President Trump got the military parade he has wanted since his first administration. The administration expected 250,000 attendees, but a fraction of that number of people arrived in Washington DC yesterday for the parade.
Pictures of empty bleachers and bored participants abound online. Videos of tanks squeaking past to no applause from the few spectators.
Meanwhile, in thousands of towns and cities throughout the United States and thousands more throughout the world, protestors met for the No Kings protests. Estimates for participants come to more than 10 million people in the United States, marching in protest to Trump policies and actions.
President Trump and his followers would never call him a king, but his actions and policies are monarchical. Here is a short, non-comprehensive list of items I've addressed here, most of which directly defy the United States Constitution, but some of which are based in morals and ethics.
These do not occur in any particular order:- Using the United States military to invade a State against the consent of the elected leaders of that State. Example: California
- Warrantless arrests. Government officials entering a residence and arresting you without a warrant is illegal and unconstitutional.
- Detaining people without probable cause: Detaining people based on their race is illegal and unconstitutional.
- Suspension of habeus corpus. People are being held indefinitely without hearings.
- Tariffs are the realm of Congress; not the president.
- Declaring student debt in default for 5.3 million. The Department of Education announced that not only will it be reinstating the student loans of 5.3 million Americans, but it will announce them immediately in default.
- Accepting bribes in an unregulated currency: You can pay Trump in cryptocurrency to have a few unobserved minutes with him. He has received crypto emoluments from foreign nations and corporations in exchange for favors.
- Urging people to inform on their family and neighbors and providing online infrastructure for doing so. Examples: Department of Education and DHS wants you to let them know if you find any evidence they are working toward equity and inclusion of disenfranchised people, or if you think your Hispanic neighbors might be undocumented immigrants.
- Defunding critical research into national security: Example, the Department of Defense ended studies that discover where the next major migrations of people will occur due to political, social, economic and climate problems.
- The "investment accelerator": The government—our tax dollars—will be paying attorneys and accountants to help rich people (foreign and domestic people) succeed in business in the US, as long as they have $5 million. March 31 executive order.
- Stripping the National Museums of factual American history that Trump doesn't like.
- Persecuting lawyers who take cases that annoy the president.
- Persecution of our young people for practicing their 1st amendment rights.
- Threatening to take by force the territory of two sovereign nations and (former) allies.
- Declining to investigate financial crimes of American corporations.
- Expelling transgender people from the military without any review of their merit. Further, the Department of Defense will interrogate cis-gendered people whose leaders simply "feel" like they might have transgender tendencies. This is according to the instructions memo from Sec. of Defense.
- =Firing nearly all Federal agency watchdogs (Inspectors General) in the middle of the night.
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