Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and even Moral Upheavals

By Rodrigue Tremblay

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have."

Eric Schmidt (1955- ), former Google CEO, in a keynote address to University of Arizona graduates, that was booed by students, Friday, May 15, 2026.

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire."

Sundar Pichai (1972- ), Chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and of its subsidiary Google. (Statement made in 2018, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland).

"The development of full Artificial Intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race... it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."

Stephen Hawking (1942- 2018),British physicist, in an interview with the BBC, December 2, 2014.

"Any technology that facilitates attacks without seeing the face of human beings lowers the moral threshold of conflict." 

Pope Leo XIV (1955- ), in his first encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' (or Magnificent Humanity), May 25, 2026.

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of work-automation is progressing rapidly with many potential applications and benefits in many areas. It is going to define the economic future.

However, there are important risk, threats and disruptions that could result from a blind and too-rapid adoption of all the features of the new technology. Its 'creative destruction' could become increasingly powerful and detrimental, especially for workers, but also for writers and artists, for businesses and, finally, for the entire economy and society.

In the emerging post-human world, humanity could face unprecedented challenges in an economic context where humans are no longer the primary focus. (There is already a growing market for NEO humanoid robots to be used in a variety of ways!)

The world could see some economic sectors where humans are relegated to a secondary role and even completely sidelined. For this reason, AI brings about technological transformations, but a number of these will drastically alter living standards and influence how humans perceive work, income, and life in society.

For the present, the fast-growing robotic technology is making work more productive and more complex in many industries, which could increase economic growth. Furthermore, a surge in investment in data centers and electric power plants is also likely to stimulate economic growth.

For workers, however, AI is replacing more routine white-collar low-skill and freelance work in numerous sectors, although there are other areas where special skill work would be more AI-proof.

Therefore, the question must be raised: In this post-work world, when many jobs are disappearing because of increasing uses of AI, where will future effective demand and incomes come from to maintain living standards? Indeed, if work and earnings for many categories of workers disappear, this does not bode well for the future macro economy.

That is why governments will have to think about how to deal with the coming phenomenon of AI-driven unemployment and possibly of sub-employment, especially for young workers who may face a future of dead-end jobs. Governments will also have to establish the levels of taxation and regulation required to avoid the worst excesses.

I- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the economy

On the one hand, we are already experiencing the effects of the futuristic generative Artificial Intelligence AI technology and software engineering on the economy, in terms of a rise in business profitability for some firms and individuals and organizations.

In this brave new world of the future, important disruptions in labor markets and in the overall macro economies can be expected.

This is likely to generate important transfers of wealth between groups of people, as some segments of society get richer while others get poorer. Investors and workers in the new tech sectors will greatly benefit. However, experienced workers hit by tech-driven layoffs are going to suffer a setback in their earnings growth, while young workers entering the labor force may have fewer opportunities. indeed, studies show that young adult graduates have begun finding it more difficult to find entry-level employment.

Since 1750, there have been four industrial revolutions and technological and scientific innovations that transformed economies from predominantly agricultural and artisanal ones into increasingly urbanized and more complex advanced commercial and industrial economies.

II- Past Industrial Revolutions

· 1. (1750-1840) - Mechanization, (the invention of the power loom and textile and clothing factories, of the steam engine for maritime and railway transportation with the use of coal as an energy source, etc.);

· 2. (1870-1914) - Factory mass production (the era of industrialization with the production of steel, chemicals and electricity, automobiles and internal combustion engines based on petroleum-derived fuels, etc.);

· 3. (1970-2000) - Automation and communication (the widespread establishment of radio and television and the advent of the computer and the development of the Internet computerized telecommunications through satellites and nuclear energy, in the context of lower maritime and air transport costs, economic and financial globalization and the liberalization of international trade, etc.);

· 4. (2010 to today) - Robotization, (the emergence of cyber-physical production systems that rely on data power plants and artificial intelligence models. Robotization, involves intelligent machines capable of replicating the flexibility of human work, and able to perform increasingly sophisticated repetitive or routine tasks, etc.)

