Trump: “Let Americans Eat Cake!”

By Sue Kientz

The U.S. Congress has just recessed for the Memorial Day holiday for a 10-day vacation from the heated atmosphere of Washington, DC, where U.S. Senators were expected to pass a number of bills of great concern to President Trump. He’s been urging them to pass the SAVE Act to fund ICE $72 billion for the rest of Trump’s second term, a bill that passed the House of Representatives months ago, (1) even as ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still retain funds totaling $150 billion. (2)

But in the last week, more items were added to the reconciliation vote, first for President Trump’s White House Ballroom construction ($220 million) that, including security features, ballooned the Secret Service bill ($1 billion) and then most recently, an “Anti-Weaponization” fund that claims to be part of a “settlement” for the president dropping his $10 billion suit against the IRS for leaking his tax returns. (1) This last horde of cash ($1.776 billion, a carefully chosen figure one might say) has no direct bearing on Trump’s beef with the IRS and is widely viewed as a “slush fund,” since anyone who claims they were unfairly targeted by the Biden Department of Justice in the previous term can apply. A board appointed by the Attorney General (currently Todd Blanche) decides who qualifies for this monetary relief and how much. The names of recipients will be kept secret from the public, but their names and addresses will be reported to the president. Trump also can fire or replace any or all of the board members deciding these cases, with most members appointed by Blanche. Perhaps most disturbing about this fund was the expectation that many January 6 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021, including those convicted of attacking and injuring police and security guards, would be eligible for whatever payouts they might demand. To even Republican Senators, this was a bridge too far. (3)

How could Trump possibly lose his united front of Republican support in Congress, those loyalists who have taken so much for so long? On the surface one can only surmise, but for astrologers, the explanation is right there in Donald Trump’s birth chart (4) and even apparent if one looks at the U.S. Founding chart of July 4, 1776. (5) One simply compares those charts that mark the beginning of Trump’s personal narrative and America’s entity as a nation, to current celestial positions, to see that Donald Trump has pressed his luck to a breaking point.

To start, the United States was founded with Sun at 13 Cancer, which is also conjunct (0-6 degrees, a coming together or ability of one to control the other) Trump’s Mercury (8 Cancer), which manifests as whatever Trump says (Mercury is thought, communication, commands) is followed without question. Trump’s Mars (26 Leo) and Ascendant (29 Leo) are a powerful combination, as his Ascendant is how he presents himself, his force of personality, and force indeed is present with Mars (energy, anger, one’s personal will) so close at that Ascendant. Together they semisquare (45 degrees; an irritant) the U.S. Sun, triggering Americans with excitement (for his followers who adore him) or aggravation (for those who are not fans and/or negatively impacted by his actions or demands). While this pattern has mostly gone President Trump’s way for years now, Saturn has recently moved to 11 Aries and negatively impacted this complex figure. Saturn represents careful consideration, acting responsibly and conservatively, and at 11 Aries it is square (90 degrees, a major negation of one’s desires) Trump’s Mercury and the U.S. Sun, and sesquiquadrate (135 degrees, an irritant similar to the semisquare) Trump’s Ascendant/Mars.

Exacerbating these sensitive points even further is dwarf planet Makemake (11 Libra) which now opposes (180 degrees; a critical challenge, literal opposition or rivalry) Saturn and demonstrates qualities in charts that can be antithetical to Saturn. (6) Makemake confers surprising inspiration and genius when positively placed, but in a negative position, especially involving someone self-absorbed, Makemake’s ideas become mercurial, heedless, and spawn chaotic and unwise behavior. Donald Trump has been heralded by a significant segment of Americans and political commentators as an inspired genius, an instinctual politician of great talent, as Makemake has been cruising through early Libra and activating his Mercury. But now Saturn, in the form of a growing number of congressional Republicans, is saying Enough. (7)

