Today’s notice: Welcome to the new age, déjà vu expected. Letting Trump be Trump means his supporters are left wincing sometimes. Executive actions will keep the courts busy. Undoing the last administration may be harder than it looks. Oh, and everyone is really mad at the last administration.
The Trump Steamroll President
Donald Trump has laid the groundwork for an America reborn in the image of MAGA. If you listened very closely, you could hear a unity message in his inauguration speech. But everything that came after explained what unifying means now: supporting exactly what Trump wants to do, when he wants to do it.
Republicans and Democrats have concerns about TikTok, but they were largely pushed aside by a president who signed an order supporting the app rooted in unclear legal reasoning. He moved to rename Denali despite the fact that Alaska said during his first administration it was happy with the name. Even members of his own administration have been skeptical of his “J6 hostages” talk, but Trump pardoned or commuted every sentence related to the attack on the Capitol anyway. Transgender Americans were left out of unity entirely, essentially told by executive orders that in the eyes of the White House, they don’t exist.