Trump’s Motivations for his Current Actions
Re: Trump’s action here, a reader remarks:
Same as his first term following Obama. Just reverse everything good or bad to eliminate any legacy of their time as President. It is also important that the opposing political party’s successes be forgotten so they can’t score favorably in future elections.
There is clearly a lot of truth here.
I would only add that there is also a motivation to excite the far-right-wing, especially the anti-intellectual MAGA crowd. Promote white nationalism. Pardon violent pro-Trump criminals. Punish the immigrants. Destroy the environment and bake the planet. Kill public education. Jettison medical science.
In any case, this is a tragedy for 99+% of Americans, and less directly, for all the world’s people and its other life forms. The United States is led by a man whose only concern is his own wealth and power, who is completely happy to inflict suffering on his country’s people if doing so serves his own ends.
A reader just sent me a note to the effect that his dentist has Fox News broadcasting into his waiting room, and that his hygienist asked if he wanted the volume turned up or down.
I seriously doubt that any significant percentage of the MAGA base will ever recognize that they got screwed by Trump’s policies.
The groups listed at left are certainly under pressure at this point.
The environmental action group 
Does anyone think the people who re-elected Donald Trump could possibly give a damn about his ripping off his non-profit that purportedly fought against childhood cancer?
Shakespeare wrote about “the quality of mercy.”
There is a vast difference between the demographic of “working families” and the uber-wealthy, the two groups that re-elected Trump. In particular:
If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that this is just one example of the onslaught of misinformation that is circulating around the Internet. Solar PV generates electricity by absorbing photons, not by letting them pass through.
If you take the damage Trump inflicted on our country (and the rest of the world) yesterday and multiply it by the number of days in four years, you get a startlingly large amount. Yet it’s finite, and more to the point, he’s bound to run out of atrocities eventually.
