AmericaFest Unmasked: Trump’s Greatest Hits of Grift and Distraction

From the Panama Canal to TikTok, Donald Trump’s latest speech shows that his playbook hasn’t changed—keep the people angry, distracted, and too broke to notice who’s really robbing them.

The Circus is Back in Town

Donald Trump’s speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, was exactly what you’d expect: a toxic cocktail of nostalgia, false promises, and made-for-TV theatrics. It wasn’t a policy address—it was a rerun of a rerun, with the same stale tropes that brought us here in the first place. But buried beneath the b…