Trump turns America into a new Animal Farm

For the first six months of his second term, President Donald Trump sucked up all the political oxygen of planet earth.

- BY RAJAN PHILIPS

He has started the second six months claiming success and victories on all fronts. He declared obliterating victory after America's sprawling metallic mammals flew nonstop from Missouri and dropped bunker-buster bombs at three nuclear sites in Iran. Within two days, he ordered a ceasefire on both Israel and Iran and swore down Netanyahu into submission when the Israeli Prime Minister tried his usual end run on Washington. On the fourth day, Trump arrived in Amsterdam to right royal Dutch welcome and genuflection by the new NATO of abject supplicants.

By the time he flew back home quite triumphantly, the US Supreme Court was ready yet again to give him judicial cover for his executive orders. Trump is now relatively free of lower court injunctions to deport undocumented migrants to third country jails, and set up new jails in America to hold them indefinitely without cause; deny newborns of immigrants the constitutionally mandated birth right citizenship unless their parents or others acting on their behalf challenge the executive order individually or through class action lawsuits; harass universities into expelling international students and force university presidents to resign for affirmatively helping socioeconomically challenged American students; to close down American aid agencies overseas and cancel aid programs without any notice or warning and without any regard for millions of the world's vulnerable people who depend on USAID programs for their healthcare and clean infrastructure; and to go about imposing tariffs without immediate reviews regardless of the cost to consumers and industries in America and the disruption of economies everywhere.