Trump claims his political movement is Make America Great Again (MAGA) -- but even a brief look at everything the first Trump Administration did abroad plainly shows that Trump and his lackeys have no interest whatsoever in making America great. Every foreign policy decision Trump makes helped Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at America's expense.
Trump's real agenda is best described by the many times Trump vowed to be Dictator On Day One (DODO).
Trump declared: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Trump committed twelve impeachable offenses in the next two weeks. By the end of his first month he'd committed three more. Never before has an American President broken so many laws in so short a time.
Trump broke his oath to uphold the Constitution within hours, fulfilling his 2022 call to "terminate" parts of the Constitution.
Though the parts of the Constitution he'd vowed to "terminate" in 2022 specifically referred to the clauses that required him to leave office after being voted out, he'd also vowed on the campaign trail to get rid of birthright citizenship -- the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees citizenship to any baby born in America.
Trump's DODO executive order announced that, starting in February, the United States government would no longer recognize the citizenship of babies born in America to a parent who wasn't a citizen -- even if that parent was a legal permanent resident and the other parent was a citizen. These babies wouldn't be citizens -- anywhere.
As The Atlantic pointed out,
"Donald Trump's executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War, by creating a permanent underclass of stateless people who have no rights they can invoke in their defense."
This was illegal and unconstitutional. If Trump wants to change the Constitution, he has to propose a Constitutional Amendment and go through the long process of getting it ratified. It can't be done by executive order.
Even though a judge blocked Trump's DODO order a few days later, the matter isn't closed. Trump issued an illegal order and tried to throw out the Constitution by decree. He ordered the government to disregard the Constitution and deny citizenship to American babies born to an American parent on American soil. There is only one possible response: Trump must be impeached and removed from office. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden issued an illegal order to disregard the Fourteenth Amendment, they would have been impeached within fourteen hours.
On his second day in office, Trump abused the pardon power by pardoning 1,600 convicted DODO terrorists who attacked Congress at his behest on January 6, 2021 and attempted to assassinate the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. The terrorists' purpose was to force Congress to throw out the results of the 2020 election and install Trump as dictator. The attack resulted in nine deaths. Though the President does have the power to pardon convicts, the President does not have the power to incite people to commit crimes on his behalf (which he did on January 6, 2021) and then pardon them (which he did four years later.)
Moreover, the Constitution reads:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Since Trump pardoned the terrorists who attempted to violently overthrow the Constitution in 2021, that plainly constitutes giving aid and comfort to the Constitution's enemies.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden pardoned over a thousand terrorists who attacked the United States Capitol in the attempt to install a dictatorship, they would have been impeached within a thousand seconds.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and a dictator who wants to destroy America. Putin and his intelligence services have embarked on a decades-long campaign to disrupt and discredit the world's democracies, especially western Europe and the United States. Putin's efforts included the 2016 cyberattacks that helped propel Donald Trump into his first term. Russian agents later tried to disrupt the 2024 election by calling in bogus bomb threats to polling places.
In February 2022, Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine -- a peaceful democracy that posed no threat to him. A similar situation happened in 1990 when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait -- a peaceful nation that posed no threat to him either. Saddam's invasion was condemned around the world, including by then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush. In contrast, Trump called Putin a "genius."
The Ukrainians were outnumbered and outgunned, and Putin expected to conquer Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Instead, Ukraine showed heroic bravery and resilience. Though 45,000 Ukrainians have died at Russian hands, Russia has only managed to conquer about a fifth of Ukraine. At the rate he's going, it will take Putin another 83 years to conquer all of Ukraine.
On February 18, 2025 -- less than a month after returning to the Presidency -- Trump denied reality and claimed Ukraine had "started" the war by defending themselves against Putin's attempt to conquer them. "You [Ukrainians] should have never started it, you could have made a deal," Trump said. "I could have made a deal that would have given them almost all of the land." Trump's slander echoed the lies of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler when he ordered the invasion of Poland in September 1939. "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory," Hitler said in one of his infamous Big Lies. "Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs."
If George H.W. Bush had told the Kuwaitis that they should not have "started" the war with Saddam Hussein -- or if Franklin D. Roosevelt had told Poland that they should not have "started" the war with Hitler -- Congress and the Cabinet would have been stunned into inaction for a few minutes. When they recovered, the Cabinet would have immediately invoked the 25th Amendment to remove Bush or Roosevelt from power. If that had failed, Congress would have impeached Bush or Roosevelt and removed them from office.
