The number one rule of the Trump administration is to lie. That’s it. That’s all. Once you understand this mandate, it is easier to realize it yesthe next outrage is also false.
Trump himself stands for nothing and no one (other than his own honor and wealth). He has no principles and no morals. He demands eternal loyalty from his unqualified cabinet and staff, but he will throw them under a bus when he considers them a liability.
What have been the goals for the first 100 days?
- to liquidate state institutions
- to demoralize federal workers
- to destroy liberal universities
- to demolish federally funded science
- to expel law-abiding foreign students
- to adopt a eugenics-based healthcare system
- to destroy the economy
- to plunder the environment
- to establish an authoritarian state
- to consolidate executive power
- to castrate Congress and the courts
- to eliminate conflicts of interest for oligarchs
- to ensure a dictatorship for billionaires
- to redistribute wealth ever upwards
- to glorify the prejudices of white Christian nationalists
- to starve children in Sudan
- to create pure chaos
- to alienate international allies
- to scapegoat immigrants, minorities and trans people
- TO CAUSE FEAR AND SUFFERING
These goals have been achieved. The US is no longer a democracy.
Are we winning yet??
100 days of failure
Even Fox News—in a rare moment of candor and truth—has a hard time listing Trump’s positive accomplishments.
100 days of hate
Everyone deserves human dignity and due process.
But cruelty is the point, the humiliation is intentional.
The new DEI is dominance, exclusion and incompetence
There are so many unqualified white male hires in the Trump administration (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth are among the worst).
I’ve been trying hard to imagine the end game.
I have tried very hard to understand so many things, especially the unholy alliance between secular billionaire tech bros and the Heritage Foundation (ie the Christian theocracy outlined in Project 2025). One suggestion: They share a common delusion – an unwarranted belief in their own superiority, a self-proclaimed directive to rule the universe and live forever. All other people are damned.
Therefore our lives are trivial.
Along with many other Americans, I am angry and disappointed. But we must not give up. I’m going to keep writing, and I’m going to keep protesting. My voice—and my writing—has been in exile for far too long.
