It has been reported that Trump had two absurd phone calls. In one phone call, he threatened the Mexican President that the USA would invade Mexico. In another call, with the Australian prime minister, after discussing immigration issues, Trump spoke about his electoral victory and hung up on the prime minister.
In the chaos over the Executive Order (EO) on immigration, among the various problems created by the EO, it may have been overlooked that, after the first judge in New York issued an order invalidating aspects of the EO, Trump directed the departments obliged to implement the EO to ignore the judge's directive. This directive from the President is contrary to American jurisprudence. Technically, this could be an impeachable offense.
National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, announced that he was putting Iran "on notice" because of a ballistic missile test.
Not only did Trump nominate a radically conservative judge, Neil Gorsuch, but then he told Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, to use the "nuclear option". Why is the President openly tyring to tell the Senate leader what to do? Of course, there has always been lobbying back and forth. But openly telling the Senate leader what to do?
Yesterday, I wrote about process and content. Here's the answer. The process really matters. The United States of America has a Constitution, laws and history. Not only is Trump making decisions with bad content, but he is not upholding the process of governing. I thought this would happen with a Trump Presidency, but I had no idea that it would begin so quickly.
The wheels are coming off the truck.
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