Trump has often pushed his luck and his supporters’ patience, whether his voters or his congressional colleagues whom he needs to execute his agenda. But this was no time to be throwing around billions and billions of dollars to projects and people that only the president favored or seemed especially concerned about. With the war in Iran pushing gas prices up, and Americans expressly voting him back in office to bring prices in general down, even the usual staid GOP knew that this massive stockpile of cash for a ballroom and the perpetrators of the scandalous Capitol attack were the worst look, especially today as transiting Venus (3 Cancer), symbolic of money and finances, arrived to where it was when the Declaration of Independence was signed (3 Cancer). Perhaps that should not seem noteworthy as each year, give or take a month, Venus reaches 3 Cancer. But this time U.S. Venus is square Neptune (3 Aries), the latter representing uncertainty, the inability to make things work like they used to, the feeling that one is not on solid ground (all Neptune). The last time Neptune was square U.S. Venus, from 3 Libra, was 1943, when America was several years into fighting World War II and so many things, food, gas, and many other vital resources, were rationed. Americans were hopeful and determined but worn down as well, since there was as yet no end in sight to that worldwide crisis. Americans face a similar onslaught of crises today, with the War in Iran still unsolved, and yet now Trump and Marco Rubio are setting up a takeover of Cuba. And in addition to those stressors, America must swallow a billion-dollar ballroom they’ll never enter, and convicted felons from January 6 becoming millionaires? What is underneath all the manic activity, the nonstop building projects and demands of other countries, companies, schools, mergers? We all dearly wish to know.

Title Image credit: Image described by author to ChatGPT.com

Notes and References

1. Gringlas, Sam, “Senate Republicans rebel against Trump’s $1.8 trillion fund,” 21 May 2026, NPR,  https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/g-s1-123455/republicans-ice-spending-trump  (NPR’s title has a typo, should read “billion,” not “trillion”)
2. Orozco, Adriel, “What A DHS Funding Deal Should Include,” 26 March 2026, American Immigration Council, https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/what-dhs-ice-funding-deal-should-include/
3. “GOP immigration enforcement bill stalls amid backlash to $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund,” 21 May 2026, PBS, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-immigration-enforcement-bill-stalls-amid-backlash-to-1-8-billion-anti-weaponization-fund
4. Trump, Donald J., 14 June 1946, 10:54 a.m., Queens, NY, Birth Cert., https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Trump,_Donald  
5. U.S. mundane chart (adoption of Declaration of Independence), 4 July 1776, 5:10 p.m., Philadelphia, PA, Astrodienst, https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nation:_USA_No.1
6. Kientz, S., “Watch out, it’s Makemake!,” the Makemake chapter from More Plutos that appeared in the Astrological Journal, Nov./Dec. 2014 issue; https://moreplutos.com/articles/Makemake-SueKientz_AstrologicalJournal-Nov-Dec2014.pdf
7. Trump’s massive blunder of requesting billions added to his funding this week is so noteworthy that it can be seen in astrology’s “executive summary” of one’s life using the technique Secondary Progression. Instead of interpreting the real-time positions of planets, you look at the patterns forming in the days after one’s birth as if the days represent years of your life. There Trump’s “progressed” Moon (27 Scorpio) is square progressed Mercury (27 Leo), exact since Monday when the Anti-Weaponization Fund proposal was unveiled. His emotional need to deal with his most fervent supporters that fought for him on January 6, 2021 (Moon – emotional; Scorpio – loyal and fierce), led him to request a mechanism to give them millions of dollars, perhaps to ensure they will still/always love him? (Mercury – the request for the mechanism; Leo – love, retaining affection).

For keywords and example personalities of the new dwarf planets, see “Dwarf Planet Basics,” 6 November 2024, ANS, https://astrologynewsservice.com/articles/dwarf-planet-basics/

For more details about the angles or relationships between planets, see Lynne Hyde’s “Astrology Basics,” 12 November 2024, ANS, https://astrologynewsservice.com/articles/astrology-basics/