Trump’s War on Humanity: His Policies Will Kill Millions—Let Me Count the Ways
Healthcare slashed. Science defunded. Wars ignited. Climate disasters accelerated. In just one month, Trump has set the stage for millions of preventable deaths—and this is only the beginning.
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In just thirty days, Donald Trump has unleashed the deadliest policy shift in modern history—not through incompetence, but intent. These are not routine policy changes or ideological maneuvers. They are calculated acts of destruction: the dismantling of healthcare, the gutting of public health and scientific research, the acceleration of climate disasters, and the destabilization of global security. Experts warn the consequences will be nothing short of catastrophic.
These projections are not speculation—they are grounded in historical precedent, expert analysis, and hard data.
Trump’s first-month policies have triggered a human catastrophe unlike anything seen in American governance—set to claim between 6.8 million and 8.84 million lives over the next four years. This is not a crisis; it is a massacre in slow motion, engineered by deliberate choices, each one tightening the noose on millions.
This is not policy failure. It is state-sanctioned mass death. And it has only begun.
1. Dismantling Healthcare and Social Support:
A Direct Attack on the Sick and Poor
One of Trump’s first acts in 2025 was gutting Medicaid, imposing ruthless work requirements designed to strip millions of Americans of healthcare. This wasn’t about jobs—most Medicaid recipients already work or are unable to due to disability. It was a calculated effort to slash benefits, bury vulnerable families in bureaucracy, and leave the sick, elderly, and poor without care.
Who Will Be Affected?
Low-Income Families Stripped of Healthcare → 36 million Americans, including children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities, will lose vital Medicaid coverage, leaving them without affordable medical care.
Rural Americans Cut Off from Care → In many rural areas, Medicaid is the only available healthcare option. As hospitals shut down at alarming rates, millions will be left with no access to doctors or emergency services.
Seniors and Nursing Home Residents Abandoned → Two-thirds of all nursing home residents rely on Medicaid for long-term care. Trump’s cuts will force elderly patients out of care facilities, leaving many without essential support.
People with Disabilities Denied Critical Services → Millions of disabled Americans depend on Medicaid for assistive devices, personal care aides, and life-sustaining medications—services that will be gutted under Trump’s policies.
Trump’s Medicaid rollbacks aren’t about saving money—they are a death sentence for the poor, disabled, and elderly.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Medicaid Cuts:
1.5 to 2 million people will lose healthcare.
Mortality rate for uninsured populations: 1 per 1,000 per year.
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 6,000 - 8,000 over four years
Slashing NIH and CDC Research Funding: Killing Future Medical Breakthroughs
Trump’s budget slashes billions from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gutting America’s most vital scientific and medical institutions. These cuts don’t just reduce funding—they cripple life-saving research, setting back medical breakthroughs by years, even decades.
Who Will Be Affected?
Cancer Patients Denied New Treatments → Government funding is essential for developing and testing new cancer therapies. With NIH budgets slashed, groundbreaking treatments will be delayed—or never reach patients at all.
Americans Vulnerable to Future Pandemics → Trump’s cuts shut down pandemic surveillance programs, ensuring the next deadly virus spreads unchecked before scientists can detect or contain it.
People at Risk of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections → Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s fastest-growing health threats, but Trump’s defunding of microbial research will accelerate the spread of drug-resistant superbugs, turning once-treatable infections into deadly epidemics.
Patients With Chronic Diseases Left Without Hope → Research into Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, and rare illnesses will be slowed or abandoned entirely, leaving millions with fewer treatment options and worsening conditions.
Trump’s NIH and CDC cuts don’t just delay progress—they actively cost lives.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s NIH/CDC Cuts:
Delayed cancer and chronic disease treatments → 50,000 over four years
Increased deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections → 30,000 over four years
Failure to detect and contain pandemics → 40,000 over four years
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 120,000 over four years
Slashing USAID and Global Health Programs: Millions Condemned to Death
Trump’s dismantling of USAID has crippled global health programs, ensuring that millions will die from preventable diseases, starvation, and lack of medical care. His administration has cut funding for HIV treatment, maternal health, and infectious disease prevention, abandoning vulnerable populations worldwide and allowing deadly illnesses to spread unchecked.
Who Will Be Affected?
HIV Patients Left Without Lifesaving Treatment → USAID programs provide antiretroviral therapy to millions. With funding slashed, up to 4 million people will lose access, leading to millions of preventable deaths from untreated HIV/AIDS.
Pregnant Women and Newborns Facing Higher Mortality Rates → 1 million unintended pregnancies per week will result from the collapse of maternal health programs, leading to spiking maternal and infant deaths, unsafe abortions, and skyrocketing birth complications.
Children Dying from Malaria, Tuberculosis, and Measles → With global vaccination and disease prevention efforts gutted, 500,000 - 1,000,000 additional deaths per year will come from preventable illnesses like malaria, TB, and measles—diseases that USAID once helped control.
Famine and Starvation Killing Millions → Trump’s cuts cripple food aid programs, ensuring that millions in war-torn and poverty-stricken regions will starve to death, particularly in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.
Trump’s USAID cuts aren’t just cruel—they are a death sentence for the world’s most vulnerable.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s USAID & Global Health Program Cuts:
Disrupted HIV treatment → 2-4 million deaths
Higher maternal and infant mortality → Millions more at risk
Infectious disease resurgence (malaria, TB, measles) → 500,000 - 1,000,000 deaths per year
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 6,000,000 - 8,000,000 over four years
2. Scientific Research Defunding: The Slow-Motion Collapse of Public Health
Trump’s 2025 policies gutted America’s scientific and medical institutions, slashing funding for the NIH, CDC, and pandemic preparedness programs while funneling billions in tax breaks to pharmaceutical corporations. Cancer research stalled, vaccine development slowed, and pandemic response capabilities crumbled. But this wasn’t just incompetence—it was deliberate sabotage.
Trump silenced experts, banned agencies from reporting on climate change and infectious diseases, and dismantled public health infrastructure at a time when threats like antibiotic resistance and global pandemics demanded more vigilance, not less. The result? Hundreds of thousands of lives lost—and a future where disease spreads unchecked.
Who Will Be Affected?
Cancer Patients Denied Breakthrough Treatments → Trump’s NIH and CDC cuts will stall or halt life-saving cancer therapies, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths each year.
Future Pandemic Victims Left Defenseless → By defunding pandemic surveillance programs, Trump ensures that the next deadly virus will spread unchecked, turning preventable outbreaks into global catastrophes.
Patients Facing Drug-Resistant Infections → By gutting antimicrobial resistance research, Trump has fast-tracked the return of deadly, untreatable infections that modern medicine once controlled.
Children and Seniors Vulnerable to Preventable Diseases → With vaccine research slashed, Trump is inviting the resurgence of deadly illnesses like measles, polio, and flu, needlessly killing thousands of children and elderly Americans.
Alzheimer’s and Chronic Disease Patients Abandoned → Cuts to medical research mean that life-saving treatments for Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s, and other chronic conditions will be delayed or abandoned entirely.
Global Health at Risk → With early detection systems dismantled, future disease outbreaks in other countries will reach the U.S. faster and deadlier than before.
Trump’s war on science isn’t just reckless—it’s calculated. He has already cost lives, and now he’s ensuring that millions more will suffer and die from preventable diseases.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Scientific Research Cuts:
Delayed cancer and chronic disease treatments → 120,000 over four years
Increase in deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections → 14,000 over four years
Loss of funding for vaccine research, leading to more preventable disease deaths → 30,000 over four years
Slower response to pandemics, increasing future outbreak deaths → 200,000 over four years
Reduced funding for chronic disease research, worsening conditions like heart disease and Alzheimer's → 21,000 over four years
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 365,000 over four years
3. Trump’s Climate Catastrophe: A Death Sentence for Future Generations
Trump’s 2025 environmental policies aren’t just reckless—they are a death sentence for millions. By gutting climate regulations, dismantling pollution controls, and slashing disaster preparedness funding, he has guaranteed that more Americans will suffocate in toxic air, die in extreme heatwaves, drown in historic floods, and suffer from poisoned water and food supplies.
