Here’s a great synopsis of the past year:
A short list will suffice here:
- Summarily fire independent agency members
- Summarily fire government watchdogs
- Summarily fire civil servants
- Centralize control over independent agencies
- Attempt to fire a Federal Reserve member
- Direct criminal investigations
- Target law firms
- Target universities
- Dismantle government agencies
- Nullify a law
- Unilaterally impose import taxes
- Bypass the confirmation process
- Order military boat attacks
- Seize Venezuela’s leader
- Bomb Iran
- Use troops on domestic soil
- Federalize the National Guard
- Hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay
- Expedite deportations with a wartime law
- Cancel student visas over disfavored speech
- Seek to end birthright citizenship
- Threaten to seize Greenland by force
- Refuse to comply with trade agreements (“deals”) that he made in his first term
- Refuse to release the Epstein files
- Give money to Argentina because he’s friends with their leader
- Pocket billions of dollars into his own bank account since becoming president
- Use ICE to intimidate protesters, including bodily harm and even murder
- Send ICE to blue state enclaves to reign chaos
- Antagonize and threaten long-time allies
- … and many more