© UnknownUS President Donald Trump • Entrepreneur and DOGE reformer Elon Musk
is acting faster than other political leaders of his generation.
In a dozen weeks, he has already overturned "American imperialism" in favor of his "exceptionalism." This is still not the end of the problem, but it represents a considerable step forward for both the United States and the rest of the world.
Simultaneously, he has cut federal bureaucracy by eliminating agencies that did not fall under his jurisdiction and laying off 230,000 federal employees.
Donald Trump has been in office for no more than three months. He has issued a staggering number of executive orders of all kinds,
giving the impression of a confused personality.
However, despite the short time he had, his first results are beginning to appear.Decolonizing the "American Empire"He initially sought to decolonize the "American Empire." However, since his 2017 attempt was a resounding failure, he changed his approach. During his first term, on the eighth day of his term, he had, by executive order,
removed the permanent seats of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of the CIA from the National Security Council. [
1] This ensued a revolt in the senior administration that led him, sixteen days later, to dismiss his National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn.
This affair has left its mark, as the senior National Security Administration intervened during the last election campaign to falsely assert that Hunter Biden's computer
did not exist and that those who claimed to have seen it were agents of Russian disinformation. [
2]
Donald Trump therefore stripped them of their top-secret clearances in the first days of his second term [
3].
Comment: The EU wants an excuse it can act on. Appropriation provides the cause.