Trump Is Causing the United States' First-Ever Population Decline

Sunday, February 01, 2026

In the United States, nothing terrifies the new right quite like population decline.

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Trump's immigration crackdown leads to sharp decline in US population growth rate

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-- The Independent (@the-independent.com) Jan 27, 2026 at 11:08 AM

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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 | Newsworthy 1

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 | Newsworthy 1

The "best and brightest" tend to eschew the worst and darkest.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-01 11:20 PM | Reply

Hot dog! More jobs down at the meat packing plant, in hotels, bussing tables, with roofers, groundskeepers and in rough carpentry for white voters in the USA! Right! Now, where all all those fine Americans who want to work hot, dangerous, dirty and sweaty jobs for $11 per hour?
--Clueless MAGA employers

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2026-02-02 08:18 AM | Reply

White supremacists going on about "white genocide" and the "Great Replacement" theory while having some of the lowest birthrates in the country.

At least Elon Musk is doing his part. What's stopping YOU from having children with several mothers? It's not like you'll ever have to hang out with them or anything.

#6 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-02-02 02:05 PM | Reply

why is it trump's fault that leftist dont know what a woman is....thinks men can have babies

and all that stupid woke BS.

AND it's not trump's fault that so many leftist females are so fat and ugly that

certainly conservative men wouldn't but even leftist men wouldn't take the chance

of saying..." just the tip baby..just the tip"

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-02 02:16 PM | Reply

The disgusting orange pedo ---- himself again. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

www.reddit.com

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-02 02:21 PM | Reply

why is it trump's fault that leftist dont know what a woman is....thinks men can have babies

and all that stupid woke BS.

AND it's not trump's fault that so many leftist females are so fat and ugly that

certainly conservative men wouldn't but even leftist men wouldn't take the chance

of saying..." just the tip baby..just the tip"

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Fascists got you to spend all your time obsessing over the -------- of strangers, while they destroy your legal system, corrupt your election system, erase diplomatic power, and saddle you with debt to fund tax cuts for the rich.

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-02-02 02:58 PM | Reply

why is it trump's fault that leftist dont know what a woman is....thinks men can have babies
and all that stupid woke BS.

#7 | Posted by shrimpdick at 2026-02-02 02:16 PM | Reply | Flag:GFY

Trumpanzee forced a GIRL to suck his shroom... apparently the right doesn't know what a woman is either.

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-02-03 03:21 AM | Reply

"why is it trump's fault"

In a big way it is.

If I was a potential parent, I wouldn't want any child of mine growing up under a dictatorship.

A temporary decline in population growth in the USA is a dead giveaway of how people feel about Trump and his plans for an autocracy.

Once a Democrat is in charge and faith in the US government is restored, things will go back to normal.

All anybody has to do is vote for it.

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-03 04:45 AM | Reply

Outlaw abortion if birth rates are important to the nation.

#12 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-03 10:00 AM | Reply