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The administration of Donald Trump is wreaking havoc on America in so many different ways, and it’s hard to imagine that he could so successfully challenge the rule of law and the principles of democracy in such a short time. In fact, I have to grudgingly admire the ability of this administration to do harm to so many of the things we value and hadn’t even imagined could be threatened. Who knew that this country could be ruled so completely by whim and by fiat—in the form of executive order after executive order.
The individual, Donald J Trump, has neither the intelligence nor imagination to accomplish these aims, but better minds like Stephen Miller and the authors of Project 2025 quietly direct the majority of these initiatives. Still, the broad range of efforts to dismantle life as we know it in the US of A derives from the fact that there are actually four occupants of the White House, four faces of this sociopath.
- Donald Trump, the 78 year old man who is still a nine-year-old boy, with big dreams and a big ego. The little boy in the White House imagines a Space Force that will wear fancy uniforms and send men (not women) to outer space. That same little boy sees a Golden Dome covering the United States from attacks, a literal one rather than a figurative one, in much the way that a child’s concrete mind sees a physical wall saving us from marauders that might invade our borders. This little boy wants a military parade down the streets of Washington—what better way to celebrate his birthday. The Little Boy relishes the idea of being gifted a giant luxury jet to fly around the world.
- Donald Trump, the racist with zero compassion. This is the man who supports cuts to Medicaid while granting tax breaks to millionaires. This is the man who deports immigrants by the thousands, the crime they have in common is having brown skin and speaking a language other than English. This is the man who at the same time makes special efforts to approve the immigration of WHITE South Africans, while insulting the leader of this nation, Cyril Ramaphosa, with false claims of genocide. (Aside: Better than any of the late-night comedians, Ramaphosa had the single best anti-Trump line of recent history, in the face of direct insults saying that he was sorry he did not have a large plane to give to Trump. Trump, by the way, didn’t even realize he was being put down.)
- Donald Trump the fool who knows better than anyone else and won’t be played for a sucker. The policies that flow from this face of the man are not inspired by Stephen Miller et al, but come from the businessman in the White House who believes he is the smartest man on the planet, the businessman who doesn’t seem to remember how many times he filed for bankruptcy. The idea of “beautiful” tariffs are the idea on one man only, his Trumpness. He feels he is being taken advantage of and he knows how to tip the scales in his favor. Of course, he is totally incapable of seeing a larger picture that takes into account the impact of tariffs on the global economy, the stock market, or, at the least, his constituents, the people who voted for him and were counting on him to bring down prices.
- Donald Trump, the egotist and power-hungry strongman. As much as Trump might not like the values or actions of “liberal elites” throughout the culture, the pure joy of making others kowtow to him is what gets this man’s juices flowing more than anything else. In the name of anti-semitism which he could care less about, he challenged Columbia University and they folded so totally and immediately that they made the Three Pigs’ house of straw look like a bastion of strength and stability. Emboldened, he took on Harvard, simply because he would feel the rush of power and feel invincible if he could show them who’s the boss. Commentators have asked whether Trump realizes all the harm he does when he pauses research to cure cancer and protect veterans when he cancels these grants to Harvard, but they are absolutely missing the point of all this. If Harvard can be brought to its knees, then I am king, says he. Everything else is collateral damage. What better drug could there be than seeing all of those so-called big guys fall before him.
The boy, the racist, the fool, the egotist. We sensed it might be bad—but how did we not see this coming?????
