Every day since January 20 is a sample of the extreme and extraordinary That is the Second Presidency in the United States of Donald Trump, But few days in these 19 weeks represent that reality than this Wednesday night. In just a few hours, the Republican has taken or announced several measures that exemplify the radicality of your agenda: a New edition of the “Muslim veto”, attacks on universities and the launch of an investigation into the supposed cover -up of Joe Biden’s decline During your presidency,
At the same time, that avalanche emphasizes, beyond its own significance, the strategy of “flooding the area” and, also, trying to capture and direct attention. And Trump throws Actions of deep severity that manage to divert or reduce attention a growing problems of its economic agenda or international politics, including the attacks of Elon Musk and Republicans to the budget project, the lack of advances or any tangible achievement in the global trade war that he has opened or his inability to Comply with promises of peace agreements in Ukraine or Gaza conflicts.
New veto
The main executive action on Wednesday has been a remodeled reissue (and legally reinforced) of what in his first mandate was known as the Muslim veto. This time, Trump He has prohibited the entrance to the US to citizens from 12 countries, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, and has Restricted access to those of the other seven nationswhich cannot be installed permanently or receiving tourist or student visas.
Specifically, the total veto, which comes into force as of Monday, affects citizens of Afghanistan, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The restrictions apply to citizens of Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and, also, Cuba and Venezuela.
Trump has supported the recent anti -Semitic attack in Colorado against a demonstration that requested the release of Hamas Hostages to defend the measure, although clearly his team has been working in the legal architecture of this veto since much earlier (and Egypt, the country of which he was a citizen who was accused of the attack in Colorado, is not among the countries affected by the order).
Intensified war against universities
Trump also signed on Wednesday a proclamation that It prohibits the registration of foreigners in Harvard. To that decision added instructions for his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, so that Revoque Visas already granted to international students on the Massachusetts campus.
Both measures represent a Escalada in the Republican War with the University oldest in the country. This conflict, according to the arguments of the administration, is related to “national security” and the supposed permissiveness of the university with anti -Semitism. From the first moment, however, he has embodied the assaults of this presidency to freedom of expression and academic, as well as the effort of the ultraconservative government for stopping programs against discrimination or for racial or gender promotion.
This effort is not limited to Harvard, the University of the prestigious Ivy League that has firmly planted with Trump. And this Wednesday also served as a reminder that, even trying to placate the president or surrender to his whims, he may not serve much, or may not even serve. Columbiawho opted for that road of appeasement instead of attending the courts before withdrawal of scholarship funds and contracts, he has also seen this Wednesday as the Trump government raised its threats. Specifically, the Secretary of Education has communicated to the New York campus that Study withdraw your credential to operate as an educational center.
Investigate the Biden
Trump’s intense Wednesday has included the signing of a Executive order in which you order to investigate your team and your team for one Alleged cover of the Democrat’s Mental and Cognitive Decline. That action comes only a few days after Trump propagates the conspiracy theory that his predecessor He had died and has been replaced by a clone.
