TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTIFUL LAND GRAB: 3.3 MILLION ACRES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK

While the country was distracted by flags, culture war tantrums, and the latest TikTok from a collapsing democracy, the Trump administration quietly slipped a chainsaw into the Senate budget reconciliation bill. A very large, very destructive chainsaw — programmed to chew through 3.3 million acres of public land. That’s nearly the size of Connecticut. But who’s counting? Certainly not the people who wrote the damn thing.

This wasn’t a typo. It wasn’t a "may sell" or a "could consider." It was a requirement. As in: get out the map, grab a Sharpie, and start carving out parcels of national forests, recreation zones, conservation areas — anything not nailed down — and slap a “For Sale to the Wealthiest” sign on it.

And in true Trumpian form, it was wrapped in the usual flaming garbage rhetoric about “freedom,” “streamlining,” and “cutting red tape,” which in this case translates directly to: handing public property to private developers while smiling for the cameras and blaming Joe Biden.

You’d be forgiven for missing it. The bill is hundreds of pages of procedural sludge. But hidden in its folds is one of the most aggressive land privatization moves in modern American history. And just for fun? They exempted Montana. Why? Because Trump’s lapdog in the House, Ryan Zinke, got grumpy. So they carved his state out of the destruction zone to appease his fragile ego and win a few Senate votes. The rest of us get pillaged.

They’re calling this a “budget bill,” but it’s really a bonanza for billionaires. Not only does it force a land sell-off, it also eliminates competitive bidding — meaning the best-connected vultures get first dibs, at rock-bottom prices. It even rolls back environmental protections and opens the floodgates to more logging, drilling, and mining. It’s not a budget. It’s a trophy case for the oil industry and real estate tycoons.

And just to make the scam complete, they’re claiming this is about affordable housing — as if BlackRock is going to build duplexes on a national forest ridge in Idaho for minimum-wage workers. Most of these lands have no infrastructure, no roads, no plumbing, no broadband — nothing but trees, rivers, wildlife, and a future. And that’s exactly what they’re targeting.

This isn’t about housing. It’s about control. It’s about looting the commons before the walls fall in. And it’s about ensuring that the only people with access to America’s natural beauty are the ones who can afford a helicopter, a security detail, and a senator in their pocket.

Let’s be clear: this is how fascism works. Not just with boots and rallies — but with paperwork. With “markup language.” With budget bills that gut public resources while no one’s watching. This is Trump’s America: a place where nothing is sacred unless it can be monetized, mined, or fenced off.

This isn’t some minor clause. It’s a blueprint for ecological and democratic collapse — a capitalist foreclosure on the American landscape. And unless people raise hell, it’s going to pass with barely a whisper.

So don’t whisper. Scream. Post. Write. Film. Protest. Burn a copy of the bill on a camping stove in your local national forest — while you still have one.

Because once this thing goes through, you might need to bring a wallet, a waiver, and a membership card just to set foot on land that used to be yours.

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They’re selling off 3.3 million acres of your land—and calling it freedom.

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