Swanson -- $3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending -- freakish and bizarre
$3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending Leave a Comment / June 10, 2026 Recently the least popular person alive said , “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth. Their most deeply held pretense has always been that military spending isn’t needed for wars but rather to prevent wars. Of course, Trump promised not to start any wars and to end existing ones easily and swiftly. Of course, one of the many reasons not to have believed him was that he wanted ever higher military spending. Of course, military spending makes the use of a military more, not less, likely. But Trump’s current push is supposedly to take his record-breaking trillion-dollar-a-year military budget and raise it to $1.5 trillion a year. This is a lie built on a falsehood wrapped in a Truth ...