III- The first industrial revolution was difficult for workers, but the second and third ones created enough new industries to incorporate an increased workforce.

The first three major technological breakthroughs significantly increased labor productivity and living standards. Moreover, they also led to the emergence of new industries and new job categories in many economic sectors.

Nevertheless, during the First Industrial Revolution in England, particularly between 1790 and 1840, there was a period of disruptive unemployment for workers. This was known as the Engels Pause, named after the German philosopher and Marxist theorist Friedrich Engels (1820-1895).

However, business owners reaped increased profits from the efficiency gains of new energy sources. This was particularly true of the steam engine, which revolutionized maritime and land transport during the First Industrial Revolution. This led to a boom in industrial production and the transport of raw materials, goods, and people between and within countries.

But for the average worker, real wages remained stable, or even declined, and average life expectancy in some industrial cities plummeted to just 35 years.

The other innovation that fostered increased employment opportunities during the second industrial revolution was the automobile and trucking industry, at the beginning of the 20th century. Several new industries, in addition to assembly plants, emerged with the construction of road networks and garages, and with the rise of the tourism industry, including motels, restaurants, and new resorts. 

IV- The Fourth Industrial Revolution could create permanent unemployment and underemployment

The primary goal of generative AI is to replace lower-skilled jobs and especially white-collar jobs and repetitive service employment, where feasible, with intelligent robotic machines or computer-run algorithms, in order to lower labor costs and to increase the profitability of companies. 

Unlike other technological innovations, however, it is uncertain that AI—due to its very nature and the shock of the increasing automation of many jobs—can generate many new industries and many new jobs in the rest of the economy, sufficiently to support economic growth.

Therefore, depending on where an economy is during the business cycle, we could observe a persistent rise in unemployment or underemployment for entire categories of workers left behind, young or old, men or women. These individuals would then find themselves deprived of their livelihoods and personal dignity, and this would negatively impact their living standards and prospects.

Furthermore, significant wage and income reductions among lower- and middle-income members are likely to slow overall consumer demand and spending, and this would hurt overall economic prosperity. Indeed, in the largest advanced economies, namely the G7 countries, income and wealth inequality is greater today than it was some forty years ago, in the mid-1980s. It remains to be seen whether the displacement of human labor by automation and artificial intelligence will exacerbate these inequalities.

One might think that governments could compensate for such inequalities through new social welfare programs.

However, two situations make this option unlikely. First, most governments are currently heavily indebted and will face fiscal crises in the coming years. Second, in some democracies, ultra-wealthy citizens and billionaires have been granted the right to spend unlimited sums of money to install people in power who defend their private interests.

This could mark a return to the era of the 'Robber Barons' in the 19th century, when governments were under the control of super rich oligarchs.

The applications of generative AI and the weakening of some job markets are occurring at a difficult time, namely when the economic policies of the current U.S. administration threaten international trade and while some heavily indebted economies are on the verge of an economic recession.

V- Could Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) pose a risk to humanity?

In the not-too-distant future, advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), such as the algorithms of Anthropic—which would be capable of equaling or even surpassing human intelligence and overriding human judgment and common sense—could pose a serious threat to humanity. This could certainly be the case, especially if these technologies were to fall into the wrong hands, both within and outside governments.

Indeed, unlike past technological advancements, from the printing press and steam engines to electricity and computers, humans have always maintained control over such innovations. This would not necessarily be the case with GAI, because decision-making with GAI could one day be autonomous, and no longer be in human hands.

Artists are already complaining that unscrupulous generative AI operators are perfectly imitating their physical appearance and style, and copying their works , without giving them credit or payment. Indeed, AI makes forgery and fraud easy.

Governments will have to legislate to protect copyright before the piracy of public figures, artists, and existing works becomes commonplace. We must also be wary of warlike and predatory governments rushing to adapt artificial intelligence to their war plans.

