Trump is a Clear and Present Danger to the Nation’s Security

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-danger-climate-change-health-pandemics/

33 comments

  1. We know.

    It was apparent in his first administration. It was apparent when he illegally took secret documents to Mar A-Lago.

    Yet every slow-walked and delayed his persecution because of a need to maintain norms, fear of MAGA rats, or they were synchophants. Trump will destroy any pretense that America is a serious global power.

  2. True. But who can do anything about it now?

    He’s a full-fledged dictator loyal to Russia that’s dismantling the country, and has the support of all branches of government plus the military. The time to stop him would have been before he got back into office.

  3. The new Trump administration is also compromised by China businessman Elon Musk.

    Musk’s DOGE was conceived to skirt disclosure requirements and vetting of China businessman Elon Musk, who has disqualifying ties to the CCP. Musk’s Tesla operating in China is subject to Chinese law requiring it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”. Tesla Shanghai produces 50% of Tesla’s global auto output.

    On January 17, 2025, the unanimous SCOTUS identified that a national security threat existed with ByteDance Ltd. See: *TikTok Inc. v. Garland*, 604 U.S. 3 (2025):

    >ByteDance Ltd. is subject to Chinese laws that require it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work” and to ensure that the Chinese Government has “the power to access and control private data” the company holds. H. R. Rep. No. 118–417, p. 4 (2024) (H. R. Rep.); see 2 App. 673–676.

    Musk’s connection to the CCP, (like ByteDance’s connection) makes Musk a national security threat to the United States. As a condition of Musk doing business in China, Musk must “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”.

    Musk is doing the bidding of Beijing on issues such as TikTok, Taiwan, H-1B visas, and tariffs. Respected officials like [Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro](https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-letter-congressional-leadership-musk-chaos-government-funding) (Democrat-CT-03, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee), and [retired military](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/elon-musk-china-classified-secrets-national-security-russia-doge.html) service members are sounding the alarm.

  4. Who knew it was this easy to dismantle the “most powerful country in the world”?

  5. Those idiots who voted him in don’t care in the first place. They’re ready to watch the country burn and now it’s begun.

  7. Stop Trump’s corrupt enforcer Elon Musk; boycott Tesla and Twitter/X.

    Musk’s Sieg Heil was [received by neo-Nazis and far-right extremists as a clarion call](https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-love-elon-musk-nazi-like-salutes-trumps-inauguration/) and an affirmation that Musk stood in solidarity. Verified Nazi accounts have [flourished on X](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020), since Musk took control of the platform. On January 23rd, Musk was called out by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for [trivializing the Holocaust](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/highly-offensive-adl-sours-on-musk-over-puns-that-trivialize-the-holocaust/ar-AA1xKJgK?ocid=BingNewsSerp) with highly offensive jokes.

    In Germany, Musk is engaged in election interference and is waging a [propaganda campaign](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl_RNDMSA) on X in support of far-right AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel.

    Musk has gone so far as to attempt to rewrite history, falsely portraying Hitler as a communist, which clearly Hitler was not. See: [March 1933 German federal election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election). The Nazis were an extreme right-wing racist and anti-Semitic party that murdered six million European Jews.

    Follow German luxury automaker BMW’s example in the United Kingdom, [leave X](https://www.carscoops.com/2025/01/bmw-uk-has-quit-x-twitter-days-after-musk-accused-of-nazi-salute/).

  8. No shit Sherlock! These headlines are fucking useless now.

  9. Those of you who voted for him and are now negatively affected by Trump’s policies, fuck you.

  10. I wonder how many high security documents he’s taken with him to his Miami golf course and who is copying them and forwarding them to the highest bidder for him this time.

  11. Wow no way really??? This bullshit is just dumb fear-mongering, start talking about actual actionable steps instead of repeating the shit we’ve been screaming for the past 3 months.

  12. Remember when we’ve been saying this for almost ten years now? The response by the collaborators in the media was not to agree, but to sane wash him. The response from the voters was to blame the left for being so vocal about this.

  13. We are not going to recover from this. Not this generation.

  14. Isn’t it funny all these headlines and opinion pieces coming out now? To little to late. The media has already cashed their check

  15. The damage he is doing to the U.S. in terms of its standing in the world is permanent. No other country will *ever* trust the U.S. again not to elect another narcissistic moron in future hell bent on doing as much damage as possible to everyone who doesn’t agree with their world view.

  18. Aren’t there like a bunch of retired SEALS chillin somewhere who are getting tired of watching all this? Like I don’t understand how somebody like Batman or John Wick isn’t coming to save us.

  19. We…kind of knew that? Like four years ago? Was your editor drinking pretty hard when you pitched him on the story?

  20. Yeah no shit. That was obvious before the election. That was obvious when Russia was paying podcasters to shill for Trump.

  21. Hes a clear and present danger to humanity and all life on the planet .

  22. I picture Trump as a marionette, with Putin pulling the strings. It was so clear that Project 2025 was the goal. The GOP controls the House, the Senate and the USSC.

    America is fucked.

  23. Liberals, progressives, and all free thinking people need to start pushing back ASAP

  24. And who’s going to do fuck all about it? Surely not Chuck fucking Schumer and the dems who have been doing nothing about this for decades now.

    Times are fucking scary right now. I feel like we are about to descend into violence and I’m not convinced that’s not part of the point of doing all this.

  27. Then do something about it, start impeachment proceedings right away, don’t waste time

  29. One thing I am wondering… if Elon fucked with the election, there is no way in hell HE knew exactly how to do it. I wonder who they had pressing the keys.

  30. Well thank the court systems, law enforcement and intelligence organizations who yet again failed this country and failed to do their job both times.

  31. Our democracy is on life support, and we’re just watching it flatline. It’s time we take a page out of South Korea’s book and show these tyrants what real people power looks like.

    It’s time to stop being keyboard warriors and start being real revolutionaries. South Korea proved it can be done. They united, they fought, and they won.

  32. This time it’s different. Before it was all “he’s a fascist” “he’s a danger to democracy” “he’s an authoritarian” and we (mostly) survived the first administration. This time it feels much more sinister. Like this is really the worst thing. I don’t know what’s going to happen but just this past week’s absolutely shit show is scary. Unless the republicans in congress actually do their job and hold him accountable and remove him from office (which won’t happen) I don’t know where we will end up.

  33. No. Fucking. Shit.

    He is living proof that the deep state he claims to be against doesn’t exist, because no deep state would have let him live to see the day he was sworn in a second time.

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