Eighty years ago, our ancestors and relatives defeated fascists of the Axis Powers during World War Two (many of my late relatives were World War Two veterans and fought for freedom in the Normandy invasion in real life). Today, we have a fascist extremist who is now President of the United States of America who said that he wants to target the media who disagrees with him, wants to abolish the Constitution if he doesn't get his way, and desires to glorify retribution and revenge against progressives and those who support democracy. Trump has publicly said that any Jewish person who doesn't vote for him is "disloyal," he called black people low IQ, threatens to arrest Liz Cheney, called certain immigrants as "poisoning the blood of the country," supports the January 6th terrorists, and glorifies violence in his speeches. Now, we have Trump planning to create internment camps for immigrants who are undocumented. He desires the radical increase of the powers of the executive branch which is against the concept of the co-equal powers of the three branches of government. Our democracy is on the brink of being gone. Trump is so extreme that he wants to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal to America. The good news is that lawyers, activists, and other heroes are fighting back against Trumpism to make sure that the future is better than present reality. Here are the politics of Trump in less than one week after his inauguration in late January of 2025:
1. Trump said that he won't give aid to the suffering people involving the California wildfires unless California changes its voting laws to have real ID. That is un-American and unconstitutional.
2. Trump has used executive order to suppress federal government support of civil rights protections and DEI programs. Trump has ordered all federal agencies to close all diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, put DEI staff on administrative leave, take down all websites and social media accounts, and cancel all DEI trainings. Trump has made the DOJ to halt all ongoing and future civil rights litigations.
3. Trump signed an executive order in trying to ban birthright citizenship which is unconditional. That is why Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee called Trump's action a "blatantly unconstitutional order."
4. Trump pardoned ca. 1500 insurrectionist thugs who assaulted police officers and tried to overthrow the government on January 6th, 2021. MAGA followers should never lecture us about law and order when Trump pardoned terrorists.
5. Trump supported the new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is an extremist that glorified war crimes and has other repugnant views. He has been accused of abuse.
6. Trump fired the independent inspectors generals of at least 12 federal agencies without legitimate cause. Inspects generals are tasked with rooting out fraud, abuse, and corruption.
7. Trump signed an executive order that stopped the elimination DOJ private prison contacts.
8. Trump signed an executive order that rescinded a President Biden directive to lower drug costs and expand coverage under the ACA and Medicaid.
By Timothy
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