But this isn’t just negligence—it’s mass murder for profit. Trump sided with oil companies, real estate developers, and chemical lobbyists, selling out public health and the planet’s future in exchange for corporate donations and political favors. And, just like with his healthcare cuts and global health rollbacks, the most vulnerable will pay the highest price.
Who Will Be Affected?
Children and Seniors Will Choke on Polluted Air → Air pollution already kills over 200,000 Americans prematurely every year. With Trump dismantling Clean Air Act protections, expect thousands more cases of lung disease, heart failure, and respiratory illnesses—hitting the youngest and oldest the hardest.
Low-Income Communities Poisoned by Pollution → Trump’s pro-industry, anti-environment agenda ensures that pollution is dumped on Black, Latino, and poor communities, where asthma, cancer, and birth defects will skyrocket due to unchecked corporate pollution.
Farmers and Rural Americans Forced Off Their Land → Trump’s climate rollbacks will worsen extreme droughts, wildfires, and erratic weather, making farming increasingly impossible. Entire rural communities will be displaced as climate refugees.
Coastal Cities and Small Towns Devastated by Climate Disasters → With hurricanes growing more powerful due to warming oceans, Trump’s refusal to act on climate change will lead to thousands of avoidable deaths from catastrophic storms, flooding, and extreme heat waves.
Trump isn’t just ignoring climate change—he’s ensuring that the most vulnerable Americans will bear the deadly consequences of environmental collapse.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Environmental Cuts:
Increased air pollution deaths → 50,000 more deaths over four years from lung disease, stroke, and heart failure.
Extreme heat-related deaths → 20,000 deaths over four years from prolonged, lethal heat waves.
Hurricane and flood casualties → 30,000 more deaths from intensified storms and rising sea levels.
Toxic exposure deaths → 100,000 deaths from lead poisoning, deregulated chemical dumping, and increased carcinogens in drinking water.
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 200,000 over four years
4. Disaster Preparedness and Response Failures: Leaving Americans to Die
Trump’s 2025 policies will transform natural disasters into mass-casualty events, ensuring that when the next hurricane, wildfire, or flood strikes, Americans will be abandoned to their fate. By gutting FEMA’s budget, slashing wildfire prevention programs, and cutting disaster relief funding, Trump guaranteed slower emergency response, fewer rescue operations, and a skyrocketing death toll in climate-driven catastrophes.
But this wasn’t just incompetence—it was deliberate neglect. Trump ignored scientists, denied climate change, and handed tax breaks to billionaires while stripping resources from communities on the front lines of disaster. And, just like in Puerto Rico in 2017, when people are drowning, burning, or trapped under rubble, Trump will do nothing.
Who Will Be Affected?
Hurricane and Flood Victims Left to Die → Trump slashed FEMA’s budget by billions, ensuring slower emergency response, fewer rescue operations, and more deaths when the next hurricane or flood devastates communities.
Wildfire Survivors Trapped in Infernos → By gutting wildfire prevention programs, Trump has guaranteed that more towns will burn, more homes will be lost, and more families will be trapped with no escape as wildfires rage unchecked.
Low-Income and Minority Communities Abandoned in Crisis → As seen in New Orleans, Houston, and Puerto Rico, disaster response is always slower for Black, Latino, and poor communities. With Trump further gutting FEMA, many will die waiting for help that never comes.
Elderly and Disabled Americans Left Without Aid → When disasters strike, the most vulnerable are left behind. Without FEMA’s resources, nursing homes will flood, disabled people will be stranded, and life-saving medical care will disappear when it’s needed most.
Trump’s disaster cuts don’t just weaken emergency response—they ensure that the poorest, sickest, and most vulnerable will die first.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Disaster Preparedness and Response Cuts:
FEMA Budget Cuts → 15,000 more deaths from slower response times, fewer rescue operations.
Gutting Wildfire Prevention Funding → 10,000 more deaths from deadly fires, less evacuation support.
Ending Disaster Relief Funds → 5,000 deaths from no post-disaster medical care, food, or shelter.
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 30,000 over four years.