Some impersonal and totally amoral AI models playing wargames can go as far as to simulate the launching of nuclear weapons on another country, when nuclear-armed countries are involved in a war standoff. This could be cause for alarm when only 'efficiency' outcomes are considered by such models, irrespective of any lawful and moral considerations. This could lead to human disasters and atrocities.

The mere fact that such possibilities exist should dictate a cautious approach to advanced developments in generative AI and AGI. Before we truly enter an era of human obsolescence and the domination of autonomous artificial intelligence agents, it would be wise to consider the consequences for humanity and how to manage them.

Conclusion

A new age of 'Robber Barons is unfolding under our very eyes, where important private companies make large-scale layoffs and increasingly rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to partially offload their social responsibility to recruit, to hire and train people, while raking in large profits.

In the medium and longer run, entire categories of workers could become economically unemployable in the eyes of employers, and this will affect the entire population and the overall economy. The replacement of humans by intelligent robots in many fields of activity will be a factor of alienation for a large part of the population.

A serious labor crisis is looming on the horizon, and income and wealth disparities between rich and poor can be expected to increase.

For now, however, some optimistic and ultra rich oligarchs are going full speed ahead in implementing the Artificial Intelligence industrial revolution, without worrying too much about the consequences of the fundamental transformation that is likely to hit labor markets and the entire economy in the short and medium-term. But once irreparable economic damage is done to large segments of the population, this could herald decades of dramatic economic decline and social unrest.

It is therefore incumbent upon governments and international organizations to take appropriate fiscal measures and to establish regulatory criteria and guidelines concerning the riskiest developments in Artificial Intelligence, in order to respect human dignity and liberty.

They should also prepare themselves to face higher rates of unemployment in some economic sectors and more under-employment, especially for younger workers and also for writers and artists, on top of all the economic, financial, fiscal and social consequences that may also arise in this new industrial environment.

Educational institutions, and especially universities, should be prepared to review their teaching programs and adapt them to the new realities of the labor market.

Furthermore, there is a moral risk. Indeed, the world should be concerned that governments with totalitarian and malevolent instincts might be tempted to use AI for disinformation and to better control the population.

It is not inconceivable that belligerent, imperialist, and predatory governments could exploit generative AI to make current and future wars even more frequent, deadly, and destructive. For example, they could entrust generative artificial intelligence algorithms with the task of developing new, inexpensive weapons, such as biological, chemical, or radiological weapons, which would make wars of agression even easier and less costly.

Consequently, basic caution should guide policymakers in the face of the economic, social, industrial, and even military upheavals that are about to hit industrialized societies hard in the coming years.

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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book about morals "The code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles" of the book about geopolitics "The New American Empire", and of his recent book, in French, "La régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018". 

He holds a Ph.D. in international finance from Stanford University.

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Reflections on the political book 'Destination Autonomy', by the Leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ), Mr. Éric Duhaime, April 2026

By Rodrigue Tremblay, emeritus professor of Economics, Université de Montréal and former minister

"Teachers are teaching nationalism in schools. They tell their their students that Quebec is a state [État], and that's false. Quebec is a province, a township, indistinct."

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), Liberal Prime minister of the Canadian federal government, (remarks made in 1994, as reported by Michel David in Le Devoir, October 29, 2016).

It is not easy to relive history.

In essence, the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, is right in adopting a Quebec autonomy platform for his party. (1) 

In so doing, he wants to return to an ad hoc approach in the relations between the government of Quebec and the Canadian federal government. This method has yielded positive results in the past, such as the repatriation of income tax in 1954 and the adoption of the Quebec Pension Plan, separate from the federal tax system in other Canadian provinces, in 1964.

Éric Duhaime is doing what PQ leaders could have done after their two referendum defeats, in 1980 and 1995, if they had conducted a proper analysis of the geopolitical reasons forf their losses. Indeed, these two successive defeats contributed to the loss of significant powers of the Quebec Parliament, powers which were transferred to federal judges appointed and paid by the federal government. Politically, this has sent Quebec back to the pre-1867 era.

