Let’s be clear: This information is accurate. For more than thirty-five years I’ve made a good living teaching research methods to ensure validity in collegiate essays. All support needs to be thoroughly investigated, not by finding a source, and not a few sources, but no less than three independent-from-each-other sources to guarantee the accuracy of the information. Further, only after a spin as Devil’s Advocate to guarantee all sides have been considered and all perspectives anticipated can anyone trust the validity of the content.

So, that being understood, President Donald J. Trump is out of his mind. He is ruining this country and has convinced a majority of its voting public that what is happening is for their better good.

In the past ten days—his first ten days in his second term—he has done the following:

Allowed energy exploration and production on Federal Lands, including offshore sites, for critical minerals and fossil fuels, removed regulations which favor electric cars, and canceled all previous orders already in place to avoid such disasters to the environment and sustainability.

He also declared a National Energy Emergency which allows the executive branch to have more power to facilitate projects, including putting pipelines across land. Note that solar and wind power are excluded from this declaration.   

Withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord. Again.

Allowed the government and companies to fully avail themselves of Alaska’s vast lands and resources to drill for natural gas.

This dictator declared that all agency heads should review all previous criminal enforcement, civil enforcement, and intelligence conduct, decide if it was politically motivated, and hold those actors accountable with possible criminal prosecution and punishment.

This neo Hitler-in-charge has reclassified career federal employees as political appointees, which means if they don’t sway to political pressure they can now legally be fired.

Donald J Stalin revoked security clearances for dozens of intelligence officials who agreed with former president Joseph Biden.

He terminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the federal government. Yes, this homophobe and racist bastard ordered that all agencies report to the OMB director a list of all employees in DEI positions. They have sixty days to comply or they will be fired.

This genital-grabbing, foul-mouthed accused rapist has mandated that the federal government will henceforth recognize only two genders: male and female, and they must be referred to by the term “sex” instead of “gender identity.” That alone would push him toward a failing grade in my class for ignorance in diction, but that’s a rabbit hole I’ll avoid for now. For now.

He has established with psychopathic South African born genius and immigrant in favor, Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE (how clever) to cut government spending, which on the surface isn’t a poor idea, but it works only if those charged with carrying out the mission have a clue as to the cause and effects of financial spending in the government. Most foreign aid, for example, isn’t a gift, but allows trade to occur with benefits to the US, allows use of airspace for military and commercial use, and prevents war—it prevents war. Again, Foreign Aid Prevents Wars. That should be branded on his stomach.

He wants to “clean out (note the sliver of space between his phrase and the word “cleansing” often used during the holocaust) the Gaza Strip. He and Musk have already stated the “resort potential in the lands of Gaza.”

He has ordered that the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment should not be interfered with, which includes disinformation, libel, and lying even when it harms others, and that anyone in the last four years who did interfere with his ideas of the above will be investigated and punished.

Take a minute to get a drink or take a shower.

Okay,

This old man withdrew the US from the World Health Organization, which includes cancelling a Biden Administration order to cooperate with the WHO in the case of a future pandemic.

He has ended the moratorium on the Death Penalty and ordered the USAG to pursue the death penalty “whenever possible,” and that State prosecutors, who are not bound by the federal order, are still “highly encouraged” to do the same. “Highly encouraged” is how Trump spells “do it or I’ll ruin you.”

He signed a new order which revoked a Biden order which promoted voter registration, and the same new order makes it easier to reshape election maps.

There’s more, but that’s for another time. Some of these directives still must pass congress’ scrutiny, but they are in place and on their way to being status quo, which is how nazis defined every small new law against Jews which built over the course of the thirties leading up to the holocaust. The view from this wilderness is grim. We have entered an age in America where the person in charge, over the course of several decades, gained the admiration and trust of a great deal of mostly under-educated Americans who never learned how to measure the effects of another’s actions; who never learned to investigate the repercussions of carrying out an act which on the surface seems logical enough but has ramifications which can not only damage this country, but can directly lead to its demise. He’ll have the support of right-wing media outlets, whose “commentators” have no experience at all in government, political science, military strategy, or economics. But they’ll mouth off in agreement anyway because then they’ll be famous and rich and maybe even given a cabinet position, and many Americans will listen and agree because the ten-second soundbite is easier to comprehend than the research necessary to find out the truth.

The truth is tariffs will cause prices to rise drastically, and he’ll lie about how it happened. Policies will damage all sustainability programs and environmental protections at a time we are dangerously close to crossing the tipping point, and he’ll claim as he has before that the statistics are made up by left-wing radicals.

Left wing radicals, like scientists, economists, Nobel laureates, every living former president, the leading minds in the military and political science worlds, and historians who measure these things from the past nearly 250 years. And writers.

With President Trump cozying up to dictators and morally corrupt billionaires, this sycophant will not stop until he undoes the twenty-second amendment and heads toward more terms with his pal Vlad Putin.

Listen, I know many people who support this con-artist. Some are friends and some are relatives, and they all voted for him for some specific reason which they could not find in former vice president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Some may have even voted for him for no other reason than they didn’t want a woman or person of color in office, which in itself is a repulsive reason. And some of these aforementioned realities they will either deny or defend. Some wanted him in office to ensure more conservative judges, and some because they simply can’t stand diversity. There’s absolutely no arguing with them; it’s a waste of time to engage with people who won’t take the time to understand the long-term effects of a narcissist at the helm.

I’m sure most of those people aren’t even reading this. But if they are—if you are—please understand I don’t directly contend conservative programs and missions. I don’t agree with them, but that is for the voter to decide. What I am disappointed in is the lack of ability of so many to do the homework necessary to learn firsthand that the man is a liar of the highest order, who couldn’t give a damn about anything but himself and his power and popularity, and it is going to crush us all—ALL of us—in the end.

He has to go.