5. Gun Violence and Public Safety: A Nationwide Bloodbath
Trump’s 2025 gun policies will turn American streets, schools, and communities into war zones, flooding the country with more guns, more blood, and more funerals. By rolling back gun safety laws, expanding loopholes, and doing the NRA’s bidding, he ensured that mass shootings would become more frequent, domestic violence victims would be easier to kill, and illegal firearms would pour into cities at an unprecedented rate.
But this wasn’t about protecting the Second Amendment—it was about protecting the gun industry’s profits at the expense of American lives. After taking millions from the NRA, Trump gutted background checks, stripped funding from gun violence research, and ignored the overwhelming majority of Americans who support stronger gun laws. And, just like with healthcare and climate policy, the most vulnerable—children, women, and Black and Latino communities—will pay the highest price.
Who Will Be Affected?
Schoolchildren and Teachers Trapped in War Zones → The U.S. already has more school shootings than any other country in the world. By loosening gun laws, Trump is ensuring that more children will be slaughtered in their classrooms.
Domestic Violence Victims with Nowhere to Run → When an abuser has access to a firearm, the risk of a woman being murdered skyrockets by 500%. Trump’s rollback of gun restrictions for domestic abusers guarantees more women will be shot and killed by their partners.
Black and Latino Communities Overrun by Gun Violence → Trump’s gun policies disproportionately endanger communities already suffering from rampant firearm deaths. In states with weak gun laws, Black and Latino Americans are 2 to 3 times more likely to be killed by a firearm than those in states with stronger protections.
Police Officers Facing More Armed Criminals → The same “law and order” president who claims to back the blue is making their jobs more lethal. States with weaker gun laws see significantly higher rates of police officers shot in the line of duty.
Trump isn’t protecting lives—he’s making sure that guns flow freely into the hands of criminals, abusers, and mass shooters, leaving more bodies in morgues and more families shattered by violence.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Gun Policies:
Rolling Back Background Checks → 4,000+ additional homicides due to more guns in the hands of criminals and domestic abusers.
Expanding Stand-Your-Ground Laws → 2,500+ deaths from more people killed in "self-defense" shootings, often racially motivated.
Weakened Restrictions on Gun Trafficking → 3,500+ deaths due to more illegal firearms flooding the streets, fueling crime.
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 10,000 over four years.
6. Ukraine Abandonment: Trump Hands Putin a License to Kill
Trump’s 2025 decision to halt U.S. military aid to Ukraine wasn’t just an act of weakness—it was a betrayal that handed Putin a license to kill. By abandoning Ukraine, Trump greenlit Russian aggression, giving Putin free rein to escalate the war, slaughter civilians, and crush Ukrainian resistance without consequence.
This wasn’t about diplomacy or restraint—it was collaboration with an enemy state at the direct cost of tens of thousands of lives. While democracies around the world condemned Russia’s war crimes, Trump chose to side with the dictator he’s always admired.
Now, as sham peace talks unfold without Ukraine’s involvement, the world watches in disbelief as Trump and Putin negotiate over the fate of a sovereign nation, sidelining European allies and mocking the very notion of justice. These so-called negotiations are nothing more than a farce, designed to legitimize Russian aggression and further undermine global stability.
Who Will Be Affected?
Ukrainian Soldiers Fighting Without Support → Stripped of U.S. ammunition, drones, and armored vehicles, Ukrainian forces will be slaughtered on the battlefield as Russia advances unchecked.
Civilians in Russian-Occupied Regions → In Bucha and Mariupol, Russian forces executed thousands, raped women, and abducted children. With Trump’s abandonment, these atrocities will escalate across Ukraine.
Eastern European Nations on Putin’s Hit List → If Ukraine falls, Russia will set its sights on Moldova, the Baltics, and Poland—pushing NATO to the brink of war and destabilizing Europe.
A World Where Dictators Expand Without Fear → China, North Korea, and Iran are watching. If the U.S. betrays Ukraine, they will take it as a green light to seize Taiwan, escalate missile programs, and crush democratic resistance worldwide.
Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is not just a military failure—it is an open invitation for dictators to redraw borders with blood.
💀 Projected Additional Deaths Due to Trump’s Ukraine Abandonment:
100,000 additional Ukrainian deaths.
