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I have family and friends (you know who you are) who said, "Let's give him a chance first," "Let's see how it goes before we condemn him," "You can't get so upset until you actually have something to get upset about," "Just because Trump says something doesn't mean it's going to happen," "I don't believe he will let Project 2025 influence him," "I don't believe that. Not with something like that. They (Congress) won't back him on something like that," and "Don't go 'borrowing trouble' before anything happens," and "Wait and see first."

Well, we didn't have to wait very ******** long at all. President Donald J. Trump showed all his true colors (as predicted each time above) not just on day one of his presidency but in the first couple of hours:

1) Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship, a right guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. I guess violating the Constitution is okay to his supporters as long as "Trump wants it."

2) Trump immediately reversed an executive order that lowered prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, affecting our nation's poorest, most vulnerable, and elderly citizens. He also immediately stopped the government from lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reduced Medicare payments for proven drugs, and eliminated the $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs. --> I hope every low-income person who voted for Trump suffers from this decision so much that the pain is a constant reminder of their stupidity and blind ignorance.

3) Trump issued a blanket pardon for 1,500 January 6th rioters who were legitimately tried and convicted of violating the law, inciting violence, and trying to stop the certification of a federal election. Many of them were convicted of violent crimes, including the Proud Boys leader, who was convicted and sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy. But wait, he is "President of Law & Order," and the Republican Party is the "Party of Law & Order." -- Trump and any Republican who says that after this blanket pardon is just full of s**t up to their eyes.

4) Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, which leaves us alongside Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.

5) Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, the only worldwide organization monitoring, working to prevent, and helping stabilize global economies related to pandemics and diseases. This is a move many scientists fear could roll back decades-long gains made in fighting infectious diseases like AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. I mean, why shouldn't we listen to a convicted felon, so-called "successful" business leader who has bankrupted over 85% of the companies he ever started, and a person who is so overleveraged financially that his lenders in Russia and China control his every financial move (under the risk of calling his loans due) over the world's most educated and renowned scientists?

6) Trump overturned the executive order that banned psychologically harmful conversion therapy and ensured safe environments for those identifying as LGBTQ+ in schools, foster care, and homeless shelters.

7) Trump's executive order directing the government to "immediately rewrite policies and remove references to gender identity" puts every transgender American with a passport and/or driver's license that has a gender marker different from their birth sex (transgender) or birth marker X (nonbinary) at risk of committing a crime for having a federal document not in compliance with current statutes. Additionally, they may face scrutiny at borders or in foreign countries for having a passport with a gendered marker (X) that cannot be processed, even if it is on an existing United States passport.

cool Trump had former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Four-Star General Mark Milley's portrait removed from Pentagon Hall (a long-standing tradition of all former Chairmen) because General Milley protected the Constitution and stood up to him. What a childish, petty, fragile-ego human being Trump is for this move.

9) Finally, Trump didn't even have the decency to put his hand on the Bible while taking the oath of office. And no, it was not an accident—let's stop spinning things and making excuses. He knows he is a false prophet and cannot uphold the fake Christian values he spews. So, he intentionally didn't do it.

He has just started. God knows what he is planning to do next. Our nation is in for VERY, VERY DARK DAYS ahead

I have NEVER seen a group of people so blindly follow a con artist, and even when he doesn't do the opposite of what he said he would do, they still blindly follow him. History doesn't lie; it gives us both warning signs and solutions. I guess we are consciously choosing to ignore it all, especially when Elon Musk, the world's richest man, gives an eerily similar (almost identical) Heil Hitler salute at the President's inauguration celebration to not boos or shock, but instead arousing applause, cheers, and support.