If you’re a Trump voter and are wondering at the chaos in the Trump Administration and why non-Democratic Party voters for Biden Harris aren’t frantically declaring their loyalty to President Trump, you could do worse than read Dana Milbank’s roundup of the first six days:
The evidence that Donald Trump was truly, madly and deeply confused was worrisome when he was a candidate. It’s all the more so now that he is wielding the mighty apparatus of the U.S. government to pursue his fantasies. This is a classic case of garbage in, garbage out — but now he is making the country a landfill for his nonsensical policies.
Those 10,000 troops are being sent to the southern border to resolve a self-proclaimed “emergency,” even though illegal border crossings are lower now than when he left office in 2021. His administration has ordered personnel repurposed from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces to support the same fabricated emergency, needlessly raising the danger of a terrorist attack. He declared another “national emergency” because of the “precariously inadequate” energy supply — even though domestic crude-oil production hit record highs under Biden and is still climbing. He’s refusing to implement a law banning TikTok, ignoring the threat to national security because “we won the young vote. I think I won it through TikTok.” (He lost among young voters, but never mind.) [WaPo]
To that last point, I recall seeing a clip where Trump claimed he won the young vote by 32 points. And you wonder why folks mistrust Trump? They want nothing to do with Trump because they foresee imminent disaster.
New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
And they also mistrust these GOP Senators who are merrily confirming Pete Hegseth to the most important Cabinet post of the nation, for which President Trump no doubt nominated him because of his war record (Bronze Star) and his manly chin, while ignoring his troubling record of womanizing, misogyny, supporting those who were convicted of committing war crimes, and mismanagement of non-profit organization budgets. Sure, give him control over a nearly trillion dollar budget, I dare ya. Kudos to Senators McConnell (R-KY), Murkowski (R-AL), and Collins (R-ME) for seeing through the threats from their fellow Republicans if they didn’t vote for Hegseth.
It’s all a travesty. And before you bellow, the Democrats certainly have their own share of blame, losing to this pack of fourth raters. Our political parties are vastly incompetent boobs, from McConnell to Schumer. Will we survive it?
