Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS
Tr*mp has signed an #executive #order saying only the #president & #attorney #general have any say in the legality of executive actions. Looks like we now meet the minimum requirements to be called a dictatorship of some kind. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:      

The White House
Feb 19, 2025 at 8:12pmWeb
Show threadgnaddrigFeb 19, 2025
@KOKEdit
Didn't take long either.
Show threadRobert WutzFeb 20, 2025

@KOKEdit

Some positive fact to consider:

The overthrow of an existing order and the establishment of a new one, requires substantial qualities. Even in the case of dictatorships. Beeing a dictator is hard, or at least this is true for the people actually figuring out the ways to implement the things the dictator wants, against the resistance of the existing order.

And seen from this perspective, Trump has some problems. Successful dictatorships, for example the Nazis, were evil, but effective.

Trumps reign is evil, but dumb. There is some hope in the evolutionary principle, which also applies to political power.

Show threadBoudFeb 20, 2025

@KOKEdit

It does very much look like that, and it doesn't seem to be a website spoof [1].

So 18 Feb 2025 may go down in the history books as the date that the US President declared himself a dictator.

#DictatorTrump #TrumpMuskRegime #UnitaryExecutiveTheory [2]

But remember that #ResistanceIsFertile .

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-independent-regulators-sec-ftc

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

Trump signs order making independent regulators answerable to White House

Executive power grab would affect Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission

The Guardian