HELL NO!: a response to donald j. trump

by Barry Robbins

February 2025. Trump's return to power is no longer a threat but a reality, and democracy's dismantling unfolds before our eyes. While Americans watch in horror, the silent witnesses to this transformation finally speak.

In this powerful collection of fifty unforgettable perspectives, Barry Robbins gives voice to the overlooked narrators of our unfolding national The Resolute Desk witnessing the presidency's diminishment. A USAID wheat seed that will never reach starving children. A military school library's shelves emptied of diversity. The Capitol building requesting its own demolition permits.

From Jamaica Hospital, where Trump was born, to the water of Lake Kaweah, forced to commit "suicide" through politically-motivated mismanagement, these voices tell the story of American democracy's fever—rising daily with each executive order, each punishment of enemies, each demand for personal loyalty.

By turns darkly satirical and deeply moving, "HELL NO!" is a unique chronicle of what happens when a nation chooses power over principle, vengeance over values, and personality over democracy itself.

This is the testimony America needs—and the warning we cannot ignore.

170 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2025

About the author

Barry Robbins is a retired CPA with a keen interest in things having nothing to do with accounting. He spent 26 years working for a large accounting firm. Then he quit. He moved to Helsinki, Finland with his Finnish wife and two beautiful daughters 20 years ago. He now spends much of his time living in Florida, struggling to adapt to life in what often seems like a foreign country. The years spent in Europe gave him new eyes through which to see the U.S. That, plus the time spent freelancing as a ghostwriter of book reports for lazy third graders, make him uniquely qualified to serve as Chronicler-in-Chief of the Oh Daddy Chronicles.