Courtesy of today’s Talking Points Memo, this list is but a partial list of the Trumpskrieg we have witnessed after but two months of his term:
“Breaking New Ground In Lawlessness
President Trump late Sunday night purported to invalidate Joe Biden’s pardons of members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
Trump Targets Yet Another Major Law Firm
On Wednesday, a federal judge blocked as wildly unconstitutional President Trump’s executive order targeting the Perkins Coie law firm. On Saturday, the president issued a similar executive order targeting Paul Weiss, a major NYC-based law firm.
Appeals Court Allows Trump To Enforce DEI EOs
In a case out of Maryland, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling that blocked two of President Trump’s executive orders banning DEI while the case was on appeal. Under the ruling, the executive orders will remain in place as the appeal proceeds.
Trump Purports To Shutter VOA
NPR’s David Folkenflik on the carnage at Voice of America and other government broadcasters as President Trump’s Friday night executive order began to take effect.
The Destruction
- President Trump’s executive order targeting VOA also purported to dismantle six other federal agencies:
- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- Woodrow Wilson Center
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
- Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
- Minority Business Development Agency
- WaPo: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of a broader effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”
- KFF Health News: “National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.”
- NIH has taken down a portrait of Anthony Fauci.
The Purges
- NNSA: DOGE cuts hit nuclear scientists, bomb engineers and safety experts
- Bureau of Reclamation: Nearly 400 agency workers have been cut by the Trump administration.
Doge Watch
- ProPublica: Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?
- Wired: Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
- NYT: Antonio Gracias, a private equity investor who is one of Elon Musk’s closest confidants, has taken a new role in the Social Security Administration.
Trump II Abroad: The March Of Folly
- Ukraine: U.S. withdraws from multinational group investigating responsibility for Russia’s invasion.
- South Africa: Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, persona non grata, forcing the him to be recalled the day after Breitbart reported comments the envoy had made about Trump, MAGA, and white supremacism.
- Gaza: The U.S. and Israel have contacted officials from Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for Palestinians forcibly expelled from Gaza under a possible Trump administration plan.”
