Trump 100 days: delusions of monarchy coupled with fundamental ineptitude

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/trump-100-days-doge-trade-wars-economy

He has blinged it with gold cherubim, gold eagles, gold medallions, gold figurines and gilded rococo mirrors. He has crammed its walls with gold-framed paintings of great men from US history. In 100 days Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into a gilded cage.

The portraits of Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan and other past presidents gaze down from a past that the 47th seems determined to erase. Trump is seeking to remake the US in his image at frightening speed. The shock and awe of his second term has challenged many Americans’ understanding of who they are.

In three months Trump has shoved the world’s oldest continuous democracy towards authoritarianism at a pace that tyrants overseas would envy. He has used executive power to take aim at Congress, the law, the media, culture and public health. Still aggrieved by his 2020 election defeat and 2024 criminal conviction, his regime of retribution has targeted perceived enemies and proved that no grudge is too small.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The Greatest Crash Ahead

Hope it gets here in time.

[dalton99a]

2. And the dictatorship was supposed to be for one day only.

[surfered]

3. Love the title.

[malaise]

5. Thank

The Guardian😀

[SheltieLover]

4. Great title, Malaise!

[malaise]

6. Not mine

😀

[andym]

7. Aggressively, dangerously incompetent

"unserious" is far too mild a word.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. A little more ...

{Patrick Gaspard} added: “We’re in DefCon 1 in a democracy where the president is radically consolidating power, politicising non-partisan agencies, attacking civil society and private firms, and literally disappearing people from our streets. Tragically, those with influence only seem to be moved by the volatility in the stock market because of tariffs, failing to see that the entire edifice that makes their success possible is being dismantled.”
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In 2021 Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist, told the Guardian that history would remember Trump as by far the worst president ever on the basis of his first term. “I was wrong,” he acknowledged last week. “This is the worst presidency in American history.

“The ignorance was actually our ally in the first Trump term. He didn’t know what he was doing and now, unfortunately, while he still doesn’t know what he’s doing, he knows more than he did. Trump believes he is infallible. He’s going to burn out with the public long before the end of this term.”

[malaise]

10. THIS

Trump believes he is infallible.

[thought crime]

11. People around him know what they're doing

according to Plan 2025 and maybe a few unpublished plans. Trump is issuing some Executive Orders about things of which he has very little knowledge.

[bdamomma]

9. Well

looking forward to his great fall, like Humpty Dumpty!!!!!!

[Aussie105]

12. Ineptitude and delusions of competency often go together.

Two things that make Trump a dictator:

1. Executive orders - unvetted, unlimited, revenge documents with no mechanism to say - nope, not having that.
(Whoever thought giving a nutcase king-like powers needs to be severely reprimanded! Posthumously.)

2. All those cult members who shout 'what a great idea!' as Trump sinks the ship of state - and the US economy with it.

Interesting facts:

George Washington signed 1 EO per year for 8 in total.
Trump, 1.0: 220
Trump, 2.0 - the Revenge Tour: 144 so far (probably an out of date number)

[malaise]

13. Yes indeed

Rec