How can one best sum up the first year of President Trump's second term in office.
Well, there was the time he and JD Vance became two Russian assets and publicly berated Ukrainian President Zelensky.
Trump took over the Kennedy Center and added his name to it.
Trump unilaterally demolished the East Wing of the White House to turn it into a monument for himself.
Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War and told generals of an "enemy within" and also sent in the National Guard into several American cities.
There were tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs including to countries with which we already had trade surpluses. He showed special contempt for Canada declaring it the 51st state from which he didn't need anything.
There was the naked corruption of accepting a $400 million bribe from Qatar in the form of a new Air Force One, giving himself a "golden share" in Nippon Steel's purchase of U.S. Steel and various crypto schemes.
Trump intimidated law firms by telling them who they can and cannot represent, abruptly fired the Chair of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for a jobs report he didn't like and appointed inexperienced loyalists to dubious indictments brought against former FBI Director James Comey and current New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump was also cruel for its own sake. Sometimes it was directed at a group of people such withholding citizenship minutes from immigrants minutes before they were to be sworn in and who came here legally and played by the rules. Sometimes it was directed against a single individual such as Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Then there was his cruelty towards Rob Reiner only hours after and his wife were murdered claiming that his death was caused by Trump Derangement Syndrome,
In a new year less than three weeks old, Trump has removed a head of state of Venezuela only to install his VP as the new president effectively keeping their regime intact while accepting their opposition leader's Nobel Peace medal. In the meantime, he is threatening to invade Greenland unless the Norwegians bequeath Trump with a Nobel with his name on it.
And then there is the madness in Minnesota highlighted by the cold-blooded murder of Renee Good by an ICE officer and Trump's equally cold-blooded efforts to defame her name while investigating her widow instead of her killer. Needless to say, given that Trump is not deterring ICE from its boorish behavior it has no qualms about dragging women out of cars and dragging men out of their homes even if they are U.S. citizens.
I would ask where it all ends, but it has only just begun.
This is what we voted for and there is a lot more of this to come.
And it will only get worse.
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