I’m certainly not the primary to notice that President Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White Home is an ideal metaphor for what the Purple State president is doing to the US authorities and our democracy.
He kicked off his scheme to construct a palatial ballroom on the White Home grounds with assurances that the established complicated of buildings wouldn’t be touched. Then he as soon as once more proved himself to be a big-time liar by sending in demolition workers to tear down the entire East Wing earlier than anybody might cease him, in the identical approach he despatched the DOGE wrecking crew to explode a lot of the federal authorities.
Trump’s motion was in defiance of the Nationwide Historic Preservation Act, a regulation that requires research and session earlier than any main renovation of a construction essential to America’s heritage is undertaken. However, as he has achieved repeatedly for the reason that begin of his second time period, Trump ignored that act of Congress. He has proven that neither legal guidelines nor different branches of presidency nor custom, honor and good style will impede him. Trump’s sense of absolute entitlement overrides all the pieces as he pursues his selfish needs.
The East Wing of the White is gone, similar to that, earlier than we might catch our breaths and lift an impotent objection. What, one wonders, will Trump steal from us subsequent ?
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