He alienates our democratic allies and cozies up to authoritarian despots like Putin, Kim and Netanyahu.
He issues presidential edicts that get declared unlawful or unconstitutional by our courts, and he ignores the rulings of those courts when their decisions go against him.
It was just over a year ago that Drumpf publicly proclaimed his view that "many Americans" would prefer living under a dictatorship over a democratically elected president:
Link: Trump Suggests Americans Open to a ‘Dictator’
"President Donald Trump said Monday that he thinks Americans may like a “dictator,” though he wouldn’t describe himself as one.
“They say: ‘We don’t need him. Freedom, freedom, he’s a dictator, he’s a dictator,’” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.”
Trump’s remarks came as he signed a raft of executive orders, including one in which he tasked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lead the training of a specialized National Guard unit dedicated to “ensuring public safety” in Washington, D.C."
It may be true that "a lot of people" in this country want to have a dictator as our leader, but those people sure as shit don't make up anywhere near a majority of the Americans who hold such a view, and in fact I would venture to say that it is mostly the hardcore dregs of the MAGA movement who hold that view and I wouldn't put them at more than 10-15% of the voting public.
Think about this though. The mobbed-up old bastard had the gall to claim at that White House event last August that he himself does not "like a dictator," and that he isn't a dictator, but he said those words while signing one of his many suspect executive orders, one of which ordered Pete Hegseth to provide "specialized" military training to troops who who have been deployed into the streets of American cities such as those troops who were dispatched to blue cities during Drumpf's ICE surges in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and to Washington D.C. where US military troops remain today.
Which leads to the obvious question - why are US military troops still patrolling the streets of Washington D.C. to this very day to begin with, hmm?
Is there a violent, bloody insurrection taking place in the streets of our nation's capital city that requires a 24x7 occupying force of armed military troops that I'm not aware of??
And what exactly was the kind of "specialized" training that National Guard troops were ordered to receive from Pete Hegseth from DonOld's executive order? Drumpf claimed the training would be to ensure "public safety." Is that what the role of our highly trained US military combat troops is for? To have them patrolling the streets of US cities arresting jaywalkers and shoplifters? Really?
More importantly - why did Drumpf just extend the presence of those military troops to patrol the streets of our nation's capitol for nearly three more years until 2029 at a cost of over $1.4 billion in taxpayer money?
Link: Washington grapples with a $1.4 billion National Guard deployment extension until 2029 | PBS News
"WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been 12 months since President Donald Trump announced a crime emergency in Washington, pledging to make the city "safe and beautiful" and deploying the National Guard.
But a mission that seemed temporary has been extended through January 2029. Residents and a new cadre of local officials see in it an unacceptable attempt by the federal government to restrict the heavily Democratic city's autonomy and, a year in, still question why having troops on the streets of the nation's capital is necessary."
How do I see Drumpf's order to maintain an armed military presence patrolling the streets of the city where his criminal regime is currently constructing an underground bunker beneath a ginormous gold-leafed, reinforced 'ballroom,' next to a retrofitted White House that will have a large armed presence, a giant new helipad just steps away, and an offensive military drone port guarding all from the roof of his ballroom?
Well - just think how convenient it would be to be able to supplement all of that new defensive construction and offensive weaponry capabilities at the White House with a large contingent force of military troops who just happen to be in town and down the street and available at your command when it comes time to defy the will of the American people by refusing to depart the White House after your term in office arrives at a lawful and constitutional end in 2028, amiright?
This is why as tiring as it gets I continue to advise people to not only take Drumpf at his word when he expresses his dictatorial desires, but also watch his actions, such as the ridiculously costly extension of the US military troops presence in Washington D.C. until 2029.
Those are the types of actions which are incrementally paving the way for the aspiring old dictator wannabe and the corrupt cabal of traitors who are enabling him and propping him up to complete their Putin-sponsored coup and drive the final soul destroying stake through the heart of the American democratic experiment.
---TFG
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