QPORIT

 

Here is a list of a few of the actions of the Trump administration (#2) in the first hundred days and their likely consequences.  It should be noted that all these actions are quite public, and appear to be actions that the administration is proud of:

 

Cast doubt on vaccines

• Measles cases and deaths are growing

 

Provided frequently changes in plans for tariffs, while sharply raising them

• Volatile stock market and rising prices
• Anger among former(?) trading partners
• Loss of a stable supply chain
• Possible contribution to loss of US world economic leadership

 

Lots of lies and blaming Biden

• Impossible to trust anything the White House says

 

Attacks on our allies

• Possible contribution to loss of US world economic and military leadership

 

Snatching people off the streets without due process

• Danger to the rule of law
• Danger to the security of every citizen, and every tourist or visitor to the US

 

Deference to Russia:  No tariffs; pre-negotiation concessions to Russia for Ukraine war talks

• Russia continues to bombard Ukraine, despite “agreement” of Easter cease-fire, and despite Trump's promise to end the war by day one
• The US loses credibility
• Europe is in more danger and so is Taiwan

 

No progress in Gaza

• Despite Trump's promise to end the war by day one
• the fighting continues, 
• hostages are still being held, 
• and some hostages have died in captivity

Indiscriminate firing of government employees in many areas

                Loss of expertise

                Loss of services in

                                Social security

                                Veterans’ services

                                Emergency assistance (FEMA)

                                Weather reporting

                                Protecting Civil Rights

                                Detecting and prosecuting fraud

                                Detecting and prosecuting foreign interference

                                IRS

                                Maintaining the nuclear arsenal

 

 Sudden dismantling of USAID services 

• Loss of International good will 
• Illness and death for some people who had been sustained by USAID

Cancelling research contracts in Universities and research groups in government

• Possible destruction of US leadership in science and technology
• In particular, a boost to possible future Chinese world leadership

                               

 

CONCLUSION: THE US HAS BECOME LESS PROSPEROUS, LESS SAFE, LESS HEALTHY, LESS IMPORTANT, AND LESS HAPPY in just 100 days.

                               

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