On the last day of February, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance met with one of the greatest statesmen of Twenty-First Century Europe -- Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump and Vance spent the meeting lying, interrupting him, insulting him, defaming him, and parroting Putin's propaganda. Most grade-school bullies show better manners. As The Atlantic reported,"Trump and Vance acted like a couple of online Kremlin sock puppets instead of American leaders. They pushed talking points that they either knew or should have known were wrong. Even if Zelensky were as fluent and capable in English as Winston Churchill, he would never have been able to rebut the flood of falsehoods. No, the U.S. has not given Ukraine $350 billion; yes, Zelensky has repeatedly expressed his thanks to America and to Trump; no, Zelensky was not attacking the administration.
"Zelensky has endured tragedies, and risked his life, in ways that men such as Trump and Vance cannot imagine... even if Congress acts to support and aid Ukraine, it cannot restore the American honor lost today.
"Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago... Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s [chief goon], Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: 'The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.'"
Commentator Keith Olbermann added,
"The President of the United States was insane, was the worst person in the world, was a racist, murderous, psychopathic, quasi-human who isn't even smart enough to realize he was attacking Zelensky, the man who would save him, on behalf of Putin, the man who would destroy them both."
Trump and Vance acted as Putin's lackeys, blatantly betraying an ally to an enemy.
Taking the side of a brutal dictator like Hitler, Saddam or Putin when he launches a war of conquest against a smaller, peaceful nation (like Poland, Kuwait or Ukraine) is immoral, but isn't necessarily illegal. Taking the side of a brutal dictator who has already attacked the United States when he attacks another country is illegal. As noted above, the Constitution reads: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Putin has attacked the United States with cyberwarfare and propaganda on a dozen documented occasions. By siding with Putin in his attempt to conquer a peaceful neighbor, Trump and Vance certainly gave "Aid and Comfort" to the enemy of the United States.
Just as he did in his first term, Trump is using the Presidency to enrich himself. Foreign diplomats are staying at hotels he owns in order to curry favor with him. These emoluments violations are unconstitutional.
A few days before starting his second term, Trump launched his own meme coin, a form of vanity cryptocurrency. It's unconstitutional for the President to receive foreign emoluments OR domestic emoluments. Anyone who purchases a Trump meme coin is essentially giving him a bribe -- transferring real money to Trump in exchange for something that could be worthless tomorrow.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden used the Presidency to promote their private businesses, they would have been impeached within minutes.
The Constitution says that "all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land." It also requires the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Trump threatened DODO military or economic warfare against four American allies: Canada, Mexico, Denmark, and Panama. Trump has blatantly said that Canada should become part of the United States in defiance of what Canadians want, and that Denmark should surrender Greenland to the United States regardless of what the people who live there want.
"The idea of seizing Greenland is so far out that even joking about it could be considered an impeachable offense. As a former Republican president, Calvin Coolidge, noted, 'The words of the president have an enormous weight and ought not be used indiscriminately.' … We already have a military base in Greenland by agreement with the Danish government."
Who benefits when Trump threatens our allies with military or economic attack? Certainly not the American people, and certainly not our allies. The only person who benefits from the President of the United States attacking friendly nations in violation of the Constitution, international law, and American law is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden announced military or economic warfare against four allies, they wouldn't have been impeached. The members of their cabinets would have invoked the 25th Amendment and removed them -- because everyone would have immediately realized the President had gone insane.
The Inspectors General are civil servants whose job it is to make sure government employees are complying with the law -- and were a thorn in Trump's side during his first term.
Trump, however, is legally required to inform Congress thirty days before firing an Inspector General. In violation of the law, Trump dismissed eighteen Inspectors General immediately.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden illegally fired eighteen Inspectors General without giving Congress thirty days notice, they would have been impeached within eighteen minutes. In the meantime, tell Congress to reinstate the illegally fired inspectors.
Trump then fired Justice Department officials who were involved in investigating his crimes just as President Richard Nixon did in the Saturday Night Massacre. It's illegal to fire government employees for doing their jobs.
Furthermore, according to Raw Story, it's a First Amendment violation to fire government employees because they disagree with your politics.Nixon's firing of Justice Department officials later led to Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against him.
Trump announced a DODO spending freeze. It is illegal for the President to do this. Under the Impoundment Control Act, when Congress agrees to spend money on something and the President signs it, the President cannot decide to keep the money, freeze the money, or spend it on something else. Money approved by Congress must be spent as Congress has directed.
