Trump's game plan to revolutionize America - and keep his enemies on the back foot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : And as Trump prepared to wage his ultimately successful re-election bid in 2024, these groups worked to ensure there was a ready-made playbook for a shock-and-awe opening act.
54% : Prompted by White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf, Trump began signing a series of executive orders -- one to end what he called "the weaponization of the federal government," another to wipe away large chunks of his predecessor's work by rescinding dozens of orders signed by Joe Biden, plus more orders upon more orders that re-implemented policies he'd tested out during his first term, or trying out new and aggressive theories of presidential power to accomplish long-held goals that had eluded him over his initial four years in office.
51% : When Musk and his DOGE staffers spent a weekend in February dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, it was ostensibly done in service of an Inauguration Day executive order severely limiting foreign aid and refugee programs.
48% : " It's his influence, along with other key Trump aides such as Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and self-styled "DOGEfather" Musk, that has led to a series of Trump decrees targeting some of America's biggest law firms, the country's most prestigious universities, and other entities that an administration source described to The Independent as "the infrastructure of the modern left.
46% : The breakneck speed at which Trump has essentially ruled by decree has been part and parcel of a deliberate strategy to flood the zone with actions meant to maximize presidential power and keep Trump's enemies -- Democrats, the mainstream press, the legal services sector, the judiciary, America's world-leading institutions of higher education and broad swaths of the federal civil service -- off balance and out of kilter.
46% : But a Trumpworld source told The Independent that the shuttering of USAID, as well as other government agencies such as the Voice of America and government-aligned nonprofits like the U.S. Institute for Peace and the Wilson Center serves to undermine the Democratic Party by removing instruments of government that support anti-authoritarian movements seen by the Trump-era GOP as part of a liberal democratic order at odds with their "nationalist-populist" worldview.
41% : Over the next 99 days, Trump would sign yet more orders, proclamations and memoranda to toss out anything associated with the Biden administration, eliminate the independence of federal agencies that Congress had designed to be insulated from the vagaries of presidential whims, and make revenge against his perceived political enemies official government policy - all while upending the global economy and sending America's stock and bond markets on a roller-coaster that could crash catastrophically and bring a recession, or worse, to America as well as the world.
40% : Bannon, who hasn't formally been in Trump's employ since he was fired from his post as White House Chief Strategist just six months into the president's first term, has nonetheless served as intellectual and strategic godfather of what is now taking place in the government.
38% : Harvard is suing the administration to stop the attacks on higher education.
36% : The chaos of Trump's first 100 days is actually the result of a deliberately choreographed plan to damage any institution not explicitly aligned with the MAGA movement, writes Andrew Feinberg Donald Trump was roughly eight hours into his second term in the White House when he sat down in the Oval Office before an eager pack of reporters, took up his familiar Sharpie-brand pen and opened the floodgates.
36% : When the cameras stopped rolling after 47 minutes, Trump had put pen to paper 27 times.
33% : He'd ordered several foreign drug cartels and criminal gangs to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations under American law, attempted to redefine the centuries-old right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States, issued sweeping freezes on federal spending, foreign aid and hiring, and unleashed Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" to run rampant through the federal bureaucracy, slashing at anything deemed "woke" or "wasteful" by the billionaire and his allies.
33% : But the source said the administration views these retaliatory efforts as successful because they tie up their enemies' resources in court fights and give Trump another foil in the scores of federal judges who've enjoined his orders.
31% : Thus far, many of the "retribution" orders signed by Trump have been enjoined by the courts while legal challenges move forward.
26% : Bannon, who received a last-minute pardon from Trump in 2021 related to a federal fraud case stemming from a failed effort to build a private border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, has since found himself a defendant in two criminal cases.
24% : After Trump fomented a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and left Washington before Biden was sworn into office in January 2021, scores of suddenly unemployed Trump administration officials whose employment prospects were dampened by the revulsion felt by much of the country about what had transpired managed to find themselves well-paying sinecures at new outfits such as the America First Policy Institute, the Conservative Partnership Institute, and Miller's own America First Legal.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.