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Nothing about this is normal: Trump’s first three weeks [1]

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Date: 2025-02-05

Most of the Republican establishment has stretched and contorted itself into knots attempting to justify Donald Trump’s actions during the first three weeks of his presidency—that it, those who are not complicit in his madness. There are those who even try to say that this is normal and represents the will of the voters.

To them I say, horse crap! Yes, there are some who voted for Trump who are demented or ignorant enough to approve of what he’s doing, but I have to believe that most of them were either so averse to having a woman of color as president, or so deluded by his already broken promises to fix the things that bothered them—like spiraling prices, that they cast the ballot for the person that they mistakenly believed that he actually meant what he said on the campaign trail.

Well, news flash, kiddies! What’s happening right now is not only NOT normal, it’s downright insane and bound to come back to bite us in our collective heinies soon.

Here are just some of the outrageous things YOUR president has done and said in his first three months in office.

Issued an executive order changing the Constitution’s provision on birthright citizenship. Notwithstanding the cruelty of this order (which a federal judge has put on hold), there’s the question of a president’s legal authority to change the Constitution with an executive order. Threatened to invade Panama to take back the canal. We turned the canal over to Panama under the terms of a Senate-approved treaty, making it a law that would require Senate action to abrogate or change, and an invasion and seizure of another country’s sovereign territory would violate the Geneva Conventions to which we are a signatory. Slapped tariffs on Canada and Mexico, our two main trading partners, demanding that they do what they’re essentially already doing, and in the process violating the tri-lateral trade pact that he negotiated during his first administration, and sending the US stock market and the economy into a tizzy. Then, when they basically agreed to do a bit more of what they’d already been doing, he put a hold on the tariffs. A PR ploy that allowed him to crow publicly and claim victory while the rest of the country suffered. Allowed an unelected, not for sure even official or legal, ‘official,’ South African emigrant Elon Musk, the man who destroyed Twitter, to take possibly unlawful and definitely disruptive actions against federal employees, federally funded programs, and federal agencies, with his gang of Gen-Z wunderkind who have no government experience, and probably can’t get security clearances through the normal process. Musk’s actions to dismantle USAID have not only sent shockwaves globally through areas and people who depend on USAID for life-saving support, but has disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of federal employees and their families, and was not done in accord with established regulations and procedures. Has discussed shipping US citizens and legal permanent residents who are criminals to foreign countries and turning Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba into a giant concentration camp. Keeps taunting Canada with his view that it should become the 51st state, something that seems to enrage most Canadians. Thanks, Donold, we now have people mad at us on both borders. A recent proposal, though, makes his pressure on Denmark to sell us Greenland sound almost sane. He’s proposing that the US take over Gaza, remove all the Palestinians elsewhere, and turn Gaza into a moneymaking resort area. Not surprisingly, except for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is as wacko as he is, most of our allies as well as our adversaries have called foul on this proposal. Not to mention that this would doom the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it would be ethnic cleansing on steroids.

If you can read this list and call any of these actions normal, I recommend that you immediately seek the services of a competent psychiatrist and check yourself into a mental institution.

If this is a sign of what’s to come for the next four years, I say stock up on reading material and your favorite beverages, because the streets and public spaces of the United States are going to be unsafe places to be.

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