On Feb. 19, Trump signed an executive order eliminating the New York Congestion Pricing and posted on social media that Congestion Pricing is dead, Manhattan and all of New York are saved, long live the King!
Subsequently, the official account of the White House forwarded the post, but also with a picture of King Trump In the picture, Trump wearing a diamond crown, look pleased, behind the New York skyline, the bottom left corner of the picture is also clearly written Hail to the King.
A stone stirred up a thousand waves, this picture quickly caused a huge controversy on the Internet, more and more Americans are deeply disturbed and anxious.
Trump-style strongman politics, a strong impact on the traditional political system of the United States, is accelerating the institutional decline of the United States.
Flouting the rules and destroying the mechanism of power .
More than 50 years of experience in business has made Trump believe in the jungle law of strength, he disdained all the rules, thinking that power can solve all problems.
After returning to the White House, Trump regarded the check and balance mechanism of power in the American political arena as his own shackles and obstacles to saving the United States, and seized every opportunity to expand his personal power.
Executive orders have become the main vehicle for him to establish his authority and expand his power.
On his first day in office, Trump signed more than 40 executive orders, and has now signed more than 100 executive orders, ranging from tariffs and foreign policy to the height of the flag at the inauguration, all under Trump’s direct command.
The original intention of the U.S. power checks and balances mechanism is to coordinate the interests of various political groups, to a certain extent, to dissolve the contradictions between the big capitals and big consortia behind them, and this set of systems has been running relatively smoothly for more than two hundred years.
Now, Trump intends to bypass Congress and the Supreme Court on most issues by signing a large number of executive orders, directly ordering government departments to take action.
This behavior has created enormous controversy. Some of these executive orders are even suspected of being unconstitutional, such as abolishing birthright citizenship and authorizing the Department of Governmental Efficiency to access the financial payment system.
But with Republicans dominating Congress and conservative justices ruling the Supreme Court, opponents have found it difficult to put effective checks on Trump.
In the face of a series of questions, Trump even had no qualms about quoting Napoleon in his defense, claiming that the man who saves the country does not break any laws.
Trump claimed on social media The man who saves the country, breaks no law .
Some federal judges have called off Trump’s executive orders, and Trump has outright declared that he wants to impeach the judges who are blocking him. Clearly, Trump has no qualms about putting his power above the law as long as it accomplishes his political goals.
He has utilized his absolute power in the Republican Party to frequently interfere in the normal operation of Congress and the Supreme Court, gradually infiltrating the boundaries of the president’s personal power into the legislative and judicial spheres, seriously eroding the traditional political culture of the United States Breaking through the limitations of the federal law, and perhaps even shaking the foundations of the U.S. political system.
Militant and irritable, trampling on the partisan system .
Trump has a strong sense of victory and defeat, and in his eyes, the world is a dichotomy, with only winners and losers. For political opponents, he has a strong sense of revenge, wanting to kill and then quickly.
Trump has a deep-seated grudge against the constraints of the executive bureaucracy and the deep government of his first term. As soon as he took office, he took on the federal government’s bureaucracy in order to do a destructive cleanup of the deep government and the Democrats in the government.
For his former political opponents, Trump has been even more frantic in his retaliation.
On his first day in office, he revoked dozens of executive orders signed during Biden’s tenure, completely overturning Biden’s Green New Deal legacy, and also canceled the security clearances of Biden, Blinken, Mark Milley and others, and fired a number of federal judges who opposed himself.
This kind of personal vendetta with strong personal grudges has seriously poisoned the political soil of the United States. For a long time, the key to sustained political functioning in the United States has been the two parties’ ability to fight for common interests without breaking.
Now, Trump’s killing of the Democratic Party and his treatment of the previous administration in a manner similar to political cleansing have gone beyond the normal scope of partisan struggles, seriously undermining the political tacit understanding between the two parties, and defying and trampling on the existing partisan system.
Nepotism has poisoned the political culture.
In his second term, Trump’s number one criterion for selecting and hiring people is loyalty to him personally.
