If Donald Trump is anything, he is a victim. Despite his billionaire status Trump retains popularity by becoming the underdog. On the campaign trail he claimed to be persecuted by a liberal media, a corrupt political class and big money. Now that Trump has his hands on the government, his supposed enemies have become the very government he is supposed to be running. Trump is not just rebelling against the “Deep State”, but all government. “Big” government includes, and perhaps only includes, the regulations that hold back Trump and friends’ profit margin. Trump may bicker with the national security state, but he has done their wishes. If anything, the national security state holds Trump back from intervention, who would ever have thought that?
The real enemy that Trump wants to dismantle is government as we know it. He is certainly not in a real war with the military, police or immigration forces. Trump has built up their budgets and made them his first priority. Trump hasn’t been so friendly to organizations like the EPA. The Trump Administration just announced a plan to roll back restrictions on methane. This is an act that embraces death for the planet with open arms! Scientists say that methane is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide for global warming. But of course these scientists are just collaborators of the Deep State, so who cares! Donald Trump wants the whole planet to die. There is no changing his mind.
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