Has Donald Trump Killed Anyone?
This blog piece started rather slowly by listening to my favorite Podcast, Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters. I just can’t stop listening to this program because Ian Masters seems committed to finding the truth and examining what the truth elements are by interviewing guests that almost always are authorities on given subject. The following investigation was initiated by experts interviewed by Ian Masters and not by him!
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Let me continue.
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My wild guess is that my interest in this next blog post is that Ian Masters has told his audience that Donald Trump allegedly has killed a large number of people due to his past policies. I found that after further investigation, that not only past policies but current and probably future proposed killinga were occurring. I finally decided recently to check this subject out. I performed a simple Google search: “How many people has Donald Trump killed?
I was really shocked at how many I found! Let me list some for you:
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“If the cuts to USAID continue, researchers project 1.8 million excess deaths in 2025 alone, with a total of 14 million by 2030, including 4.5 million children under age five.”
“According to projections in a study by the prestigious Lancet journal, the cuts could lead to more than 14 million avoidable deaths by 2030, which includes over 4.5 million children under the age of five – or around 700,000 child deaths a year.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00556-2/fulltext
Roughly 60,000 metric tons of food—enough to feed 3.5 million people for a month—is sitting unused in foreign countries because of the Trump administration’s sudden cut in funding to USAID earlier this year.
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100,000+ Americans Have Been Killed by Gun Violence Since Trump Took Office. Here Are 5 Ways He Failed Them.
• He failed to support background checks on all gun sales: Nearly a year ago, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8––a bill to require background checks on all gun sales––with support from 93 percent of American voters and a bipartisan coalition in Congress. But it has sat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk ever since, untouched and unpassed, because McConnell and Trump refuse to support it.
• He reversed support on red flag laws: Red flag laws are extremely popular measures that empower family members and law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily remove a person’s guns when the person is showing warning signs of posing a risk to themselves or others. After last year’s mass shootings, Trump promised to support these life-saving measures –– but he’s since abandoned the idea.
• He proliferated access to downloadable guns: In January, Trump decided to enable schematics for downloadable, untraceable guns to be posted online––a move that could allow terrorists, convicted felons, and domestic abusers to 3D print untraceable weapons.
• He made it possible for people suffering from severe mental illness to buy guns: In 2017, Trump quietly reversed an Obama-era rule, thus making it possible for people who were found to be unable to manage their financial affairs as a result of their mental impairment to buy guns.
• He repeatedly caved to the NRA: After receiving $30 million in political support from the NRA in 2016, Trump’s administration has shaped policies at the NRA’s behest. Trump has also repeatedly spoken with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, who asked Trump to “stop the games” around gun safety legislation after this year’s mass shootings. Shortly after, Trump obliged.
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Chaos in Washington puts ‘lives at risk’
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You should do the math to estimate how many people have died from the numbers shown to you above. You even might find more that I have yet to find.
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Why has this horrible situation largely gone unnoticed?
A Pew Research study finds that 67% of Americans get their news from
social media, mostly Facebook, in a form of reality-shopping where
outlooks are shared and opinions reinforced, often by political spin
or even foreign manipulation. This is undermining our country’s
consensus on what is real and true and making us less able to deal
with the challenges the nation faces.
In an increasingly divided country with a leader who calls the press
“the enemy of the people” and has his followers swallowing his lies
while believing that the media spreads “fake news”, we need to find a
way to inform citizens and restore civic engagement.
SOURCE: https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/about-us/
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WHY?
Some psychiatrists and reporters have speculated that Trump may have mental health impairments, such as dementia (which runs in his family) or narcissistic personality disorder.[9][10] Such claims have prompted discussion about ethics and applicability of the Goldwater rule, which prohibits mental health professionals from publicly diagnosing or discussing the diagnosis of public figures without their consent and direct examination.[11] Public opinion polling from July 2024 indicated an increase in the percentage of Americans concerned about his fitness for a second term.[12][13]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_health_concerns_about_Donald_Trump
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people’s feelings.[1][2]
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This blog post will be updated soon with more information.
Posted July 10, 2025, updated July 12, 2025 by Score Card.