5,000-10,000 civilians slaughtered in Russian-occupied areas.
Total Estimated Additional Deaths → 110,000 over four years.
Trump’s Policies Are a Death Sentence: Millions Will Pay the Price
In just thirty days, President Donald Trump's policies have set in motion a catastrophic loss of human life. From dismantling healthcare and slashing scientific research funding to abandoning global health initiatives and environmental protections, his administration's actions are projected to cause between 6.8 million and 8.84 million additional deaths over the next four years. This staggering toll underscores the lethal consequences of prioritizing political agendas over human welfare.
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Healthcare & Social Support Cuts
Medicaid Work Requirements & Healthcare Losses – Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Impact of Losing Health Insurance on Mortality Rates – New England Journal of Medicine
Medicaid & Rural Hospital Closures – American Hospital Association
Nursing Home & Senior Care Medicaid Dependence – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Scientific Research & Public Health Defunding
NIH & CDC Budget Cuts – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Pandemic Preparedness Budget Slashes – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Antibiotic Resistance & Research Funding Decline – World Health Organization (WHO)
Delayed Cancer Research & Mortality Estimates – American Cancer Society
Impact of Vaccine Research Cuts – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Global Health & USAID Funding Cuts
HIV Treatment Disruptions & Mortality Projections – UNAIDS
Maternal & Infant Mortality from Global Aid Cuts – World Bank Health Statistics
Rise in Preventable Deaths from Malaria, TB, & Measles – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Famine & Food Insecurity from USAID Cuts – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Environmental Deregulation & Climate Change
Air Pollution Deaths & Rollback of Clean Air Act Protections – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Heatwave Mortality & Climate Change Effects – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Hurricane & Flood Fatalities Linked to Warming Oceans – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Lead Poisoning & Chemical Deregulation – Flint Water Crisis Reports, Michigan Department of Health
Disaster Preparedness & FEMA Budget Cuts
FEMA Budget Reductions & Response Delays – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Increased Wildfire Deaths from Federal Prevention Cuts – National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
Disproportionate Impact on Low-Income & Minority Communities – Brookings Institution
Gun Violence & Public Safety
Increased Gun Deaths & Loosening of Firearm Laws – Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Gun Homicide Rate & Background Check Rollbacks – Everytown for Gun Safety
Impact of Stand-Your-Ground Laws – Harvard School of Public Health
Firearm Death Disparities in Black & Latino Communities – Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Foreign Policy & National Security
U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine & Strategic Implications – Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Civilian Deaths from Russian Occupation – United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
Impact of U.S. Abandoning Ukraine on NATO & Global Stability – Atlantic Council
China & Iran’s Response to U.S. Isolationism – Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
Economic & Social Consequences
Economic Toll of Health & Environmental Rollbacks – Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Projected Unemployment & Economic Decline from Policy Changes – Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Impact of Immigration Crackdowns on Workforce & Labor Shortages – Pew Research Center
Today's "open letter" by Mersault should appear on every media site in the USA!
Mersault, you’ve laid out a relentless, precise account of what is unfolding—deliberate cruelty masquerading as policy, calculated neglect disguised as governance.
There’s no room for misinterpretation. This isn’t incompetence. It’s intent.
The scale of harm isn’t theoretical; it’s happening in real time.
Millions will lose healthcare, not as a side effect but as the goal. Disaster response will crumble, not by accident but by design. The most vulnerable—those already hanging by a thread—are being targeted systematically. And when the numbers become unbearable, those in power will do what they always do: feign surprise, deny responsibility, and move on unscathed, leaving the dead in their wake.
What you’ve done here refuses to let that happen unnoticed.
You’ve mapped out the consequences with precision, showing not just the policies but their undeniable human cost. There’s no comfort in reading it, nor should there be. This is not a moment for neutrality, for softening the language, for pretending this is just another shift in political tides.
It is a massacre in slow motion. And your writing ensures that no one who reads it can claim they didn’t know.
That matters. Truth matters.
Naming things as they are matters. And as long as voices like yours continue to expose the machinery behind this destruction, there is still a record—still something left that stands against the tide of erasure and manufactured apathy.
Thank you for being that voice.