• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Bitterroot Star

Bitterroot Valley's best source for local news!

  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Opinion
  • Classifieds
    • Buildings
    • Farm & Garden
    • For Rent
    • For Sale
    • Free
    • Help Wanted
    • Real Estate
    • Sales/Auctions
    • Services
  • Legal Notices
  • Obituaries
  • Calendar
  • Services
    • Letter to the Editor
    • Place Classified Ad
    • Submit a Press Release
    • Contact Us
    • About Us
  • Subscribe

The Trump Effect

February 5, 2025 by Guest Post

by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis 

To all those who proudly voted for Trump, a heads-up. Already people in the Valley are losing jobs due to his Executive Orders. Others are already searching for new jobs because their jobs are threatened. These are not immigrants, mind you. These are dyed in the wool Bitterrooters. You forgot, didn’t you, that the federal government sends Montana money – more than we send it in taxes? Those monies become jobs once they get here.  

But Trump and his shadow president Elon Musk have bigger ideas. Acquire Greenland, annex Canada, rename the Gulf of Mexico? Your favorite kitchen table issues, talked about it for years! Never mind about jobs, groceries or housing. Be so proud when your neighbors’ adult children show up at the food bank. Move over, Grandma. They need housing. 

Recessions and Depressions are real. Get ready.  

Share this:

Filed Under: Opinion

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Bill LaCroix says

    February 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM

    What a pile of trolls. You all demonstrably-deserve what you got with musk/trump. Problem is all of us to the left of hitler are getting what you deserve too. That’s the rub you all can’t seem to get, so just pile on with 3rd-grade-bully quality insults. sad.

    • Alan says

      February 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM

      The “rub” as you call it is just a manifestation of being on the losing side. It’s been a long time coming to purge the bureaucratic swamp and folks really are not interested in what the whining leftist have to say anymore. That’s the real rub isn’t it?

    • Mike Miller says

      February 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM

      The hypocrisy of you deriding people using “3rd-grade-bully quality insults” as you do exactly that is lost upon you.

  2. Mike Miller says

    February 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM

    Linda claims local people have lost their jobs because of a political decision in D.C. then claims she won’t say who lost their jobs because the people who lost their jobs would be attacked. I can’t imagine someone being attacked for losing their job locally because of a political decision in D.C.

    Sounds like some Chicken Little silliness to me.

    Linda, if you read this, feel free to provide some basic factual info: which executive order, what company/ies are being affected, etc. If what you’re claiming is actually true and you have FACTS, this is a news story (that would help your point).

    I’ve never heard of a Bitterrooter being ostracized by other Bitterrooters because of a D.C. political decision; but if I’m missing something, Linda, I welcome factually sourced corrections.

    Until then, Linda, this sounds like some Chicken Little silliness to me. I look forward to you correcting my opinion on this, and solidifying your name/cause in the valley… with sourced facts.

  3. Alan says

    February 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM

    The bitterroot star doesn’t need a comics page, we have an opinion page that is more then sufficient.

    • Mike Miller says

      February 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM

      LOL! Touché, Mr Alan!

      • Clair B says

        February 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM

        Yes, TDS is wonderfully delicious!

  4. Clair B says

    February 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM

    So Linda, that would be “I cannot tell you as I just made that up as I hate Trump more than I love my country”, then?

  5. Tracy says

    February 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM

    Name ONE!

    • Linda Schmitt says

      February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM

      And expose these people to your attacks?? Don’t think so.

  6. Clair B says

    February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM

    Hey Linda – who is losing their jobs? Can you name someone or did CNN tell you that?

    Just think a few facts might help your cause.

    • Linda Schmitt says

      February 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM

      See above.

      • Edward J Gannon says

        February 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM

        Sure could use some of your “hot air” with the current weather…LOL

Primary Sidebar

Search This Website

Search this website…

Local Info

  • Bitterroot Chamber of Commerce
  • Ravalli County
  • Ravalli County Economic Development Authority
  • City of Hamilton
  • Town of Stevensville
  • Town of Darby
  • Bitterroot Public Library
  • North Valley Public Library
  • Stevensville Community Foundation
  • Ravalli County Council on Aging
  • Bitterroot Producers Directory
  • Ravalli County Schools
  • Real Estate
  • Montana Works

Like us

Read our e-edition!

Montana Info

  • Montana Ski Report
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks
  • National Parks in Montana
  • Montana Wildfires – INCIWEB
  • US Forest Service – Missoula
  • Firewise USA
  • Recreation.gov

Check Road Conditions

Road Conditions

Footer

Services

  • Place Classified Ad
  • Submit a Press Release
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Submit an Event
  • Subscribe
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Our location:

PO Box 133

115 W. 3rd Street
Stevensville, MT  59870
Phone: (406) 777-3928
Fax: (406) 777-4265

Archives – May 2011 to Present

Archives Prior to May 2011

Click here for archives prior to May 2011.

The Bitterroot Star Newspaper Co: ISSN 1050-8724 (Print) ISSN 2994-0273 (Online)
Copyright © 2025 · Bitterroot Star · Maintenance · Site by Linda Lancaster at Bitterroot Web Designs