Trump's Abuses of Power
King Donald is trying to take away American freedoms at home, isolate us on the world stage, commit evil war crimes, & launch unnecessary wars, all while creating economic chaos and uncertainty.
Donald Trump began the year with the highest approval rating he had ever seen at any time while President. In January the magazine NewsWeek reported that,
“The beginning of President Donald Trump's second term has seen…a historic high…net approval of +14”
Yet now at the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s second term, he is seeing record low approval ratings in a seismic vibe shift all across America. In a new poll only 39% of Americans approve of the Trump administration while 55% disapprove.
Trump’s approval rating is crashing and burning, and there are very good reasons for that. Trump has been
Isolating America on the world stage by being an arrogant prick,
“I Run The Country And The World”
turning even Canada against us by threatening to annex their territory,
“As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us…That will never ever happen.”
-Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney
abandoning Ukraine while Russia greatly increases their attacks to force Ukraine into a bad deal,
“Trump had told Zelensky ‘you don't have the cards’ and that he was not winning against Russia…He has previously blamed Ukraine for starting the war and has accused Zelensky multiple times of being an obstacle to peace negotiations.”
-BBC
took Biden’s evil Gaza policy and made it even worse. Trump is now supporting the most immoral & barbaric parts of Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians,
including the planned starvation of children
along with the planned starvation of the rest of Gaza’s 2 million civilians
and the widespread bombing of civilian areas
And torturing Palestinian hostages illegally held in Israeli detention to death by some of the most gruesome and evil forms of sodomization imaginable
All that is being done by the Trump administration while he boasts about the resort he plans to build on top of the corpses of millions of Palestinians he is killing right now
I wrote more about Trump’s evil Gaza policy here
Trump Ends International Law
·Donald Trump announced his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians for annexation & development. While officially ending US support for a 2 state solution, he is openly endorsing war crimes.
Trump is also floating a war with Iran. It would be a Bush-styled multi-year U.S. occupation in the Middle East,
“All options are always on the table with the president, but Iran needs to hear him loud and clear,” -Mike Waltz
Trump is also raising prices and causing economic chaos all across America with the stupidest trade war of all time,
“Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs have reignited global trade tensions, targeting China, Canada, Mexico, and the EU. The measures have triggered swift retaliation, escalated economic uncertainty, and drawn warnings from economists about inflation, disrupted supply chains, and a potential global slowdown. Policy volatility further clouds business planning.”
Here at home Trump is enacting an authoritarian crackdown on Free Speech starting by kicking out foreign students from college campuses for the offense of wrong-think. This is a quote from Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing that America is no longer a nation of free speech in our college campuses;
“We will continue to cancel the visas of those whose presence or activities have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for our country.”
Trump is having ICE arrest students with no criminal charges or warrant for their Anti-Israel speech under a new rule which seeks to punish those who express a viewpoint which they perceive to serve adverse foreign policy interests.
Serious adverse foreign policy consequences could mean almost anything. Publicly supporting the United States becoming a part of the Paris Climate Accord or the World Health Organization or the International Criminal Court could negatively impact Trump’s reputation abroad, so student's could be kicked out of America for having any view at all the administration deems adversely consequential. This is a truly Orwellian crackdown on Free Speech totally at odds with the idea of a free marketplace of ideas which America is supposed to represent.
Trump is also setting the standard of sending masked ICE agents in unmarked cars without warrants and refusing to show identification to arrest anyone they allege is here illegally.
“It looked like a kidnapping…They approach her and start grabbing her with their faces covered. They’re covering their faces. They’re in unmarked vehicles.”
Multiple U.S. citizens including children have already been detained and deported using these allegations and Trump is saying he wants to expand that treatment to all U.S. citizens.
Trump is deporting American citizens as young as 2 years old. They are simultaneously locking up other American citizens without cause while their families do not know where they went,
then Trump's administration is blaming the people they mistakenly arrested. As an American citizen, your family asleep in your home could be the next victim of the Trump administration's abuses of power. One Oklahoma family just found that out as around 20 heavily armed ICE agents broke into their home in the middle of the night and forced them at gunpoint into the street in their underwear.
In Trump's America, US citizens can expect to be violently awoken in the middle of the night by dozens of armed ICE agents searching their homes. Those ICE agents can steal your laptops, phones, and life savings then keep your possessions for days to months without cause. All it takes is an ‘administrative error’ for an American citizens to mistakenly be put in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.
Trump is also deporting mistakenly kidnapped individuals to foreign prisons without charges or the ability to dispute their arrest. He is then claiming the fate of the people he deports is totally out of his hands. Or as the Supreme Court put it in a 9-0 ruling against Trump’s wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia;
“The United States Government arrested Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in Maryland and flew him to a “terrorism confinement center” in El Salvador…To this day, the Government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison. Nor could it…Instead of hastening to correct its egregious error, the Government dismissed it as an “oversight.” The Government now requests an order from this Court permitting it to leave Abrego Garcia, a husband and father without a criminal record, in a Salvadoran prison for no reason recognized by the law. The only argument the Government offers in support of its request, that United States courts cannot grant relief once a deportee crosses the border, is plainly wrong. See Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U. S. 426, 447, n. 16 (2004); cf. Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U. S. 723, 732 (2008). The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”
The Supreme Court of the United States then ruled unanimously;
“The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador…For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.”