Without saying so explicitly, the leader of the PCQ would undoubtedly like the Canadian federal government to redress the enormous wrongs done to Quebec with the passage of the Constitution Act of 1982, adopted without the consent of the Quebec government and without having been approved in a public referendum.

It is true that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000), and other politicians in Ottawa, knowingly or unknowingly misled the electorate during the May 20,1980 referendum, by subtly leading Quebecers to believe that a "No" vote was "not a vote for the status quo". In fact, many voters understood that a "No" vote would be a vote in favor of the "No" camp's explanatory Beige Paper, a manifesto entitled "A New Canadian Federation". This manifesto proposed seven constitutional amendments as an alternative to the 'Yes' camp's White Paper, a manifesto entitled "On Equal Terms", which proposed bilateral negotiations to grant Quebec the status of Sovereignty-Association. (2)

The seven constitutional proposals in the Beige Paper were:

̣̣̣̣̣1- Adoption of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the integration of the French and English languages into the Canadian Constitution (in addition to extending it to the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick).

2- Guarantee of the right of every individual to allow their child to study in English or French "where numbers warrant it".

3- Abolition of the Senate.

4- Creation of a Federal Council composed of delegations from the provinces (with 25% of delegates from Quebec) whose mandate would be to oversee federal government initiatives that could "alter the fundamental balance of the federation". The Council would also establish a joint committee (French-speaking and English-speaking) focusing specifically on language issues.

5- Creation of a dual bench (equal representation of Canada and Quebec) on the Supreme Court for all constitutional cases.

6- Transfer of residual powers to the provinces.

7- Transfer to the provinces of powers over education, subsidies and scholarships, radio and television programming, social reintegration programs, workforce training, and the reception and integration of immigrants.

The Beige Paper was the work of Claude Ryan, leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) and head of the "No" side.

On May 20, 1980, the "No" side garnered 59,56% of the votes cast, partly because its Beige Paper of proposals of federal decentralization was popular.

But PQ leaders said that the population had "said No to itself", which was an anti-democratic interpretation.

Indeed, in the 1980 and 1995 referendums, the only constitutional option on the ballot was the proposition advanced by the government: negotiating sovereignty-association for Quebec (1980) or Quebec independence (1995). In both instances, this was therefore a plebiscite, not a genuine referendum, and not a choice between a few constitutional options.

[Definition of a plebiscite: "A consultation by which a government asks all citizens to express their confidence by voting yes or no on a proposal."]

After the referendum defeats of 1980 and 1995, it might have been possible to demand that the harm done to Quebec by the Constitution Act of 1982 be redressed, because the elected Quebec Parliament was placed under the arbitrary authority of unelected federal judges, named and paid by the federal government, for many of its democratically adopted laws. This was done against its will and against the will of the Quebec population, which was never consulted on such a political regression for Quebec.

The Conservative governments of Brian Mulroney (1939-2024) and Stephen Harper (1959- ) in Ottawa might have been more open to the demands of a more autonomist Quebec government to protect its language and culture.

However, we should't be too optimistic.

Indeed, we shouldn't be too optimistic, because the failure of the Meech Lake Accord on June 23, 1990, and the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord in the October 26,1992 federal referendum—which was rejected in both Quebec and in the rest of Canada—clearly demonstrated that constitutional changes in Canada are not easy. Indeed, under the terms of the Constitution Act of 1982, a constitutional amendment requires the approval either of unanimity of the federal government and of provincial governments, for a short list of institutional issues, or an approval by the federal government and 2/3 of Canadian provinces for most other amendments. But ad hoc agreements between Quebec and Ottawa are still possible.

As I explain in my 2018 book, "Quebec's Regression, 2980-2018", published by Éditions Fides, for an autonomist approach to have been adopted, the Parti Québécois (PQ) would have had to prioritize the nation over partisanship, and the government would have had to resign after the lost plebiscite of May 20, 1980.This could have stopped the Trudeau government's strategy of going ahead with unilateral constitutional changes to increase federal centralization, without approval by the Quebec government.

