By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on February 15, 2025
An Editorial Opinion
President Donald Trump assumed office on January 20, 2025. This is what he has accomplished during his first month in office:
Trump freed all 1,600 January 6th insurrectionists, including the ones who assaulted and injured Capitol police officers. These brave officers defended the lives and safety of Congress members who were barricaded in the Capitol and/or running from the mob. These officers also protected Vice President Mike Pence, who was fleeing from an effort to lynch him.
Trump issued Executive Orders killing every forms of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in government and the private sector, dating back to 1965. By doing so, Trump telegraphed to all women and racial minorities in the U.S. that the federal government’s enforcement of their civil rights has ended. Interestingly, as late as June 8, 2023, the ultra-conservative U.S. Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan acknowledged that Alabama still discriminates against its black citizens, from the “cradle to the grave.” Of course, Trump has never mentioned this DEI-related problem.
Trump removed at least 17 inspectors general from federal government agencies. These independent watchdogs conduct audits and investigations of major federal agencies. They also receive "whistleblower" complaints of unlawful agency conduct.
Trump stopped all work at the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. This action opened the door for Wall Street banks and other regulated financial institutions to rip-off their customers, as they have done so egregiously in the past.
Trump gutted environmental protection safeguards in the U.S. This action opened the door for heavy industrial manufacturers to resume their pattern and practice of polluting the air, ground, and water around their toxic manufacturing facilities.
Trump humbled America’s billionaire class and paraded some of them around Washington like they were his pet dogs on a leash.
Trump resurrected the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny” and is using it to make unconscionable land grabs for Canada, Greenland, and the Gaza Strip.
Trump reshaped the Department of Justice in his own image by intimidating 6,000 FBI agents and firing hundreds of federal prosecutors.
Trump intervened in the Justice Department’s bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, commencing with his private meeting with an indicted Adams at Mar-a-Lago and concluding with DOJ’s awkward motion to dismiss the bribery charges. Seven career federal prosecutors resigned their jobs rather than participate in DOJ's "fix"of Eric Adams' criminal case.
Trump and Musk resurrected the federal government's convict leasing program, which was banned nationwide in 1941 as inhumane.
Trump made the Presidential Cabinet a “Second Chance” employment opportunity zone for sexual predators, alcoholics, thieves, mentally impaired conspiracy theorists, and a boutique collection of other “undesirables.”
Trump appointed ambassadors to foreign nations who have zero diplomatic experience and whose only expertise is their ability to serve as glorified bellhops to Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio.
Trump made South African Apartheid Supporter/Beneficiary Elon Musk his de facto Co-President, with complete access to every federal agency and database. Trump also designated white South African land barons as “refugees” who are entitled to preferential entry into the U.S. These modern-day beneficiaries of South Africa's colonialization and racial apartheid eras own 72% of the country's land. This land was taken from South Africa's indigenous black population by deadly force and without compensation between 1806 and 1992.
Trump made the U.S. Congress irrelevant and reduced its GOP members to spineless minions. In a dramatic reversal of the role to empower their respective states, MAGA-affiliated U.S. Senators and House Members are now forced to acquiecse in the loss of hundreds of bilions of dollars from Elon Musk’s draconian cuts to federal programs that enhanced the quality of life for their political constituents.
Trump dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has uplifted humanity around the globe for many decades.
Trump used the threat of tariffs to make adversaries out of America’s longtime allies. Thanks to these threats and Trump's cutoff of USAID funding, most of the 195 sovereign nations recognized by the United Nations now resent America and dislike Americans.
Trump elevated Israel to “Golden Boy” status, even though this nation provides nothing of value to the United States beyond a steady supply of predatory lenders and well-funded political action committees that buy U.S. politicians (from top to bottom) at bargain basement prices. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal with an outstanding arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Netanyahu's campaign of genocide against innocent Palestinians in Gaza is as well-documented as Adolf Hitler’s campaign of genocide against Jews, Black Germans, Gypsies, Gay Germans, and other “undesirable” during World War II.
Trump has commenced negotiating so-called "peace deals" in the Ukraine-Russia and Hamas-Israel wars that guarantee the continuation of long-term violent conflicts in those regions for decades.
Trump created an Imperial Presidency through the unprecedented use of Executive Orders and his elimination of all guardrails on the presidency. With popular support from MAGA loyalists and many independent voters, Trump was able to convert the Presidency into an authoritarian Monarchy where everybody seeking federal government assistance must kiss Trump’s presidential ring or ass, whichever one he prefers on any given day.
Trump neutered the U.S. Supreme Court during his first term in office. In his second term, Trump started controlling individual Justices by protecting them from bribery investigations and accommodating their requests for personal favors, trinkets, and clandestine perks.
President Trump’s achievements in just one month are as dubious as they are disturbing. No U.S. president has been able to touch as many lives in such a negative way in such a short period of time.
By exposing the sheer numbers and categories of weak-kneed, compromised, and shallow public officials in America and heads of state around the world, Donald Trump has done all Americans a tremendous favor. We needed to know this information and see this political subjugation for ourselves.
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