Trump's DODO attempt to freeze the funds was also blocked by a judge.
An internal document revealed that Trump violated the Impoundment Control Act deliberately to provoke a court battle. Trump's plan is to take the matter to the Supreme Court, where he hopes the DODO majority will strike down the Impoundment Control Act the same way they struck down the Voting Rights Act.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden violated the Impoundment Control Act, they would have been impeached the next day.
Trump fired two commissioners and the general counsel at the EEOC.
Though the President has the authority to nominate commissioners, after the Senate confirms them, he does not have the authority to remove them before their terms end.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden fired two EEOC commissioners, they would have been impeached within two hours.
DODO strongman Elon Musk is the world's richest man and largely funded Trump's re-election campaign. Shortly after assuming office, Trump announced that Musk would be charing a committee called the "Department Of Government Efficiency," or DOGE. This is a misnomer, as it's not a department: DOGE consists of Musk himself and a few aides. Furthermore, as detailed below, DOGE has nothing to do with government efficiency. A more accurate name for it would be Division Of Grift and Embezzlement -- or Dictatorship Of Gluttonous Elon! Musk's first objective was closing down the agencies that enforce the laws regulating his businesses.
Trump -- along with his DODO Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, soon gave Musk access to the Treasury Department's payment system.
According to Senator Ron Wyden, Musk now has access to “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies. All of it." According to TechCrunch,
"The system run by the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service controls the disbursements of around $6 trillion in federal funds to American households, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds, and payments to U.S. federal employees and contractors… Access to the payments system was historically limited to a few staff because it contains personal information about millions of Americans who receive payments from the federal government."
Musk's team also accessed the server that handles classified payments, and in doing so may have exposed CIA agents working undercover.
Musk and his team do not have security clearance to access these files.
Why? Musk was not a government employee at the time and has not passed a security check. Even though Trump "hired" Musk a few days later, Musk is unlikely to get a security clearing. Musk is a drug addict and a Nazi sympathizer -- he praised Germany's neo-Nazi AFD party and later gave Nazi salutes in public. Moreover, Musk is a threat to national security. He has extensive business interests in communist China. Musk also has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Musk's team then illegally installed their own server on the Treasury's system.
Musk then announced he was illegally shutting down USAID. According to The Atlantic, USAID's mission is to show people around the world what America stands for -- from helping Afghan women and Burmese refugees get an education to feeding starving children in Sudan to vaccinating civilians in Nepal and Nigeria.
Neither Musk nor Trump has the authority to unilaterally shut down a department established by Congress. Moreover: since Musk is now a government employee, he is now subject to conflict-of-interest laws. It is illegal to use government authority to promote his businesses and sabotage his competitors, which he certainly did by sabotaging USAID from within. Gizmodo reports that "USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk's companies at the time that he attacked the agency... Musk has called the agency 'evil' and a 'criminal organization,' though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire's vitriol." Walter Shaub adds:
"Musk... cannot work on any particular matter affecting a company in which he holds either stock or any other form of ownership interest... Any claim by the Trump administration that wealthy people should be excused from complying with criminal laws just because they're wealthy would be an outrageous, elitist insult to hard working Americans across the country."
Musk and Trump's war on USAID has critical real-life consequences. Contrary to what Musk claims, USAID doesn't give taxpayer money away to foreign countries. USAID buys surplus food from American farmers and distributes it to starving people around the world. Since Trump and Musk suspended USAID's operations, $500 million of American wheat, peas, and soybeans are now sitting in boxes in Houston and other port cities because Musk stopped USAID from sending it to hungry people who need it. If it isn't distributed soon, it will go bad, and Musk will have thrown away $500 million of taxpayer dollars.
A court order blocked further DODO dismantling of USAID, but at this writing the food is still going bad instead of being distributed to the needy.
Trump and Bessent gave Musk and his team access to the private information of anyone who's ever done any kind of business transaction with the Federal Government. The private data of millions of innocent American citizens is now in the hands of people with no national security clearance. This violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. It may also violate the Espionage Act. Time Magazine adds:
"Legal experts say granting Musk and his team access to such sensitive government data potentially contravenes multiple federal statutes, including the Privacy Act of 1974, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), as well as strict taxpayer privacy provisions under the Internal Revenue Code."
Professor Don Moynihan told Wired: "What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government. We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world."
