I try not to get political here or in my daily life, but I foresee the next four years as a train wreck. In my unabashed opinion we barely made it through the last time this charlatan was Chief Executive, and that was only because he had no idea what he was doing for the most part, and the rest of it was he had people in places that not only knew what they were doing, they managed to keep him from being his own worst enemy. This time around, more than likely that’s not going to be the case, because he’s had four years to plot, plan and discuss how he would do it “better” the next time. Well, if the past 2 days are an insight to what he’s got brewing, we’re in trouble.
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Renamning Mount Denali Mount McKinley. Talk about tone deaf. He does realize no one else is going to be calling the body of water what he wants it, right? All he’s doing is making it all the more confusing to massage his ego. He refuses to believe in history, because he doesn’t wish to pay homage to any history that doesn’t have white people front and center.
Ignoring the tenets of the 14th Amendment to cater to his own view of who should be a citizen of the country and who should not. No wonder 20 plus Attorneys General have already sued his Administration for that debacle. You can’t just ignore settled law to make up your own. Executive Orders aren’t enshrined in the Constitution, nor does the document mention the Executive Branch having the authority to make up laws on the spot. There’s a reason we have three branches, and all are supposed to have their own abilities as well as the right to countermand the others.
After examining the American Presidency Project’s webpage on the subject, it does seem like they have been around since George Washington. And one President can override an order from their predecessor, which the current POTUS is doing now to his most recent Democratic POTUS’s. It just doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me that someone has the ability to just make up laws on their own, without having debate, or there being any sort of check or balance to it. Certainly organizations can plead their case to the Judicial Branch, but when said branch is skewed to either one side or the other (like the current supermajority) there’s a question of how that’s going to be interpreted when it gets there. Justice is supposed to be blind. Anymore it seems deaf and dumb as well. At least from where I’m standing.
Like I said in the beginning, this has all the earmarks of a massive train wreck. I just hope there’s something to show for all of it by 2029. Because I’m not overly hopeful at this point.
One thousand, four hundred and fifty-seven days to go.