Indeed, there was a strong likelihood, then, that Claude Ryan, leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) and the winning leader of the No side in the referendum, could have been elected Premier of Quebec, and he was opposed to federal centralization.

If this had been the case, Pierre Elliott Trudeau could not have claimed that his option of a more centralized Canadian federation had prevailed in the Quebec referendum. The entire narrative would have been altered.

But that didn't happen, essentially because Premier René Levesque (1922-1987) chose not to respect the unequivocal vote of the Quebec electorate and clung to power for another full year.

Prime Minister Trudeau was then able to proceed, without Quebec's consent, with the repatriation of the British North America Act (BNAA 1867) from London, with the assistance of the Supreme Court of Canada, then presided over by Bora Laskin (1912-1984), and the governments of the provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick.

After what became known as the Night of the Long Knives, on November 4-5, 1981, Pierre Elliott Trudeau succeeded in having a Charter of Rights included in what became the Constitutional Act of 1982, after conceding to the insertion of a notwithstanding clause, at the request of the recalcitrant English-speaking provinces.

The Constitution Act of 1982 forcibly removed significant prerogatives and legislative powers from the Quebec Parliament and Quebec government, subjecting them to the judgements of federal courts, particularly in matters of language and culture.

Conclusion

I once wrote that the 1982 constitutional changes— imposed by force upon 

Quebec—made the province of Quebec a de facto domestic colony of English-speaking Canada. That situation is threatening Quebec's long-term survival as the only political entity in North America with a French-speaking majority.

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1. Mario Dumont, Éric Duhaime, Autonomist and Serious , Journal de Montréal, April 18, 2026

2. On June 12, 1978, Pierre Elliott Trudeau introduced Bill C-60 in the House of Commons, along with a white paper entitled "Time to Act", in which he proposed renewing Canadian federalism. He also proposed the adoption of a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the replacement of the Senate with a House of the Federation, and the redefinition of the roles of the Governor General, the Prime Minister, and the Cabinet.

See, Claude-V. Marsolais, The Confiscated Referendum, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1992,

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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book about morals "The code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles" of the book about geopolitics "The New American Empire", and of his recent book, in French, "La régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018". 

He holds a Ph.D. in international finance from Stanford University.

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What is Best for the World: Chaos, Wars and Destruction, or Order, Peace and Prosperity?

Professor Rodrigue Tremblay

"As democracy improves, the role of president increasingly represents the soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and political commentator (in the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920.

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, (in 'Meditations, a handbook of stoic philosophy', 161-180 CE).

"We do not live [in the United States] in a constitutional Republic any more. We live in a state of soft tyranny. You may not like it but it's true. We vote, but the state runs us, we don't run it. Our government redistributes our wealth in a way that is criminal, and we do nothing to stop it."

Chuck Wooley (1941- ), American actor and game show host, (in a post on Twitter (X), March 26, 2018).

"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

American Declaration of Independence, (1776).

World peace and international order are extremely fragile nowadays, and this is very concerning. Indeed, in just a few years, the system of international laws and rules seems to have been replaced, in international relations, by unilateral and mostly improvised arbitrariness, based on brute force. This has created a dangerous situation of global chaos that threatens the peace and prosperity of nations.

In reality, such a legal anarchy and confusion stems from a major flaw in the Charter of the United Nations, which was adopted and signed in San Francisco, on June 26, 1945.

In fact, the U.N. Charter includes a clause that grants a veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council (United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, and France), which also has ten other non-permanent members. A single negative vote (the right of veto) from one permanent member is enough to reject a Security Council resolution to maintain peace. (Article 27 of the Charter).

In practice, such a provision allows a permanent member state to launch a war of aggression against another country (or to protect a non-permanent member state that is doing so), irrespective of the provisions of the Charter specifically designed to maintain international peace and security.

Ironically, nowadays, it is one of the founding members of the U.N., namely the United States under the administration of President Donald Trump, that most frequently uses its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to launch wars of aggression around the world with near complete impunity.