A few days later, a judge issued a court order denying Musk and his cronies further access to the Treasury systems. However, this isn't over. As Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said, "This is the largest data breach in American history. [Musk and his lackeys are] an unlawfully constituted band of renegade tech bros combing through confidential records, sensitive data and critical payment systems."
USAID and the Treasury Department were not the only victims of Trump and Musk's attack on vital government functions. The Huffington Post summed up Trump and Musk's complete ineptitude in this telling piece:
"Imagine becoming president of the United States and one of the first things you do is fire the people in charge of managing the country's nuclear weapons.
"For good measure, imagine you also went ahead and fired scientists trying to prevent a national outbreak of a deadly bird flu, military veterans who run a national crisis line and environmental stewards who keep the country's hugely popular national parks clean and safe for millions of summertime visitors."
Trump and Musk also fired "People Who Make Sure We Have Clean Air And Water... People Who Make Sure The Pacific Northwest Has Electricity [and] Scientists Who Make Sure Medical Devices Are Safe And Effective."
Trump and Musk also effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- the government department tasked with ensuring banks and credit agencies are complying with the law. According to Senator Chris Murphy, CFPB officials were fired because they were investigating Musk's companies for possible wrongdoing. Musk fired leadership at the National Labor Relations Board for the same reason. (Murphy's video exposing Trump and Musk's blatant corruption is well worth the watch.)
Trump and Musk also decimated the Homeland Security agency in charge of preventing enemy nations from manipulating American elections.
CNN reported that Trump and Musk fired thousands of government workers without bothering to find out what the people they fired actually did. They had no idea that the people they fired were keeping the government running and the nation safe. For example, a few weeks after a deadly plane crash highlighted the need for airport control towers to be fully staffed, Trump and Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. This was exactly the opposite of what's necessary to keep airplane travel safe.
Forbes reported that Trump and Musk fired thousands of workers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (in charge of preventing car crashes), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (who rescue people from natural disasters), the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control (who stop diseases from spreading), the Food and Drug Administration (who make sure foods and medicines aren't poisonous), the Education Department (who handle student loans), the IRS (who make sure billionaires like Trump and Musk don't cheat on their taxes), and the Small Business Administration, among others. They also fired the people in charge of protecting Hawaiian airspace from incoming missile attacks.
Musk is using his authority to destroy departments that are investigating wrongdoing at companies he owns -- the definition of corruption.
Musk "oversaw the firing of Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Neuralink, Musk's brain implant company. [Musk] made cuts to a specialized unit with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration focused on overseeing the safety of autonomous vehicles like those made at Tesla. The fired employees include an engineer who worked with crash test dummies and a research psychologist who specializes in drunken driving and speeding... the federal agencies [Musk] has been dismantling have dozens of continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions into Musk's six companies.
"That includes 24 investigations alone from the National Labor Relations Board and a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission arguing that Musk owes the federal government up to $150 million.
Musk "has also essentially shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was evaluating hundreds of complaints about Tesla, including many about debt collection and loan problems."
Trump also had the DODO Justice Department drop a civil rights investigation into Musk's company SpaceX.
Musk also abused his authority, canceling a government contract with a communications company and assigning it to his own company instead. This was a blatant act of corruption.
An oversight agency concluded Trump and Musk's firings are illegal. A judge reached the same conclusion a week later.
Faced with a Musk-ordered shutdown, the U.S. African Development Foundation -- one of the government's smallest agencies -- filed a lawsuit arguing that Musk's DOGE is illegal and unconstitutional, and that Musk has no government authority as he was never confirmed by the Senate.
Trump, Bessent, and Musk must be impeached and removed from office, and Musk and his team must be prosecuted. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden given a drug addict with ties to hostile dictators access to the United States Treasury, they would have been impeached within a week. Sign the petitions telling Congress to block Musk's access to Social Security, Medicare, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Tell Congress to cancel Musk's government contracts (sign the petitions at Win Without War and Demand Progress) and fire him from his position in the DODO Trump Administration.
Note: though links to petitions are provided, the truth is that signing petitions doesn't really do much. The best way to stop Musk and Trump is to call, write, and email your representatives and Senators and demand action. Also: call, write, and email your Governor and your State legislators, and tell them to tax all Musk's products through the roof. If Trump can slap tariffs on imports -- the only purpose of which is to hurt American consumers -- American States can raise taxes on products sold by fascists.
Trump declared a DODO emergency at the southern border (even though illegal border crossings are down) and declared a DODO energy emergency (even though our current energy production is the highest in history.)
