On the 250th anniversary of our nation’s Declaration of Independence, we are experiencing a type of autocracy that exceeds everything the Founders feared. In fact, few royals in history have exhibited the kind of unrestrained narcissism that we have seen from the current occupant of the Oval Office. Even the actions of such despots as Sadaam Hussain, Idi Amin, and Muhammar Khadafi seem quaint by comparison.

Before being forced to remove it, Trump illegally added his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts. He has placed his portrait on passports. There are plans for his image on coins and on a $250 bill. He is intent on remaking the White House into Mar-a-Lago north by paving Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden, by illegally demolishing the East Wing in preparation for an enormous, but unnecessary ballroom, and by adding glued-on gold geegaws throughout the Oval Office.

Not content with remaking the People’s House, he insists on remaking the nation’s capital by turning the reflecting pool into an algae-covered swamp, by adding a colossal Arch d’Trump, and by constructing a Trump promenade behind the Lincoln Memorial. He has even demanded that Penn Station and Dulles Airport be renamed after him.

As disgusting and problematic as his vanity projects are, even more worrying is how the Felon-in-Chief, his family and his sycophant appointees have used their positions to collect billions in favors and unethical business deals with the likes of the Saudis, Qatar, UAE, Kazakhstan and more. They have also engaged in insider trading through investments that preceded government decisions and concessions to foreign leaders.

And that’s just the corruption in plain sight. Who knows how much corruption has been cloaked in secrecy by the illegal use of encryption apps to evade public scrutiny and congressional oversight? (If only the media were as outraged as they were over the trumped-up scandal of Hillary’s emails.)

Now SCROTUS has added to the Felon’s power by ruling that he can fire anyone in a government agency, except the Federal Reserve, without cause. That means he will insert even more loyalists at every level of government to do his bidding.

This is already the most corrupt regime in American history intent on filling their personal bank accounts with taxpayer funds. Meanwhile they ignore the financial pain of the hard-working Americans who are the source of that money

Trump and his cultists claim we’re living in a “golden age.” But the only thing golden is the now trashy gold-encrusted Oval Office.