That is what he was voted in to do. Be a bully to everyone the worst of us dislike.

Also the first (and second) republican president to shit on the military.

The next four years of American politics will be bankrolls of precedence for callousness and getting away with it. Please welcome Neo-America to the stage.

He gets away with everything.
Everything.

If this was the only thing to talk about, for a few weeks (like in a normal presidency), it would be a 10% drop in approval rating at least.

But we've got the DOD, HHS, CDC, OPM, Treasury, and DOJ all being dismantled, looted, or turning into autocratic institutions.

The magic of Trump's flooding the zone is that there is a finite amount of attention we have and that a week or two is all it takes to lose urgency on any issue. Not only is it impossible for us to respond to this because of all the other things, this distraction helps make it similarly impossible to respond to the rest.

I held a slim hope this fascist creep would take long enough that opposition could be organized. Nope, Project 2025 absolutely thought this through.

Our Constitution was designed around the notion that we should be careful of a tyranny of the majority, one of democracy's biggest flaws.

Trump is showing us the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

I mean Reagan gave medals to the guys who shot down an Iranian passenger jet and eulogized the nun-raping Contras. But yeah, it's unusual for the president to display such callousness, they usually have the common sense to pretend to care, after making decisions that end the lives of hundreds of thousands to millions of children.

Exactly! And disputing it in this way just adds credence to the argument. Failing to rejection the premicr wholesale gives tacit approval that sometimes it might be the case, and sets us up to keep having to respond like this, rather than saying any argument centered on DEI is bullshit.

Yeah, if she weren't allowed to be in the military and instead was at home making babies (like a real woman), there would've been an objectively worse male pilot instead and wouldn't have been allowed to fly. Thus preventing the tragedy. Won't someone think of the children?

/s

Nah. They made it to force a fake alternative reality for their supporters. Now they can start to hate DEI workers in their normal life!!! Yay!!!

It’s sleight of hand. Distract people with some baseless accusation that’ll go nowhere, while hiding the true disaster of bad policy making. They’ve been doing this for years.

Firehose* of disinformation, which is par for the course.

The complicit media companies rush to cover every absurdity he spouts, thereby passively covers up the fact that his own rushed policies are likely the ultimate culprit of this crash!

His federal worker hiring freeze, and forcing the head of the FAA to resign/step down apparently led to there only being 1 flight controller in the tower; where there needed to be a minimum of 2.

So Trump falls back on his usual strategy of deny early, deny often, deny 100 ways.

..and y’all less than one month into his 48(+?) month term.

I mean, white women were the single demographic group to benefit most from affirmative action, despite racists preferring to paint it as a program that only benefited African Americans in their reverse racism arguments, so yeah, they count in my book. Especially when you consider that a large portion of far-right white men want them to occupy the trad wife role and not been seen outside the home and church again.

In America, no.

In Trumpistan, yes.

Trump clearly wants to go back to the 1900s where women weren't allowed to served, especially colored people

Yes and they always have. It just marks the success of the programs that women working in top roles has become so normalized that people don't even realize it was different.

Indeed they are, there's a place for the woman and it's not considered the workforce by these backwards psychotics.

He says the Military has gotten weak and mocks them. Lloyd Austin whom Trump replaced with a FOX entertainment anchor served in the military from 1975-2016 as a 4 star general holding several high ranking positions working his way up to Secretary of Defense. So that would point to me that he believes the military has been weak for 50 years. Then again when he was called to service he said his little footsies hurt and dodged the draft. So what he really knows of the interworking and what our soilders go through for training is nothing.

Or, he simply doesn't want any competent military members to stand in his way while he's breaking laws.

Maybe this is what he was trying to draw with his sharpie.