Trump Is Causing the US’ First-Ever Population Decline

Sunday, February 01, 2026

In the United States, nothing terrifies the new right quite like population decline. It's arguably their defining feature; a constant anxiety over something they perceive to be an existential threat.

So in a contradiction that only Donald Trump could pull off, their chosen leader is accelerating that decline unlike any president in US history.

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According to Bloomberg, one well-regarded population estimate warns that 2026 is primed to be the year of the first real population decline in the 250 year history of the United States.

One of the main reasons, Census officials say, is the Trump administration's incredibly aggressive deportation campaign.

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"Yet for the United States, the acceleration brought about by Trump is cause for alarm. Prior to Trump's return to the oval office, the US population wasn't expected to begin declining until around 2080 " meaning the president who took up the far-right's clarion call for population growth is instead setting the country up for a much earlier reckoning with a falling population."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-01 12:01 PM | Reply

Doesn't help Social Security, either.
I bet the date of "insolvency" (not failure) is going to hit sooner, too.

#2 | Posted by YAV at 2026-02-01 12:06 PM | Reply

What a coincidence.

Russia is undergoing a tectonic population decrease and Israel is experiencing an exodus of people, giving them the first year of a net loss in migration.

Fascism simply doesn't work for the masses.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-01 12:34 PM | Reply