In his first three moths in office, Trump has moved quickly on multiple fronts, issuing wave upon wave of executive orders and pursuing his War on Everybody.
He’s attempted to implement mass deportations of migrants, dismantle most agencies of the federal government, defund leading universities, attack Wokeism everywhere, and start a trade war with China, among many other initiatives.
And for a while there he seemed to be getting away with it.
But the first cracks in his illusion of power are starting to show. The courts are slowing his deportations, Elon Musk and DOGE have utterly failed to uncover the “waste, fraud and abuse” they said existed in federal agencies, Harvard is leading the resistance of universities, China is outwitting Trump on the global stage, and the stock market has virtually collapsed.
The White House is said to be ready to dump the hapless Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense in wake of his two Signalgate scandals; Musk is said to be readying his exit from DOGE, and mass demonstrations against Trump have broken out all across the country.
Al of this makes Trump angry, of course, and all the more dangerous. But his attempt to fight too many battles on too many fronts is beginning to look like a failed strategy.
Links for action:
Contact your Congressional representatives in the House or the Senate.
HEADLINES:
The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary (NPR)
Harvard sues Trump administration over funding freeze (Axios)
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed (Guardian)
Trump warns of economic slowdown unless Fed cuts rates, triggering selloff (Reuters)
Al Gore’s Real-Time Climate Data Just Went Live—Here’s Why It Matters (Forbes)
Kennedy Plans to Phase Out 8 Commonly Used Food Dyes (NYT)
How the deportation of a Salvadoran man has become a hinge point in US history (CNN)
Venezuelan migrants were set for deportation without judicial review, lawyers tell US Supreme Court (Reuters)
Trump Makes Fresh Threat Against Harvard as He Tries to Make It Cave (TNR)
Trump’s Harvard fiasco underscores the White House’s incompetence crisis (MSNBC)
The Cost of Defunding Harvard (New Yorker)
The Worst Job in America (Atlantic)
The federal ‘5 things’ emails have fallen apart, as Elon Musk readies exit (WP)
Tesla bull calls ‘code red’ saying Musk needs to leave DOGE (Fortune)
U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google (NYT)
DOJ’s sweeping remedies would harm America’s economy and technological leadership (Google Blog)
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs — By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards. (Atlantic)
OpenAI’s Agent Moment; Cursor’s AI Hallucination (The Information)
Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’ (The Onion)
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