This does not mean that the United States government, a signatory to the U.N. Charter, is not bound to respect the spirit and the letter of Article 2.4, which obliges all member states to refrain "in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

However, if the government of one of the five permanent members of the Security Council wishes to act in bad faith, it can use its veto power to circumvent the basic U.N. principles.

I) The U.N. can be de facto paralyzed in its mission of world peace

The last war of aggression to date that the U.N. Charter has failed to prevent is the joint war launched by the American and Israeli governments against Iran, on Saturday, February 28, 2026.

Indeed, it was on this date that an unprovoked and illegal military bombing campaign against Iran was launched, in defiance of international law, by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This regional war could open a Pandora's box from which all sorts of misfortunes could flow.

Indeed, history shows that it is not always the country that starts a war that ends it. In this particular case, the Israeli government appears to have a regional and questionable long-term military plan, but the Trump administration seems to have been pushed into that improvised war by short-term partisan considerations, without any medium- or long-term planning whatsoever.

Moreover, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 59 percent of the American people strongly oppose Trump's illegal war against Iran, which is being waged without clear motives or objectives. Similarly, Trump's overall approval rating is at a record low of 36 percent, and falling, as more and more Americans get informed about what is really going on.

So far, besides bringing much destruction, this war has killed as many as 3,492 people, including more than 175 innocent schoolgirls and school staff who lost their lives in a direct American missile strike on a girls' school in Minab, southern Iran. According to the Washington Post, about 1,500 civilians have been killed in Iran since the beginning ot U.S.-Israel bombing on February 28, 2026.

II) Economic and financial consequences

Moreover, the economic damage is enormous, with the shock of energy shortages around the world pushing oil prices and interest rates up, and provoking serious declines in financial markets.

For instance, the Israeli-U.S.-Iran war makes Japan especially vulnerable among industrialized economies, because it imports 95 percent of its oil consumption. This puts pressure on the yen to depreciate, forcing the Bank of Japan to sell U.S. Treasury bonds in order to have enough liquidity to sustain its currency.

This could trigger a domino effect, resulting in a major global economic and financial crisis. Indeed, when 10-year U.S. Treasury yields rise due to the sale of U.S. bonds, coinciding with a global surge in oil prices, the latter fuels inflation in many countries and causes financial markets to plummet. A widespread slowdown in economic activity inevitably follows. The overall result could be a severe global economic recession, possibly worse.

III) The role played by Donald Trump in the current disorder in the United States and the world

Since his first election to the American presidency, in 2016, tycoon Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is an autocratic, impulsive, and cunning politician, who often has uncontrolled fits of anger.

He has been a creator of chaos and of systematic destruction through verbal, economic, and military warfare, both abroad and within his own country. In the latter case, his ICE-Gestapo-style domestic police keeps adding new concentration camps.

Donald Trump has also shown himself to be dishonest intellectually, acting as a pathological liar who often makes things up out of thin air, to glorify himself and to humiliate, intimidate or destabilize his political opponents. People need to be on their guard because most of the time when that politician opens his mouth, he lies.

Moreover, business mogul Donald Trump is a politician with a highly controversial past. He has demonstrated himself to be a warmonger, a bully, and a predator. In fact, that is what he has done all his life, and he has transposed into politics the predatory one sided practices he developed in his private business dealings, as a builder of hotels, casinos, and golf courses.

Furthermore, Donald Trump is also an individual with a long list of misdeeds. In fact, his record is that of a con man, convicted on numerous occasions for criminal offenses.

Indeed, it has been reported in detail by Wikipedia that Donald Trump, in his business and personal legal affairs, from 1973 and until 2016, has unbelievably been involved in over 4,000 legal cases of numerous business litigations, personal defamation lawsuits, tax disputes, and cases of sexual misconduct.

Once in power, Donald Trump has been systematically abusing the pretext of 'emergency powers' to violate the U.S. Constitution. He often undermines the courts of justice by attacking judges who rule against his autocratic whims, calling the U.S. Supreme Court 'stupid'! Moreover, he played a leading role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, when he tried to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election results. In other words, Donald Trump is a threat to American institutions.

