For my own purposes, I am going to log the actions Donald Trump is taking that I see as dangerous, illegal or threatening to the long term health of our nation, or simply evidence of his lack of understanding what America is all about or what makes us great.
- Yesterday, February 28, 2025, was the low point not just of the Trump administration, but of my experience as an American. Except for those irretrievably attracted to Donald Trump or the blindly partisan, what happened in the Oval Office with Vladimir Zelensky was awful, a turning of the back on American principles and the moral standard we've set since the end of WWII. My fear is that there are worse days to come.
- Removing or altering more than 8,000 government websites covering topics from vaccine research to Census Bureau datasets
- Putting research for next year's flu strain at risk
- Naming Lynn Deklava, a lobbyist at the American Chemistry Council, an industry group that spends millions of dollars lobbying against chemical regulation, as head of the EPA group responsible for chemical regulations (February 26, 2025)
- Selling $5 million gold cards to wealthy foreigners as a path to citizenship (February 25, 2025)
- Firing JAG officers without cause. ( see this also February 21, 2024)
- Firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other generals for suspicion of being DEI hires (February 21, 2025).
- Nominating Fox host Don Bongino to be Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Nominating Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense (November 13, 2024)
- Nominating Kash Patel as Director of the FBI (December 2, 2024)
- Nominating Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (November 1, 2024)
- Nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (November 14, 2024)
- Nominating Mehmet Oz to serve as administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services (November 19, 2024)
- Nominating Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education (December 5, 2024)
- Siding with Russia to vote against a UN resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine (February 24, 2025)
- Conceding to Russian demands with nothing in return to end the war in Ukraine (February - February 24, 2025)
- Allowing Elon Musk unfettered access to our payment systems and other sensitive data stores
- Shutting down the US Agency for International Development, opening the door for China and Russia (February 6, 2025)
- Removing online climate data farmers use to plan sowing and harvesting because the data contradicts the administration's preferred climate narrative (January 30, 2025)
- Demanding that Ukraine turn half its mineral resources over to us as tribute for the support we provided in their war against the Russian aggressors.
- Objecting to NATO's use of the word "aggressor" to describe Russia's actions in Ukraine
- Sending Vice President Vance to Munich, a city closer to Kiev, Ukraine than Washington DC is to Atlanta in order to scold them that Russia is less a threat than their own refusal to give a platform to a party whose rising star is a young man who confessed to pasting swastikas on a church.
- Claiming in his inaugural speech that God saved him from an assassin's bullet to save America (if God was willing to do that, why didn't he save Abraham Lincoln, a far more pious man in a far for grievous period, from an assassins bullet? Might it be that both were done as God's punishment of America? January 20, 2025)
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