In response to that decision Donald Trump’s administration falsely claimed that the Supreme Court ruled in his favor and he has subsequently refused to obey the court order. Donald Trump says he could return Kilmar Garcia back if he wanted to but he doesn’t so he wont.
By refusing to facilitate the release of Abrego Garcia and process the case as it would’ve had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador, free with his wife and kids, Trump is disobeying a Supreme Court ruling. When asked about disobeying the Supreme Court Trump furiously responded;
“how long do we have to answer this question from you why don't you just say ‘Isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country?’ Why can't you just say that”
And that's because he wants all American media and all American people to be as weak and submissive as the Republican party is. He totally took over the GOP and now dictates their entire reality, which I wrote about in Donald the Wannabe Dictator.
That's why he throws a fit when he faces a real question from the media. Because he’s a bully and he bullied the GOP into total submission of the most humiliating kind. When people from outside the bubble sneak in, he loses his mind and throws a temper tantrum. But now more than ever we need to push back on the abuses of power from the Trump administration.
When Trump unilaterally launched a global trade war, he expected to have achieved 90 deals in 90 days and promised America a return to prosperity if he would just be allowed to negotiate on our behalf. The notoriously honest Donald Trump now claims to have made 200 trade deals so far, but nobody in his own administration can name any of them.
When Dana Bash asked Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture which nations the deals are with she replied “We have 100 countries that are knocking on the doors, I believe” then continued to specifically cite China as holding daily ongoing negotiations. Those ongoing daily negotiations would be News to China though, who actually said no trade negotiations were happening at all.
So, instead of 200 deals he seems to have pissed off the whole world thinking everyone would bow down to him how the embarrassingly servile Republican Party does. Trump’s approval is tanking on the economy because he made an ass of himself acting like an entitled baby and is now lying thinking nobody will notice.
Most of what Donald Trump is doing is bad, but some of these things are truly evil and authoritarian on levels no American should accept. The worst is aiding and abetting Genocide. Palestinian civilians including children are slowly starving to death right now, one of the most painful ways to die, as all the food they need to survive is purposefully being blocked from them. That is being done with Trump’s approval and participation. Donald Trump deserves an ICC arrest warrant for his role facilitating Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. For the legal jurisdictional question of if Trump could be issued an arrest warrant for his crimes, check out this Conversation with Grok I had on X;
The Kilmar Garcia case is also incredibly important, but not because of him as an individual. If he is a wife-beating human trafficker member of MS-13 as the Trump administration alleges, I don’t want him in America and you shouldn’t either. The problem is that the government made allegations absent evidence, did not get a legally-required warrant for his arrest, sent him to a foreign prison without the chance to legally defend himself against those allegations, then Trump said Garcia was no longer his responsibility in violation of a Supreme Court order. Garcia is a test case for the standard Trump wants to apply to all people in the United States including American citizens; the ability to arrest anyone using baseless allegations then send them to a foreign prison with no ability to wage a defense to dispute their allegations then abandon every single person taken overseas. Maybe you expressed a thought entailing “adverse foreign policy consequences” so the Trump administration accuses you of aiding a foreign terrorist organization. Maybe you look a little ‘foreign’ and mistakenly got rounded up by ICE then ICE falsely claims you signed a sworn statement that you came across the border illegally which you also cannot dispute. Garcia is the test case, but you and your community will be the victims of the standard they are establishing.
The second standard Trump is establishing is his ability to pick and choose which Supreme Court decisions to obey. His violation of a court order was met with almost no pushback at all from the Republican Party because they are a cult. Not being able or willing to speak truth to power is the first step to truly losing your ability to speak freely at all. The cult of Trump is leading America towards totalitarianism. Many in Trump’s GOP are more loyal to him than to the United States Constitution or the freedoms it represents, but that doesn’t mean the rest of America has to follow suit. Are you as an American the subject of Donald Trump's rule or are we as the voters of this nation the masters of this country?
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness…”
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man's life at will."
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government."
“Until the Fourth Amendment, which is closely allied with the Fifth, is rewritten, the person and the effects of the individual are beyond the reach of all government agencies until there are reasonable grounds to believe (probable cause) that a criminal venture has been launched or is about to be launched. There have been powerful…pressures throughout our history that bear heavily on the Court to water down constitutional guarantees and give the police the upper hand. That…pressure has probably never been greater than it is today. Yet if the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can 'seize' and 'search' him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full debate by the people of this country.”
-Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
-Author of the Constitution James Madison