Ranking the Trump Transgressions
How bad is the worst U.S. President ever?
In light of Trump’s recent 18-minute national address campaign/polling-boost advertisement, I thought I would attempt to document a ranked partial list of everything the administration is doing wrong with commentary on how wrong it is. Unlike Trump’s address, this one is not filled with lies, half-truths, and utter nonsense.
While I do provide some commentary on these, I will not bother wasting my time with links in all cases. If you are not paying attention enough to know the issue listed, I’m not sure you could be counted on to read the link.
Extra judicial murders (104 and counting) of alleged drug smugglers in the ocean and Gulf of Mexico. As Radley Balko says, “There is no reality in which these strikes are legal, moral, or remotely consistent with a nation that claims to adhere to democratic principles. The strikes are lawless, reckless, and barbaric, and the administration’s shifting justifications are a morass of misdirection and legal shell games.
The strikes are also clear, unambiguous violations of domestic and international law, and if any other country did it to U.S. citizens — whether or not they were engaged in criminal activity — we’d be prepping for war. They also fit the definition of crimes against humanity. (They aren’t war crimes, however — only because we are not at war with the cartels. If we were, as Trump insists, then they would be war crimes, too.)” We are desperately in need of a few good men to stand up to this evil.
Immigration Gestapo. This includes the violence but not just that inflicted upon U.S. citizens. In includes the unconstitutional behavior, but extends to the morally bankrupt and economically illiterate reasoning upon which it rests. The lies offered for it from the idea that it is only violent criminals (or criminals at all) that are being targeted to the purported benefits are sadly the least of the transgressions. Watching people in the land of the free defending their lives before the judgement of masked terrorizers leaves me stunned with sadness.
Having the DoJ selectively prosecute enemies of the regime on direct presidential orders.
Tariffs (AKA, taxes on American consumers). Here is certainly one I’m not going to waste my time linking again to the arguments and evidence against this crazy scheme.
Openly soliciting and accepting bribes. All U.S. presidents have likely (perhaps certainly) had their moments of corruption. Trump takes it to 111 in scope and blatancy.
Socialism. He dances with fascism in the true economic sense of the term, but that isn’t enough for his greed. He wants to own the means of production as well as control them. Trump is truly the wolf of Washington.
Infringements on the Second Amendment. I was told he was a conservative standing up for traditional, American values. Yet in this area like many others he proves it not to be true. We had ample examples of this in the first term like the bump stock ban, which the Supreme Court overturned.
Attempted actions and continued rhetoric against the First Amendment. I was told he would stand up for free speech generally and undo the prior administration’s unconstitutional infringements. I was not so dumb as to believe this. Many were and are as they fail to see it as wrong as long as “their side”, the right, is getting favorable treatment.
Sick, disgusting, narcissistic social media posts like this:
[This is a placeholder for items not mentioned and unfortunately items yet to come.]
I am willing to admit the list might be out of order—he is one “hold my beer” moment away from making any one of them worse. I am not willing to overlook any of these, however.
If you are an American citizen, these things are being done in your name. If you are a Trump voter or supporter otherwise, you are blameworthy. At the very least you should be speaking up in opposition, distancing yourself from the regime, and apologizing for your mistake. If you are someone taking part in these activities and especially in a leadership role within the U.S. government (including members of Congress who are not doing as much as reasonably possible to fight against these actions, which is basically everyone except a few who happen to be Republicans), you are morally culpable.
I’ve inserted this and other allusions as a nod to the item further down on the list. Rob Reiner did more good for the world than Trump has done comparing unfairly Reiner’s net good (not everything was good as with all humans nor did I agree with Reiner always, of course) to Trump’s good looked at in isolation of all the bad things as listed here and beyond.