1. What Just Happened
Trump just signed a new bill about fentanyl.
And of course, he blamed China again.
Said they’re the source of it all.
Even claimed, “China is going to sentence fentanyl producers to death.”
But here’s what actually happened.
Back in 2019, China already banned all fentanyl-type substances.
They worked with U.S. agencies.
Prices on the street spiked. Overdose deaths dropped.
So why is Trump still running this script?
Because it’s easier to point fingers than clean your own house.
2. America Needs Fentanyl. Just Not the Kind It Talks About
Let’s be real.
America imports fentanyl. Legally. All the time.
Hospitals rely on it for surgery, cancer care, and ICU sedation.
Pharma companies like Johnson & Johnson and Purdue Pharma profit off it.
And yes, some of that legal fentanyl leaks into the streets.
That’s not China’s fault. That’s on America.
You can’t blame another country for your own regulatory failure.
3. Who’s Dying?
Here’s the part no one likes to say out loud.
It’s not rich people dying from fentanyl.
It’s not the suburbs.
It’s not Wall Street.
It’s poor Black and Native communities.
In D.C., Black folks are 45 percent of the population
but make up 85 percent of fentanyl overdose deaths.
In cities like Philly and San Francisco, whole blocks are full of tents and bodies.
No clinics. No Narcan. Just neglect.
The drugs are killing people.
But the system decided who gets left to die.
4. Trump Cut the Help, Then Blamed China
While he was blaming China on stage,
Trump was cutting public health budgets behind the scenes.
He shut down community clinics.
Blocked access to treatment.
Defunded addiction recovery programs.
But in states that actually invested in care, overdose deaths dropped.
Sometimes by half.
The tools exist. They work.
But Washington would rather stage a show than save lives.
5. China Isn’t the Villain Here. America Just Needs One
China banned fentanyl analogues.
They cooperated with the DEA.
They showed up to meetings.
They issued bilingual white papers.
And the U.S. still kept blaming them.
Because it’s easier to shout "foreign threat"
than face the reality that your own government let people die.
6. Capital Comes First. Morals Come Later
Here’s the truth.
In America, if you’re not profitable, you’re disposable.
The system looks at an addict or a homeless person and sees a dead investment.
No job.
No taxes.
No voting power.
No return.
So it doesn’t fix the problem.
It manages it.
There’s still money flowing.
Just not to the people who are dying.
But to everyone around them.
Social workers.
Rehab contractors.
Nonprofit execs.
Private security.
City outreach departments.
This isn’t public health.
It’s a fentanyl economy.
A poverty industry.
Everyone gets paid to manage the crisis.
No one gets paid to end it.
Because if the crisis disappears, so does the funding.
So do the jobs.
So do the headlines.
This is not a broken system.
This is a business model.
And in that model, capital comes before morals.
Every time.
Final Thoughts
Trump’s playing the blame game again.
Same story. Different year.
But China already cracked down.
The U.S. didn’t.
And maybe it never will.
Because this crisis isn’t just about drugs.
It’s about a system that profits from pain.
A system that needs the suffering to keep running.
The question isn’t “Is China helping”
The real question is “Why won’t America help its own people”
