FRUIT OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
by Cash Michaels
We are IN it now, my fellow Americans!
This is what the tyrant in the gold-studded White House wants - to see the “little people” suffer under his great power while he allegedly tells the rest of the world where to get off. No compassion, no decency, and certainly not even a hint of humanity.
Just being the best tyrant a secondhand Nobel Peace Prize can buy.
How else can he, with a straight face, create a "Peace Board" that requires a $1 billion membership; use tariffs to punish our friends and allies who refuse to go along with his crazy musings; feel free to erase our history (especially black history) right before our eyes; and target American cities as places where the U.S. military can go to practice invasion dry runs?
And do all of the above, and much, much more, with the straightest of faces!
What we’re living under is known as an imperial presidency, where the man elected to the highest office of our land decides to put his God complex on full display. Recently he told The NY Times that the only restriction to the power he wields is his “own morality, own mind.”
That’s reassuring.
For instance, sprucing up what’s supposed to be public housing - OUR White House - with 14k gold; knocking down a whole one third of it for the expressed purpose of building a gawdy ballroom as a permanent monument to himself (he damn sure isn’t going to name it after Biden or Obama); and putting his name where, by law, it doesn’t belong - like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
And all of that is just the cherry. The icing is ignoring international law, and illegally taking over governance of a sovereign nation like Venezuela by military force for its oil; threatening to invade another sovereign state, Iran, militarily, if leaders there don’t stop persecuting demonstrators and protesters - you know, like the kind he persecutes here.
And of course, the threat heard around the world to keep military force “on the table” to grab NATO ally Greenland from Denmark, despite the fact that we already have several military bases there. Reportedly the Imperial One was pissed because Norway would not give him his own Nobel Peace Prize. But according to our “leader,” there’s nothing like ownership to make a tyrant want to wake up in the morning and start plotting and planning on what else he can grab that rightfully belongs to other folks.
Needless to say, Mexico and Columbia are paying close attention.
In the world of imperial presidencies, Donald J. Trump has certainly conquered the cherry and the icing. But the cake he’s still striving for …is us. How do you make America come to heel? How do you make America’s strict adherence to the rule of law irrelevant? How do you conquer your own country in front of everybody’s eyes and get away with it?
This is where that toxic brew of Trump’s imperialistic instincts joining forces with the white supremacist cravings of Stephen Miller, J.D. Vance, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and a host of other documented hatemongers in Trump’s Administration are proving to be a force we socially sleepy Americans simply weren’t ready for.
Thus we have what’s shamefully going on in Minneapolis. No, I’m not talking about the billion dollar fraud scheme there that officials are still cleaning up after, but the Petri dish war zone Minneapolis has provided Trump to send over 3000 federal agents to, with the threat of sending an additional 1600 military troops under the little used Insurrection Act.
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem is now warning that everybody have their "papers" handy to be shown because her ICE agents will be checking them. Kristi must think this is East Germany or something. What American carries identification papers proving their citizenship?
The stated pretense here is that Minneapolis’ large Somali community is crooked, violent and hurting “real Americans.” So if they won’t leave on their own, federal Immigration Customs Enforcement officers are officially tasked with raiding the city, finding not only Somalis, but anyone else who might be in the country “illegally,” and removing them.
Gee, what could go wrong?
These agents of Trump’s federal government have been given the green light to achieve this task, as Malcolm X once famously said, “By any means necessary,” which apparently, based on the Renee Nicole Good fatal shooting case, includes killing innocent people who are considered in the way.
But the real sight to see has been what has been happening in the streets of Minneapolis - the mass confrontations; people being forcibly grabbed and dragged out of their cars and homes after agents have broken windows and doors to reach them; flash bang grenades to scare crowds; tear gas used against peaceful demonstrators; people being kidnapped off the street; agents raiding hospitals and schools; people being kicked and beaten on the ground as agents handcuff them; ICE vehicles ramming cars and SUVs driven by ordinary citizens; and arrestees being denied legal counsel before they’re shipped off to some other state.
A federal judge had to finally order ICE - all wearing masks, are heavily armed, and many poorly trained - to stop using excessive force. The only way that can happen is that they left the city and state entirely.
But this is what Trump and Co. want to prove - that any large American city, if not state - particularly and especially if it has voted Democratic against him - can be conquered.
Make no mistake, there are always the administrative levers of cutting federal money off to Democratic states and cities, but that works only as long as the federal courts allow it to happen, and apparently Trump hasn’t taken over the entire federal judiciary yet.
Thanks to the US Supreme Court, the Imperial One feels he has Carte Blanche to do anything he wants as long as he dresses it up as a national security matter. That gives him enormous latitude to create the kind of chaos he saw in his native New York City back in the sixties and seventies when radical groups like the Black Panthers and Young Lords roamed the city streets shouting revolution and battling the police every week.
No doubt Trump cheered every time there was a deadly police gun battle, and members of those groups were killed or captured. I’m sure young Donald and his racist, Ku Klux Klan member dad, Fred, watched it all on the news, buttered popcorn in hand, as those gun battles played out on their TV screen.
But I say all of that to point out that Trump’s always been about using the great power of the federal government to crush the little guy, especially if the little guy looked anything like me. You know, quiet as it’s kept, the Somalis in Minnesota are black, and Trump routinely calls them “garbage.”
Thanks to a recent New York Times interview, Trump has made clear how he feels not just about Somalis, but black people and the civil rights movement, and how the whole thing has caused the mistreatment of white people - what he calls “reverse discrimination.”
What’s different and scary about the sinister ICE turmoil he’s causing in Minneapolis right now is that Trump is the one causing the mistreatment of white people.
Even an innocent, white, 37-year-old mother of three who needlessly lost her life because she feared being manhandled by three masked ICE agents coming at her, trying to pull her out of her car, and eventually shooting her to death.
When you think of Renee Nicole Good and all of the other innocent people in Minneapolis and throughout this country who have, and are being victimized by Donald Trump, think of them as victims of a growing imperial presidency.
People who love their country, but are labeled as “terrorists” and “agitators” because they refuse to sit down and shutup when faced with injustice, especially from their government. An imperial government, I might add, that is quick to rewrite the narrative with boldface lies anytime something has gone wrong, or is done wrong.
America is a country split down the middle now - RED, for those who voted for Trump, and BLUE, meaning those who sensibly voted against him.
Those in the BLUE states are condemned to suffer Trump’s wrath. And what is shamefully happening in Minnesota is a stark message to California, Illinois, New York and yes, even North Carolina (even though we’re considered purple and voted for Trump, though we also voted for a Democratic governor) of what can happen…of what WILL happen if we don’t drop to our knees, and worship the imperial president with his warped God complex.
And don’t fool yourself. There’s more calamity from the imperial presidency to come, beyond your federal government telling you to eat more chicken pieces, broccoli sticks and corn tortillas to get through the day.
Folks are literally expecting Trump to play games with the 2026 midterm elections so that he can’t lose his House Republican majority. Like cancelling the midterms by cause lots of mayhem on the ground in various BLUE vicinities.
Wait and see what happens. He’s going to try something. He may have already started.
Now if I’d wrote any of the above a year ago - when Donald Trump was officially being sworn-in for his second term as president - you would’ve laughed, shook your head, and dismissed me as suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome or something.
Well, what’s up snowflake? It’s now a year later.
I don’t hear you laughing?
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