Trump's Promises vs. Trump's Budget:

Promise: "We're the party of the working class now"Reality: Gutting the healthcare of 13.7 million working Americans

Promise: “Don’t fuck around with Medicaid.”Reality: Fucks around with Medicaid. 

Promise: "I will never cut Social Security or Medicare" [CITE?]Reality: Cutting Medicare; defunding SS

Promise: "We'll bring down your prices"Reality: Healthcare costs shifting from government to your GoFundMe page

Promise: "America First"Reality: $45 billion for deportation camps while 190 rural hospitals face closure

Winners & Losers:

Losers: $1.1 trillion from Medicaid and food stampsWinners: $1.1 trillion in tax cuts for people making over $723,000 [CITE]

Losers: Healthcare cuts for seniors, people with disabilities, and childrenWinners: Tax breaks where 25% of benefits go to the top 1% [CITE]

Losers: 100% across the board cut to green energy incentivesWinners: 365% increase in ICE detention funding, 500% increase in deportation operations

"This is systematic theft from working families to fund billionaire lifestyles. It's plutocracy disguised as populism. A crime spree disguised as fiscal responsibility," said Chuck Collins, one of the leaders of the effort. "It's like they're stealing your kid's oxygen tank, then invoicing them for 'unauthorized breathing.'"

"When people have to crowdfund their cancer treatments while billionaires get tax breaks, the system isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed," said L.M. Bogad, campaign spokesperson and tactical performance expert. "The #GoFundYourself campaign uses humor as a weapon because sometimes you have to laugh to keep from screaming. While Congress lacks the spine to help people, every dollar we raise is actually canceling real medical debt and liberating families from financial ruin. We're not just making a statement, we're making a difference.”

"This is what happens when you elect a crooked billionaire and his sidekicks to run the country like their personal ATM,” said Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works. "Trump just stole $723 billion from sick Americans to hand tax cuts to his billionaire buddies, then told families choosing between insulin and rent to '#GoFundYourself.' Donald's Death Panels are a moral abomination."

"Trump said he'd 'make America great again,' but now we know which era he meant—the Gilded Age, when robber barons lived in mansions while workers died in tenements," said John Sellers, a spokesperson for The Other 98%. "He's making America great again for oligarchs, bringing back the 1890s when the rich had yachts and the poor had cholera. The #GoFundYourself campaign perfectly exposes this Healthcare Hunger Games, where your ability to survive cancer depends on getting more likes than the next patient. But we don't need charity, we need to fight like hell for an America where healthcare is a right, not a reality show."

"The #GoFundYourself! campaign brilliantly exposes the catastrophic absurdity we've normalized where Americans compete for medical care through social media popularity contests while insurance executives buy a yacht to put inside their other yachts," said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men. "We're just making visible what's already true: when GoFundMe is your national health plan, the system has already said 'go fund yourself!' to millions of Americans. It is unspeakably violent and the very definition of ‘American carnage’."

"When my mom needed inpatient care to keep her alive, my family was crushed by medical debt because we couldn't afford insurance. I know firsthand how our broken system destroys families," said Sonia Lazreg, campaign organizer. "That experience, combined with my years as an EMT seeing people delay care because they couldn't pay, inspired me to become an organizer. I couldn't just watch families drown in debt while billionaires get tax breaks. The #GoFundYourself campaign lets us expose the sheer cruelty of what Trump and his cronies are doing while actually erasing medical debt for real families facing the same impossible choices my family did."

A Joke That Cancels Real Debt

While the $723 Billion crowdfunding goal is intentionally impossible, it is still a very real fundraiser: every dollar donated on the page goes directly to Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), an organization that purchases and cancels medical debt for pennies on the dollar.

"We don't expect to raise $723 billion. And we shouldn't have to," the campaign’s GoFundMe page explains. "The government should be funding essential healthcare, not GoFundMe. But while this page is making a point, medical bankruptcy is real, people are rationing insulin, and families are choosing between chemo and rent."

The campaign lays out the consequences for working people:

• Your insulin: GONE

• Your grandmother's nursing home: GONE

• Your mother's chemotherapy: GONE

• Billionaire yacht tax deductions: FUNDED

From Creative Protest to Systemic Critique

The #GoFundYourself campaign represents a new model of activist fundraising that combines sharp political satire with direct mutual aid. By using the GoFundMe platform, where Americans already crowdfund billions in medical expenses annually, the campaign makes visible the absurdity of healthcare financing in the world's richest country.

"In the richest country in the world, survival now depends on clicks, luck, and making your cancer diagnosis go viral," the campaign notes. "While we have to crowdfund mom's chemotherapy, billionaires are getting tax breaks to buy second yachts."

Who is Behind This?

The #GoFundYourself! effort is organized by The Alliance for Strategic Satire and its flagship campaign Trillionaires for Trump, along with partners: Social Security Works, The Other 98%, Progress America, and The Yes Men. Together, they are fusing theatrical activism, policy advocacy, viral messaging, and satirical performance art to expose oligarchic healthcare policies.

#GoFundYourself! chose Undue Medical Debt as the page’s beneficiary because of their proven track record of canceling medical debt at scale, turning every dollar donated into maximum relief for working families crushed by healthcare costs.

Call to Action

1. Americans can contribute to the campaign at [GoFundMe link] and share the effort using the #GoFundYourself hashtag to highlight the terrible trade-off where working families lose their healthcare coverage while billionaires get tax breaks. The campaign encourages supporters to "donate if you can, share widely, and speak out as if your life depended on it because thanks to Donald's Death Panels, it literally does."

CONTACT: Alliance for Strategic Satire Email: press@gofundyourself.org Campaign: [GoFundMe Link] Social: #GoFundYourself

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES: Campaign organizers and medical debt relief experts available. Real families affected by Medicaid cuts available through partner organizations.

The Alliance for Strategic Satire uses humor and direct action to expose injustice. All donations to the crowdfunder page support Undue Medical Debt's mission to eliminate the medical debt burdens of American families.