Trump's America Near Collapse
March 8, 2026
by William P. Meyers

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Skating on thin ice

If you are driving at 120 mph and don't slow down, you are going to crash. Worse still if you are driving high on alcohol, marijuana, power, crystal meth, ego, or religious fever. Donald Trump is not just driving 120 mph. He is driving America, the United States of America, the USA, and the brakes are bad, the engine is smoking, and repairs that should have been done 20 years ago are making very, very ominous sounds. Which Trump and his See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil delusional suckling pigs are ignoring.

Our Boss of Bosses is taking out rival bosses as fast as he can, but it is the corruption of our own nation that is going to swallow us up like a sinkhole in a Disneyland suburb. Because Donald Trump will not go down alone: he will take the rest of us down with him. Unlike a bankrupt casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, there are no buyers waiting to save us. Trump himself might helicopter off the sinking ship to safety in the UAE, but the rest of us are going down in shark infested waters.

While bad culture is the foundation of the coming collapse, the economy is the easiest place to measure and draw lines on graphs that the even mildly mathematically literate can see spell Doom.

The last time the U.S. national debt was this large compared to the economy (measured by annual gross national product) was in 1946, at the end of World War II. So why worry? Weren't the 1950s great?

America is not in the same world it was in at the end of World War II. American prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s was based on American industrial dominance. True, much hard work and ingenuity went into that. But during World War II America's factories expanded at the fastest rate in history. Why? Because we stayed out of the war as long as we could.

Forgotten lesson number 1: stay out of war as long as you can.

Japan invaded China. Germany invaded Poland, then France. Britain bombed Germany and Germany bombed Britain. Germany invaded Russia (then the USSR), then got its ass kicked. Britain bombed German factories and cities. Russia and eventually the US bombed German factories and cities. America bombed Japans factories and cities. Secret info: at the end of World War II, America had its factories intact, had greatly grown them and its economy, and was the only nation with Atomic weapons. The other industrial powers, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, had most of their factories destroyed. They also had borrowed a lot of money from the US to buy weapons from the US to fight the war.

Ask yourself: it that true today? Sure, America has factories, but most of them are old. China has more manufacturing capability than the U.S. Japan, France, India and Germany have quite a bit of manufacturing capability, as do many of the lesser powers. Unless Trump bombs them all, we are in for a rough ride.

We are not in a recession, but Trump is running a huge national budget deficit. (Biden did too. Really, every President since Bill Clinton). In the ancient past (say 1990) the general rule was that you could increase the annual deficit during wars and recessions, but you at least pretended to try to pay off the debt when the economy was good.

When will the ever increasing national credit card debt limit force the national government into bankruptcy? It is hard to tell. Force of habit keeps fools (rich Americans, rich foreigners, and some national governments) buy U.S. debt. A bad recession or a depression could do it, but strangely in those situations investors have habitually bought bonds (debt), thinking that is safer than stocks or private investments, or even real estate.

To go back to the speeding car analogy, America no longer being able to borrow more money to cover its national budget deficit would simply be like running out of gas. Only when this car runs out of gas, the steering and brakes are going to fail, and likely the tires too.

There are several other obvious points of failure, then there are black swans, which are a metaphor for unexpected causes.

Civil war or anarchy are certainly possible. I think the typical American, living paycheck to paycheck, not because their incomes are too low, but because they have no self control, is not interested in fighting a civil war. Even if they, in their hearts, hate the opposing party or some subgroup of American residents. That most likely would come down to states versus the national government, and not even Greg Abbott seems quite that insane. Or Trump.

The environment would be the next possible factor for American collapse. We are in a Slow Motion Apocalypse, characterized by global warming and ecosystem collapses. The Iran War has already jumped up the price farmers pay for fertilizer and fuel. A heat dome lasting too long (say over 1 week) and centered in Iowa, especially if combined with drought, could produce the first American famine since the Civil War. Could happen this year, might not happen in the next decade. Other environmental factors that could lead to collapse are fires and storms. Most people understand they can survive a flesh wound. But too many wounds, even if none are bullets to the heart or brain, will also cause you to collapse.

So the real problem is if disasters come in a cluster. The government can't borrow more money, houses are underwater, too many people can't pay the minimum on too many credit cars, a hurricane or derechos, drought, people acting crazy, elected officials making bad choices.

Then their is the international situation. Trump seems to be trying to piss every other nation off. What happens if they all decide to boycott the U.S. Oops, our society would crumble within a year. And the national debt would come crashing down.

You may not be able to do much about Trump, Hegseth, and Vance (the Three Stooges), but you can prep. Spend less than your paycheck, preach the gospel of thrift. "And train for ill and not for good." Because while the world has many good people in it still, Trump is in charge.