This is on top of his numerous and varied accusations of fraud and corruption, including one for accepting the gift of a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 from the foreign government of Qatar, and obvious manipulation of markets by some investors close to power and privy to inside information. The list is very long.

— All things considered, D. Trump is a politician who is vulgar and who has no class. He is often malicious, petty and obnoxious, like blocking the opening of a newly built bridge, or rejoicing callously when a person dies.

In fact, D. Trump does not project the image of the head of a competent and legitimate government, but he rather behaves like the head of a crime syndicate, who is constantly making aggressive ultimatums that can't be refused.

· The illegal cover-up of the Epstein files continues

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pursuing its on-going cover-up of Donald Trump's role in the politico-sexual Epstein pedophilia network, which was responsible for having enslaved more than one thousand underage girls, from various countries, and which served many wealthy and influential individuals, and even involved the assistance of some intelligence agencies.

It was also an international sex trafficking ring that received more than one billion dollars from various sources.

All this is not widely known, in violation of a law passed nearly unanimously by Congress, the 'Epstein Files Transparency Act', adopted on November 18, 2025, requiring that the Trump administration release the totality of the documents in the Epstein files, and which is still far from having been done.

IV) How come a candidate as unprepared as D. Trump was elected to the U.S. Presidency?

Future historians will probably wonder about what unusual political circumstances made it possible for such a flawed candidate, convicted of 34 felony counts by a court, with an unstable character bordering on dementia, and who is known to have been deeply involved in the international sex ring of J. Epstein, trading in underage girls, to be elected president of the United States.

They could have trouble explaining how such an individual remained in office many years, without being impeached or removed from office, according to either one of two articles of the U.S. Constitution.

· Art. II, sec.4: ("The President... of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.")

· 25th Amendment, Sec.4: (Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments... transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.")

Both articles were designed to remove a rogue or sick president from office.

Indeed, on the health front, it increasingly appears that Donald Trump, 79, is being treated currently for Alzheimer's disease and dementia, like his father. Congress should take notice.

Indeed, over the last few months, Donald Trump has become a loose canon and is a global threat. He has been on an insane war path around the world.

Not only has he attacked militarily the country of Venezuela to steal its oil resources and launched another unconstitutional and illegal war of aggression against Iran, in order to steal its oil facilities, but—like a cruel tyrant—he has stooped so low as to impose an illegal oil embargo against Cuba, a small fuel-starved country in need of electricity.

Conclusion

According to numerous doctors, neuroscientists and psychiatrists, American businessman Donald Trump, 79 years old, and currently President of the United States, is rapidly declining and even getting worse on a daily basis, both in physical and mental health. This makes Donald Trump not only sick but also unfit to be head of any government.

Indeed, the sitting American president's questionable and weird behavior, improvised remarks and insults all around, and disruptive and sometimes very dumb policies, indicate that he is most unqualified and too dangerous to be president of the United States.

Moreover, his widespread ignorance causes him to constantly change his mind, which brings him to improvise and to shift positions, depending on the last person with whom he has spoken. His macro-economic policies are insane and improvised and have been condemned by virtually all renowned economists, while his justifications for illegally launching hubristic, destructive and costly wars against other countries have been strongly criticized.

The current political, economic, and war chaos in the world is largely attributable to Donald Trump and his unbridled interventions. This foreshadows not only humanitarian catastrophes, but also a severe worldwide economic recession. It also heralds a significant decline in the United States' reputation in the world.

Therefore, the elected members of the U.S. Congress, and especially the Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, should take concrete steps to put an end to D. Trump's daily political circus. They should stop him from launching unconstitutional wars of aggression and economic warfare against other countries.

Furthermore, as the Nuremberg Tribunal clearly ruled, military officers have the responsibility not to comply with unlawful orders to commit war crimes and atrocities.

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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book about morals "The code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles" of the book about geopolitics "The New American Empire", and of his recent book, in French, "La régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018". 

He holds a Ph.D. in international finance from Stanford University.

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Posted Thursday, April 2, 2026.

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