Trump marked his first moments in office by wielding power vengefully: the head of the D.C. National Guard lost his job at noon, as did all U.S. ambassadors around the world—just because they all serve at the pleasure of the president, and the incoming president liked firing people. Between festivities, Trump signed an executive order to begin undoing his predecessor’s singular achievement, the Affordable Care Act. He had the White House website swept clean of substantive content on climate policy, civil rights, health care, and LGBT rights, took down the Spanish-language site, and added a
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