Our fellow Americans are protesting Donald Trump and Elon Musk because they are violating the exact things that our country stands for. While I can’t tell you the exact reasons each individual person was there, I can try my best to articulate at least some of the reasons why I was there.

I was there to stand for veterans who are scared about losing their social security benefits right now as 22 social security offices are scheduled to be closed this year. Social security is relied on by our veterans, some of whom are disabled from fighting for our country. I was there to stand for veterans who are scared of the 83,000 VA employees, some who are veterans themselves, that are slated to be fired this year by DOGE. I was there to stand for the men and women who died for our country that Trump calls “losers” and “suckers”.

I was there to stand for my elders who are scared about loosing the social security that they paid into their entire lives. Money that is rightfully theirs. Money that many who are disabled depend on to stay off the streets. I was there to stand up to Elon Musk who called social security a ponzi scheme. I was there to stand for my elders who are disabled who are scared that cuts will make it difficult to get the help that they need and deserve. I was there to give my elders dignity.

I was there to stand for the children of our country and their parents who are scared of how they will put food on the table with DOGEs cuts. I was there for the children who have disabilities and depend on government programs to receive the help they rely on. I was there for the children and hard working folks who depend on government programs to keep them off the streets.

I was there to stand for Rumeysa Ozturk who’s first amendment rights were violated when she was kidnapped off the streets of my country by plain clothes officers and illegally deported for exercising her rights. I was there to stand for all of the other immigrants who wish to seek a slice of the American Dream.

I was there to stand up to Donald Trump doing what amounts to a car commercial for the richest man in the world right in front of the house of my country, the White House.

I was there to stand up because despite all of these cuts and talks of more cuts, there has been no proposal for what will replace these things. No indication on what support will be provided for those who rely on it. No indication of any risk analysis, a plan, or anything of the sorts other than to give tax breaks to the wealthiest of us. Let me say that again. They are removing these government programs that help every American in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy few in order to privatize the government.

As the preamble of the constitution says “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, … promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. My friend, Donald Trump and DOGE have shown to me that they do not wish for a more perfect Union. They do not promote the general Welfare. They do not secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves or our posterity. All that they have shown me time and time and time again is that they wish to destroy the very foundations on which our government was built, hurt its citizens and give tax breaks to the wealthiest of us. That is not what America stands for, my friend.

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