The Least Competent President in American History… Unless the Destruction Were Intentional

 

The Least Competent President in American History… Unless the Destruction Were Intentional

With the least qualified cabinet appointments in history

“Pete is playing secretary… He’s not being secretary… For any sustained operations, we’re screwed… There’s nobody in the SecDef’s office at this point that has any … they’re not heavyweights. They don’t have the sophistication. They don’t have the experience.” 

Anonymous Pentagon Source on DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth

“The biggest hit here is the irony of him, RFK, talking about regaining the public’s trust… What he just did was, he lost the trust of the medical community, so much so that people are thinking, ‘Should we try and create our own A.C.I.P., our own vaccine advisory committee?’ Because you can’t trust this one.” 

Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who has served as a committee member, after HHS Head, RFK, Jr’s replaced half of the credible veteran vaccine advisors he fired with anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists .

According to the Washington Post, DNI head Tulsi Gabbard has actually “removed or sidelined officials perceived to not support Trump’s political agenda.”

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifying before a congressional committee. “

“I was at DEA yesterday, they said to me, ‘you’ — Donald Trump — have taken the handcuffs off of DEA agents,’ and as a result of — since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl, since you’ve been, your last 100 days — which saved — are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives.” 

AG Pamela Bondi

But Donald Trump has probably made more money, created more additional wealth for himself and his family during his time in office and between terms, than any other president in American history… maybe more than all the former presidents combined. In a required filing, on June 13th, Donald Trump reported more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf clubs, licensing and other ventures. That his creating a federal crypto reserve guaranteed his holdings would skyrocket. Well… that’s the way Trump rolls. He does not like to read, punishes anyone who does not agree with him 100% and to make that point really stick, ran on a campaign of “I am your retribution.”

Understanding Trump, who seems not to care a whit about representing all his constituents, protecting the Constitution he swore to protect or even preserving democracy. “You don’t need to understand President Trump to understand his strategy. You only need to understand Roy Cohn, the legal architect of McCarthyism and later the personal attorney and mentor to Trump.

“He wasn’t a statesman. He wasn’t even a policy thinker. He was a political street-fighter who distilled power into three principles: attack relentlessly, never admit fault and always claim victory — especially when you lose… This isn’t just a style. It’s a system. And Trump has followed it for decades, treating politics as performance, power as theater, and truth as optional. Now, in his second term, the Cohn doctrine is running the show…

“Yes, Trump returned to the White House with more fury. He’s issued proclamations about mass deportations, implemented sweeping tariffs, and imperiled funding for elite institutions he wants to punish, such as Harvard. His administration floats executive orders, threatens agencies and rattles markets. But the substance of governance remains thin.

“As of this writing, he has signed only five bills into law, the most significant being the Laken Riley Act.* His much-hyped ‘ passed the House but faces an uphill climb in the Senate. Compared to former Presidents Biden, Obama and even George W. Bush, who passed more bills and major economic and relief packages within their first 100 days, Trump’s second term record is among the weakest in modern presidential history...

“The judiciary… has served as a firewall. The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s attempt to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2020, calling the move ‘arbitrary and capricious.’ More recently, it halted the administration’s plan to deport Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act… These decisions underscore a pattern: Trump pushes, but institutions push back.

“What has persisted is perception… The southern border feels more secure, in part because Trump projects strength, whether or not the policies are working. [It was safe before he began his 2nd term.] His unpredictability on the global stage has unsettled adversaries. There is some deterrent value in erratic leadership, but this isn’t strategy. It’s volatility. And volatility doesn’t build trust — it frays it.

“Meanwhile, Congress still debates. States resist federal overreach. Journalists investigate. Independent agencies function. Foreign governments still call Washington first. They may grit their teeth, but they haven’t walked away. What Trump has broken is not the government. It’s the illusion that leadership must be stable to be legitimate.

“This isn’t to excuse the harm. Trump has degraded public discourse, eroded civic trust, and placed millions of Americans in a state of political anxiety. He’s made cruelty a feature of policy, not a flaw. But the deeper damage — the irreversible kind — has not occurred. And that matters.

“There has been no constitutional breakdown, no military purges, no Supreme Court packing, and no canceled elections. Trump’s critics feared democracy would die in darkness. What’s happened instead is that democracy has dimmed and flickered but remained alive.” Corey Kvasnick in the June 12th, The Hill.

Trump has managed to alienate our closest allies, “fixed” our trade/tariff inequities with China and the UK… by going back to what the tariffs were before “liberation day,” but has passed almost no legislation in his initial days, preferring to issue a pile of “executive orders” that have failed miserably in the courts. And then there’s Trump’s “birthday parade” on June 14th. As pro-Trump pundits point out how our Army protects us from foreign enemies… they miss the point of a president using that same Army to eliminate his domestic opponents. 

I’m Peter Dekom, and the President is an embarrassment to every part of our democracy that we hold dear.