As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week.
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763. Medical staffers reported feeling pressured to give out prescription drugs to Trump's staffers
764. Trump's EPA determined wood burning plants are carbon neutral
765. Moved to roll back the Well Control Rule, aimed at preventing disastrous offshore drilling spills like the Deep Water Horizon spill
766. Removed language on Freedom of the Press from Department of Justice guidebooks
767. Raided his doctor's private practice to seize his medical records and dictated his own medical evaluations as a candidate
768. Sued by 17 states over his decision to invalidate emissions standards through 2025
769. Dramatically increased the civilian death toll in drone strikes
770. It was found Trump's policy had been a driving factor in 4 million people losing healthcare in the last two years
771. Seriously considered militarizing space
772. Was caught lying about whether he had reimbursed Michael Cohen for his payoff to Stormy Daniels
773. Threatened to block the release of Department of Justice records in the Russian probe
774. Sued by 6 states over his decision to end DACA
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Some courtroom drama this week, as Trump was sued by multiple states on two separate issues and Trump was caught in a lie over the payoff to Stormy Daniels. Meanwhile, apparently not content to simply kill record numbers of civilians around the world with remote controlled flying death machines, Trump now wants to be able to kill people IN SPAAAAACE!*
As always, I don’t expect to catch everything, so let me know if there’s anything you think I’ve missed. The full omnibus is being maintained here.
* Joking aside, that would be a rather disturbing breach of more than 60 years of precedent on keeping space demilitarized.