an official war on Iran (weโre already in it) on Truth Social and you donโt include it in a news story about the Iranian leaderโs response. The public would get that we are at war, and if they wanted to or needed to find what Trump had to say about it – they can find his comment themselves.
Think about it.
The amount of stories written about a tweet or post, that the public could find if it actually got popular enough. Too often itโs the news industry itself that makes things viral. Not the other way around. So, cut Trump off before he takes over.
Step 6: Stop Asking Questions. Start Making Statements.
Why are reporters still asking Donald Trump questions?
He lies or does โthe weave.โ Then heโll insult all of our intelligence.
Ask yourself: If you donโt trust him to answer truthfully, why ask him questions?
Why not make statements instead?
- โAmerica is now at war with Iran.โ Let that hang there in the air. See what he does.
- โThere are impeachment articles in the House.โ See if he denies it. Say nothing.
- โThere are no tariff deals with foreign nations.โ Watch him call you โfake news.โ
Donald Trump saying โMSDNCโ isnโt funny anymore. Itโs old news. Like stale potato chips. Just put them down. Donโt consume his content. Imagine itโs moldy food. Give the people some solid whole foods. Donโt feed them Donald Trumpโs synthetic trash.
Let him flail. Let him freak.
He should have to chase reporters. Make him beg for coverage.
And if the White House bans you for it? Good.
Thatโs your cue to investigate – not retreat. Iโm sure itโs a very prestigious feeling to be in the White House or on Air Force One. But in the end, itโs just a government building and a plane, respectively. If the President can order strikes via social media, his office is not all that important. So stop being star struck by an elderly billionaire.
Let the new journalism model be this: You do not get rewarded for proximity. You get rewarded for clarity.
If What Bleeds Leads, Let Donald Trump Bleed Out
Trumpโs power isnโt in ideas. Itโs in saturation.
He floods the zone. You know that. But you donโt know how it works functionally, so you canโt stop it. You donโt know how many people pretend to want to stop him but really want to get paid off him. Thatโs how he is able to hijack the airwaves. But you have the power to stop him.
He can only control the conversation by being the conversation.
You may think a negative story about him will hurt him. It wonโt. The thing that hurts him is not having any stories about him. Thatโs when things in private and secret get planned. Eventually he needs to become the possessive object of a story. Not the subject. But he needs a real opponent, and not a war lord in the Middle East.
The Donald John Trump Show only continues because you watch it.

Cancelling Donald Trump is easy.
The solution is elegant and brutal:
Let him bleed. He will keep flooding the news wires with garbage. Donโt print it.
Let him scream into the void of his underperforming app: stop following along.
Make him waste his money chasing headlines that no longer land. He doesnโt earn attention – he buys it. And when you stop selling out so cheap, youโll realize just how boring, lame, typical, and unimpressive he really is.
Let Donald Trump cancel himself, with no stage left to stand on.