Declaring an "emergency" is one of the few ways the President can spend money not approved by Congress. However: the President's emergency powers do not extend to him stealing funds by declaring an emergency when there is no emergency. That's not a loophole – it's an excuse. According to Mother Jones, one of the reasons Trump declared a bogus "energy emergency" is to exempt fossil fuel companies from environmental laws and allow them to pollute rivers and wetlands.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden declared a national emergency when there was no emergency, they would have been impeached within a week.
Even if a war of conquest were legal -- which it isn't -- the President cannot declare war unilaterally. Only Congress can declare war. Even though DODO Republicans control both houses of Congress by a slim margin, even they (hopefully) aren't crazy enough to send American troops into the middle of an ongoing conflict with no easy solutions that's been raging for longer than most of us have been alive.
This is exactly what terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and DAESH want. "Global jihadist groups will also use a narrative of the United States occupying Arab lands as a rallying cry for new recruits," one expert told NBC News. "This kind of language only is going to galvanize groups that want to kill Americans," said another. A third expert added, "A group like Al Qaeda has been desperate for something like this."
Trump's statements make it obvious that he doesn't understand the situation in Gaza at all and has no idea what he's talking about. If Trump weren't President of the United States, his cluelessness and naivete would make him a pathetic joke. Trump is currently the President, though. He's talking about committing war crimes, turning two million people into refugees, and triggering terrorist attacks against the United States like this is all completely normal. "Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area," Trump claimed.
As commentator Keith Olbermann said, "The land is real to him... The people are just in the way. Sure, they live there in Gaza. Sure, they will just move because he says so... That's not crazy policy. That's not crazy politics. That's just crazy -- unsupported delusions of grandeur."
Comedian Seth Meyers put together a montage of all the times Trump railed against nation-building in the Mideast -- exactly the thing Trump is proposing to do now.
Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden announced they were sending American troops into the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict with the intention of committing war crimes, they wouldn't have been impeached. Their cabinets would have invoked the 25th Amendment and removed them -- because the President had obviously gone insane.
"Questions asked of several current and former officials up for top intelligence agency and law enforcement posts revolved around two events that have become President Donald Trump's litmus test to distinguish friend from foe: [Interviewees] were asked to give 'yes' or 'no' responses to the questions: Was Jan. 6 'an inside job?' And was the 2020 presidential election 'stolen?' ... These individuals, who did not give the desired straight 'yes' answers, were not selected. ... The questions were posed in direct interviews conducted by personnel hiring for the new administration. ... Separately, at least two individuals in FBI field offices outside Washington, who were being interviewed for senior positions, were asked similar questions, said one U.S. official familiar with the incidents. The questions included: Who were the 'real patriots' on Jan. 6? Who won the 2020 election? Who is your 'real boss?'"
Trump's DODO goal appears to be to turn intelligence and law enforcement into a secret police force like those of totalitarian regimes. If FBI and intelligence agents are being denied promotions for answering questions with facts, this means that Trump wants a law enforcement apparatus that doesn't care about the truth and an intelligence service that can't tell friend from foe. According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, this is unconstitutional: public officials are prohibited from working against the duties of their offices. Law enforcement officials cannot refuse to believe evidence. Intelligence officials are forbidden from threatening national security. The Hatch Act "prohibits... politicized coercion of government employees." Also, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, the Hatch Act makes it illegal to "engage in political activity for a candidate while on duty, in a government office, in uniform, or while using a government vehicle." This likely includes telling job applicants that they are ineligible for promotion if they don't believe DODO propaganda.
If President Clinton had directed his subordinates to ask people up for promotion whether he'd had an affair with Monica Lewinsky -- and had denied promotions to people who said that he had -- Clinton would have been impeached again within minutes.
The Constitution requires the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Trump cannot decide which laws to enforce and which not to.
If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had announced the Justice Department would no longer prosecute people for giving bribes, they'd have been impeached within minutes.
A few weeks later, Trump announced that the Associated Press would no longer be allowed to cover presidential events because they didn't play along with Trump's bogus name change. "We're going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America," Trump said. This violated the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. It's unconstitutional for Trump to retaliate against journalists for reporting facts -- or for accurately reading a map. (The Associated Press filed suit.)
If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had announced that they were unilaterally changing the name of an international body of water and retaliated against reporters for using the correct name, their cabinets would have realized the President was suffering from delusions and removed him from office using the 25th Amendment.
