Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order

The New York Times ^ | Feb. 4, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Peter Baker

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Trump in just two weeks back in office has moved with astonishing speed and boundless ambition to overturn the existing political, economic, cultural and international order in an even more far-reaching way than many of his supporters or critics had imagined possible.

Mr. Trump has thrown the nation’s capital into turmoil by purging enemies at home, attacking allies abroad, shuttering one agency while targeting others, handing the tools of government to an unelected billionaire, ignoring multiple laws, trying to rewrite the Constitution and even flirting with staying in power beyond his two-term limit.

Taking a Gatling gun approach to governing, firing shots in all directions at the same time, Mr. Trump has left virtually no corner of Washington untouched as he seeks to tear down the old apparatus and refashion it to his liking. Day after day, the city has been roiled with one political shock after another, starting with provocative social posts early in the morning, moving to personal conflicts in the middle of the day and finally to threatening staffwide emails after midnight.

A protest on Monday at the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development turned confrontational when several congressional Democrats tried to enter the building after employees were locked out. Security guards blocked the lawmakers, who vowed to get a court order to prevent Mr. Trump from subsuming the agency into the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Monday that he was now the agency’s acting director.

The showdown over the aid agency, which was created by Congress in 1961 and presumably can be closed only by Congress, reflects just one front of the battle. Mr. Trump effectively moved on Monday to dismantle another agency disliked by conservatives and corporate chieftains.

After firing the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mr. Trump...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order

They say that like it's a bad thing.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

ignoring multiple laws, trying to rewrite the Constitution and even flirting with staying in power beyond his two-term limit.

In typical New York Times fashion, this article descends into full-blown hysteria built on falsehoods in just the second paragraph. Impressive.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...he seeks to tear down the old apparatus and refashion it to his liking.

No, to the liking of 77,284,118 Americans.

[kiryandil]

Peter Baker, Deep State stenographer.

[McGavin999]

Wait until the full extent of the waste and fraud is exposed. The rush to get on Trumps side will produce enough wind to run a city of wind farms

[Tom Tetroxide]

2025 is the year for retribution

[mewzilla]

Trump’s not trying to do anything.

He’s successfully laying waste to Deep State.

[rigelkentaurus]

And as usual, NYT is lying about a fundamental key point. Congress did not create USAID by statute.

Congress did not directly create USAID as an agency; instead, it passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, which provided the legislative framework for foreign aid. President John F. Kennedy then established USAID through Executive Order 10973 to administer this aid. Thus, while Congress authorized the funding and programs, the creation of the USAID agency itself was done via executive action. (from Grok)

[Tench_Coxe]

This USAID thing has people in abject panic. My spidey sense tells me this is a key to unlock a closet full of skeletons.

[BenLurkin]

Apparently the Existing Order is deeply entrenched corruption.

[kiryandil]

Peter Baker, scumbag Gaslighting liar for The Spew Barf Slimes:

The showdown over the aid agency, which was created by Congress in 1961 and presumably can be closed only by Congress,

Whereas in real life, and not in fiction written by gaslighting scum like Peter Baker:

USAID was first created by President Kennedy through a 1961 executive order as an agency of the State Department, under the authority of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

[toddausauras]

They’re right! Trump should step down lol/ S.

[RatRipper]

The Deep State bureaucracy violated more laws than Donald Trump has even contemplated . . . not to mention the trust of American voters.

The more I hear about what has ALREADY been found, the angrier I get, not angry at Trump, but the Deep State, their media enablers, and their Commie Rat leadership. Hang ‘em ALL and let God sort them out!!!!!!

[HIDEK6]

The old order changeth, yielding place to new. A God fulfills himself in many ways lest one good order should corrupt the world.

-Tennyson

[Vaquero]

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Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order”

God Bless You President Trump

[Responsibility2nd]

This sign is all about the Slimes...

 

[DouglasKC]

President Trump in just two weeks back in office has moved with astonishing speed and boundless ambition to overturn the existing political, economic, cultural and international order in an even more far-reaching way than many of his supporters or critics had imagined possible.

Probably the most truthful and unbiased lead paragraph the New York Times has ever printed.

[HIDEK6]

“A” should read “And.”

[cp124]

Who is suppose to be doing the oversight?
https://x.com/i/grok/share/O0oEOuGK294Skn3xddZFZEfKn

[SunStar]

Trump Riles Washington as He Tries to Overthrow the Existing Order

Wow, the nerve of some people!