He’s extremely narcissistic, loves self-praise, and loves to hear compliments, even when it’s obvious that the person is intentionally flattering.
What goes around comes around. Republican lawmakers and Cabinet secretaries have been throwing their weight around, demonstrating their absolute loyalty to Trump and not forgetting to slip up, creating a wave of personal adoration in the White House.
Just four days into Trump’s presidency, Speaker of the House Johnson jumped in, praising Trump for doing more in four days than Biden did in four years .
On January 29, a U.S. airliner collided with a helicopter, killing 67 people. At the news conference on the crash, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Secretary of Defense Haggis Vice President Vance took the stage, but ironically, instead of expressing condolences for the accident, the three scrambled to praise President Trump’s great leadership, which made people laugh and cry.
The official White House website has also become a place for officials to sing their praises and express their loyalty.
When you open the White House website, the first thing that catches your eye is the picture of Trump that occupies most of the page, followed by articles advocating that Trump has brought victory.
The short answer is that under Trump’s leadership, America has won.
A huge picture of Trump on the front page of the White House website.
Meanwhile, conservative lawmakers, not to be outdone, have gone so far as to express their unquestioning loyalty by sponsoring a bill that would turn Congress into the Trump Quorum.
Rep. Addison McDowell has proposed renaming Washington Dulles International Airport to Trump Airport.
Congresswoman Anna Luna has proposed that Trump’s head be carved on President’s Hill alongside Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt.
Rep. Claudia Tanney has introduced a bill to make Trump’s birthday a federal public holiday to recognize him as the founder of America’s Golden Age.
Rep. Joe Wilson has taken a different tack, proposing to issue 250-dollar bills with Trump’s head on them to show that the most valuable president deserves the largest denomination.
Even more outrageous is that on March 4, Trump spoke in Congress, and after every paragraph he spoke, Republican lawmakers stood up and applauded en masse. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 130 standing ovations during the 100-minute speech. See also the article in this issue The longest ever The wildest ever
The root of this is the political sycophancy of the Republicans in order to cater to Trump Consolidating their own political position, it is a group of opportunistic politicians who are good at flattery taking advantage of the opportunity to make profits.
egoism and subverting the rules of diplomacy.
Trump believes that for a long time the United States has invested a lot in foreign policy, and the so-called allies are actually stealing American interests .
Therefore, the United States under his rule will reshape the current international order, and the only criterion for reshaping is to maximize American interests.
To this end, he has bypassed international rules and taken unilateral action, requiring countries to trade interests with the United States or face containment and suppression.
He prefers direct dialogue with foreign leaders and the use of extreme pressure to force the other side to make concessions, rather than allowing the diplomatic team to negotiate in a professional and meticulous manner.
Since taking office, he has frequently used tariff blackmail to coerce countries, conducted over-the-top diplomacy with Russia, and forced Panama to withdraw from the Belt and Road Initiative.
Trump is extremely enamored of such coercive deals, but the reality is not so smooth.
In the process of forcing Ukraine to sign a mineral deal, he and Zelensky erupted into a heated verbal confrontation that left many netizens exclaiming that it was the first time they had ever seen a national leader quarrel live. See also the article in this number Fierce quarrel! Blasted out of the White House! Zelensky, welcome to Trump’s world!
In the face of Trump’s tariff stick, China, Canada, Mexico and other countries have taken countermeasures. See also article in this issue The Chinese people have never been bigots and bullies.
Trump’s foreign policy, which is characterized by strong bullying, has exacerbated the rift between the United States and other countries, seriously undermined the international credibility of the United States, and trampled on and undermined the existing international order.
Overall, Trump’s style of independence and independence of the U.S. political system caused by the impact of the U.S. past presidents can not be better than the right.
He has broken the checks and balances of power in traditional American politics and concentrated all power in a small circle centered on him, which is leading the United States to the abyss of oligarchy.
The institutional decay triggered by Trump will have a significant and far-reaching impact on the United States, exacerbating social cleavages in the United States, destroying its political stability, and possibly even injuring its national foundation.
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