When Trump campaigned for a second term, he promised to cut costs, lower inflation, reduce taxes, close the borders, and deport “the worst of the worst”. He also promised to bring peace to Ukraine and the Middle East, and to avoid any more “forever” wars.

So, what has his regime actually done?

• Dismantled, or attempted to dismantle, much of the federal government.
• Fired thousands of government employees replacing expertise and experience with loyalty.
• Pardoned 1,600 criminals, including seditionists and drug traffickers.
• Shuttered USAID leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of foreigners living in abject poverty.
• Proclaimed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
• Threatened to make Canada the 51st state.
• Threatened to invade Greenland.
• Threatened to invade Cuba.
• Threatened to invade Mexico.
• Violated the Constitution by accepting a $400 million aircraft from the UAE.
• Forced the Smithsonian and National Parks to remove references to slavery and our genocide of Native Americans.
• Removed high-ranking black and female officers from the military.
• Cut ACA subsidies making healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.
• Illegally withheld funds from Planned Parenthood clinics.
• Forced law firms and universities to kowtow by withholding federal funds.
• Attacked freedom of the press by filing frivolous lawsuits against media for publishing unflattering stories, helping engineer the takeover of CBS and CNN by a MAGA friendly billionaire, and threatening to revoke media broadcast licenses unless they behave as more regime friendly.
• Attacked freedom of speech by pressuring networks to remove Colbert and Kimmel, deporting international students for standing up for Palestine, and arresting peaceful demonstrators.
• Increased inflation through illegal tariffs and his war on Iran.
• Paved over Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden.
• Uglified the Oval Office with hundreds of golden trinkets and doodads.
• Destroyed the East Wing of America’s House (the White House) without permission or prior notice.
• Placed Trump’s name on the JFK Center for the Arts before closing it for 2 years.
• Released the Epstein files after redacting the names of predators while revealing the names of victims.
• Removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords and set about further destroying the environment by returning to coal-fired power plants and permitting oil drilling on environmentally sensitive lands, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• Illegally executed small boat operators in international waters claiming they were carrying drugs.
• Weaponized the DOJ to falsely charge Trump’s political enemies with crimes.
• Expanded ICE and CBP into a large, heavily armed police force answering only to Trump with the intent of arresting and deporting 1 million residents per year.
• Sent masked, armed thugs into Democratic-led cities where they arrested and terrorized lawful residents and ignored the constitutional right to due process. Operation Metro Surge resulted in $200 million in economic damages to the City of Minneapolis and the murders of 2 U.S. citizens.
• Weakened alliances with longtime allies and threatened to leave NATO.
• Against international law, illegally sent troops into Venezuela to capture its president and his wife.
• Along with Israel, began an illegal, and likely unwinnable, war against Iran committing numerous war crimes, including the bombing of an elementary school, universities and civilian residences.
• Violated at least 19 provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
• Spent $100 million of taxpayer money on golf outings with the expectation it will exceed $300 million by the end of Trump’s term.
• Used the presidency to unconstitutionally enrich the Trump family by at least $4 billion.
• Increased the national debt by $2.7 trillion thus far by cutting taxes on billionaires and multinational corporations.

When you elect a criminal convicted of 34 felonies you shouldn’t be surprised when he does criminal things. It’s not America first. It’s Trump first.