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Get Your Act Together, Donnie Boy
by Mark M. Bello
Recently, two former D.O.G.E. staffers were carjacked in Washington D.C. After hearing of the incident, our crime-fighting president threatened the city:
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.”
Our response to these comments? It takes one to know one, Donnie Boy. We the People agree that criminality should not be tolerated and hereby issue the following public statement:
“If Donald Trump doesn’t get his act together—and quickly—stop committing crimes, undermining democracy, defying the Constitution, and violating every basic ethical norm, we the people will have no choice but to take citizen control over the country and run things as they should be run, with decency, integrity, and actual respect for the law We hereby put the criminal president on notice that he is not going to get away with it anymore.”
If you continue to abuse power, obstruct justice, lie under oath, incite violence, and undermine democracy, then we the people will assert citizen sovereignty—and reclaim the republic.
The Trump Criminal Record:
Under these new declarations, you, Donald J. Trump, will no longer be able to:
You’ve been impeached twice, indicted four times, and convicted of fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse. You’re the only former president with a criminal record longer than your list of bankruptcies. We the people saved your ass by inexplicably electing you POTUS again, a regrettable act of temporary insanity.
We’ll restore truth.
We’ll protect democracy.
We’ll run this country the way it should be run.
And criminals—even ones in blue suits, red ties, and gold-plated toilets—will not get away with it anymore.
Executed this day, August 7, 2025, by
We the People of the United States of America.
Mark M. Bello is an attorney and author of 9 Zachary Blake Legal Thrillers and other legal themed novels and children’s books. For more information, please visit https://www.markmbello.com