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Breathless through the world – Trump’s method of the flood of news
Donald Trump rules like a whirlwind in the first few weeks of his second term. The steam hammer policy has a method. Nobody should be able to get air – or even think about it.
The Gaza Strip and Transgender bans, tariffs against the whole world and sanctions against the International Criminal Court – Donald Trump is in top form in the first few weeks of his second presidency from the perspective of his followers. The world can only stop. Since its inauguration on January 20, the 47th President of the United States has issued around 60 decrees, according to a count of the US broadcaster NBC.
And that is by no means everything with which he stimulates his country and the world. Trump is currently omnipresent, speaks to every microphone, has journalists in the Oval Office almost daily, even – as the first acting president – goes to the Super Bowl. His social media platform Truth Social also runs hot with news from the White House, his house broadcaster Fox news radio sparks that the wires only glow and finds almost every statement by the president.
The number of decrees signed so far – many of them in the opinion of critics without a legal basis – does not only mean a lonely record among all presidents of recent history. Trump also exceeds himself. In his first term, he had only published just a little more than 30 of these “Executive Orders” up to the same time. His successor Joe Biden at the time, who had to do four years ago to take back a lot from Trump’s first term, did not come close to Trump’s current figures.
The question that arises: what is that supposed to do? What is the meaning of such a policy that is so fast, so hastily, so breathless that hardly anyone can keep up, let alone think about what has actually been decided? Trump floods the world with news, many of them at least at first glance with a considerable scope. And before one is almost digested, the next political steam hammer comes.
Already Steve Bannon, Trump’s somewhat dodgy and later -called consultant, had shaped the sentence at the beginning of his first term as president: “Flooding the zone with shit” – so you have to put the scene with “crap” – journalists, opposition and public concern that you no longer look out of sight and cannot deal with the individual policy suggestions.
“Overwhelming overflowing” overflowing ”
“There is an overwhelming overflowing overflowing,” said Democratic Congresster Jamie Raskin of the “New York Times”. Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff, conservative hardliner and also a companion from Trump’s first term – is responsible for the White House – one of the few who spent Trump in the White House every four years and is now on board again. Miller is considered particularly powerful and absolutely loyal in the Trump environment. According to CNN, he spent years to serve this strategy for Trump.
Much of what comes from Trump and the White House is so little that it appears legally doubtful and politically foolish. “The Annexion Gazas through America will not happen,” writes the renowned Brooking’s institution.
In particular, the inward policy of cleaning up in the authorities of their own country, carried out by a group of young computer nerd under the guidance of the billionaire Elon Musk, could become too hard for Trump himself. The Minister of Justice of the US states ruled by Democrats come together and run storm against the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency”, short “Doge”, the first court decisions stopped parts of the activities.
21 Minister of Justice, for example, tackled the attempt to bring as many civil servants out of their offices prematurely by golden handshake – the so -called “fork in fork” (fork in the road). Trump and Musk gave the staff the choice between a voluntary waiver of jobs after just a few days and possible dismissal, said Maryland Minister of Justice, Anthony Brown.
Last minute, a coalition of judicial ministers from 19 states prevented the Musk and his Doge gained access to the ministry’s central payment system granted by the Ministry of Finance. According to Trump, Musk’s Ministry of Education and even the military should now search through – supposedly looking for corruption and waste of money in the volume of billions of US dollars.
Stephen Miller defends what many judge as a breach of the constitution. The majority of the Americans chose Trump to make his promise and make great changes. “He needs control over the government for this,” Miller recently told CNN.
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Source: Stern
I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.
