{"id":134430,"date":"2026-04-05T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=134430"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:46:02","slug":"dictator-trump-katharine-weber-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=134430","title":{"rendered":"Dictator Trump\u2026 Katharine Weber Speaks Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=134430\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=134430\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134431 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Katharine-Weber-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Katharine-Weber-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Katharine-Weber.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this series I talk to various people and ask them their opinions about Trump\u2019s first year in office, ICE, Tariffs, Corruption, Education, Greenland and more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Katharine is 70 and a novelist, editor, and writing teacher. She lives in Connecticut. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: How do you view Trump&#8217;s presidency after 1 year in office?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is a disaster, causing far more damage of all kinds in this first year of his second term than he achieved in his entire first term in office.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: ICE on American streets: What is your opinion about this?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ICE is a militia of racist thugs and bullies &#8212; there is nothing legitimate in the way they operate, nothing humane, nothing truly American.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Trump&#8217;s corruption in broad daylight: Your opinion?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The open grift should be shocking, but it&#8217;s not at this point. He is the most successful grifter in modern history.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Are Trump&#8217;s tariffs a sort of blackmail in your eyes?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are the tariffs organized or coherent enough to be called blackmail? They seem like haphazard threats and tantrums and manipulations. He doesn&#8217;t understand what a tariff is. He doesn&#8217;t understand percentages or basic math. He just babbles and threatens and boasts, incoherently, without logic or structure.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: What is your opinion about invading a foreign country like Venezuela?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have no business invading foreign countries for non-humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Greenland belongs to Denmark and yet Trump wants to own it and doesn&#8217;t shy away from blackmail to get what he wants: Your view about it?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy. Literally crazy. Without reason. I think he wants Greenland because of primitive ignorant misunderstanding of global warming and climate change, as a hedge against it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Why, in your opinion, did Trump dismantle the education department?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He fears education, he fears people with education, he fears institutions of higher learning.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Trump seems to be doing everything to distract the attention from the Epstein Files. Is he in those files?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really care. It&#8217;s a sideshow. But of course he is.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Whose side is Trump on in the Russia\/Ukraine War?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He has been Putin&#8217;s useful idiot for many years now.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Do you think Trump is a dictator, a fascist, an authoritarian or all three and what else?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think he is all those things but let&#8217;s not give him credit for having any kind of organized belief system or philosophy or agenda. He is a deeply ignorant grifter out for himself and only himself, his own importance, his own power.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Why is Trump getting away with everything?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good question. WHY are people still following him? Why does the GOP have no apparent way to pull itself together and not let him keep running his carnival? I actually think we will reach a turning point and he will have less and less absolute power. But there is a core population of followers who love to identify with the hateful bully.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: How do you see the upcoming mid-terms?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think Alex Pretti&#8217;s death is a turning point, as the MAGA base is confronted with a cognitive dissonance, forced to recognize that what happened to him &#8212; not just his murder but the posthumous vilification and blaming &#8212; could happen to any other registered law-abiding gun owner.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is losing his grip in every sense. I predict a major tide-turning in November, a huge gain for the Democrats as much of the mindless right wing Trump support dissolves out from under him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: How do you see the 2028 elections?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to see the future clearly, so many unexpected variables, like the unprovoked ICE murders of American citizens. 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