A Warning

by Anonymous

his investigators—to go after political enemies.

Trump’s anger reaches its apex when

his unethical bidding is not carried out.

Hoping the storm would pass, they wondered as usual, “What does this have anything to

do with…anything?”

Trump’s little hints are in fact improper demands masquerading as innocent suggestions, and the administration’s

history is strewn with them.

The Trump presidency is one of the biggest challenges to our nation’s

checks-and-balances system in modern times.

Donald Trump has abused his power to undermine all three branches of government, at times flagra...

In the process, he has weakened institutions vital to the functioning of our democracy, a...

Trump is not fazed by the precedent that he is setting by making it easier for his successors to wield the executive office for personal or political gain. In fact, he is actively working to break free of the protections inherent in the American sys...

Trump is out of his mind.

The person intent on destroying democratic foundations is Donald Trump,

Which means that members of the “Deep State” really are just people whom Trump doesn’t like. Once he likes them, they aren’t in it anymore.

We are losing talented professionals every single day because of the president.

In fact, a good chunk of the crises we deal with at the highest levels of government emerge, in part, because no one has an eye on the ball.

Good advice is getting ignored because it isn’t being sought

in the first place.

Even the policies the president wants to champion—such as education reform—are getting dropped because there are not enough trusted people around him to pay attention (a reality that led Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to admit that “education clearly...

Once elected, Trump suggested a president doesn’t need daily intelligence briefings.

“I get it when I need it,” he told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have

to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for t...

When he does sit down for a briefing on sensitive information, it’s the same as any other Trump briefing. He hears what he wants to hear, and disregards what he doesn’t. Intelligence inform...

If it doesn’t, it’s “not ...

As a result, the president of the United States is often ignorant on the most serious national security threats we face and is therefor...

In fact, I’d submit that he’s less informed than he should be on almost every major global threat, from nuclear weapon...

His paranoia is the best evidence of a guilty conscience.

Here was a man who was apoplectic at the (completely false) theory that Barack Obama had his “wires tapped” at Trump Tower, but who was more than happy to tap those of the people around him.

Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former mayor of

New York City.

Few of us who interacted with Rudy over the years would have imagined that he would self-immolate so completely, but that is the inevitable consequence of traveling the globe (and the televis...

Trump may have perverse views of his own about justice, but he is exhorting others to share the opinion that US courts are corrupt and potentially a public danger, further corroding a key pillar of our democracy.

Trump continued complaining anyway. “I’ve only won two cases in the courts as president. And you know what one of them was? A case against a stripper.”

Once again, for the record, that’s how you know Donald Trump is not joking—when he sends someone out to say that he was joking.

Yet there is nothing that makes the president’s head explode like the prospect of being investigated,

for a man who built a reputation on negotiating,

Trump turned out to be a pretty terrible dealmaker.

His record of bringing everyone together on Capito...

All told, midway through his third year, Trump had nearly 1,400 cumulative days of cabinet vacancies in his administration, days when top agencies had no confirmed leader.

By comparison, Barack Obama had 288 cabinet vacancy days at the same point, and George W. Bush only 34.

“Acting” leaders are more like babysitters than empowered executives, and are often hesitant to wade into congressional waters un...

It’s become almost a regular occurrence for him to snub congressional requests and even subpoenas, which are supposed to be Capitol Hill’s most powerful weapon to compel information from the executive branch.

Trump now treats these official demands like junk mail.

The refusals go beyond standard practice and have turned into a full block-and-tackle exercise against congressional investigators across an array of Trump administration controversies.

Sometimes it seems he genuinely enjoys taking actions that will get the administration sued.

It’s like the time Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he would consider accepting dirt from

a foreign government, such as China or Russia, about a political opponent.

The president said he would take it, equating the information to opposition research, or “oppo research.” To Trump, it would be mere politics. To som...

How could President Trump, after that national nightmare, still not understand the difference between politic...