WTF Just Happened? tRump's Chaotic First Weeks in

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WTF Just Happened? tRump's Chaotic First Weeks in Office

Cut through the noise and the nonsense, and examine the fallout from tRump's opening blitz



America has weathered the opening blitz of the tRump presidency with our republic intact, but our collective sanity rattled. The new administration has bombarded Americans with nonsense –

from "alternative facts" about inauguration crowd size, to conspiracy theories about voter fraud, to a made-up "Bowling Green Massacre," to tRump's off-the-wall praise of long-dead abolitionist Frederick Douglass as someone "who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice."

Adding to the psychological shock-and-awe, the administration has leaked a horrifying host of draft executive orders – to trash the UN, reopen CIA "black site" prisons and permit rampant LGBTQ discrimination – that may never become official policy.

Cut through the noise, and the new administration's true actions are less overwhelming – but no less harrowing. tRump has pursued a substantive agenda, with dark consequences for Earth's climate, America's alliances, the Affordable Care Act, undocumented immigrants and refugees, middle-class homebuyers and investors, and the veterans who fill the federal workforce.

Here’s a recap...

Kneecapped Obamacare

Undermined women's health across the globe

Empowered Big Oil

Targeted immigrants and banned refugees

Tore down financial guardrails and targeted the middle class

Froze and intimidated the federal workforce

Erased Jews from a Holocaust remembrance statement

Bungled special ops

Weakened national security

Strained relations with allies and emboldened Russia

Ceded economic influence to Asia

If there's a silver lining from tRump's dangerous opening act, it's that it has been widely unpopular.

Not only have millions of Americans taken to the streets and airports in protest, but a majority of Americans already disapprove of the pResident, whose favorable rating is mired in the low 40s. (No honeymoon. Sad!) - Rolling Stone

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