On February 19, Trump wrote: "LONG LIVE THE KING!" on social media. The DODO White House social media accounts then posted pictures of Trump dressed as a king.
According to Congress,
"Impeachment has been used to remove government officers who abuse the power of the office; conduct themselves in a manner incompatible with the purpose and function of their office; or misuse the office for improper or personal gain."
For the President to declare himself king meets all three criteria: abuse of power, behavior incompatible with being President of the United States, and misuse of the Presidency for personal gain. If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had written "LONG LIVE THE KING!" and posted pictures of themselves as kings, an impeachment inquiry would have been opened in seventeen minutes and seventy-six seconds.
Trump's DODO address to Congress on March 5, 2025 was filled with blatant, obvious lies. Even the parts that weren't outrlght lies were taken out of context and distorted beyond all recognition. Lying to Congress is a felony. If President Bill Clinton had lied in a context where he was legally obligated to tell the truth... yeah.
Trump has set up a bribery system where millionaires can pay him $5 million for a private dinner meeting with him, or $1 million to dine with him and other guests. The Constitution specifically mentions bribery as an impeachable offense. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden accepted five-million-dollar bribes in exchange for dinner meetings, they'd have been impeached in five minutes.
As Talking Points Memo pointed out in 2017, Trump destroys everything he touches. When Trump gives immoral or illegal orders, his staff and advisors have a choice: stand up to Trump and get fired, or keep quiet and enable Trump's crimes. During Trump's first term, some of his subordinates stood up to him, knowing it would (and did) cost them their jobs. For his second term, Trump deliberately chose unqualified hacks who won't tell him when he's making a mistake. These enablers are complicit in Trump's high crimes and misdimeanors, and must also be impeached and removed from office.
What's more: on March 2, Secretary Bessent announced that the Treasury Department would no longer enforce the Corporate Transparency Act, a law designed to prevent money laundering. "This is a victory for common sense," Bessent claimed. In reality, it's a victory for money launderers.
Laws applies equally to everyone. The Treasury Secretary does not have the authority to decide which laws to enforce and which not to. For allowing money launderers to get away with their crimes, Bessent must be impeached and removed from office.
As noted above, Vice President Vance gave aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States -- Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been on the job for five weeks when he declared that Putin's cyberattacks were no longer a threat and ordered the Defense Department to stop defending the United States against them.
Putin ordered a dozen cyberattacks against the United States in the last decade, including the 2024 Presidential election day bomb threats that took place only five months before Hegseth's announcement. One source told the Guardian that Defense Department officials were ordered not to follow up on -- or report on -- any Russian attacks. "There are thousands of US government employees and military working daily on the massive threat Russia poses as possibly the most significant nation state threat actor. Not to diminish the significance of China, Iran or North Korea, but Russia is at least on par with China as the most significant cyber threat."
Hegseth ordered his subordinates to stand down on their efforts to protect America from a hostile dictator who tried to disrupt the last Presidential election. Hegseth is aiding the enemies of the United States -- either deliberately or through gross incompetence. Had a Defense Secretary working for Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden ordered the Defense Department not to respond to enemy cyberattacks, they would have been impeached in twelve hours.
On the day Pam Bondi was sworn in as DODO Attorney General, she shut down the FBI's task force in charge of preventing enemy nations from manipulating American elections. "Every cut made to our election security and foreign malign influence operations is like handing a gift on a silver platter to our foreign adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran," an election official told NPR. (Hmm. Why would Trump and Bondi do that?) On the same day, Bondi disbanded the task force in charge of enforcing sanctions on Russia.
By stopping all efforts to prevent Russian spies from committing crimes on American soil -- which happened as recently as three months earlier -- Bondi gave aid to Putin. Bondi must be impeached and removed from office.
Senator Chris Murphy pointed out that, under Bondi's leadership, the Justice Department dropped investigations against Trump allies (including Elon Musk) and threatened anyone who tried to obstruct Musk. The Justice Department is supposed to investigate crimes and, where warranted, prosecute criminals -- not look the other way when the President's friends break the law. A few weeks later, a Deputy Attorney General dropped a corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams and brazenly announced that they'd made a deal to drop the charges in return for Adams pledging loyalty to Trump. The deputy then said that the charges could be reinstated if Adams didn't comply with Trump's policies. Six Justice Department prosecutors then resigned in protest. Had an Attorney General (or Deputy Attorney General) working for Clinton, Obama or Biden done this, they'd have been impeached in six hours.
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