“The tragedy is that Trump’s program will only strengthen the trend towards inequality.”

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Context: So let me repeat: The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. And it is not simply a moral claim that I’m making here. There are practical consequences to rising inequality and reduced mobility. For one thing, these trends are bad for our economy. One study finds that growth is more fragile and recessions are more frequent in countries with greater inequality. And that makes sense. When families have less to spend, that means businesses have fewer customers, and households rack up greater mortgage and credit card debt; meanwhile, concentrated wealth at the top is less likely to result in the kind of broadly based consumer spending that drives our economy, and together with lax regulation, may contribute to risky speculative bubbles.

Trumpism is here to stay: America’s neo-fascist fever dream has only just begun (2016)

cited to the Wall Street Journal (26 May 1989)

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56

We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

Source: Fight Club

Collected Works, Vol. 23, pp. 28–76.
Collected Works

"Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!", reddit.com (8 October 2015) https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama_series_stephen_hawking_ama_answers/cvsdmkv/; also quoted in "Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots" Huffington Post (8 October 2015) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas