Trump Administration 2.0 – The Bad, Part One

Flower Moon, 12 May 2025

Last month I discussed what I believe the Trump 2.0 administration is doing right. This month, I discuss what I believe his administration is doing wrong. This includes pandering to Zionists and Israel, imperialism, and disregard for Constitutional due process.

The Trump administration’s actions seem to be more concerned with advancing a Zionist Israel’s interests that in advancing those of the United States itself. Israel is a genocidal, apartheid regime. It must be held responsible for the atrocities that it commits with impunity. Trump’s proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza is ghastly. The Zionist lobby in Washington, DC is legendary. US gives far too much “foreign aid” to Israel. The Trump administration’s support for Israel antagonizes countries in the Middle East. The Trump administration is making it illegal to criticize Israel on any college campus, by any non-citizen, and even by United States citizens themselves. To be fair, pandering to Israel has been United States foreign policy for decades, long before Donald Trump. But it is turbo-charged under this current administration.

Imperialism is also turbo-charged under the Trump 2.0 administration. It is bad enough, that, depending on definitions, the United States has over 700 military bases across the globe. The Trump administration now talks of annexing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Couple this with the arrogance to dictate a peace treaty between Russia and the Ukraine, and the demand for mineral extraction rights from the Ukraine. The United States is an imperial enterprise. The world knows this and resents it. It is easy for the average citizen of the United States to feel smug about his country’s overseas ventures. In his smugness, however, said citizen is unaware that the empire is propped up by an inherently worthless fiat currency. The antagonism engendered by the Trump administration’s imperialism may well result in blowback.

My third critique of the Trump 2.0 administration is its disregard for Constitutional checks and balances and due process. Many of the administration’s goals are laudable. But running the United States by executive order makes him a dictator, and this damages the country in the long run. All his work could be undone by a subsequent president, who, emboldened by this precedent, takes even more drastic action. Congress needs to pass legislation.

To be fair, he is opposed by many entrenched interests. He has suffered greatly under politically motivated lawfare. The district court judges who are blocking his initiatives are just as guilty of dictatorship and disregard for the Constitution. He is fighting fire with fire. And, like the Zionist capture of the United States government, this trend toward executive dictatorship had been going on for decades. He is just accelerating it. In some ways, this is the fault of Congress, not of Donald Trump himself.

Next month, I discuss the important issues that the Trump 2.0 administration is ignoring.

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