Can the White House Ignore the Supreme Court? Americans Will Decide.
Trump thinks he can run roughshod over the law. Don’t let him.
For the people, by the people.
Photographer: JKB_Stock/iStockphotoA president’s first 100 days are traditionally measured by how much he’s created and accomplished through legislation, leadership, and executive action. Donald Trump’s first 100 days demand to be evaluated in terms of how much he’s destroyed.
By that terrible standard of shock and awe, Trump’s destruction is historic — by far the worst first 100 days since Franklin Delano Roosevelt made it a thing in 1933. Trump has announced, reversed, and re-announced tariffs poised to tank the economy and the markets. He’s upended 80 years of US global leadership in international security and cooperation. He’s gutted agencies and departments devoted to health, education, science, the environment, and other forms of lifesaving.